PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Heroes: Saving Charlie is a novel written by Aury Wallington which is based on the famous TV series – Heroes. I picked this book with great enthusiasm as I used to enjoy the show a great deal and thought it would be a […]
A Salesman’s Lessons | C.R. Jena | Book Review
A Salesman’s Lessons is a book authored by C.R Jena, the Business Head of Mahindra Satyam in South Africa. In this book, he writes about his experiences as a salesman and what others can learn from it. Some of the ideas were really good and convinced me of their significance.
Marley: A Dog Like No Other | John Grogan | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 “A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he’ll […]
Polka Dots, Pony Tails and Purple Pouts | Amrita Anand | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Polka Dots, Pony Tails and Purple Pouts is a book about three Indian girls who are working in Pune and share a room. They are what can be best described as froomies (friends-cum-roomies). Jasmine, Tia and Leena are the typical modern-day Indian women – […]
Poor Economics | Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 INFORMATIONAL QUOTIENT: 4/5 “We think we know the answer pretty well. Foreign aids & grants can break the poverty spell. But how much they work, only the results tell. Poor Economics brings out the truth of this poverty hell.” It won the 2011 “Financial Times/Goldman Sachs” Best Business […]
Facebook Phantom | Suzanne Sangi | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARCATERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 She is young, she is energetic and she is an author..!! Barely out of high school, Suzanne Sangi has achieved what most of us can only dream about. This young talented girl has authored the paranormal fiction book– Facebook Phantom. Now, Facebook Phantom […]
The Homing Pigeons | Sid Bahri | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “The Homing Pigeons” is a debut novel by an ex hotelier-turned-banker-turned-outsourcing professional-turned-author Sid Bahri. The author attempts at narrating a “larger-than-life love story” and not just another love story or a “me-too story”, and I must say that Sid does a fairly good […]
Sahibs Who Loved India | Khushwant Singh | Book Review
SUBJECT: 3.5/5 RESEARCH: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 “Sahibs Who Loved India” takes you back in time, it takes you through the period when India was ruled by the British; British who hated us, who tormented us, who disgraced us in our own country. But then, it is not about those loathing babus […]
Zombiestan | Mainak Dhar | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 We at BookGeeks.in got a chance to review two of Mainak Dhar’s books – ‘Alice in Deadland’ & ‘Zombiestan’. We were new to the author, and unaware of his previous works, so when the books arrived we never thought good of them and […]
The Secrets of the Dark | Arka Chakrabarti | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 “The Secrets of the Dark” is the first book in the series of ‘The Saga of Agni’. Written by debut author Arka Chakrabarti, the book is nothing but sheer indulgence. In this book, Arka writes about the mystical land of Gaya which is […]
Men on my Mind | Radha Thomas | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 “Men on my Mind” is an interestingly funny but twisted tale of an Indian girl, who begins her journey of the quest for the right man since she turns 7 years old. This quest, to her sheer delight, will take her from Panchgani, […]
The China Price | Alexandra Harney | Book Review
SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.75/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 The whole world talks about China; from my B-School professors lecturing on the importance of China; to our Director and HODs trying to bring in teachers to make us learn Mandarin; to ex-colleagues in asset management industry selling China-focused mutual funds to HNIs; to my […]