Book Reviews

Men are from Mars Women are from Venus

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus | John Gray | Book Review

SUBJECT: 2.5/5 WRITINGS STYLE: 1/5 RESEARCH: 1.5/5 RELEVANCE: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2/5 If we look into the relationship psychology of men (supposedly Martians) and women (yup you guessed it right Venusians), both have a different perspective about an ideal relationship, but can one really divide both the categories into entirely different races. I wonder what …

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Oliver's Story

Oliver’s Story | Erich Segal | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 A few weeks back I had reviewed the book “Love Story” by Erich Segal. Needless to say, the book was a masterpiece and found its way into the heart of almost everyone who has ever read it. Having such a great prequel, there …

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For | Jeffrey Archer | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Writing a series is not as easy as the plethora of successful titles that you see on the shelves of your local bookstores. Not only would you have to make sure the long drawn out story is of interest to the reader, but …

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The Winds of Hastinapur

The Winds of Hastinapur | Sharath Komarraju | Book Review

PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 With more than 74,000 verses and about 1.8 million words, Mahabharata is the longest epic in the world. It has been widely translated, simplified, retold and fictionalised over the centuries. But most of them do not give you the total picture of the …

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A Dilli Mumbai Love Story

A Dilli-Mumbai Love Story | Abhimanyu Jha | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Love is the single most reason which can be attributed to most of our actions. We do what we do because somewhere, someone whom we so dearly love will be benefitting from our actions. So, when you are so irrevocably in love with …

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Advantage Love Madhuri Banerjee

Advantage Love | Madhuri Banerjee | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 I have read Madhuri Banerjee’s work before. It was much before we envisaged BookGeeks and thus, I never got a chance to post its review on our website. “Advantage Love” is way more complicated and demanding in terms of writing than “Losing My …

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Delhi at Dark Ram Vignesh

Delhi at Dark | Ram Vignesh | Book Review

PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 I don’t know where to start. I guess my ratings say it all. As a reviewer, I rarely come across a book which makes me think hard in deciding where to deduct a point in the ratings. In the past year, I’ve had …

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Heart Mind and Wallet

Heart, Mind and Wallet | Ankur Ashta | Book Review

SUBJECT: 4/5 RESEARCH: 3.5/5 RELEVANCE: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 In these times of cut-throat competition, when corporates all over the world are fighting for a thin slice of market share, companies are becoming even more focused on reaping the benefits of understanding consumer insights. As such, the advertising and branding media space …

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The Princess Diaries Take Two

The Princess Diaries: Take Two | Meg Cabot | Book Review

PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 Having found peace in her life, Princess Amelia or Mia finally moves on with her regular life. Slowly and steadily her life has started falling into place, as she is coming to terms with her new life dangling on a delicate balance between …

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The Avatari Raghu Srinivasan

The Avatari | Raghu Srinivasan | Book Review

PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 From a very early age, I have been on a steady diet of reading thrillers. Even as I was entering my teens, I was getting introduced to Robert Ludlum and Fredrick Forsyth, and books such as “The Matarese Circle” and “The Day of …

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Like it Happened Yesterday

Like It Happened Yesterday | Ravinder Singh | Book Review

PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Sometimes I just look back in my life and wonder about how soon I grew up. It was just yesterday that I was busy with my collection of toys immersed in my fictional world of wrong and right, or the battle between good …

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