DELHI IS NOT FAR IS ONE OF RUSKIN BOND’S BEST WORKS PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 As will be the case with most of the people who grew up in the 1990s, a major chunk of my childhood too was spent on watching Doordarshan sponsored children television programs. […]
POW! | Mo Yan | Book Review
PLOT: 2/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 “Wise Monk, where I come from people call children who boast and lie a lot ‘Powboys’, but every word in what I’m telling you is the unvarnished truth.” Just as the author, I too would like to present my opinion in all honesty. […]
Roll of Honour | Amandeep Sandhu | Book Review
PLOT: 2/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2/5 Amandeep Sandhu is a friend of mine (on Facebook) and I find him to be very creative. He had, very recently, posted an album consisting photos of the people who had influenced his life while he was in Delhi. It was a very interesting […]
South of the Border, West of the Sun | Haruki Murakami | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 After spending almost an hour wondering how to do justice to this work, I’ve realised the best way would be to begin by stating outright what South of the Border, West of the Sun isn’t. Firstly it isn’t a raunchy novel about a […]
The Redeemers | Suresh Taneja | Book Review
PLOT: 4/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 2.5/5 CLIMAX: 2.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Suresh Taneja’s The Redeemers shows you an ideal India of 2030. It gives you hope and the power to dream; it is inspiring, but in the end, it gives an idealist way and not a perfect way to fight corruption. The book was […]
Romi & Gang | Tushar Raheja | Book Review
PLOT: 2.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 In Star Wars, Yoda had said, “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not.” When I received Tushar Raheja’s “Romi & Gang” from Pirates, this quote was the first thing that came […]
Complete/Convenient | Ketan Bhagat | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 Chetan Bhagat taught India to read. Now his younger sibling Ketan Bhagat has joined the coveted “author” bandwagon by penning his debut Complete/Convenient. I know it’s really not fair of me to introduce the debut author by relating to his brother, but then […]
Ohh! Gods are Online | Rashma Kalsie & George Dixon | Book Review
PLOT: 2/5 CHARACTERS: 2/5 WRITING STYLE: 1.5/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 2/5 Srishti is one of the fastest-growing publishing houses in India. The books published by Srishti have a decent story and also do well commercially. We have reviewed quite a few books published by them – “The Secrets of the Dark”, “The Homing Pigeons”, […]
The Virgins | Siddharth Tripathi | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 3.5/5 CLIMAX: 4/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3.5/5 In the first look, The Virgins did not appear to be of my preferred genre. So when I received the review copy, I was a little apprehensive about the book and to add to my great dismal the cover did not do much […]
Jacob Hills | Ismita Tandon Dhankher | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 I have always been fascinated by the Indian military system; be it the army, navy, air force or any other. I’ve read quite a few books on the subject but all of them were thrillers or biographies or war treatises. So this book, […]
The Hope Factory | Lavanya Sankaran | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 3.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 Before I review The Hope Factory, there is something that I need to admit. I am more inclined towards reading thrillers rather than drama. The reason is that the chances of a character going through social troubles are a lot lesser in thrillers. […]
Horseshoe Garage | Hitesha | Book Review
PLOT: 3.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4/5 WRITING STYLE: 4/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4/5 I received this book review copy from Leadstart Corp. Jufic Books, a brand under Leadstart, has been doing a tremendous job in terms of script selection and quality printing. I have previously reviewed one book by Jufic – “Marry Go Round”. It was […]