Sunday, September 11, 2011

Shiva Trilogy



'The Immortal of Meluha' is the first book of the Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi. This book was strongly recommended by my friend who went all gaga about this book. With the initial details provided by my friend, I was skeptical about picking this up as this, I assumed, is a mythological book. But to my surprise, this proved to be quite a well written fiction. The actual mythological characters are revisited with a different and logical story. And that too without a loophole. I must say, its an impressive book. A true page-turning and a gripping narration.

'The Secret of the Nagas' is the sequel. I couldn't just keep my mind off this story. I had to read this immediately after its first book. Fortunately, I read the first one just before the sequel was supposed to be released. So without any delay in between I completed both the books in a stretch. I simply loved them.

Very much impressed by the author's style of writing. Would love to read more of his work. Guess, I have to wait for quite sometime as the final book is scheduled to be released only next year. Hmm.

P.S: Presently reading 'Love, Life & All That Jazz'

Monday, September 5, 2011

Anything for you, ma'am


I bought this book, written by an Indian author, Tushar Raheja, having found no other good books at the store. Frankly speaking, I have not read many interesting books by Indian authors and so was hesitant to pick this up(Guess, readers can recommend me few). But my urge to experiment something new made me to finally buy this.
The start was not impressive as per me. To be specific, the author, in his narration, has time-traveled and for me that is not cool. And the narration was intermittent w.r.t the main theme of the book as well. Hence I didn't find this interesting to continue. But again, I forced myself to flip pages and found it comparatively better as the story started unfolding. Turning point was when the hero meets his heroine, of course. And I should appreciate author in making this scene really interesting and beautiful by his narration and sense of humor.
Once the hero decides to meet his heroine, the actual story begins and that too with many hurdles in his way. The book is all about the hurdles he faces, the way he manages out of them to face a few more in the process. I should say, this is a typical Bollywood-type story with good amount of funny scenes which makes you laugh a lot and excites you at the same time with the events that unfold.
In his narration, on many occasions, has emphasized on the fact by explicitly mentioning that he is here to impress the readers and so has taken decisions to explain few things in detail or has moved out providing limited information. Again, this is no good, as per me.
Having said all that, I would like to tell that the book is 'okay' one which will make you laugh and wonder at the events. A good first-timer book. If you like Bollywood type movies/stories then this book shouldn't disappoint you.

P.S: Presently reading 'The immortals of Meluha'.