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| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------- | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- | ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | ------ | | | checkbox | position | cover Crash (Crash, #1) | title Crash(Crash, #1) | author Robertson, Michael * | isbn 1628400277 | isbn13 9781628400274 | asin B00DJBJVY8 | num pages 108pp | avg rating 3.37 | num ratings 1,088 | date pub Jun 2013 | date pub edition Jun 20, 2013 | Lit Bug's rating really liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review **spoiler alert** 3.5/5 StarsThere are some things that I liked very much about this novella, while I found a few things lacking, that would have made **spoiler alert** 3.5/5 StarsThere are some things that I liked very much about this novella, while I found a few things lacking, that would have made this work even better. Assuming that people reading this are already familiar with the blurb, I will skip the plot part.One lovely technique the author has used is using alternate chapters to dwell upon the present and the past leading up to the present. It provides an interesting mysterious touch than a chronological explanation of the past, and helps the reader empathize with the protagonist Chris, while also giving a background to his family life and linking them to the present events.The narration succeeds by way of not being over-sentimental or melodramatic, and it gets more interesting every minute. There is substantial graphic violence to it, but it is not surprising given the sadism we have seen throughout real history.What I would really have loved to see in this work was the same story narrated by the kid Michael, rather than from an omniscient narrator. Put from his perspective, the events would have been more heart-breaking. Although it can be argued that from a kid's perspective, there would be little sensible explanations of the global financial crisis or a family break-up, with some ingenuity, a kid's frantic struggle to re-live his past through the snippets of conversation in his family would have done the trick. It would have eliminated some office scenes, but they could have been reconstructed in his father's tirades at home.The mystery of his wife Diane and daughter's death is left unexplained, which was a major drawback to me, apart from the fact that the author did use the flashback method without actually reaching to the present chronologically. The last we see of the past is Diane leaving the house while Chris reads her letter, but we know nothing how the revolution erupted and how it reached to this level.I so loved this work in many little ways, but this lack of proper chronology coupled with leaving the mystery of half his family's suspicious death steals away the satisfaction of having read a good work.Yet, I'd not give up on this author, there is only a need for more plot-consistency to make it more credible, and therefore, more interesting. Otherwise, it is a novel plot, interesting and gripping in many places, especially coming from a first-time author.Merged review:3.5/5 StarsThere are some things that I liked very much about this novella, while I found a few things lacking, that would have made this work even better. Assuming that people reading this are already familiar with the blurb, I will skip the plot part.One lovely technique the author has used is using alternate chapters to dwell upon the present and the past leading up to the present. It provides an interesting mysterious touch than a chronological explanation of the past, and helps the reader empathize with the protagonist Chris, while also giving a background to his family life and linking them to the present events.The narration succeeds by way of not being over-sentimental or melodramatic, and it gets more interesting every minute. There is substantial graphic violence to it, but it is not surprising given the sadism we have seen throughout real history.What I would really have loved to see in this work was the same story narrated by the kid Michael, rather than from an omniscient narrator. Put from his perspective, the events would have been more heart-breaking. Although it can be argued that from a kid's perspective, there would be little sensible explanations of the global financial crisis or a family break-up, with some ingenuity, a kid's frantic struggle to re-live his past through the snippets of conversation in his family would have done the trick. It would have eliminated some office scenes, but they could have been reconstructed in his father's tirades at home.The mystery of his wife Diane and daughter's death is left unexplained, which was a major drawback to me, apart from the fact that the author did use the flashback method without actually reaching to the present chronologically. The last we see of the past is Diane leaving the house while Chris reads her letter, but we know nothing how the revolution erupted and how it reached to this level.I so loved this work in many little ways, but this lack of proper chronology coupled with leaving the mystery of half his family's suspicious death steals away the satisfaction of having read a good work.Yet, I'd not give up on this author, there is only a need for more plot-consistency to make it more credible, and therefore, more interesting. Otherwise, it is a novel plot, interesting and gripping in many places, especially coming from a first-time author. ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 2 | date started not set not set | date read Jul 29, 2013 not set | date added Sep 26, 2024 | owned | format Kindle Edition | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) | title The Hobbit(The Lord of the Rings, #0) | author Tolkien, J.R.R. | isbn | isbn13 | asin B0DN8P5BQF | num pages 366pp | avg rating 4.29 | num ratings 4,165,681 | date pub Sep 21, 1937 | date pub edition Aug 15, 2002 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added May 23, 2021 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness | title The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness | author Kala, Anirudh | isbn 9387693260 | isbn13 9789387693265 | asin B07DNSGR8N | num pages 256pp | avg rating 4.17 | num ratings 41 | date pub unknown | date pub edition Jun 10, 2018 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 27, 2018 | owned | format Kindle Edition | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Taqwacores: A Novel | title Taqwacores: A Novel | author Knight, Michael Muhammad | isbn 1570271674 | isbn13 9781570271670 | asin 1570271674 | num pages 256pp | avg rating 3.73 | num ratings 1,137 | date pub Apr 10, 2005 | date pub edition Jun 01, 2005 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started May 11, 2018 | date read not set | date added May 11, 2018 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Neon Noon | title Neon Noon | author Solanki, Tanuj * | isbn 9350296942 | isbn13 9789350296943 | asin 9350296942 | num pages 224pp | avg rating 3.85 | num ratings 106 | date pub Aug 2016 | date pub edition Aug 03, 2016 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 14, 2016 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Norman's Folly | title Norman's Folly | author Norman, Clare | isbn 1446144097 | isbn13 9781446144091 | asin 1446144097 | num pages 100pp | avg rating 4.00 | num ratings 1 | date pub Aug 24, 2010 | date pub edition Aug 24, 2010 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jun 15, 2016 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Stoner | title Stoner | author Williams, John | isbn 1590171993 | isbn13 9781590171998 | asin 1590171993 | num pages 292pp | avg rating 4.34 | num ratings 188,328 | date pub 1965 | date pub edition Jun 20, 2006 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jun 15, 2016 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Roy Stuart | title Roy Stuart | author Stuart, Roy | isbn 3822878723 | isbn13 9783822878729 | asin 3822878723 | num pages 160pp | avg rating 3.74 | num ratings 47 | date pub 1998 | date pub edition Jun 01, 1998 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jun 08, 2016 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Future Shock | title Future Shock | author Toffler, Alvin | isbn 0553101501 | isbn13 9780553101508 | asin 0553101501 | num pages 430pp | avg rating 3.81 | num ratings 5,071 | date pub 1970 | date pub edition 1971 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 1 | date started Jun 07, 2016 | date read not set | date added Jun 07, 2016 | owned | format Mass Market Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History | title Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History | author Habib, M.A.R. | isbn 1405176660 | isbn13 9781405176668 | asin 1405176660 | num pages 262pp | avg rating 4.08 | num ratings 63 | date pub Dec 18, 2007 | date pub edition Jan 03, 2008 | Lit Bug's rating it was amazing | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 1 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Jun 07, 2016 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Tughlaq: A Play in Thirteen Scenes | title Tughlaq: A Play in Thirteen Scenes | author Karnad, Girish | isbn 0195602269 | isbn13 9780195602265 | asin 0195602269 | num pages 96pp | avg rating 3.98 | num ratings 1,148 | date pub 1972 | date pub edition Oct 12, 1972 | Lit Bug's rating liked it | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 2 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 19, 2015 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover A Postmodern Reader | title A Postmodern Reader | author Hutcheon, Linda | isbn 0791416380 | isbn13 9780791416389 | asin 0791416380 | num pages 600pp | avg rating 3.70 | num ratings 46 | date pub Jul 1993 | date pub edition Jun 29, 1993 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 19, 2015 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions | title Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions | author Mezrich, Ben * | isbn 0743225708 | isbn13 9780743225700 | asin 0743225708 | num pages 272pp | avg rating 3.93 | num ratings 25,837 | date pub Sep 17, 2002 | date pub edition Sep 17, 2002 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 19, 2015 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal | title The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal | author Mezrich, Ben * | isbn 0385529376 | isbn13 9780385529372 | asin 0385529376 | num pages 255pp | avg rating 3.58 | num ratings 16,635 | date pub Jan 01, 2009 | date pub edition Jul 14, 2009 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 19, 2015 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five | title Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five | author Michel, Sam | isbn 0985023511 | isbn13 9780985023515 | asin 0985023511 | num pages 200pp | avg rating 4.29 | num ratings 28 | date pub Nov 13, 2012 | date pub edition Dec 11, 2012 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 17, 2015 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Moor's Last Sigh | title The Moor's Last Sigh | author Rushdie, Salman | isbn 0679744665 | isbn13 9780679744665 | asin 0679744665 | num pages 448pp | avg rating 3.93 | num ratings 14,288 | date pub 1995 | date pub edition Jan 14, 1997 | Lit Bug's rating it was amazing | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review 1st part of the review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...So don’t let Rushdie fool you into thinking that “it is Moor/Zogoiby’s story and heck 1st part of the review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...So don’t let Rushdie fool you into thinking that “it is Moor/Zogoiby’s story and heck!, they’re somewhat flat, or Rushdie makes an allegory and fails on both counts – both the upperstory and understory are not well-developed – happens when you want to ride two horses at once.” But, oh, dear, it is one horse, not two. *sigh* this review just doesn’t end. But Rushdie is a crazy fellow, maker of an atom bomb – large scale destruction squeezed into a bomb the size of a fist. But I should end now, though I have a lot more to babble-o-fy about, I know…What all did I like in this Rushdie, let me sum up fast – the blasphemy, the profanity, the creativity, the chutneyfication of language, the masterly interweaving of fact and fiction, the literary references generously peppered all over the hot, spicy dish, the scathing political references that only a bold, fearless, audacious and blasphemous person can dare to make. (Dear Indian, do you have the guts to call Hindustan Dumpistan?) I’m quite surprised, (not really, when the readers do not have EXTENSIVE knowledge of India) that the book is rated badly or averagely. Let me tell you, even if it sounds pompous. I’ve read this book the 10th time today in 5 years. I read it for the first time just after I read To Kill A Mockingbird for the first time. (How vastly different the tone, the manners, of the two books!) Then in two years, I read it 8 more times, until I got used to it. I’ve picked it up again after a gap of three years and am actually amazed by the fact that I’ve got a lot more out of this reading than any of those before. Simply because I am far better-armed with Indian History now than I was three years back. My recent obsession with Indian history, mythology and politics paid off today in very unexpected ways. And yet, I still know I have failed to understand some points he made, and will need to read more history still. And much more of global popular and literary culture as well. I mean, I was introduced to the legendary Johnny Cash and his civil war songs only two years back – how could I have discerned the reference 4-5 years ago when Rushdie brings in a new character, a businessman-cum-charming musician/guitarist singing country songs about trains, named Jimmy Cash (Cashondeliveri)? So I still don’t know who Kekoo Mody is in real life, or Justice Kachrawala is (the Bofors scandal judge, I think) This little book, didn’t I say, is a dynamite filled to the brim with everything Rushdie could squeeze in…? If A Fine Balance, a book I love immensely, is one of the finest pictures of the contradictions of modern India, A Moor’s Last Sigh too shares the pedestal. While AFB is stoic, serious and mournful, MLS is loud-mouthed, comic and mocking. AFB is the incarnation of naked, unadulterated pain, but MLS is the incarnation of pain masquerading as comic, insincere blasphemy – the only way left to tell honestly one’s sordid saga without making someone flinch. AFB is the ultimate Indian tragedy. MLS is the ultimate Indian tragi-comedy. Take away from it what you will. (The review has ended. Don’t roll-o-fy your biggie eyes at me, you chose to read it, Sir-or-Madam, I didn’t force-o-fy your decision. I’m not the impotent Jaw-Jaw all-bark-no-bite-bitch, I bite-o-fy real hard, and I won’t bite so fast, and like little 13-year old Aurora who bide-o-fied her time to kill her grandma Epifania, I will bide-o my time too, to bite-o you. I’m no sweet Mother India). ...more | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 18 | # times read 1 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Oct 17, 2015 | owned | format Paperback | actions view (with text) | | | | | checkbox | position | cover The Colour of Dishonour: Stories from the Storm Dancer World | title The Colour of Dishonour: Stories from the Storm Dancer World | author Hall, Rayne | isbn | isbn13 | asin | num pages unknown | avg rating 4.21 | num ratings 14 | date pub Jan 01, 2013 | date pub edition 2013 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 01, 2015 | owned | format ebook | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Sebastião Salgado. Photopoche (Spanish Edition) | title Sebastião Salgado. Photopoche | author Photopoche | isbn 8497853105 | isbn13 9788497853101 | asin 8497853105 | num pages 144pp | avg rating 4.56 | num ratings 39 | date pub Sep 30, 2006 | date pub edition Jul 26, 2007 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 01, 2015 | owned | format Paperback | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover Nonrequired Reading | title Nonrequired Reading | author Szymborska, Wisława | isbn 0151006601 | isbn13 9780151006601 | asin 0151006601 | num pages 256pp | avg rating 4.17 | num ratings 569 | date pub 1973 | date pub edition Oct 28, 2002 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 01, 2015 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | | | checkbox | position | cover A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More | title A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More | author Guy, John | isbn 0007192312 | isbn13 9780007192311 | asin 0007192312 | num pages 400pp | avg rating 3.92 | num ratings 787 | date pub Jul 07, 2008 | date pub edition Jul 07, 2008 | Lit Bug's rating | my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves | review None | notes Notes are private! | comments 0 | votes 0 | # times read 0 | date started not set | date read not set | date added Sep 01, 2015 | owned | format Hardcover | actions view | | | |

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