A life more ordinary?

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Reviewed One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I would probably describe One Hundred Years of Solitude as a perverse portrait of human life. That doesn’t mean its any less true than the so-called human read more...

Everything is roti subzi

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Reviewed Home Delivery

I watched home delivery mainly because it seemed different from the usual Bollywood fare (no morality judgements-we can rip each other apart some other time). Tread more...

Heaven I'm in Heaven

5

Reviewed The Purple Rose of Cairo

I want to say, if you are only going to see one woody allen movie see this, but I should probably say if you are only going to see one movie see this. At once, read more...

Culture clash, here I come

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Reviewed Namesake, The - Jhumpa Lahiri

It was to be expected that Jhumpa Lahiri would give the issue her full attention after tackling it piecemeal in the Interpreter of Maladies. The result is a booread more...

A critique of pre-marital sex?

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Reviewed Minnale

The story of Minnale is an exercise in simplicity when compared to most mainstream indian movies. Madahavan likes riya(or is it raima) sen. Finds out abbas is cread more...

Tales of the prick

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Reviewed The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time - Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon’s book starts out by being a nice whodunit with a special detective. Christopher Francis Boone has special needs. He is like aI dunno somewhat read more...

And what a god she is!

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Reviewed God Of Small Things, The - Arundhati Roy

I generally hate books by Indian authors cause they talk down to you about a shimmeringly pure vision of india, beautiful yet held in chains by her own fallacieread more...

Box of bad chocolates

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Reviewed Forrest Gump

It’s been a long time since I have seen forrest gump. I didnt like it very much the first time. Red blooded male that I am, I couldn’t for the life ofread more...

A wasted legacy

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Reviewed Lord of the Rings, The - J.R.R. Tolkien

If you are a rabid foaming at the mouth Tolkien fan, this review is for you. I haven’t yet ’read’ LOTR. The first time I found it too boring and read more...

Catch it if you can

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Reviewed Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

It’s been a long time since I read catch-22 but since nobody who reads catch-22 forgets it anyway, I guess it’s fine. First off catch-22 is hilariouslread more...

Talking crap

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Reviewed Navjot Singh Sidhu

I don’think sidhu is a good commentator. I think he would be a lot better if he used his mouth for foot storage. Commentary incidentally is not about showiread more...

Heart wrenching but not likeably so

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Reviewed City Of Joy, The - Dominique Lapierre

This is an ’account’ by lapierre of the life of inmates in the anand nagar(city of joy) slum in calcutta. the book starts with a new family joining thread more...

To say nothing of the dog

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Reviewed Three Men In a Boat - Jerome K Jerome

Please tell me you have read the book and this is just for kicks. In my opinion Jerome ranks way up there with Wodehouse and co. when it comes to rolling on theread more...

The king redeems himself

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Reviewed Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King

Stephen king has always been accused of not being quite there when it comes to good stories but this firecracker should send his detractors packing.He’s noread more...