The Secret of the Nagas by Amish is the Sequel of The Immortals of Meluha. This is a very anticipated book since The Immortals of Meluha ends at the heights of climax. Sati is pregnant and right in front of the temple Shiva and Sati notice a Naga, Shiva Screams and that's when the first book ends. Its an evil ending in my opinion , but well it does make the second book worth waiting for. The Second Book mainly deals with the Nagas.
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown is an amazing book. The premise is that the belief that Jesus had no descendants may not be true and there is a closed group that guards the secrets surrounding this. This also involves the much sought after Holy Grail. The members of this closed groups are now under attack. The book has been denounced heavily by the Church but Its certainly worth reading as a piece of fiction.
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown is a mind boggling thriller involving the best encryption cracking computer in the world. What happens when the best machine is pitted against the best minds. Can the Best machine crack the latest development in encryption. Or will it become useless as newer forms of encryption are encountered. The story has all the elements of suspense, lies , treachery, murder and best of all a very lucid writing style.
The Exile by Allan Folsom is a thriller that is captivating and certainly deserves to be a best seller. The whole story has so many twists and turns that it gets hard to believe what the truth is. The characters are all very strong and extremely significant. The story goes into different countries and goes through a lot of rather interesting climax's .
State of Fear is a novel by Michael Crichton is actually an environmental thriller. The world is in danger this time from Radical Environmentalists. The book keeps swaying between interesting and boring. It gets even worse as its considerably bigger than the usual Michael Crichton books. There isn't really much of an adventure that is really worth it. Does a few incidents of
I have always been fascinated by Airplanes and especially Air Crash Investigations. Airplanes are extremely complex and yet the incidents that happen never involve just a single reason. They are an example of perfect machinery. And yet its humbling how a series of mistakes can bring down a plane in seconds. This makes investigating Air Crashes very difficult and also interesting as its one thing to find a fault and a totally different ball game to find a series of errors , that caused something so tragic.
The book is about an Airline Airframe manufacturing Company. An Aircraft develops problems mid air and rises up and falls down steeply for several minutes causing a couple of deaths and dozens of serious injuries to passengers. No one is sure of how and why this happened. The investigation gets more complicated due to the labor unrest and corporate games.
In the middle of all this is Ms Singleton , whose job is on the line. She has to find the reason of the Aircraft's malfunction before the media destroys the credibility of the Airplane.
The story is bit of a drag in the first half of the book, but it gets really interesting towards the end. Happy Reading.
I had great expectations from this book as it is the second part of The Hunger Games. And to my hearts content it lived up to it.
While it is difficult to enjoy the first book fully due to the radical circumstances the book is based on. Once the reader gets accustomed to the plot its easier to enjoy the book, this in particular is the appeal of the second book.
The only downside of the book that I felt is that the character of Katniss seems to be loosing the strength it had in the first book. The last thing I would want is any portrayal of Katniss as weak.
This is certainly not one of the best works of Michael Crichton. Its rather disappointing for a murder mystery. In Fact its not even a murder. The book revolves mainly around medical ethics so shouldn't be read with much expectations of a mystery.
It is a good book on medical ethics aspect of abortion and nothing else.
In this world where man dominates everywhere, its difficult to believe that a woman can victimize a man. It's even hard to imagine it being sexual harassment . However Michael shows us how harassment is not a quality of gender but of power.
The novel breaks quite a lot of our pre conceived notions about the world and about the psychology of human beings. This is a book that must be read for the sheer brutal truth.
Stieg Larsson continues to amaze with the second part of the Millenium Series. While The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo brought Mikael and Lisbeth together , now they face dangers and mysteries that are much bigger than what they had to endure last time. And it gets really personal this time. Lisbeth takes the center stage here and rightly so , after all she is the The Girl Who Played With Fire.
Stieg Larsson continues to keep the focus on violence against women and also gives new insight into the Sweden Security Agencies.
And once this book is read there is only one thing that is more satisfying , reading the next and final book - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
This is part one of the Millennium Series of Books by Stieg Larsson. The book starts with parallel stories of the life of a journalist and a very unique girl(no prizes for guessing what tattoo she has). And continues into a murder mystery which gets both of them involved.
Stieg Larsson's personal views are very evident in the book. This is an excerpt form Wikipedia
When Larsson was 15 years old, he witnessed the gang rape of a girl, which led to his lifelong abhorrence of violence and abuse against women. His longtime partner, Eva Gabrielsson, writes that this incident "marked him for life" in a chapter of her book that describes Larsson as a feminist. The author never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, and this inspired the themes of sexual violence against women in his books.
The plot is based in Sweden and provides an insight into a hidden world within Sweden. As it is claimed that - Everything described in the book is a real life incident that has happened to someone in Sweden.
The violence depicted in the book gets extremely graphic at times, it would be prudent to stay away for those who are disturbed easily , especially by sexual violence.
The novel in itself is very thrilling and leaves the reader waiting to get their hands on the next part of the series - The Girl Who Played with Fire
I had almost given up reading this book after the first few pages. Nothing made sense as the story begins abruptly, and can be confusing initially. But after that the book turned out to be quite interesting.
The plot is extremely unique , love triangle involving two bodies. It certainly has a good mixture of romance, thrill and bizarre .
The story narration is from the alien's point of view which makes it quite interesting.
The Climax and Anti Climax both were interesting and surprising.
This is a sequel to the book Jurassic Park. In spite of their best effort in trying to destroy all the dinosaurs from the Islands, Some Survive and thrive in a remote Island. And as always there is some rich crazy guy willing to take the risk.
Unlike the first book there is more of "running around" and "fighting dinos" and less of technical mumbo jumbo. That makes it a very interesting read. While it does have a lot similarities to the previous books in terms of the plot . But overall a great book.
Most often movies that have been based on books, tend to be a watered down version and hardly seem to be of much interest. So while reading Jurassic park I was hoping to find something that would be better than the movie.
However there was hardly any difference between the movie and the book. The book thus is as good as the movie.
I wonder how much of difference it would make for those who read the book first.
Seldom do we come across books that have plots as fiery as that of Hunger Games and yet are interesting. The Story is about a very "disturbing" event called as the Hunger Games where children from different districts are pitted against each other for survival and only one can survive and be the victor.
In spite of having a very gruesome and heartless plot to begin with, the sole theme of the book seemed to be love. How can love be blossoming in such an event of hatred and blood. Well I suppose that's what lotus in mud symbolizes.
Once you have overcome the initial reservations, due to the rather extreme plot, its a very unpredictable story. Every time you think that you had expected this turn of events the author manages to surprise.
