Forwarding... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vardhini Shankar <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Favourite books read in 2008 To: Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]>
Books that I read and liked: An omnivore's dilemma - Michael Pollan - generally informative, though the last parts of it drag a bit. Slaughterhouse five - Kurt Vonnegut - Reread and appreciated it a lot more the 2nd time A gift of rain - Tan Twan Eng - new writer, very evocative, beautiful prose, great style. Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King - he knows how to build realistic characters, the movie comes nowhere close to the book, this has become one of my favourite King novels. The gumshoe, the witch and the virtual corpse - Keith Hartman - just a lot of fun! Phantoms in the brain - VS Ramachandran Persepolis: The story of a childhood - Marjane Satrapi Booked not to read (IMO),I wasted my time on them: Interitance of loss - Kiran Desai - Dull and very pretentious writing, very phony and preachy, lots of errors (I think the editor was high when he/she worked on this) and the prose read like it was written by a high school student trying to wow the teachers with her prowess with words. It sucked big time! A year without made in China - (worst non fiction ever!) by Sara Bongiorni I read the above two for a bookclub that I am part of - would have never finished them but for the commitment to read and discuss and review these books. - V
