Musings

                       I can't think of any suitable witty line to begin this review with and as I already have a lot of stuff piling up, I'll just shut up and move on to the review. But, one piece of information that I wish to record here is that this book is different from the others that I have read. I usually find books to read through the suggestions that I get on goodreads(which I will be reviewing in the recent future) or by reading the latest books of my favourite authors but I discovered this one in the Giveaways section and was probably added there to advertise the book.(I'll explain giveaways in my review of goodreads).                         Now, the plot of this book is pretty straightforward. Ashoka, the 'other' son of Bindusara is prophesied to be a ruler greater than his father, but he couldn't be more of a disappointment for him. He plans to cro...

          I usually dislike movie adaptations of the books that I read, the only exception being 2 States. But I don't dislike this movie. I loathe it!                   The plot of the movie is: Robert Langdon gets entangled in a murder case with a beautiful French woman and ends up alone for all his trouble. To begin with, the beginning is all wrong. The conversation between Fache and Robert before they see the body lasts for a few pages in the book but here it's cramped into a few minutes. I don't mind that, but why in heaven's name do you have to insert the pyramid part in the very beginning? Was that really necessary?           Ok, that did seem a bit hysterical didn't it? But even when it comes to acting, they all suck. Tom Hanks is most expressive during the elevator-claustrophobia scene and that's the least thrilling scene in the entire movie. The actor playing Fache actua...

       This is one book that is truly beyond words, but I'll try my best. The plot is as follows: The curator of Louvre is murdered and the best suspect is the person who was supposed to meet him for drinks that night - Robert Langdon. The captain of DCPJ, Bezu Fache is sure that Langdon is the killer. Meanwhile the real killer is busy planning his next move as things are not what they seem. What appears to be the murder of a museum curator turns into a hunt for the most mysterious treasure of all time: The Holy Grail. And finally after a Dan Brown styled reveal, the secret is also uncovered.                    Dan Brown's way of telling a story is very mature and even though it contains a lot of details and references to several real and imaginary books, it isn't like reading a text book. There is always a hunt. There is always the underlying sense of thrill in his books that keeps the adrenaline rushing till y...

Nothing new to say This book is quite awesome too Apollo is mad - Yours Truly         This is another awesome book in the same series.  Lester (Apollo)  Still human;  thanks for asking Gods, I hate my life   As Apollo explains quite eloquently in the above verse, he's still human and still suffering. The plot goes as follows: The Grove of Dodona is now secure and Apollo goes on to Indianapolis to search for the next Oracle and with it, the next emperor. Accompanying him, as the prophecy states, are Leo Valdez, Calypso and Festus(yes, they're back!). There they find indirect help from a friendly God, but they are not in the home ground and so their task is more difficult than the last time.              I like this book more than the last one as two very familiar characters that I missed dearly are back. Another reason I love this book more than the previous one is the fact that Apollo ...

         Apollo is back          Rick's awesome as usual          Now I am happy                                                                 - Yours Truly     When I saw the following haiku in the first chapter of this book, I was smiling like an idiot as I knew I would love it:      Hoodlums punch my face I would smite them if I could Mortality blows             I am very old fashioned and don't like change. I loved Kane Chronicles and Percy Jackson equally but when both of them got over and I was introduced to a whole new pantheon of Gods, I got just a tad bit irritated. I loved the old characters with all my heart and now I was supposed to switch allegiances? So Magnus...

              After Till the Last Breath, I thought I would actually like this book and my friend was just wrong about Durjoy's books. Turns out she got it right because that book was probably an exception. While that was a wow, this one is wtf.                  Everything about this book is messed up, right from the plot. A girl with vitiligo(Aranya), or patchy skin, in layman's terms, is shunned by her classmates and her parents love her brother more than her. One day, she meets this boy(Dhruv Roy) who she becomes friends with as he is also an outcast because his parents are divorced. (His mother, a teacher at the school is sleeping with the Principal.) They fall in  love and get caught kissing. That's when the real mess begins.                              She lies to escape and then he lies to get her into tr...

                   I first thought of naming this review 2 States: A Renovation, but then I realised that there wasn't a conscious attempt to make an improvement in the movie. It was just that there were more sensible people than Chetan Bhagat involved in writing the script.                 Now that we have the (so-called) witty line out of the way, let's get to the plot summary. A Punjabi IIT-ian, Krish Malhotra, falls in love with a Tamilian Economics gold medalist, Ananya, at IIM Ahmedabad. They then face the unenviable task of convincing their parents to allow their marriage. So, this is not like one of those stupid series adaptations of American novels whose stories are totally different from that of the source material(I am referring to  Shadowhunters, the series. That show killed Mortal Instruments.). This movie is not better than the book because its story is different, but becau...