If you are a grammar nazi, the first thing you'd have noticed is the weirdness in title of this blog post. It is hard to spot such capitalization of titles these days. I don't know if there's even a name for the style. I personally do not like writing titles with prepositions in lowercase and everything else capitalized. Somehow, lot of book titles are written in this manner. When the book arrived, I was excited. As soon as I opened the cover, the sight of the title put me off.
1984 is a novel written by George Orwell. The book falls under the science fiction category. At the mention of science fiction, I can sense your disbelief, you hard science fiction fan. For some of us, sci-fi means robots from fantasy land and amusing imaginary journey in the outer space. Science fiction has many subgenres such as hard science fiction, soft science fiction, time travel and superhuman. 1984 belongs to the subgenre social science fiction.
State Of Fear is techno thriller novel by Michael Crichton. The book was released in the year 2004. I read it a couple of weeks ago.
The book was gripping and fast paced. Throughout the nightly reading sessions, I kept on turning the pages. Global warming is the central topic of the novel. The character, John Kenner asserts the fact that global warming doesn't exist at all. The protagonist and others travel to places like Antartica and Africa to avert catastrophes conspired by eco-terrorists.
I've been reading many books authored by John Grisham these days. Theodore Boone was an enjoyable read. Then I tried to read Playing For Pizza. That's the only John Grisham book I didn't like. I read about half and gave up. I even threw the book in the old newspaper lot at home. I wouldn't be surprised if someone else wrote the book and inscribed John Girsham's name on the cover. It was that bad.
After several years, I have started reading fiction again. I went to the book store, picked up three books. One among them was The Bitch.
Someone recommended the author Jackie Collins at the book store. The book cover had a bitch posing, laying down with noticeable cosmetics. I turned the cover page. Right on the first page, there were several testimonials printed.
"JACKIE COLLINS IS A BIGGER NAME IN SOME WAYS THAN MOST ENTERTAINERS THESE DAYS....A STAR INDEED!"
--The New York Daily News
"JACKIE COLLINS CAPTURES THE LIFE-STYLES OF THE RICH AND INFAMOUS WITH DEVASTATING ACCURACY...."
--Los Angeles Times
After reading the first two reviews, I decided to give it a try.
Every Google user knows about the Google Books application. If you happen to read a lot of books, you will find spending a lot of time on the Google Books website once you discover its features.
I was once a voracious reader. I used to read an entire Sideny Sheldon's novel in a day. I remember my dad telling me, "if you read the text books like you read novels you will definitely top the academic charts". Well, I didn't read most of the text books with the excitement I experienced when I read novels in my school days. Let's debate the consequences.
After a few days, no months, wait, years, I motivated myself to read a book. I didn't even remember the last book I had read. Is this even possible?
