Monday, October 10, 2005

Recap time

Since I have a few minutes free, thought I'd do a quick recap of what I've been reading these days.

1. Holes, by Louis Sachar - good, white heat read. Must look up the movie sometime - Sig Weaver, Jon Voight et al.
2. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - mildly entertaining, this is Dahl wearing his books-for-kids hat.
3. Eragon, by Christopher Paolini - is there any fantasy novel that doesn't have a trace of Tolkien in it? This is not bad though, good enough to make me want to read the next one in the series (Eldest) just to know what happens. One can almost visualize the special effects laden movie waiting in the wings.
4. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri - groan.
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  1. jayasankarvsOctober 10, 2005 at 7:50 AM

    Nammude pazhaya Heidi?

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  2. befuzzledOctober 10, 2005 at 7:52 AM

    I remember reading Heidi when i was about ten years old...loved the book at that time, esp, the way she went up and down the mountain and the numerous references to grandfathers and grandmothers..:)

    later in life, whenever i watched the Jap serial, Oshin, i used to think of Heidi...not sure why, though.

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  3. rulinianOctober 10, 2005 at 10:59 AM

    Oh, please, please don't tell me you read Eragon and liked it ...

    That book made me bawl all night from sheer exposure to terrible prose.

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  4. sukuOctober 10, 2005 at 11:07 AM

    Reading a lot of young fiction, are we? :)

    Try The Witches by Dahl. I like it very much.
    Also Swami and friends by R K Narayan. But I am guessing you must have already read these.

    There is nothing like these books when hit by boredom.

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  5. madhavOctober 10, 2005 at 1:02 PM

    Yeah, I've read The Witches and Swami. I try to avoid classifying books into 'young' and 'old' fiction, as much as possible. Gnid Blyton, anyone?

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  6. madhavOctober 10, 2005 at 1:03 PM

    True, the prose is quite stilted. However, I was always partial to fantasy fiction, so...

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  7. madhavOctober 10, 2005 at 1:03 PM

    Vo.

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  8. madhavOctober 10, 2005 at 1:05 PM

    My mother had bought me an abridged copy of Heidi for my 9th birthday, which I never touched. Now however, I've read a super-abridged version about two hundred and sixty three times, all aloud.

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  9. befuzzledOctober 11, 2005 at 12:24 AM

    hehehe:) okay.

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  10. serioussamOctober 11, 2005 at 1:06 AM

    I haven't read Eragon, but there was a furore over at beat's journal some time ago over it. Apparently not many people like it.

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  11. jayasankarvsOctober 11, 2005 at 1:31 AM

    What a messed up book Heidi is!

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