Brilliant! The 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm Calvin meeting 7:30 pm Calvin sequence was absolutely hilarious. A must-read.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Yukon Ho by Bill Watterson
Colored edition would have made it better. But the dialog between Calvin and Hobbes is worth the read anyways.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A child's book. Maybe it would have been interesting if I had read it when I was a kid. But now, reading it on my Android only because it came with the phone, didn't enjoy as much although it is true that novel is written just the way dreams occur.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Lazy Sunday Book by Bill Watterson
Beautiful. Ingenious art and dialog. Color adds further color to the comic. Each page contains 6-8 panels and it is one complete story. So, one small story per page. A must-read!
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Something Under The Bed Is Drooling by Bill Watterson
A black and white comic book. Hence not so captivating. But very insightful and humorous, as always. Foreword in the book says it all.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill Watterson
A treasure. A pleasure. As always, Calvin and Hobbes makes life so enjoyable!
Monday, August 27, 2012
There's Treasure Everywhere by Bill Watterson
A Calvin and Hobbes must-read. I almost re-read each comic strip to completely enjoy the artistic ingeniuty and the matter-of-facts-of-life of Bill Watterson.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Doctor Sally by P G Wodehouse
Not at all interesting. A very thin story line about a man wooing a woman that goes on for about 130 pages. Avoidable. But nice and crisp English, as always.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Its a Magical World by Bill Watterson
A Calvin and Hobbes book. Wonderful, as usual. Can't help reading each comic strip twice to fully enjoy the humor!
Sunday, July 1, 2012
The Swoop and other stories by P G Wodehouse
A rare collection of Wodehouse - perhaps written during his early literature years. Not as great as his later ones. Very light and laugh-less humor. Did not like it as much as I liked his others.
Monday, June 4, 2012
The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
Sequel-of-sorts to Avenger. Mainly because same main characters used in The Avenger re-appear in The Cobra. Excellent story-telling again. In-depth coverage of cocaine. How it is manufactured, how it is exported, how it is imported, how payments are made, who are the major players and how vast its tentacles are spread. And of course, how it makes Bill and Buffet look like paupers. Like most of Forsyth's novels (including The Day of the Jackal which I first read), the first half of the novel is all about preparation. Second half is striking and finishing. Perfect use of BAMS technology and what it can achieve. As always, although fiction, Forsyth gives insight on what is occurring in the world, and what technologies and laws can be used to make it a better place.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
A Few Quick Ones by P G Wodehouse
Collection of short stories featuring Oofy, Bingo, Freddie, Wooster including few golf stories. Pleasant read.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Heart of a Goof by P G Wodehouse
Only Wodehouse can combine mild romance and humor with golf. Wonderful short stories - all revolving around golf.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Old Reliable by P G Wodehouse
Set in Hollywood and with new set of characters. But underlying themes being Wodehousian Constant: Romance, Burglary, Butler, etc. Enchanting read.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Butler Did It by P G Wodehouse
Based on a slight deviation of Tontine principle, the novel revolves around couple of about-to-be married folks, set in country side of London and, of course, beautiful English and unique set of characters. Extremely funny, wonderful set of twists and turns and a page-turner. Must-read.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Spring Fever by P G Wodehouse
New characters but similar surroundings and schemes - romance in old-world castles, with important-seeming butlers buttling around, etc. Excellent English, of course, and a jugful of humor.
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Uncle Dynamite by P G Wodehouse
Jovial as usual. Enough twists and turns with romance popping on and off, impostors, policemen, robbery, etc to make it a page turner. And of course the English language. Must-read.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
No Nudes Is Good Nudes by P G Wodehouse
Absolutely topper! Even the title is apt. Blandings Castle, Uncle Threepwood, Lord Emsworth and his pig, Duke of Dunstable, Beach, a couple of romantic hearts and of course 'The Reclining Nude' - a perfect composition of an excellent novel. Add "Wodehouse at his best" and this book is unputdownable.
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Meaning of Life
This book by Bradley Trevor Greive contains less than 120 pages and has one sentence per page. Yes, just one sentence per page. Rest of the page is covered with animal pictures which is why I took the book for my daughter. But as it turned out, this is a book for adults. When I started reading it by chance, I could not put it down till I read the whole thing. It is a page-turner and hard-hitting. The message is wittily put across in less than 10 mins of reading the book.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Lord Emsworth and Others by P G Wodehouse
Rib tickling short stories. Thoroughly enjoyable. Some golf stories too. Only Wodehouse can combine golf with funny love entanglements.
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