A Bookworm's Diet
An update on the books I have read since my last update :-
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Good read)
- The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (Typical King)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Peter Pan by J M Barrie (Wonderful writing - most of the incidents seem metaphorical, providing different interpretations for children & adults)
- The Lord Of The Rings by J R R Tolkien (Tolkien IS God :-)
- Under the Radar - How Red Hat Changed the Software Business & Took Microsoft by Surprise - by Robert Young (CEO of Red Hat) & Wendy Goldman Rohm (Incoherent flow, bad editing & at times, the writing stinks too. The best part of the book was the section in the Appendix on 'Understanding the IPO Process')
- State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Pretty good. Enormous amounts of data dished out at times. Hurried ending)
- The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien (second reading)
- The Complete Adventures of Feluda - Volume 1 by Satyajit Ray (Translated by Gopa Majumdar) (Positively brilliant. More in another post)
Currently reading :-
- The Complete Adventures of Feluda - Volume 2 by Satyajit Ray (Translated by Gopa Majumdar)
posted by Rajat | 8:53 PM
3 Comments:
In the translator's profile in the book, it is said that Gopa translated all the Feluda stories for Penguin. Gopa herself says that the first translations to come out were by Chitrita Banerjee, but the subsequent translations are by her. She also says that a few of the stories have been 'retranslated' by her. Not sure, whether that means that the Penguin edition includes those by Ms.Banerjee.
Yeah, Crichton's writing is declining. Somehow it does not pack the same punch as his earlier ones. Even Prey was way better.
Tommyknockers and typical King....you know I wish the King would go back to that eighties mode. A lot of his recent efforts have been bizzarre( but of course, eminently readable).Still, nothing like an old-fashioned King novel eh?
I don't think I haven't read any of his recent efforts. But yeah, "an old-fashioned King novel" is a different proposition altogether. Mouth-watering, to say the least. :-)
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