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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins My rating: 2 of 5 stars Read this book out of curiosity to find out what made it so famous. The point is, I still don't understand why.. Some books make you feel that America is filled with scientists, geniuses, spies or detectives. This one gives you an impression that the USA is replete with scary psychopaths, liars, drunkards, murderers, womanizers and cheats. The thought that I actually went through this book makes me puke. Damn it. One single event goes back and forth, back and forth, through the eyes of an alcoholic woman, and the problem is, she is such a heavy drunkard that all her memories are blurred. Where is the point in going back and forth, and back and forth on something: 1. which never happened or 2. she just doesn't remember completely. A total waste of precious time.. My precious. Our precious. They stole it from us. Paula Hawkins. View all my reviews

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery My rating: 4 of 5 stars An interesting read, where a talkative unwanted girl becomes indispensable. The ending was quite predictable though. View all my reviews

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy My rating: 2 of 5 stars That was one ridiculous piece of compilation of horrors and sorrows from across India - mainly focusing on Kashmir. What is the correlation between the title and the novel? There seems to be no 'happiness' anywhere, leave alone 'utmost happiness'! Is this a compilation of related newspaper articles, or Ms. Arundhati, did you really sit with this book for 20 odd years? If so, your efforts are undoubtedly counterproductive. I enjoyed most part of the book, however, I did not feel good at the end of it.. What I enjoyed most: the bold ridicule of Indian leaders - 1. Atal Bihari Vajpayee - Lisping Poet Prime Minister 2. Manmohan Singh 3. Narendra Modi - Gujarat ka Lalla 4. Anna Hazare 5. Kiran Bedi 6. Aamir Khan 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' will make a good study of contemporary Indian history, that apart, nothing more impressed me. When the story started off with the transgende...

சுடாதே...: Sudadhe... by Maheshwaran Jothi My rating: 2 of 5 stars I volunteered to read this book and received it as a free copy, in exchange for an honest review. A typical mystery.. Three people get going in three different directions, and magically come together at the end.... But something is lacking.... The character development of the book was good but inadequate. All the characters were very interesting and entertaining. Sudadhe.. was an interesting page-turner. However, the ending let me down. I found the personality of the protagonist too haughty, and the investigation was not satisfactorily logical. View all my reviews