Though all forms of writing are unique, poetry stands out. Mainly because it is so commercially unsuccessful, and anyone who writes it has to be passionate about the craft and not money. I have written poems all my life, and I am happy to publish …
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There is world, vast and uncaringLonely and beautiful and fearsome,meaningless and undying, compassionateand tuneful, inharmonious and barren.You decide to reside on mars,just for the sake of noveltyAnd to take only the few humans,who love you and have unquenchingThirst for random snippets of mockeryand the trees …
Read MoreBook Review – The Deep Blue Good-By
This is the first of several novels that John Macdonald has written with Travis McGee as a protagonist. Travis, who likes to be called Trav, is a self confessed beach bum, someone who works on special cases only when he runs out of money earned …
Read MoreBook Review – Carrie
Carrie is an interesting first book. Technically, it was not Stephen King’s first book. It was his first published book. He took it up as a challenge from a female friend to write a book where the protagonist was a woman. In one of the …
Read MoreBook Review – Kafka On the Shore
Kafka on the Shore is like a surrealistic painting or a David Lynch movie. There is a plot, there are characters that are occasionally coherent and there are elements of mystery. But, if you are looking at resolution, that too a water tight, Sherlock Holmes …
Read MoreRaymond Carver
What is it about Raymond Carver that attracts so many creatives? I first heard of Carver when Rhett Miller mentioned him in an interview with Robert Christgau. Old 97’s even recorded a song with the title of a Carver story named, “What we talk about …
Read MoreFabulous Reviews by Leading book bloggers
Some great reviews of my books by popular book bloggers: Anusha of I’ll read anything reviews “Brothers Sen Gogh”. She says, “What I liked the most about this book is the strong based characterisation. Where you can actually understand the person, identify with and relate …
Read MoreBook Review – The Door into Summer – Robert Heinlein
It is an interesting exercise to read books you adored in your early life. One such book for me was Heinlein’s “A door into summer”, a light sci-fi/thriller/mystery with some romance in it. I would have given it a five star rating when I first …
Read MoreMovie Review – Nomadland
Chloe Jhao is an enigma. A self confessed Manga, fantasy and sci-fi fan, her earlier movies are anything but fantasy. Though she seems to be changing that with Eternals for Marvel, the first movies, including Nomadland, are grounded in gritty reality. Nomadland is so real, …
Read MoreBook Review – The Midnight Library
On the surface, The Midnight Library is a parallel world or time travel science fiction. It is in the tradition of One by Richard Bach. Even Groundhog Day and Bar Bar Dekho are in a similar format. In these movies, the protagonists keeps on traveling …
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