The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time By Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon has written a moving novel about love and bravery through the eyes of a British autistic boy. Christopher discovers his neighbor's poodle dead, impaled by a pitchfork, and, because he adores puzzles, he sets out to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington . But Christopher is autistic, a boy who doesn't like to be touched and cannot decipher emotions beyond the tools his teacher has taught him, and so the task requires the huge effort of testing rules and facing his own fears. A literalist by neurology, he deconstructs life into a set of mathematical equations and physical laws. This unique perspective makes him a good detective on one level, where clues and logic rule, but it also fails him on another, higher one because he cannot understand the magnitude of what he uncovers.
That Haddon was able to write a book from Christopher's point of view with all his quirks and still make him lovable is extraordinary. By necessity, the writing is simple and unadorned, but the language of details elevates it from the mundane. The insertion of mathematical puzzles and drawings add to the reader's understanding of how Christopher's mind works. Haddon's real skill is an understatement that allows the reader to comprehend what is going on even if Christopher cannot. Although Christopher cannot grasp subtlety and nuances, the reader can, and that's where the true force of this exceptional novel lies.Language is simple.It is 270 pages long(hardbound).I will give it 3/5.

BOOK REVIEW:-FAHRENHEIT 451 by RAY BRADBURY

"if they give you ruled paper,
write the other way."

Fahrenheit 451 the temperature at which paper burns. It is a science fiction story. It deals with a dystopian future. It is a story about a dysfunctional and sick society where books are burned and those who read them are punished by law. In this society it is the firemen who start fire instead of stopping them. Guy Montag the hero is one such fireman who realizes over time that burning books would ruin years of writing and history. Guy Montag is unhappy with his life, job and wife. As Montag grows unhappy with society and surroundings he becomes sympathetic with the rebellious cause over intellectual freedom, he discovers the history behind why his culture became dysfunctional and what future scenario has to happen in order to change it. Reading is more than an action of digesting words but requires reflection and a foundation set towards higher thinking.
This book is also about censorship and propaganda. Point to be worried here how much it is getting true. With 175 pages it is short and fascinating read. I will give it 3 ½ /5

BOOK REVIEW:--- The Narrows by Michael Connelly

Seizing on the metaphor of The Narrows, a waterway that drains mountain streams into the great river of Los Angeles and on into the ocean, Michael Connelly adds closure to the story begun in the Poet. Normally, The Narrows are a shallow flow of water, until the rains come, and then, in the downpour, The Narrows become deadly and quick a killer just like the poet himself, once an FBI aganet who was highly respected, whose deep waters his tle coldest and most calculating of murderers, both brilliant and brutal.

The story starts when Rachel Walling, who was The Poet's protégé in the FBI, recalled from FBI exile by a piece of evidence that made it clear that The Poet was still actively killing and that he wanted a confrontation with Walling, who was the only agent to come even close to putting him down. The second key figure of the case is Harry Bosch, one of Connelly's regular characters. Bosch has retired from the LAPD, and for the past year has been trying to come to grips with the discovery that a broken relationship has made him a father.

Bosch is the wildcard in the story. Bosch was a friend Terry McCaleb, a retired FBI profiler who died from the apparent failure of his transplanted heart. But an autopsy revealed that someone had messed with McCaleb's medications and that death from natural cause was not an option. Bosch discovers a connection to The Poet, and, near a boat in the middle of a desert, the detective butts heats with the FBI and makes an unexpected friend of Rachel Walling. And thus begins a story which is half thriller and half a testament to the glories of detection.

Connelly is one of those prose writers who can write a tight, action oriented narrative balanced with solid detail and, just when you think you know what to expect, he will dash off a bit of wordsmithing that will embed a scene in your mind forever. There are writers like Crais and Chandler who can reach more dizzying heights, but Connelly has a style and consistency that puts him in the same league. The story is both a mystery and the tale of people who have come close to being twisted by the force that threatens to prey on them. For we all are only moments from The Narrows ourselves.It has 404 pages.I will give it 4/5.

DEEP THOUGHTS

1.The worst part of winning a rat race is not that you win, but the fact that you're still a rat.

2.Evil spelled backward is live

3.I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

4."It is better to be pissed off than pissed on."

5."It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln

QUOTES

1."There will always be survivors."
Robert Heinlen


2.Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.

3.He who knows and knows that he knows is a master.
He who knows and does not know that he knows needs a teacher.
He who does not know and knows that he does not know, needs love.
He who thinks he knows and does not know, is lost.
Ancient proverb

4.Solution to 2 of the worlds major problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry...

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REVIEW:----Grant Morrison's 13 issue maxi-series, the Filth, is possibly the best piece of material to ever come from the strangely gifted, critically acclaimed writer. The story centers around Greg Feely, a man who wants to do nothing more than look at pornography and care for his ailing cat Tony. However, Greg soon learns that he is actually Ned Slade, a special negotiator for an organization called the Hand which cleans up the unhealthy variations and messes made in the world. Feely's search for his identity brings him across a talking communist chimpanzee named Dmitri who boasts that he killed JFK, an adult film star named Anders Klimakks whose black semen is made into a biological weapon by depraved director Tex Porneau, and brainwashed children which are nothing more than ants. The art by Chris Weston and Gary Erksine brilliantly capture the sheer weirdness of it all; perfectly capturing Morrison's characterizations. Beneath the intense graphic violence and sex, Morrison weaves a tale like a tree, branching out with ideas reminiscent of that of a Philip K. Dick story while challenging the confines of what is a comic book. The Filth is brilliant, shocking, and the best thing to come from DC's Vertigo imprint since Preacher and Morrison's own Animal Man, and is much like Alan Moore's Watchmen was almost twenty years ago: sheer comic brilliance that will be cherished for years to come.I will give it 3/5.

BOOK REVIEW :-- FREAKONOMICS by STEVEN D LEVITT

Freakonomics is a refreshing, thoroughly enjoyable, easy reading, fast paced, witty and cynical breath of fresh air! Levitt and Dubner offer up a series of pointed, thought provoking essays composed in jargon-free layman's language that are loosely connected through a theme revealed in the book's sub-title - the hidden side of everything!

Incentives, or disincentives and deterrents, are examined as to their effectiveness in achieving the outcomes anticipated by those people, corporations or government organizations who designed them. We quickly learn that when incentives are applied in the context of our own philosophies and objectives, the outcomes may not be precisely as might have been originally intended.

The power of information, disinformation, information symmetry or asymmetry, perceived or real, and information hoarding in the form of secrecy is looked at from the point of view of determining its effect on our reliance on and opinions of "experts" and on our own strength in the process of negotiation or development of a contract. The authors' use of the KKK, real estate agents and the Internet as enormously disparate examples of information hoarders or disseminators is, in a word, inspired and informative.

The rather contentious issues of abortion vis-à-vis US crime rates and the relationship between race, economic status, parenting and scholastic achievement are used to demonstrate the enormous pitfalls in distinguishing between causality relationships as opposed to simple correlation.

I believe my personal background in mathematics and physics has allowed me to appreciate the deeper meaning of these essays from a scientific point of view. But, I'm concerned that in doing this, I may give rise to the profoundly mistaken impression that "Freakonomics" is some turgid economics exposition that's as dry as a Death Valley dust storm. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Read it! Enjoy it! Laugh at it and think about what you've just read. If you never again look at a social phenomenon and accept it at simple face value without a raised eyebrow and a little more questioning attitude, then I believe that Levitt and Dubner will have achieved their goal.THis book 250 pages long.I will give it 4/5.

BOOK REVIEW :-- STORMY WEATHER by CARL HIAASEN

This is the sixth novel of carl hiaasen and one of his best.Hiassen is at his satirical best.Given the recent hurricanes Katirina and Rita that hit U.S.A this novel looks like a timely read.This novel tells a story of tourists, native Floridians, scam artists, and insurance adjusters as they interact in Miami after a Hurricane strikes.
The most colorful character in this ensemble piece- the crazy ex-governor turned swamp dweller Skink.There are many more.Max and Bonnie Lamb are honeymooning in Disney World when the hurricane hits Florida. Bonnie just wants to resume the honey moon festivities, but her husband, Max, an advertising rep, sees an opportunity to impress his bosses and drags Bonnie down to Miami to get footage of the destruction carved out by the storm.Edie Marsh has been roving Florida in search of a Kennedy. Her plan has been to seduce one, and then blackmail them on her way to easy street. The plan never bears fruit. After the hurricane, she sees an opportunity to work another scam and sets off for Miami with a partner named Snapper, who acquired his nickname after an unfortunate childhoot incident left him with a deformed jaw. Edie's plans go awry when Snapper turns out to be more difficult to handle than she thought. Finally, there is Skink. This crazy wild man has great teeth and a protective streak for Florida's wilderness. These are just some of the characters that fill the pages of 'Stormy Weather.' Throughout the novel, they end up running into each other and confounding one another's plans. It's an incredibly twisted plot, but Hiaasen pulls it off perfectly.
His writing is sarcastic and unrestrained by reality.The novel has 388 pages.This novel is a delight from cover to cover.overall I will give it 4/5.