Deception Point Novel review

Deception Point," Dan Brown's novel, is about the political
consequences of a NASA claim to have discovered a historic
meteorite embedded in ice for more than three centuries.It
has so many twists and turns, is packed with fast moving plots,
visual descriptions and ofcourse tidbits of romance.Brown's
description about the people, locations, machineries etc are
just perfect.This is the fourth Dan brown novel am reading
after DaVinci code,A&D and Digital Fortress

Deception Point is a story of a senator’s daughter who gets
trapped in a complete mess which also includes the most
powerful men in the world "the President of the US", "Head
of the NASA","The head of NRO".The story revolves around
the political individuals driven by a unstoppable ambition
to grab the Presidential seat of government.

It proceeds with the same exciting, stunning fact-filled
writing like all other Dan brown's.It is a page-turner,
fast-moving and entertaining.Now, the real fun is trying
to figure out who is the prey and who is the mastermind!
Actually I didn’t get it right and I am sure even you
wont get it either. Trust me, it is an absolute cracker.
One more advantage of this book is there are not too
many parallel plots which keeps u stuck to the main plot.
Though in this novel i found it hard to believe that the
President of only super power country, who is aware of
all the things happening around the world does not know
what happens under his nose.

The main plot deals with power, authority, and obviously
well-developed deception. It is a gripping thriller and
adrenalin pumping read that I recommend you.

Thousand Splendid Suns Book review

Thousand Splendid Suns is second Novel for Khaled Hosseini after
Kite Runner.“The Kite Runner” focused on fathers and sons, and
friendships between men, his latest novel, “A Thousand Splendid
Suns,” focuses on mothers and daughters, and friendships
between women.Like Kite Runner this novel also deals with diff
generations of Afghanistan right from its once-rich past which starts
disintegrating rapidly as the rule of power moves from the Soviets
to the Mujahideen, the Taliban and finally the US-backed government
with Hamid Karzai.

Thousand Splendid suns is the story of two strong women, Mariam
and Laila,born about nineteen years apart, and the strange love
they come to share after being thrown together under complicated circumstances.Mariam,uneducated illegitimate girl coming from a
rural Herat and Laila city born educated girl from Kabul both
meet each other and their stories converge when they married
Rasheed at their respective teenage.the transition in the
relationship between Mariam and Laila was pictured superbly.Its
about love, hope, the unexpected inner strength and bonding
between two women who, though not related byblood, are intimately
related by circumstances.

I loved these lines in the book

“Like a compass needle that always points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. You remember that Mariam jo.”
(This would be said by Nana Mariam's mother to her)

"she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last."
This is about Mariam before she is beaten to death

On the whole i felt it is an Ok sort of book,Can read it once.This
story is not written with such deliberate detail as The Kite Runner.
I would recommend the book to anyone who wants to read a
touching novel and is willing to be moved to cry :).

Digital Fortress - Dan Brown Book Review

Digital fortressis cyber-thriller novel by Dan brown.This is the 3rd
novel of Dan Brown am reading after "Da vinci Code" and "Angels
and Demons"."Digital Fortress" doesn't look to have the edge or
the constant action found in "The DaVinci Code" or even "Angels
& Demons." But overall its a good fast paced adventurous novel.

This thriller revolves around the quest for an unbreakable encryption
algorithm's passkey and the extent to which people would go to in
order to acquire it.This unbreakable encryption algorithm called as
Digital Fortress was written by ex-NSA cryptographer Ensei Tankado
who had blackmailed to make it available for public use if the NSA
didn't make TRANSLTR's(incredible code-breaking machine which
can even turn the best computer encryption software useless)
existence known to the general public.The plot takes a twist when
Ensei the only person who knew the Pass-key to break digital
fortress died .

Only the end of the novel let me down.It was like watching some
Hollywood action movie's climax, it was too artificial.

I found the book fast-paced and engaging.If you like cyber-thrillers
I highly recommend you pick this book up and read it.

"Next" novel Review

I just completed Michael Crichton's novel, NEXT, which deals
with the business behind genetic engineering.Next has plenty
of inputs on the moral and financial implications of human
genetic engineering, but none of them add up to a meaningfull
and involving story. The chapters are short , some moments
even thrilling, but it’s hard to predict where the story is going.


The main plot of the story revolves around the patenting of
genes, and how that is at contraty with regular patent law.
How can you patent something that already exists in nature?
This practice leads to companies controlling entire lines of
research as they will sue if anyone attempts to touch their
genetic "property rights".

The narrative is difficult considering that Next almost never
stops bringing new characters, till the end of the novel
barring last few chapters.At some point of the plot there
were two kids with the same name and it confused me
pretty much whom he is referring to.There is no main
character which makes the plot less interesting. The very
short chapters have you moving from story to story
without making much advancements on each, and some
story lines aren't re-visited for quite a while, leading to
more than a few 'who is this character again?' moments
makes it very irritating . If you're going to read it, it's
best to do so in as much less sittings as possible.

The climax of the story, if you can call it that, is when a
few of the characters come together as the "chase" plot
is over. But after it was all over, I was left with a feeling
of "What the F***, that's it?".

The positive aspect with this novel is that its a well
researched one and very informative as with all
Michael Crichton novels. The internal mechanisms
of the pharmaceutical,biotech,legal, marketing and
genetic labs are explored in great detail.

Overall, i would rate this novel as one of Crichton's worst
works.

Kite Runner - Book Review

The Kite Runner is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini an afghan writer
settled in USA.The theme of the novel swivels around family relationships
(particularly father and son),love,friendship, the inhumanity of a rigid class
system, the horrific realities of war,betrayal and the subsequent redemption.
The moment i hear of afghanistan what i picturise in my mind is war and
terrorism.But only after reading the book i realized that even afghansitan
was peaceful country and it had its own cultural heritage.But then due to
repeated wars it was ravaged.The story takes you through decades of change
in Afghanistan starting from the removal of the monarchy until the fall of the
ruthless Taliban.

The main character of the novel is Aamir from the high society class in
afghanistan.His father is Baba who is discontented with aamir partly coz he
was not as brave as him and partly he also blames aamir for his wife's death
(aamir's mother).Hassan the servant Ali's son is Aamir's best friend.Though
Aamir constantly abuses their friendship on many levels and also physically
abuses hassan coz he is jealous of the love that his father shows towards
Hassan.At some point of time Aamir betrays Hassan coz of that incident
both are separated from each other.And I do not want to break the twists
and suspense of the novel by goin thru the entire plot.The story goes on as
how aamir redeem his self afflicted sins and how he turns out to be
courageous rescuer from a sheepish cowardice.

There are two phrases that impressed me when i read thru this novel one is
always said by hasaan to aamir whenever aamir told him of some work.

"For you a thousand times over"

and the other one was said by aamir

“There is a way to be good again”

And if you want to be good again, if you have some hidden guilt in the
corner of your heart then get inspired to nullify the haunting guilt from
your life

Moreover, you will find yourself laughing and crying through every chapter.
Overall, Kite Runner is a thoughtful novel and I have absolutely nothing bad
to say about it.The novel was well written ,all the characters were suitably
developed and straightforward, which made the narrative easy to follow.
The writing style appeals to readers’ emotion a lot.Atleast for me, I was
extremely touched by sad scenes.


Heard the author's next book 'Thousand Splendid Suns' is also equally good.
Didn't get a chance to read it.Though i will read it soon and then post u guys
the review for it.

White tiger - My Review

White Tiger a novel by Aravind adiga.Heard mixed reviews before reading this novel and gathered few information which i wud like to post.
Initially when the novel was published the sales figures were too low and things completely overturned when The White Tiger was awarded Man Booker Prize.

Coming back to the review The White tiger novel is narrated as a monologue format by the author himself.But one thing i dont understand is why he needs to tell his experiences to the chinese head specifically . Neways like most part of the novel this also didnt seem to make sense to me.The book was not so funny, its absurd,its artificial and he has also made fun of Indian Gods and it is another bloody way of selling India’s poverty and despair.I felt extremely happy and proud about Aravind Adiga for his remarkable achievement When got the Man Booker prize for his White Tiger, but then i had to repent for it later when I finished reading that book. It will please those looking for insights into contemporary India.I do accept that bad things happen in india as it takes place in every other part of the world but he has projected as if this is only way over here.India has given a lot of benefits to me so i wont agree completely with what the author projects.

But I guess we will always find people in this country who would always sit and think what I dont have and how bad this country is, rather than opening their eyes and realising what they do have.

The only positive aspect i found in this novel is that it is written in a simple language.