Book Reviews: Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel’s Booker winning novel, Wolf Hall is, at its best, a novel left incomplete. At its worst, it seems superfluous, a novel unneeded, retelling a story which has been told hundreds of times in history textbooks- dry as dust tomes languishing in dark, musty corners in school and college libraries the world over have [...]

nothingness

Unspoken words we scatter on the wind become poetry.
Every poet wants to be heard. Most want to be heard by an audience of one. When they fail, they publish and get an
audience of many.
The objective of reading a book is not to finish it. Then it becomes a chore.
A book is a journey more important [...]

Reading David F. Wallace, and other things

Reading David Foster Wallace is like taking a peek inside of yourself, and not being very comfortable at what you find in there. I started with Infinite Jest today, and within finishing some ten pages of that nearly thousand page masterpiece, was a fan. But the book is on hold now, as in the time [...]

infinite jest

started reading infinite jest, my first novel by david foster wallace. this is what Jay McInerny had to say about wallace when reviewing the book :
If Mr. Wallace were less talented, you would be inclined to shoot him — or possibly yourself — somewhere right around page 480 of ”Infinite Jest.” In fact, you [...]

where eagles dare

this has to be the most sardonically humorous exhange ever,from THE most rollicking adventure story ever written…
“Schaffer lifted his head. The muzziness had now left him, even if his sore head had not.
‘Enter, left, reinforcements,’ he announced. “This wasn’t on the schedule, boss. Radio gone, telephone gone, helicopter gone — ‘
‘Just old-fashioned.’ Smith pointed towards [...]

smoke signals

perhaps the most impressive scene in LOTR:the return of the king is the scene in which they light the beacons of minas tirith and what follows, undoubtedly helped by the stunning visuals and the rocking background score.somehow it always reminds me of the floowing exchange in alistair mcleans “where eagles dare” (after smith and schaffer [...]

vacations

end terms are over right now,and in a day or two i shall be going home.away from my laptop,phones,the internet and any other sort of connectivity.three weeks of holidays starting now,though i will hopefully be back in two weeks (if i can last that long at home) to start work on my dissert.
i generally get [...]