[Rohitthebest]

Originally Posted by shatananda.k

I am reading John Le Carre Biography by Adam Sisman. In the initial chapters now. Pretty engaging



Completely agreed. This is my first book from Stephen King. A whole world awaits now. Do you recommend anything specific to start ?

If you have read The Shining and loved it, do watch the movie and come back with your thoughts too. And you must read The Green Mile, another gem from King and follow it with excellent movie with Tom Hanks in lead. Once you finish Green Mile, you have to read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption to be followed by the fantastic movie.

[shatananda.k]

Over the weekend, I completed 'And The Mountains Echoed' by Khaled Hosseini. Definitely the weakest among his 3 books. Too many jumps in story lines, with new characters thrown in with no conclusion.

Originally Posted by Rohitthebest

If you have read The Shining and loved it, do watch the movie and come back with your thoughts too.

I have watched all (almost) movies based on Stephen King's book. I don't remember Shining since I had watched it many years back.

Off topic, I learnt Salem's Lot is being made. Need to read this before the series comes out

[DigitalOne]

Over the past few months, I read three translated works - "The Village of Eight Graves", "The Honjin Murders", "The Devil's Flute Murders" - of Seishi Yokomizo, a writer of Japanese mystery novels.

As his wiki profile says, he was prolific during the pst WWII period. The books are also set in that period and does give a glimpse of grim post war Japan - shortages, black marketing, power cuts, crowded trains etc.

These are translated works of a difficult language and set in a unique cultural milieu which we are not familiar with. The pace is also quite languid. You may find yourself keep referring to the helpful list of characters given in the first few pages. There are also references to architectural elements which are unique to Japanese houses, paper screen doors/fusuma or tatami mats, for example, which are of significance to the plot. In short, do not expect a breezy read of a John Grisham novel or even a translated work of a Keigo Higashino.

However, I would still recommend these mystery novels for intricate plotting - 2 of the three books I mentioned are Locked-room mysteries - and for just being something different. So, if you are tired of regular mysteries/thrillers set in US or UK, have a go.



ps - I will be exchanging above two books sometime this week at Blossoms, Church Street. If you are buying them there, it might be the same copy I read

[rajivr1612]

If anyone's in mood for full timepass you can read the below books.

1) Scandal Point by Fahad Samar. Full on Bollywood storyline with lots of masala.

2) May I Hebb your Attention Pliss - Arnab Ray. Guaranteed laugh riot.