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Love Story
Added on 25-02-2006
Eric Segal’s ‘Love Story’ is indisputably one of the best love stories ever written. Therefore, it might come as a surprise to many to learn that he had originally written the story for a movie of the same name starring Ryan O’Neal and Allie McGraw, which was released back in 1970. It was only in 1988, 18 years after the runaway success of the movie did the author publish it into a bestselling novel.
“Love means never having to say you are sorry.” This is the one most touching line in the book and forms sort of the backbone of the whole story. The protagonists are Oliver Barrett IV, a preppie Ivy League lawyer and Jennifer Cavilleri a seemingly nerdish, ebullient music major. Both are from as different worlds as possible. But you know what they say about love breaking all barriers. So does the love in this tragic story.
It is a short book by usual standards. An average accomplished reader might finish it in an hour or two. The best selling author of ‘Doctors’ and ‘Acts of Faith’, Segal has kept the narrative devilishly simple and to the point, yet there will be times when the reader will have to backtrack and re-read a page or two to get a grasp on what actually transpired between the characters amidst all the abuses they keep hurling at each other. Maybe the book is pointedly short to bring into glaring perspective the fact that depth of love is hardly dependent on time, as is the case with Oliver and Jenny’s all encompassing love for each other.
It is the quintessential love-story-line. ‘Rich boy’, Oliver meets and falls for ‘Poor girl’, Jenny and they get married amidst opposition from his parents. Their whole saga is an apparent love hate one, at least that’s what’s evident from the language they use, but it’s all on the surface. The story moves at a rapid pace yet covers a period of only a few short years. It is a story of selfless love and loss, of sacrifice and poignant anguish. By the end, there are quite a few moments liable to bring on the water works.
It’s a simple tale told in a simple manner. Nevertheless, the emotional punch it packs is quite a strong one. The author has tried to simulate the style of writing in his other books ‘Oliver’s story’, which is a sequel to ‘Love story’ and ‘Only love’, with only partial success.
It is a wonderful heartfelt tumultuous story, which everyone in love should read. And yes, it is true…Love, does mean never having to say you are sorry.
--lavanya_doc, RxPG
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The Da Vinci Code
Added on 25-02-2006
Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever. --synopsis, RxPG
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The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream
Added on 25-02-2006
Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sense a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalucian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --synopsis, RxPG
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The Fountainhead
Added on 25-02-2006
Ayn rands best work.more cryptic than atlas shrugged..Fabulous book.the book revolves around the protagonist..more aptly the hero..Howard Roark,who is an architect and how he lives by his own rules.which are based on reason and individualism..The book speaks about his style of work and how he goes against all conventional and classical schools and emerges a winner..And its not about being different..or rebelling..its just rational thinking irrespective of the masses.must read --drdp, RxPG
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Atlas Shrugged
Added on 25-02-2006
first, the shortcomings,as these are few and qualitative; the book is voluminous,dense,set in a different time and really gloomy.but as the real message starts to show itself a sense of deep connection with the book prevails.the book talks about the individual,his pride and ego and the desire to achieve.And how it builds and not hinder the respect for others, and more profoundly what respect is.
it handles all this with such depth that it changed my thinking for ever.
a must read.
--dr.nitish, RxPG
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