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Ahimaaz

Ahimaaz

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How can you say I'm erudite when I...I don't know how it felt to be born!

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  • Living in Hyderabad, India
  • member since November 6, 2008

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  • SPADS: XIII Vol. 4

    SPADS: XIII Vol. 4

    by Jean Van Hamme
    • Rated 4 stars

    This Franco-Belgian series I quit following when I left for college is back in print! Vance's art is something I recall vividly and is why I want to read even the ones I've read.

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Saturday, April 2, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Musclebound
    • Rated 5 stars

    Like ideas (read sperms) shooting from idea-pool. Borges would be proud!

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Saturday, April 2, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Tamara Drewe
    • Rated 4 stars

    The ending is rushed and chick-lit like but there's more to it than just its insipid ending. The film adaptation doesn't do it justice which is sad.

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Wednesday, February 9, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    • Rated 5 stars

    Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys has an aura about it. You call it bizarre. A striking element in it is how the title plays out. You call it red herring. You may as well call it gross. You then follow the culprit and before you know follows the anticlimax. Too bad you say or maybe not. The beauty of the film isn’t in its frames. It’s in your head. Your eyes, your optic nerve endings - your mind.

    Floyd’s High Hopes has a vibe about it. You call it sublime. When asked about band’s time together Gilmour says it was like family and Waters says it wasn’t. They split, end of Pink Floyd. As much as it’s a swan song it is remembrance of things past sans Waters, sans Barrett. Chimes start it and chimes end it. You may as well say silence starts and ends it. The beauty of the song isn’t in its chords. Your ears, again your nerve endings - your mind.







    This book is sublimely bizarre. Upon closing its final page, I had this urge to put down a one-pager entirely in beatnik to articulate what the ending meant to me. I’m not sure to feel glad or sad I didn’t do it. It wouldn’t have made any sense to me in the first place. As it stands, it’s safe somewhere in my unedited unconscious. Did I tell you once you finish the book in order you must start reading it in reverse order. Just kidding. Maybe not. This book is bizarrely sublime.

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Tuesday, February 8, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Cages
    • Rated 5 stars

    Not since Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, Tortora et al. have I held a book so thick. Even heavier.

    A rather thick but fast-reading book that meanders about art, music, creativity, has McKean working on it cover to cover art and writing opposed to only drawing as in Arkham Asylum (rewritten though at his behest) for Morrison, Signal to Noise for Gaiman… Choosing the clear line art for the most past against painted, collage, photography is justified given the length of work and the latter when they reveal themselves have their effect and alter a perception or two.

    Cool, arty, sad, playful, profound, and ten more adjectives you can come up with to describe a real good book. It’s all that.

    For a text that starts with multiple creation myths it would have been apt to end with multiple ends, when there is ample room for… Wait! Who’s the cat the story ends with after the story ends? I think I get it now. The happy ending was a farce sort of ending. I was anticipating, more than a bittersweet end, an end that’s sort of No End. Did I get just that?

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Tuesday, February 8, 2011. ( reply | permalink )
  • Zero Percentile _ Missed IIT Kissed Russia
    • Rated 3 stars

    The book is divided into three Phases, the first depicting childhood and education, the second adulthood/education and lust, the third adulthood and romantic love, to say the least. If only life could be so straightforward. Life isn’t something mellow and forthcoming. Neeraj catches the fine and not-so-fine essence of life, stirs it, and serves, one at a time or a few.

    There are clichés, there are insipidly put down jokes, the limitation of first-person narrative showing up a little, there are sentences that would be better served by better turn of phrase. There are elements that feels would be complete if only given little more space. (Speaking of which, I was glad to find a latter moment given only so much mention which I thought was its strength) Then, here’s a first-time author who is dealing with a narrative that spans a quarter century of his protagonist.

    Russia, the book’s key/second setting, is treated fairly. Any culture/country has its downsides and upsides. It’s not fairness to look down with ingratitude. (I am, oddly enough, reminded to dust my copy of Crime and Punishment which I am in the three-fourth of) This setting gives the story a breath of fresh air.

    There is so much to relate to in it. The high point to me was the protagonist, Pankaj, falling in love with the Russian woman. Though it lasts only so long, speaks volumes. I must say I am not a sucker for romantic moments in fiction and I tend to blame it on the monotony of Indian Cinema which is clichéd beyond belief beyond refutation.

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Wednesday, February 3, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Chicken with Plums
    • Rated 5 stars

    A short story that is profound and poignant. It may be a downer to some but the nonlinear narrative triggered the reader in me to perceive it from multiple angles. Satrapi is a storyteller who can do wonders with her deceptively simplistic artwork, and her wit is only one of her many gifts!

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Sunday, November 29, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Seven Soldiers of Victory, Vol. 1
    • Rated 5 stars

    It’s like a maze. I wanted to read a Zatanna mini but ended up liking the rest of them. Clever ideas, Morrison-esque. Oops!

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Saturday, August 1, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Kindly Ones
    • Rated 5 stars

    The climax to a fine mythic tale. Vess-illustrated “Flying Children” freaked me out. Rose Walker, Hall, and Thessaly make a grand team. Corinthain too with his eye sockets and all! I gotta read volumes two and five. Yes, I am reading it backwards 

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Saturday, August 1, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Cleft
    • Rated 3 stars

    Provocative premise. Lacks depth. Reads dull. Could have been a novella instead. No. But the story could be true.

    Ahimaaz wrote this review Saturday, August 1, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
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