creakingbookshelves

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• Rated 5 stars

“My father introduced me to this book when I was may be 4 or 5. He sometimes read or quoted lines from it but since I could not just take away his copy, I bought my own. Every cultured person's bookshelf should have this soulfood - to be partaken not on-the-go but sit down and read one poem at a time.. ”

creakingbookshelves wrote this review Saturday, December 23 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 0 stars

“The only man in management whom I would have liked to meet - and now he is no more. Note to self: never postpone such ambitions; life does not wait for your plans.”

creakingbookshelves wrote this review Friday, December 22 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“I read this book just after reading 'Kingdom by the Sea' by Paul Theroux. The negative tone of Theroux's book was in sharp contrast to Bryson's happy, cheerful one. But then again the former was written during Maggie Thatcher's reign when in general the UK was not a happy place (I don't know as I did not live here then) where as Bryson wrote the book when the UK was enjoying a new love-in with New Labour which has since soured. But I like Bryson's book better. Theroux has written some great books incl The Great Railway Bazaar.. ”

creakingbookshelves wrote this review Tuesday, December 19 2006. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Poignant. Yet hopeful in a perverse way. I met Vikram Seth in Oxford in summer of 2005. While signing Two Lives for me, he asked which was my favourite of his books. I told him I knew some of the characters in A Suitable Boy from my days in Calcutta, but this was it. He said this was probably the most cited book of his as people's favourite. It has a music CD which one can buy from Amazon.. Hmm. Considering it..”

creakingbookshelves wrote this review Monday, December 18 2006. ( reply | permalink )