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The Bohemian Thinker The Bohemian Thinker has taken on the challenge to read 55 books this year. 35 fiction. 15 non fiction. 5 Chinese novels. As of now... i have completed 21/55 books 13 Fiction 7 Non Fiction 1 Chinese Novel Recent Bohemian Ramblings4
I wasn't always a pessimist Listening to Joanna Wang Slowly but surely... Workaholic My favourite book and Film Blankets Laughable Loves by Milan KunderaI thought this was... A Long Walk to FreedomBought this book in Sept. An... 17. How to Get IdeasHmm..i will not say it is revo... Fortune Cookies  Blogskins Soup-Faerie.com for Cursor Bohemian Archives January 2010 February 2010 May 2010 June 2010 August 2010 September 2010 December 2010 September 2011 March 2012 September 2012 February 2013 |
Friday, May 28, 2010
Chicken with plums 7/55 I came upon this graphic book after watching the movie Persepolis (City of Persians). Picking it up from the library shelf, i noticed that the graphics were similar to the ones i saw in the movie Persepolis. Looking at the author's name. author of persepolis. Indeed. This book is exceptional. With few words, it conveyed deep emotions...feelings of loss. of dislocation. of regrets. And it talks only about the last 9 days in the protagonist's life. The end of the book unveiled some surprisingly realization. And at once, one understood why the protagonist acted as he did. Upon finishing this book, i laid in bed with a confounded form of depression. Life..... Ratings: 5/5 It's been long since i was as moved from within by a book. Thursday, May 20, 2010  Audrey Niffenegger: Her Fearful Symmetry 6/55 The second Novel by Audrey Niffenegger. Naturally, expectations were high. This book however, did not disappoint. Even so, the sentiments and style used were vastly different from her first book: the Time Traveller's Wife. The characters in this story were queer but rather interesting. An Old man suffering from Compulsive Obsessive behavior. A man writing a thesis about the Highgate Cemetery. A ghost. A pair of mirror-imaged twins. Character development was sufficient. Even though sometimes characters engage in seemingly out-of-character behavior. But i guess this heightens the notion of the complexity of human kind. The Plot however was at best interesting....not really the fantastic...eye opening plot we have in Time Travellers' wife. The concepts and ideas contained in the story were interesting. But even so, I thought the plot was not sufficiently developed to meet its fullest potential. The poignant ending was a thumbs up though it leave audiences with quite a number of questions hanging. The Perspective Switching Technique was done in a fairly slick fashion even though at times..this technique seems to break the flow of the story. Do i ADORE this book? Well....No. Do i find this interesting? Yup. I could say so. Does it match up to Time Travellers with its fiery touch on the human strings of emotions? Sadly, No But I guess... This still deserves a 3/5 For its good character development... Given that at the end of it...we came to understand the characters rather well. There was also a number of peculiar twists at the end. Wednesday, May 12, 2010  Haruki Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart 5/55 Not one of Murakami's best. But not bad too. >.< 3/5 Monday, May 3, 2010  Haruki Murakami: Norweigian Wood 4/55 Murakami does it again. Reading this book left me feeling like an open wound raw under the harsh summer rain. The person of me in the past would wished that it is not as sensual. what's with the oral sex, lesbian inclinations, sleeping with random people... Yet somehow the person that embodied me today found the sensuality of it it quite a beauty... and quite incomplete if left without. Somehow i find that i connected with this book at a deeper level than any of Murakami's books. Perhaps apart from Wind-up bird. This book however is more rooted in reality and painfully shrouded with silence. People that reads Murakami and appreciates his works often agree with me when i say that when you read his works...you find yourself enclosed in a vacuum space. Silent. ""Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night" |
