Last Chance To See

Author : Douglas Adams

Genre: Travel, Humor, Nature, Non - fiction

Rating: 5

Source: Print

Read on: April 2015

Motherhood and Apple pie. Puppies. The Godfather. Anurag Kashyap. Ronaldinho. Rahul Dravid. The curious incident of the dog in the night time. Douglas Adams.

The untouchables. The beyond-criticisms.

In all honesty, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was something that I never did warm up to. It's something that I never finished, even. The first book, a little bit of the second... And that was it. I just never got the fuss. About the way-larger-than-cult following. And about Douglas Adams.

Now I do. This book changes it. There's a lot of humor, a lot of warmth, and a lot of heart - this is a real treasure. Suhas, my friend, had been quietly pestering me for a long time to read this. And now I have. And now I know why. I am happier for the experience, and wiser, and better even. 

Red Harvest

Author - Dashiell Hammett
Genre - Detective, Thriller, Hardboiled, Classic
Source: Audiobook
Rated: 5/5
Read: March-April 2015

Hammett is a very different kind of brilliant than Chandler. Not for him the plebian godliness of Chandler and his stark, perfect prose. Hammett is made for action, and for action scenes. And the man-with-no-name protagonist, oftentimes referred to as the Continental Op, is rough-hewn, brutal and just keeps to business. And business is good. Very good. 
You are missing out on a lot of brilliance if you are not reading hardboiled.