Step Into My Shoes..

Water for Elephants, 2 States, The Hobbit and Life of Pi (I could think of these only for the time being). What are the similarities between these four? That they are all in my goodreads list. Yes. That they are all great books. Yes. What else? Oh, yes, they are all going to be or have been chosen for film adaptation.  I have already discussed about Water for Elephants, (sadly, I have yet to watch the movie.) *Soon, I will do it* The Hobbit was a fantastic book. An absolute thrill. A small book and yet so full of adventures. The trailer looks fine but I hope the movie has more to show. I cannot wait till December 14, 2012. The Official Trailer of The Hobbit Life of Pi is going good till now. The film adaptation is supposed to come out on 21st November this year. The book very expressive, of everything, from a simple feeling of the narrator, to the religions' significance to the simple purr of a tiger. The movie will have a hard time bringing it all into t...

"2 States" was a book I read by chance. I don't mean to offend Chetan Bhagat by saying I am not a big fan of reading his books; never was, even before I read any one of them. Call me prejudicious, or anything you may fancy.  I do not have anything against Indian writers, if that is what you are thinking. I have read quite many books by a big-handful Indian writers.  Like I have already mentioned, I read "2 States" (the only one of Chetan Bhagat book that I have read) only because there wasn't anything to be read at the time I was done with "Holding the Dream". And my queer reading proclivity has it that I absolutely HAVE to be holding a book at any given time. * Crazy I know * And there it was, all Red and welcoming. I read the prologue and decided it wasn't so bad after all. And I was right. It was very very entertaining. If it was a movie, I'd say, in a very Indian way, * Paisa Wasool *. "2 States" is a quintessentially I...

Okay, here's the deal. I do not write reviews on books. Whatever I read, either goes in my head or my heart, not on paper or on the web for that matter. But something about this book made we want to write anyways. "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen. Rated 4 stars by me. I started on a slow note. Obviously. I do it with every book that I read. At first I enjoyed it, and then it started to bore me like opposite-of-heaven. The story was going nowhere. The circus was just there doing its stuff. The romance was not blooming at all. I was already thinking this book was going to get a 2 star from me. But then came Rosie the elephant, "the mute heroine". Jacob's attachment with the elephant, the turn of events with "Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth" moving from town to town, the shows and the menagerie animals, the friends that Jacob gains. These all started to gain a grip on me. Above all the first person perspective of Jacob Ja...