Fifty Shades of Grey

Book Title : Fifty Shades of Grey
Author : E L James
Year Published : 2011
Date I Read : 28 July 2012
My Rating : 01/10

Thus continues my series of horrible reads. Each worse that the previous one. This is the first of the series of erotica - popularly called as Mommy Porn. It is no : 1 rated in all the book charts. Though I am not an erotica kind of person, a no:1  seller kind of attracted me to this book.

Spoiler Warning!!


The book begins with the story of a college graduate interviewing a young business man - girl attracted to the man. the man for some reason attracted to her. and then we get to the story - he wants her to be his sex slave and she is in love with him so is ready to do anything (or so we are led to believe).. then we get a full description of sex games they play with their toys.. the girl has serious self esteem issues and the guy is a psycho..

Thankfully I am not reading the rest of the series. In this one, she did not quite agree to sign the agreement making her the submissive. In the next one apparently he will modify the agreement and we are on again for more drama.


Challenges


Linking this to letter F for A to Z by Book Title

Animal's People

Book Title : Animal's People
Author : Indra Sinha
Year Published : 2007
Date I Read : 20 july 2012
My Rating : 04/10

Animal's people is set in the aftermath of Bhopal Tragedy. It is an incident that brings tears to my heart. If you want to read about the tragedy - pick up 'Five Minutes Past Midnight in Bhopal'. It is a heart breaking book about everything that went wrong on that day and the days before.

Anyways, coming to this book. I felt it was a sick book. The protagonist was a crippled guy with very low character. Full of foul language and not a least bit moving.

Inheritance

Book Title : Inheritance
Author : Christopher Paolini
Year Published : 2011
Date I Read : 15 july 2012
My Rating : 02/10

This is the book 4 of the Inheritance Cycle written by Christopher Paolini. Thus ends the worst book that I have ever read. you have to imagine my plight. I have already read 3 and though I did not quite like the way the books were written, the story line was interesting. The theme was heavily copied from all the fantasy fictions around. I have not read many - but I could sense lord of the rings, harry potter and bartemaeus in the narration.


The book is 800+ pages long.... He goes on and on about god knows what... 


Please spare yourselves and give this series a skip

Brisingr

Book Title : Brisingr
Author : Christopher Paolini
Year Published : 2008
Date I Read : 28 june 2012
My Rating : 06/10

This is the book 3 of the Inheritance Cycle written by Christopher Paolini. 

Eldest

Book Title : Eldest
Author : Christopher Paolini
Year Published : 2005
Date I Read : 12 june 2012
My Rating : 06/10

This is the book 2 of the Inheritance Cycle written by Christopher Paolini. This was slightly better than the first book. 

Eragon

Book Title : Eragon
Author : Christopher Paolini
Year Published : 2002
Date I Read : 01 june 2012
My Rating : 05/10

This is the book 1 of the Inheritance Cycle written by Christopher Paolini. Though the book had the scope for being a masterpiece the author did not do justice to the story line. Having said that, I am working my way thru the series and don't mind reading it. 

Challenges
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Angela's Ashes

I am taking a break from trying to write a review. Reason being - I am not able to write... I wanted to do this blog to try and learn to write. But it is not going in the right direction. So will try again later. For now, I will continue to list books I read, rate them and take part in challenges that I have taken up....

Thanks for understanding....


Book Title : Angela's Ashes
Author : Frank McCourt
Year Published : 1996
Date I Read : 20 May 2012
My Rating : 10/10

It was a perfect book for me. The language was simple and perfect. It is a heart breaking story. Every page will send you into a depression (if you are like me, my moods get influenced by the books that I read). But it is all worth it at the end. A perfect 10/10 book

I cannot believe I owned this book for 5 years and read it only now. I bought it in a sale for just 50 cents way back when we were on US. Luckily packed it along with the very few books that I brought along. Thanks to the challenge of reading from bookshelf I read it and am so glad I did. Best book I have read.....


Challenges
Linking this to letter A for A to Z by Book Title
Linking this to #2 for Off the Shelf