I just finished reading one of the most controversial novels of all time The
Catcher In The Rye by J.D.Salinger. and as my earlier book review
received critical comments from some friends of mine , one of which said
" although we are very interested in your likes and dislikes,
but we will still like to know a little about the story as well '
so in this book review i will tell you a little about the plot ,style and all
other crap along with why i liked or disliked the novel.
As i already told u this book is one of the most debated book of all time,
even in my group one friend of mine( you can recognise him by his
trollish looks) considers it as his BIBLE while the other considers it
( in book's most used word) PHONY. while a couple are waiting eagerly
for my opinion , on which side i am going to tilt.
OK Enough of the build up!! the book deals with the mindset,the alienation and the thought process of an adolescent who has just been chucked out of a reputed school and describes the event's in the next couple of day's during which the protagonist literally roams out in the city
calling and meeting his old acquaintances. the book is liberal in use of profanity,abuses, sex , prostitution (so i can't imagine how the hell is it being taught in english and U.S. school).
but all these things sex,profanity all these things are secondary to the plot.
the main thing described in the book is Holden Caulfied , a slightly
touched (I believe!), cynical alienated adolescent who sees everywhere
around the world ,this hypocrisy this phoniness and detests it . You can
see him in the book running away from everything , disliking everything
and you feel that phoniness he sees in others is either imagined or
exaggerated ,and he is slightly scared bcos he is a little abnormal . the
onlything he likes is innocence which you can see from his intense
liking of his sibling Pheobe and his younger brother who had
died young .the writing is as i already told u is full of profanity.
All these things above are the expected and the obvious points of the books , but one other thing the author tried to show according to me was the transistion of this person from a slightly abnormal indviual to an mentally deranged fellow, and the thought process accompanying this transistion . For in the latter part you can see him becoming at time completely insane , scared and running .
Morever the pace is pretty slow at which story moves. The book tends to get a little boring and
repetitive in between ,and one of the best thing about this book is that it is only an odd 200 pages (God help us if it would have been something like 500 pages ). now enough about the book now i am going to tell u about my reaction.
Personally , i thought the book was crap and after 50 pages or so i only read to know wat happened in the end to the character . the end was also such that it could be interpreted in
different ways , and my interpretion was consistent with my other interpretion that the character was slowly becoming mentally deranged . The author just goes on and on about almost the same things , and the book becomes pretty boring in parts. one thing more a friend of mine said, and i totally agreed with him was that a lot of people read this book from a
wrong point of view , they take the protagonist as the hero and correct , which I
am pretty sure was not wat the author was aiming for.
so finally, MY advice don't read it.
and if u want to read it just wat is all the hue and cry about,
read it from a neutral point of view and don't put holden caulfied at the
pedestal at the starting. From there on it's your choice.
wait, one more advice : don't waste your time reading this ,read Fountainhead instead
which is the best damn book i have ever read.
Enough for now.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
BINGO!!!!!
Today is a memorable day in the history of blogkind (!! if it exists), as somebody said
"A small step for man(or blog writing!) , a giant step for mankind ( or blogging!!) "
But here here,for those of you with a weak heart ,control the adrenaline rush bcos
for most of u guys your peanut size brain and a 32A bra size(!!is that the smallest size?) intellect might not be able to comprehend the significance of the event in context to determining the future of the world.
what has actually occured ,is my blog has had for the first time a foreign viewer(foreign here implying not among my usual friend circle)....HA! i told you that you will not be able to understand the significance of the issue.but never mind.i personally think it is a noteworthy event....
OK. that aside let's get to some serious business
BOOK REVIEW:
Frederick Forsyth's Negotiator
i finished in this morning only, the plot was very good,the whole story was
setup very nicely,but the gameplan was not executed that well according to
me, Quinn was given too many superhuman powers and 'he knew a man everywhere'.
but the style of writing is pretty decent , and i am inspired to read some more serious
work of forsyth's loke afghan and dog's of war.
ALL in all i will give 2 1/2 star rating to this one.
SONG OF THE WEEK:
Knocking on heaven 's door ,the one by Avril Lavigne it's not that I don't like that of GNR,bob dylan etc. it's just that , i have grown tired of hearing those one's
and i think avril has sang it pretty well,deviating from her usual punk rock
image(!!only drawback is u don't see her jumping up and down in the video,and of course she does not look so hot as well.) but all in all a classic song done justice
i think.
THAT'S ALL FOLKS.
PS#1: some people were missing the PS in the previous posts, so i put this one
PS#2: those people were unfortunately me only.
PS#3: GOD! this heat is killing me , god please fire the head of weather department and give him a Kick in the ass from me . he is completely useless and earning u a lot of bad grace.
PS#4: That's it I am finish with the ps's.
"A small step for man(or blog writing!) , a giant step for mankind ( or blogging!!) "
But here here,for those of you with a weak heart ,control the adrenaline rush bcos
for most of u guys your peanut size brain and a 32A bra size(!!is that the smallest size?) intellect might not be able to comprehend the significance of the event in context to determining the future of the world.
what has actually occured ,is my blog has had for the first time a foreign viewer(foreign here implying not among my usual friend circle)....HA! i told you that you will not be able to understand the significance of the issue.but never mind.i personally think it is a noteworthy event....
OK. that aside let's get to some serious business
BOOK REVIEW:
Frederick Forsyth's Negotiator
i finished in this morning only, the plot was very good,the whole story was
setup very nicely,but the gameplan was not executed that well according to
me, Quinn was given too many superhuman powers and 'he knew a man everywhere'.
but the style of writing is pretty decent , and i am inspired to read some more serious
work of forsyth's loke afghan and dog's of war.
ALL in all i will give 2 1/2 star rating to this one.
SONG OF THE WEEK:
Knocking on heaven 's door ,the one by Avril Lavigne it's not that I don't like that of GNR,bob dylan etc. it's just that , i have grown tired of hearing those one's
and i think avril has sang it pretty well,deviating from her usual punk rock
image(!!only drawback is u don't see her jumping up and down in the video,and of course she does not look so hot as well.) but all in all a classic song done justice
i think.
THAT'S ALL FOLKS.
PS#1: some people were missing the PS in the previous posts, so i put this one
PS#2: those people were unfortunately me only.
PS#3: GOD! this heat is killing me , god please fire the head of weather department and give him a Kick in the ass from me . he is completely useless and earning u a lot of bad grace.
PS#4: That's it I am finish with the ps's.
Friday, June 22, 2007
BOOK REVIEWS (ONLY OF TYPICAL MASALA NOVELS)
Yesterday a couple idiot friends of mine (there identity revealed in the earlier posts) suggested
that since i gobble so many novels so many times, i just might offer an opinion about some of them to the naive public , so that some of them might become inclined or disinclined to read them.
and i came to think of it as a pretty good idea , after all my opinion is very much respected in the circles i travel . But for people looking for opinion's about booker's book or the types ,STAY AWAY!.
Seriously some people i know force themselves to read a book which they r not even enjoying,just bcos it's a prize winner or dished out in the lit. circles like reading it is some kind of feat on the author's part . How phony! (you must not blame me i have been in close contact of 'the catcher in the rye' )
Considering this in this blog from time to time you will see my views of the book i read recently,
but one thing i will like to say before i end this post is don't read the books recommended by me,
or for any book for that matter just to improve ur vocabulary( as u might have noticed mine is not so good) ,or increase ur reading speed
Read once just for the pleasure of reading.
-HARSH GUPTA
that since i gobble so many novels so many times, i just might offer an opinion about some of them to the naive public , so that some of them might become inclined or disinclined to read them.
and i came to think of it as a pretty good idea , after all my opinion is very much respected in the circles i travel . But for people looking for opinion's about booker's book or the types ,STAY AWAY!.
Seriously some people i know force themselves to read a book which they r not even enjoying,just bcos it's a prize winner or dished out in the lit. circles like reading it is some kind of feat on the author's part . How phony! (you must not blame me i have been in close contact of 'the catcher in the rye' )
Considering this in this blog from time to time you will see my views of the book i read recently,
but one thing i will like to say before i end this post is don't read the books recommended by me,
or for any book for that matter just to improve ur vocabulary( as u might have noticed mine is not so good) ,or increase ur reading speed
Read once just for the pleasure of reading.
-HARSH GUPTA
Thursday, June 21, 2007
NTAB - National Taxonomy of All Babes
if u have read my previous post u will know that me and my friends went last week for a vacation to Dalhousie and Maclodganj . Now as people living in roorkee like us , seeing a hot babe in roorkee is almost an yearly phenomena. So u will understand that for us the experience of girls both abundant in quantity and quality,that too of all different varieties from firangis and chinkis to indian desi maal , must have been a little overwhelming .But don't you guys
worry we did not waste the 2 years education at IIT . Technically oriented that we are , we immediately designed a method for classification of this relatively new species , in such a manner which would enable us to convey to each other , The degree of Hotness (definitely not temperature!! u geeks) and the age of the particular specimen in question without being beaten black and blue by the sorrounding crowd .
I am sending the complete list to webster's for addition , But here are a few specimen's ---
1.) M -(maal) Short and sweet ,just ur average desi maal .easy to use and can be used in front of that specimen as well.
2.) B.H.M.B - (Bade Hoke Maal Banegi ) Boy did we see a lot of this category ,since this was a peak season and many school trips were also there . most of us had a borderline for this category for girls from 15 to 18 years . but the pedophile of our group (pondy) went as low as 10.
3.) S.S.M - (Shadi Shuda Maal) - This category is further subdivided into three subcategories --
i) S.S.T.M -(Shadi Shuda Tench Maal ) - mostly used for the beautiful girls just married and on their honeymoon.
ii) S.S.T.T.M - (Shadi Shuda Theek Thaak Maal ) - a little older , but who are very adequately defined by the term 'cooger' (for those who don't know refer to How I Met Your Mother)
iii) S.S.B - ( Shadi Shuda Bhabhie ) - a little to difficult to comprehend , i agree since shadi shuda should imply bhabhie.but the thing was the one's in the above two category we did not consider them as bhabhie,they were too hot for that. this category was left for the shadi shuda maal which could not make it to the above two category .
4.) S.M - (Sexy Maal ) these category was reserved for those goddess of beauty which made ur mouth water . the no. of s's went according to an indivuals 'shradha' and the beauty of the girl in question ,we went as far as (S^15).M{ sexy sexy .................. sexy maal} .
5.) T.B -( Teri Bhabhie ) Obvious from the name ,girls u found too beautiful too share.
6.) H.B - (Hamari Bhabhie ) Again obvious , these were the one's over whom you did not want to
waste eyesight or time.
enough for now, the rest you might see in the next revised webster.
worry we did not waste the 2 years education at IIT . Technically oriented that we are , we immediately designed a method for classification of this relatively new species , in such a manner which would enable us to convey to each other , The degree of Hotness (definitely not temperature!! u geeks) and the age of the particular specimen in question without being beaten black and blue by the sorrounding crowd .
I am sending the complete list to webster's for addition , But here are a few specimen's ---
1.) M -(maal) Short and sweet ,just ur average desi maal .easy to use and can be used in front of that specimen as well.
2.) B.H.M.B - (Bade Hoke Maal Banegi ) Boy did we see a lot of this category ,since this was a peak season and many school trips were also there . most of us had a borderline for this category for girls from 15 to 18 years . but the pedophile of our group (pondy) went as low as 10.
3.) S.S.M - (Shadi Shuda Maal) - This category is further subdivided into three subcategories --
i) S.S.T.M -(Shadi Shuda Tench Maal ) - mostly used for the beautiful girls just married and on their honeymoon.
ii) S.S.T.T.M - (Shadi Shuda Theek Thaak Maal ) - a little older , but who are very adequately defined by the term 'cooger' (for those who don't know refer to How I Met Your Mother)
iii) S.S.B - ( Shadi Shuda Bhabhie ) - a little to difficult to comprehend , i agree since shadi shuda should imply bhabhie.but the thing was the one's in the above two category we did not consider them as bhabhie,they were too hot for that. this category was left for the shadi shuda maal which could not make it to the above two category .
4.) S.M - (Sexy Maal ) these category was reserved for those goddess of beauty which made ur mouth water . the no. of s's went according to an indivuals 'shradha' and the beauty of the girl in question ,we went as far as (S^15).M{ sexy sexy .................. sexy maal} .
5.) T.B -( Teri Bhabhie ) Obvious from the name ,girls u found too beautiful too share.
6.) H.B - (Hamari Bhabhie ) Again obvious , these were the one's over whom you did not want to
waste eyesight or time.
enough for now, the rest you might see in the next revised webster.
"I am content to live it all again, and yet again" - Yeats
Well ! Boyz and Gals(hopefully!) this is going to be a long and exciting(again hopefully!) one,so fasten ur seat belts for reminiscences of the absolutely awesome trip me and my friends ,in which we went to some of the truly glorious places still left in this big bad world like Dalhousie , Dharmshala , Chamba and the best Maclodganj.
And although some of the abbreviations and incidents will only be truly will be enjoyed by those
who went , i will still like to share some anecdotes with those God forsaken people I call as my friends.
the trip actually started with short circuit occuring in Ravindra Bhawan,which lead to my going to pondy's room for sleeping,which led to Sherry asking me to cum OOPs! come with them for a trip to Dalhousie. My immediate reaction was my (so called) project partners would kill me. 'So called' bcos my contribution in the project would not entail me to be called an authentic partner.
i was going to write about the memorable parts of the trips,and maybe i will in later posts , but instead I am going to be just a touch senti ,for however great the trip was what was far more significant for me was that i went for the trip , i was a little reluctant and maybe a touch apprehensive weather i will be get along with u guys or not for i was going with friend's of pondy . but i can say that although i went with friend's of my friends I came back with them as my friend's. And of course in the process i gave them a chance to realize how awesomely awesome I was.
Another point that i will like to mention here is I was impressed and maybe a little envious , of the trust ,affection ,caring these people had for each other .Kudos to u guys and i really hope somewhere in the near future i might inspire the same love and trust in u.
enough for today.
will see u in the next post.
wait! before i forget
SONG OF THE WEEK:
'you are beautiful' by James Blunt
it is a really a beautiful song and i enjoyed it a lot for 2-3 days but then two idiots(for those who do't know this means my project partners) showed me a very
very funny parody of this song at you tube and now i can't hear the song without remembering the parody. that parody is seriously a must see.
SO LONG.see u next post.
you are great Harsh.
And although some of the abbreviations and incidents will only be truly will be enjoyed by those
who went , i will still like to share some anecdotes with those God forsaken people I call as my friends.
the trip actually started with short circuit occuring in Ravindra Bhawan,which lead to my going to pondy's room for sleeping,which led to Sherry asking me to cum OOPs! come with them for a trip to Dalhousie. My immediate reaction was my (so called) project partners would kill me. 'So called' bcos my contribution in the project would not entail me to be called an authentic partner.
i was going to write about the memorable parts of the trips,and maybe i will in later posts , but instead I am going to be just a touch senti ,for however great the trip was what was far more significant for me was that i went for the trip , i was a little reluctant and maybe a touch apprehensive weather i will be get along with u guys or not for i was going with friend's of pondy . but i can say that although i went with friend's of my friends I came back with them as my friend's. And of course in the process i gave them a chance to realize how awesomely awesome I was.
Another point that i will like to mention here is I was impressed and maybe a little envious , of the trust ,affection ,caring these people had for each other .Kudos to u guys and i really hope somewhere in the near future i might inspire the same love and trust in u.
enough for today.
will see u in the next post.
wait! before i forget
SONG OF THE WEEK:
'you are beautiful' by James Blunt
it is a really a beautiful song and i enjoyed it a lot for 2-3 days but then two idiots(for those who do't know this means my project partners) showed me a very
very funny parody of this song at you tube and now i can't hear the song without remembering the parody. that parody is seriously a must see.
SO LONG.see u next post.
you are great Harsh.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
MY FIRST POST
Finally...
my first post .... I am ready to take the blogging world by a storm....
but before you people get too excited let me warn you this blog might
not be exactly what u had in mind when u started reading it.
This will not contain a reference to any particular incident,or about a topic i feel very strongly about, definitely no poetic language.
This post will only contain the simple thoughts and musing's of a genius boy(no shortness of self appreciation here Huh ) ,and i am only writing this blog bcos maybe 20 years from now ,when my name would have become something of a folklore and on everybody's lips , then people might read it and wonder , that even great have so humble beginnings and a comman life , and we people are just like anyone else...
i am hoping to write this blog on about nothing very imp or thought inspiring but just about the daily little incidents and my thoughts about these incidents.more like a diary with my
"emotians recollected in tranquillity ". OOPs i said no poetic language but u must account that for me being a Blog Virgin. one thing that people knowing me well would have wondered ,how is the word ***k not come up even once ,well that is how is it going to be no more fucking offensive or abusive language. One more that i am going to incorporate is my song of the week. so that i can see later how my tastes used to vary .
so that my friends is that.
see u soon on my next post.
PS1: MY huge trollish friend and a "aunty" i know very well would probably have found plenty of typos and errors,but to these and others i say in the words of the great Harsh Gupta (that's me) "fuck off!".
PS2: almost forgot
the song of the week for this week (which is first of june)
is STOP CRYING UR HEART OUT BY oasis.
i know this song was originally sung by Beatles , but i like the oasis one better.
the beautiful melody and nice lyrics are just Awesome.
GO Oasis go.....
my first post .... I am ready to take the blogging world by a storm....
but before you people get too excited let me warn you this blog might
not be exactly what u had in mind when u started reading it.
This will not contain a reference to any particular incident,or about a topic i feel very strongly about, definitely no poetic language.
This post will only contain the simple thoughts and musing's of a genius boy(no shortness of self appreciation here Huh ) ,and i am only writing this blog bcos maybe 20 years from now ,when my name would have become something of a folklore and on everybody's lips , then people might read it and wonder , that even great have so humble beginnings and a comman life , and we people are just like anyone else...
i am hoping to write this blog on about nothing very imp or thought inspiring but just about the daily little incidents and my thoughts about these incidents.more like a diary with my
"emotians recollected in tranquillity ". OOPs i said no poetic language but u must account that for me being a Blog Virgin. one thing that people knowing me well would have wondered ,how is the word ***k not come up even once ,well that is how is it going to be no more fucking offensive or abusive language. One more that i am going to incorporate is my song of the week. so that i can see later how my tastes used to vary .
so that my friends is that.
see u soon on my next post.
PS1: MY huge trollish friend and a "aunty" i know very well would probably have found plenty of typos and errors,but to these and others i say in the words of the great Harsh Gupta (that's me) "fuck off!".
PS2: almost forgot
the song of the week for this week (which is first of june)
is STOP CRYING UR HEART OUT BY oasis.
i know this song was originally sung by Beatles , but i like the oasis one better.
the beautiful melody and nice lyrics are just Awesome.
GO Oasis go.....
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