What does one do when one does'nt have any-thing, whatsoever to write??
You just blabber and the "words" flow...
But the last thing that i want to do here is to make this blog into a never-ending saga of my moods, mood swings, how i am, how i am feeling and the likes.puhleeze.goodness gracious.SO let me just switch over to better things: like for instance, this book i have just finished reading.
It's called "Eat, Pray,Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Let me straightaway go on to explain that this is perhaps very uncharacteristic of me; to choose a book which can be described as one women's (the author, herself) search for "herself". ..or something like that.I know this (sounds) borders along the philosophical, but that is exactly what the book was about; a travelogue of sorts, and also a soul searching self discovery and trust me, it was'nt a wee bit boring as books of "these sorts" tend to become. It was perhaps the language, the style of narration or perhaps her quest (that's a better word) to find "herself" which came across easily in the way the book was presented; the language was simple, unlike "these sort" of books which become characteristically complex and the narrative was easy to follow.
Hmm..so "Eat, Pray, Love" it was..for a week and a half.
Now its back to another book i had been reading many months back, perhaps last year; and to save myself from buying a new one, i decided to finish the old one first.The book is called "The Mammaries of a Welfare State" by Upamanyu Chatterjee; the same guy who's written the "English August" (yes..the same one starring Rahul Bose in the movie version) Its pretty hilarious, if one is able to understand the satire and the wit behind the paragraphs; and its pretty entertaining.I came across this hilarious dialogue (i found it so!) where the protagonist Agasthya (one can visualise Rahul Bose saying it!) is describing this lady and he thinks "....While fashioning her face, God had contemplated shaping a stunning pink pig, seconds before the finishing touches, however, He'd plainly been called away.Ah well..." Now! who talks like that!!? but entertaining all the same! If u want to lay your hands on the book, look out for an orange cover with the posterior of a goat and its hind legs staring at you.....that's the book.....just pick it up.
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Here's something i remember writing about 5 years back, when i'd just gotten through reading 'Mammaries....'
I've been reading "Mammaries of the welfare state" by Upamanyu Chatterjee... I really liked reading "English, August" and this new book is not nearly half as good... but it's still an interesting read...
Getting through pages and pages of sexual fantasies gets to be a bromide after a while... but the poor fellow's been in the civil services for most of his adult life... what else could he possibly write of..? Every character in the book- male, female and otherwise fantasises about every other character at some point of time or the other... But his style is so engaging that I havent been able to put the book down despite being over the head with all the throbbing vulvas and flying spunk..!!
So... Enjoy... :D
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