Archive for the Books category

December 13th, 2005

A Review of “One Night @ The Call Centre by Chetan Bhagat”

Posted in Books, Kunal Goel by Kunal Goel

This is the second book by Chetan Bhagat, whose first book “Five Point Someone” was a major hit in India. This one is even better than his first book. It’s funny and interesting and very light. Bhagat is an excellent storyteller but he needs a good editor. The book is very cheap at 95 rupees, but cheapness comes at a price — bad editor and bad paper/print quality. I started reading it last night and finished it in one sitting — 6 hours straight. No, I wasn’t sitting, I was lying.
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October 18th, 2005

A House for Mr. Biswas

Posted in Books, Kunal Goel, Non-fiction by Kunal Goel

A house for Mr. Biswas is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read thousands of books. AHFMB follows the life of Mr. Biswas from the moment he was born to the time when he dies. His life is very ordinary. Mr Biswas is an ambitionless man who just goes through his life trying to find some pleasure in small things. More

February 12th, 2005

Books I read in 2004

Posted in Books, Kunal Goel by Kunal Goel

1. The Occult by Colin Wilson
2. Men are from mars women are from venus
3. The Seduction of Morality by Tom Murphy
4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Born to Win: Transactional Analysis With Gestalt Experiments by Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward
7. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon
8. The Da Vinci code by Dan Brown
9. Postman Always Rings Twice
10. Waiting for Godot
11. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre More