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        Whoopee , finally first review on a science fiction story! 😊 This story for me was like confronting yet consorting with the EVILS of technology! Being an electronics & telecommunication engineer myself (though I no longer associate being one and consider myself totally a literature girlfriend/lover  😊 ), I adored this story based on  magic, technology, and the future  to bits!!   During my teens, I would ponder if technology is a boon or a bane?  Then I stopped ruminating any longer on the ills of technology, because of the prolific inventions profusely being lauded and inundating human lives in entirety, moreover everyone partaking in its bounteous growth! What is the use to mull over the vile of technology when you see the  costliest of iPhones being established as a status symbol in society ! Isn’t so?   Reading this story was like an epiphany for me! It was like  confronting  all the  violent and ...

To help recuperate the sick child (Author William Goldman ), the old father reads out the story of “ The Princess Bride ” by S. Morgenstern to him. Years later, obsessed with the book, determined to procure a copy of it, extensively rummaging through bookshops, William Goldman finally ends up finding an ancient copy of it. He eventually realizes that his father read out only the “ good parts of the story ”, and resorts to opting for the fictional route of writing the abridged story of “The Princess Bride”.   Well going through the extended introduction was wee tedious and boring for me, so I skimmed through it . I was assiduously seeking to whet my appetite for fantasy by seizing the main adventure story of Buttercup and not the story of the rhyme and reason for abridgment by the author.   Additionally, the author kept barging with his POV throughout the story, giving a feel of a book within a book, which kept distracting me from my dreamland sporadically, which I ...

This play belonging to the 1890s, depicts the hypocrite aristocratic group of people from London. It in all perceptibility and plausibility, delineates that the concept of “ an ideal husband ” is just a misnomer 😊 It is just titular! Women end up idolising their husbands, silhouetting them in an image which they never adhere to, turning out to be mere impostors ! :P   The play divulges themes of public and private honor, social status, while using mediums of blackmailing and political -social corruption ! The other two most important themes are marriage as an institution and the power of forgiveness in it . Why and who forgives is the question?   Robert Chiltern (the ideal husband), working as Under-Secretary of the Foreign Affairs office is enjoying a perfect marriage and social image. Is he or is he not? That’s the question 😊 ########################################### Spread across 4 acts, following is a spoiler-free abridged synopsis- Th play opens w...

Are you willing to dwindle away your invaluable life for coveting expensive, precious, materialistic possessions? Yes, or no?   Whatever may be your answer, do read this short story baring the avaricious and mercenary female, Mathilde , and bringing her face-to-face with her own shallowness, but alas, she fails to learn, becoming more penurious than what she was, both materialistically and morally!   “ The Necklace ” is a remarkably compelling story teaching the readers lessons on appearance vs reality, avarice and it’s evil-outcome, beauty and the mirage, covetousness for material possessions, and the ephemeral superficial delight that comes along! It is a hands-down blockbuster 5-star read for me! 😊   Mathilde , born to a low-class, with no money for dowry, is married to Monsieur Loisel , a clerk! “She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.” She thought herself entitled to all the luxuries, and indef...

  It is a poem of connect! A connect with all those who have experienced the dark, onerous, and dreary moments of life!   Frost wrote the poem in terza rima (a verse stanza consisting of three-rhyming-sentences), to link his own depressive journey to hell.   The poem is set in the urban environment, exemplifying utter depression in the middle of city!   This is allegory can be applied to us all who live in cities of concrete and mortar . We can effortlessly relate to the difficulties and desolation, which come as a package-deal of living is such high-rise cities!   I personally gauge, the first line of the poem to be the most powerful line - “I have been one acquainted with the night”   He refers to himself as “one” using the word “acquainted” exhibiting no formal affection or propensity to know but is just simply aware of, and uses a profound word with several implications – “night”. The word “night” divulges the difficult, dark, oner...

  It is incredible to see that I am ready with the review of my childhood favorites, that propelled me towards philosophy and to cherish the novelty of nature!  When I conjectured it would put me to sleep, this book woke me in ways inexplicable !  😊   A perfect example of a book whose likeability is sheerly based on  the reader’s age, circumstances and future-wants-and-desires . If one wants to be a  minimalistic , this one is for you. If one wants to enjoy the  materialistic  side of life, this will surely irk you!   Being a ginormous, bulky and a slow, difficult read, I highly recommend to make it your bed-side read . Devouring hungrily, but in bit-and-pieces!   Though there are swarming  youtubers , already professing the same idea including modern-life concepts, but this book of the 1800s,  will never lose its charm and chastity for me !   One can foray into the brilliant forage and live vicariously along with Thoreau...

  The Black Tulip proffers the readers a full magnanimous range of human emotions, ranging from hatred, greed, loyalty, jealousy, obsession, and above all the 3 most striking emotions of tolerance, love, and dedication!`   The first-seven chapters with gruesome political-historical content turned out to be tough and gritty for me ( due to my oblivion towards the topic ). The first few chapters put forward the cruel ghastly politics of the 17th-century  Dutch , where 2 dutchmen are butchered by the mob (in the course of the political state of affairs)! Once I was past these tough chapters, the story gathered for me and I stayed riveted.   Without imperiling the readers interest and not sharing any spoilers (I guess the blurb reveals a lot more 😊 )-   Two brothers are murdered by the mob in course of political events, and the main character of the story Cornelius (the godson of one of the brothers), fanatic about tulips , is wrongly incarcerated, due to the j...