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Title: The Silence of the Lambs
Author: Thomas Harris
Rating:4/5
Read this classic finally and must say it was satisfying. I haven’t seen the movie adaptation but have caught numerous glimpses of Sir Anthony Hopkins in it. Must say couldn’t picture the character without his face popping in the subconscious. Ditto with Jodie Foster and Clarice Starling.
Loved the thriller and a recommended book. :)
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Wow, This has been on my "to-be-read" books for so long.
Thanks for the reminder, I will get it this year for sure and it has to be followed by the excellent movie. You are so going to love it whenever you plan to watch it.
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf.
My Rating: 3/5.
These days I am reading a lot of classics or maybe I can say I am reading only classics and this one I picked up again from a used book sale as I haven't read a VW book in a while. The last one I read from her was I guess “The Lighthouse” and I totally remember that it took me a week or at least a few days to come out of the shock and pain that the story offered. I can never forget that ending and the effort with which the protagonist tries to do something for the kids in the lighthouse hence thought this will be an easy read about some hip and happening Mrs Dalloway. Partially I was correct as this is actually about one such lady from a super upper class London crowd throwing parties for the rich and famous including the then Prime Minister. Imagine the gracious details Brit authors throw in their stories, this was no exception but alas, all wasn’t as good as I expected. Somehow Mr Dalloway had a doubt that his much loved wife is going to leave him, he even knows with whom she is going to go.
Now that premise got me thinking that this is going to be a very interesting read but I forgot that Ms Woolf doesn’t write love stories or thrillers but dramas. Even with 200 pages only this was a supreme stretch as initially offering the gist she keeps on prosing about the happenings in and around Britain with some little anecdotes from our part of the world too. This undoubtedly became the second toughest book of my reading career I must say after James Joyce’s classic “Ulysses”. Oh boy, the whole book is written in one flat chapter with no breaks. I usually read 50-60 pages a day and take a break when a chapter ends or where there is a break at least. But VW offers no such breaks in this story which keeps talking about so many characters that I lost count. Even in the last 20 odd pages while it all was coming to an end, she kept introducing new characters and that is where the PM walks in one of Mrs Dalloway’s parties too. At times I got confused and checked out the title again to make sure that it is indeed a book on and about Mrs Dalloway as the cover says.
I wish I could disclose the unanticipated ending but would certainly like to know from anyone who has read this one and loved it (is it even possible in today’s time?) Please let me know how you like this one? And do let me know if you have a VW favourite book other than of course “The Lighthouse”.
Coincidentally this book became the halfway mark of my this year’s book reading target (26/52).
PS: It took me almost a week to finish this one. Going back to Stephen King now to not to get the reader’s block.
PS2: I am ready for brickbats from VW fans, bring it on.
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