Recently, I got two books one out of my own interest and other, my friend's recommendation. I started reading them and I should say that I thoroughly enjoyed them. I like books that has a good narrative writing, in a way that I can imagine or visualize each and every scene written. Both the books had this quality and that is what impressed me the most.
The first one was my friend's recommendation, "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon. A simple story that beautifully brings out the complicated feelings of a spastic boy, Christopher, and how he unwraps the murder mystery of a dog in his neighborhood, told from the view point of the special child. During the investigation, he discovers a number of truths about himself and his own family. There is an element of suspense and what-next that the author maintains till the last chapter. Talking about the chapters, they are numbered as 2,3,5,7,11... Yes, as prime numbers. And the book talks about lots of maths, science and puzzles, as Christopher is damn intelligent. :-)
The next one was "The Guide" by R.K.Narayan, quite an old book, but I wanted to read for a long time. I have seen the movie once but don't remember much of it, though I was told that it was a complete drift away from the book. For those who don't know, its about Raju, a simple guy, who changes shades from an innocent boy to a school drop out, to a shop keeper, then a tourist guide who tactically takes away a dancer Rosie from her boring husband, does all gimmicks to make her a dancer and earn money through her, gets caught for a document forgery and finally lands up in jail. Upon his release, without his own will, people make him a saint and what follows up is narrated with humor.
Had a good time pass for past few days with books once again. After all, my English comprehension is not as bad as I thought it to be :P
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