THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

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                    3 days ago i started reading this book by author "Mark Haddon"  and it was really nice read turned out to be worth my time :) so i'm recommending it if you haven't read it already , thou many of you must have already read it cos it was released in 2003 so if you have been through it share your experience and leave comments .  Here is a little review about the book which i felt interesting and went through it . 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Marc Haddon
pages 266 
Published: June 13, 2003
Buy it from here  :  UK , France , Germany , Canada
This innovative novel made it to the long list for this year's Man Booker Prize: thoughtful, hugely entertaining and full of rich irony and delicious contradictions.

When fifteen-year-old Christopher finds his neighbour's dog dead on the lawn he sets in motion a series of events that will ultimately decide his future as well as those around him. Christopher has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism and his decision to investigate the dog's death unearths deep, dark secrets that illuminate the mysteries and intricacies of his family life.

Like his fellow sufferers, Christopher has little time for people: they just don't think logically. But as he travels his self-made road he is forced to confront the reality that life does not follow a cold, well-ordered pattern, his alters consciousness imagines.

He does not like noise or people touching him and this makes his journey even more traumatic and remarkable. His quest is helped by his typically excellent memory and ability to solve problems. Yet his own problems go well beyond the limits of everyday life and his effect on those he encounters is seminal.

MARC HADDON specialises in innovative storylines in his work as an author, screenwriter and illustrator allied to his remarkable ability to demonstrate what it is to be autistic without sentimentality or exaggeration allied to a creative use of puzzles, facts and photographs in the text mark him out as a real talent drawing on a range of abilities. An excellent touch is that Christopher hates novels (too little logic), apart from Hound of the Baskervilles, but he is writing one about his investigations: some might call it faction. The same people might call Haddon's intriguing book the same.

Room by Emma Donoghue

Author : Emma Donoghue
Published: 5:02PM BST 30 Jul 2010
Category : Drama , thriller .
Buy from here :  Uk , France , Germany , Canada

A young woman imprisoned in a modified garden shed somewhere in America, regularly raped by her captor, but otherwise left alone, with enough food, a few books, a television. She becomes pregnant, gives birth. Emma Donoghue’s novel is clearly inspired by cases such as those of Elizabeth Fritzl, and Jaycee Lee Dugard in California, though what it made me think of most is the hundreds of identikit detective thrillers on our shelves boasting a gruesome serial killer and a helpless female victim in or near his clutches.Room turns this scenario inside out. It is all about the mother and is narrated by her five-year-old son, Jack.

The mother (“Ma” – we never learn her name) has kept herself sane by devoting all her energy to giving Jack as normal an upbringing as possible. Their average day in “Room” (their 12ft-by-12ft domain) is filled with “Phys Ed”, cooking lessons, model-making and, at night, standing under their skylight and screaming for help. Although they use the television for education and distraction, Jack has no idea that anything at all exists outside “Room”: the sun and moon are God’s two faces, and Jack is always safe asleep in “Wardrobe” when “Old Nick” comes in through “Door”.

This child’s-eye view of the world may sound kooky, but it reads as smooth as ice-cream, and Donoghue quickly builds a compelling view of this strange existence. So heroic is Ma, and so happy Jack, that it comes as a shock when, following their escape (that much I must let slip), we hear them described on the television news. “The despot’s victims have an eerie pallor and appear to be in a borderline catatonic state,” the reporter says, while Jack is a “malnourished boy, unable to walk”.

Donoghue treats the trials of “Outside” with the same sensitive imagination that she applied to “Room”. For Jack it’s rain, wind, germs and people touching him (“like electricity”); for Ma it’s relations with her parents, now separated, who seem to have worked through the loss of their 19-year-old daughter rather too thoroughly. There’s a brilliantly spiky television interview, too, with Ma skewering the interviewer at every turn.

“You breastfed him. In fact, this may startle some of our viewers, I understand you still do?”

Ma laughs.

The woman stares at her.

“In this whole story, that’s the shocking detail?”

Does the novel give a genuine insight into what it’s like to go through such an ordeal? Maybe that’s going too far, but as a life-affirming fable of parent-child love, and an antidote to the prurience of so much crime fiction, it’s a triumph, and deserves to be a hit.

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Another Great Read ! "The Time Traveler's Wife"

"The Time Traveler's Wife"

Author: Audrey Niffenegger

Published by MacAdam/Cage

Category : Timeless love 

Buy it from here :  UK , France , Germany , Canada

Every so often, a novel lands in my hands as if it fell from the sky -- a happy surprise of literary delights, a book which transports and transfixes me, an original story which creates its own world with what seems like effortless artistry.
Audrey Niffenegger's remarkable debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is just such a novel.
The Time Traveler's Wife is an infection that pleasantly invades your system and refuses to let go of the imagination even after you turn the last of its 518 pages and move on to the next book on your shelf.
It's the kind of word-of-mouth book that readers cheerfully spread, like a benign virus, to anyone around them willing to lose themselves in a hopelessly romantic story, forsaking most other obligations like work, family and personal hygiene.
Yes, The Time Traveler's Wife is that good.
And, yes, I'm a self-proclaimed die-hard romantic of the male species who's been known to openly weep at the end of Jane Austen movies, but I'm here to tell you that this chunky book is designed to please everyone in the room -- swooners and cynics alike. It's a love story concealed inside a suspense novel wrapped in a thin veneer of science fiction.
At the center of the story stand two characters, Henry and Clare. I'll let Henry explain their situation:

I met Clare for the first time in October, 1991. She met me for the first time in September, 1977; she was six, I will be thirty-eight. She's known me all her life. In 1991 I'm just getting to know her.

Henry is a Time Traveler who drops in and out of various moments in his life -- sometimes back to the past, sometimes forward to the future. Clare leads a chronologically-normal life. The two of them intersect, in "real time," when Clare is 20 and Henry is 28; however, she's known him -- a much older-version, that is -- since she was a little girl. For years, she's known he was her future husband, so by the time she actually meets the real-time Henry (who's a little befuddled at this strange girl rushing up to him in the Chicago library where he works), Clare practically has their wedding already planned out.
Confused yet? Don't worry, Niffenegger patiently and carefully guides the reader through the tangled narrative.
The story follows the lovers across a timeline shaped like a Mobius strip, alternating between their viewpoints. They do their best to live normal lives, going after the American Dream of steady jobs, witty friends and children of their own. Ultimately, their relationship turns as sweet and tragic as an Emily Dickinson poem.
As you can imagine, The Time Traveler's Wife has the potential to bend your mind with cosmic philosophies which pretzel-twist logic and reality. It's probably the only novel I've ever read which turns discussions about free will and determinism into page-turning entertainment.
Niffenegger never lets her carefully-designed world get out of control. There are certain "rules" to Henry's travel -- for instance, he tries not to tell anyone what will happen to them in the future for fear that he'll return to an altered world; he never travels far outside the time boundaries of his life (in other words, no dinosaurs or medieval knights make appearances in this book); and he revisits events in his life more than once, even if it means watching his mother die a horrible death over and over. He never knows exactly when he'll be taking a trip:

Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plain cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the maroon socks with an almost-hole in the heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished. You are standing, naked as a jaybird, up to your ankles in ice water in a ditch along an unidentified rural route…You've mislocated yourself again.

Henry eventually seeks help from a doctor who, he hopes, can cure him of his chrono-displacement. The condition seems to be a physical one (no H.G. Wells contraptions or gigawatt-tripping DeLoreans show up in these pages):

I think it's a brain thing. I think it's a lot like epilepsy because it tends to happen when I'm stressed, and there are physical cues, like flashing light, that can prompt it. And because things like running, and sex, and meditation tend to help me stay put in the present.

Niffenegger even allows Henry to visit himself in the past and engage himself in conversations and, briefly, a masturbatory sexual experience. The effect is funny and remarkably poignant at the same time:

I ponder my double. He's curled up, hedgehog style, facing away from me, evidently asleep. I envy him. He is me, but I'm not him, yet. He has been through five years of a life that's still mysterious to me, still coiled tightly waiting to spring out and bite. Of course, whatever pleasures are to be had, he's had them; for me they wait like a box of unpoked chocolates.

The Time Traveler's Wife is like one of those chocolates nestled in brown paper cups -- a rare literary confection that melts in your hand, your mouth and your head. Die-hard romantics will be savoring this one for years to come.

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Welcome to Books you Must Read !

Hello ! everyone , i try to find full-length reviews of books that help the reader gather the information they seek to determine if the book is worth their time. I prefer reviews that deal with each book at length, but sometimes settle for smaller reviews when lengthier ones are unavailable. For each book listed here, i try to find at least three reviews on different web sites. This way you can read as many of them as you'd like before deciding on a book. I also write my own book reviews. 


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Here is My first Recommendation : "Moonlight Mile" 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Moonlight MileBy Dennis Lehane William Morrow, 336 pp

Category : Mystery , Drama , Thriller .
Buy From Here : UK  , France , Germany , Canada
In Dennis Lehane's smart new crime novelMoonlight Mile, the young girl at the center of his 1998 novel Gone Baby Gone is gone again.

If you haven't read Gone Baby Gone you may have seen the movie. The 2007 Ben Affleck-directed adaptation featured superlative performances by Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan.

To rehash: In Gone Baby Gone, private detectives/lovers Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro are hired to find 4-year-old Amanda McCready, kidnapped from her mother's apartment in Dorchester, Mass., a working-class section of Boston.

The detectives are hired by Amanda's aunt and uncle — not by the little girl's neglectful mother, who frequently left her alone in the apartment to hang out with her druggie friends. The P.I.s recover Amanda but at the expense of the child's welfare when she's returned to her loser of a mother.

Back to the future. Moonlight Mile, set 12 years later, is a worthy follow.

Amanda, now 16, is missing. Kenzie and Gennaro are now married and have their own 4-year-old daughter. Gennaro is in grad school and Kenzie is taking on morally conflicting investigative jobs with a white-shoe law firm in order to support his family.

Kenzie has never regretted sending Amanda back to her mom. He was following the letter of the law. But he sees Amanda's latest disappearance as a chance to make things right for the teen — if he can find her.

A dogged hunt for Amanda entangles the P.I.s in a mystery that will circle back to the events in Gone Baby Gone and introduce them to some new villains, including organized crime types whose portrayal is a bit over the top. Call it comic relief.

Some of the grit that made Gone Baby Gone so compelling has been usurped (there's still plenty of blood and guts violence) by other, just as intriguing, colorations.

Kenzie and Gennaro can still get jacked up by the rough and tumble side of investigative work, but their love for each other and the welfare of their daughter are now the center of their lives.

In many ways, the novel is an homage to happy family life. It's a deft delivery system for a story that mixes guts, betrayal and the importance of good values. It's also a sublime love story about what really matters in the grand scheme of things.

Lehane says this may be the last novel he writes about Kenzie and Gennaro. It seems to wrap up the loose ends and set them on a more domestic path. If that's the case, it's a heck of a way to go out.

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35 Top Torrent Sites of 2010

As of February 8, 2010, several torrent search indexes have distinguished themselves. Compiled from reader suggestions, this list is updated every several days to reflect reader feedback. This list is the long version of the Top 5 list. You are welcome to submit your own suggestions to be included in this torrent list.

1. BiteNova (formerly known as "Bi-Torrents", BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.)
   
   
2. Isohunt.com Currently in a legal dispute with the Canadian Recording Industry Association, Isohunt is a longtime favorite of P2P users. The community at Isohunt also helps police abuse within their network, and reader comments and votes help to identify those torrents which should be avoided.
   
   
3. Torrentreactor.to (Torrentreactor has made a comeback from a hijacking and an uncooperative hosting service. They have moved to a different server setup and a Tonga country domain outside the USA.)
   
   
4. Entertane: An obscure-but-good metasearch engine. Pore through eight other torrent sites quickly by using Entertane.com
   
   
5. Torrentportal.com
   
   
6. The Pirate Bay
   April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country's copyright laws. More on this shocking court ruling here...
   
   
7. Torrent Root: a metasearch engine, Torrent Root will pore through other search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a slick tabbed interface for your easy browsing. WARNING: the Torrent Root web page has recently been infected by scareware and phishing viruses. The webmasters seem to have purged the infection, but fair warning: with any P2P browsing, protect yourself by installing a reliable antivirus like Avira.
   
   
8. Demonoid.com is back online! After legal conflicts in April of 2008, they have reestablished themselves outside of the USA. Demonoid is still a private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends carefully, lest you lose your own membership.
   
   
9. Torrentscan.com (a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines)
   
   
10. Vertor: this torrent service claims to filter out bad torrents, viruses, DRM locks, passwords, and fakes. Many readers are pleased with Vertor, and thus far their service has been exemplary. Definitely give Vertor a try.
    
    
11. Torrent2crazy: this newer torrent site has a clean and uncluttered interface. It doesn't offer the user feedback system of Isohunt, but the torrent database is solid.
    
    
12. Alive Torrents Alive Torrents is a relatively new site. It focuses on torrents that have distinguished themselves as having a solid swarm base and an active readership.
    
    
13. Flixflux: a United Kingdom torrent site that is very popular with European downloaders
    
    
14. H33T: Don't let the plain site design fool you: this newer torrent site has gotten very positive reviews from About.com readers.
    
    
15. YouTorrent.com Still in beta testing format, this new torrent site claims to be the largest legal torrent search engine today. Accordingly, the result sets are much smaller than the "pirate" counterparts, but definitely try this site for yourself.
    
    
16. Zoozle.org: a competent German search engine for finding specific files, cracks, and serials.
    
    
17. Torrentbox.com FYI: like Isohunt, Torrentbox is being sued by the MPAA as of February 28, 2006. The days for this fine search engine may be numbered.
    
    
18. yourBittorrent: a newer service, yourBittorrent has a clean and simple design and fast searching. Keep your eye on this site.
    
    
19. Thunderbytes: As of July 2009, Thunderbytes is a family-friendly site with content that is good for kids and parents.
    
    
20. Torrentengine.co.cc: a very spartan-looking torrent engine, with very fast results and and icons that denote verified sources.

1. Fenopy (formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)
   
   
2. FullDLS.com
   
   
3. Scrapetorrent.com is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.
   
   
4. Plentyoftorrents: this is a kind of launchpad search engine that offers choices where you want to search.
   
   
5. Torrentmatrix.com
   
   
6. Mininova.org Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
   
   
7. Bitsoup Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders.
   
   
8. bittorrent.com (the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)
   
   
9. Meganova.org which has been rebranded as "Seed Peer"
   
   
10. Torrentz.com (special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this link)
    
    
11. BTbot.com (this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate Bay)
    
    
12. Torrents.to
    
    
13. Special mention: Gpirate.com (A newer torrent search engine that several readers are very fond of.)
    
    
14. Special mention: TuxDistro.com (For legal linux torrents and virtual machines.)
    
    
15. Special mention: Commonbits.com (This new beta search site is dedicated to media on progressive political content: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. This is a place for activists to share their message, and for people to learn about other political choices. Unfortunately, the owners have had to move the site because of legal/financial pressures. We hope to see it back soon.)