Books and Movies

Books :

The book that does not exist

When I bought nexus -7 I wanted to read a good book on tablet to see how I would like reading digital books ( not pdfs..:P ). So I went ahead and bought kindle version of the book ' The book does not exist' as it had good reviews.

Book is new age fiction book with heavy presence of social networking sites like facebook and twitter, it also has a link to youtube video, which is part of the story. (This was a definite plus of having a kindle version of book, video got embedded and had to use just one click to watch it. I would have ignored it if I had the paperback edition ).

I found presence of social networking sites bit annoying, and being from different background then the intended audience of this book ( Americans and Europeans ) I missed lot of references to pop culture. But overall book is refreshing .

If I would have written a book, I could imagine it to be very much on the same lines as this book. It depicts everything in a very surreal manner, and since it has so many references including a video, it makes you feel as if you are reading story or blog by your friend and not a fiction novel. 10/10 to author for creativity on that front.

Ending was little bland , but overall I can give it 7.5 of 10.

Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy 

As I had mentioned in my another blog, the movie which I always wanted to see but could not for long time.
This was a similar instance, this being one book which I wanted to read sicne long time but could never quite get around it.

I finished Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy and am reading second part of the series, ' The restaurant at end of the universe' , book is exactly as I had expected . Sci -Fi, crazy logic , funny and overall just plain weird with the story.

I would write final review on it, once I finish the entire series.

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