Sepember/October 2008 Books

1) White Tiger - Arvinda Adiga
The 4th debut to win the Man Booker Prize ever. I finished this book yesterday & today it wins the Booker. It was a very interesting book. But I'm very surprised that it was a finalist. Now it has become the winner. We have a new star here. Move over Arundhati.

2) Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: John Pierson
The Father of Independent cinema of 90s takes us on "A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema".

3) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
All these years of hype kind of spoilt it for me. I got a little bored towards the end.

4) Half A Life - V.S.Naipaul
After reading Magic Seeds I was thinking I wanna know about Chandran's Life before Magic Seeds. And then next week I found out that Magic seeds is a sequel of sorts to Half A Life. Had to read it. Very good. But not among his best.

5) The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav is Subrat's sentimental favorite author. So I had to read his work. It was a good book, but maybe not his best. Next I'm gonna try Calcutta Chromosome.

6)High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Cultures of Excess - Charles Fleming
Cocaine,80s & Blockbuster movies.

7) Maximum City - Suketu Mehta
Finally read a book I bought 3 years back. Must read if you wanna understand Bombay.

8) Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Liked the title story. Like her winning debut, I have mixed feelings about this one too.

Reading -
The Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood - James Mottram

The Road - Cormac McCarthy