Plot: The book recounts 12 nervous hours in the life fictional airport ‘Lincoln International’ at Chicago and how the lives of about a dozen people collide as a result. Main Characters: Mel Bakersfield (Airport General Manager), Cindy Bakersfield (Mel’s wife), D O Guerro (a passenger with a terrifying agenda!), Tanya Livingston (A passenger relations...
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Well I was surfing the bookstore when I saw this small little book with an interesting title. I just thought about taking a peek and I found it so interesting and completed the book there itself. Bad Manners. I know, but it just happened. This little book is full of humorous incidents that perhaps...
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The Fountain Head is a story of one man and the rest of the world. It is a philosophical fiction that entails the story through love, lust, trust, jealousy, care, passion, and enthusiasm of the people and the world. The story starts with the two architecture students, Howard Roark and Peter Keating; one being...
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Plot: A scientific research deep sea drilling team drills into an underwater volcano except that it isn’t a volcano at all! Main Protagonists: Perry Bergman (President of Benthic marine), Suzanne (Oceanographer), Donald (ex-navy), Michael (ex-naval diver who was thrown out the Navy as a result of more than a few transgressions), Richard (same story...
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The Smile There is a Smile of Love And there is a Smile of Deceit And there is a Smile of Smiles In which these two Smiles meet - An Extract of the Poem The Smile, By William Blake These were the lines in the first page of the book that attracted my...
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More than 7 decades ago, this book won the Pulitzer Prize and then, helped Pearl S Buck win the Nobel Prize. The Good Earth reads like a song of the war, of china, of farmers (not peasants), of women and men, of marriage, of poverty and riches and, of birth and death. This, in...
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