Book Reviews!

Well, its been a while, but that is life! Been a bit too busy to write...but not too busy to miss reading, so here review of a couple of books that I (re)read this month.
CJ Cherryh--Fortress in the Eye of Time
Now this is a book that I vaguely recall reading several years ago (at least 4...probably 5 or more years ago). I remember reading it while I had a splitting headache, and thinking it was a bit wierd. A couple of weeks back, I spotted this book in an otherwise normal (ie: Filled with self help and Da Vinci Code books) bookshop in a Gurgaon mall. Of course, I had to buy it to see whether it was the book that caused the headache!
Well, I have to admit, the book is pretty good. VERY SLOW...but good. You follow the protoganist, Tristen as he meanders along the plot that the autheress takes him on. Very good writing, although I can't quite place why I liked the book. At any rate, I am going to read book 2 once I get back to Delhi (or can con my sister into couriering it back to namma Bengaluru!).

Caves of Steel & The Naked Sun -- Isaac Asimov
Again, books that I read back in my student days at school. But the opportunity to buy a hardbound edition of these two books for 200 bucks was just too good to resist. And reading them again, I have to say that these are the best books that Asimov wrote. Brilliant in concept, and with an awesome plot, the essential buddy story is amazingly written, and should be recommended reading for every fiction fan...and not just Science Fiction. Well worth the price...and Elijah Baley is the best SF detective I have found so far!

Well, that is it for now. I hope to review a few more books when I find the time to write. Suggestions on author and book recommendations are welcome, and ought to be directed to basel_gill--at--yahoo.co.uk. (Hmm....wonder where I got that name from!)