Last Man Standing
Author: Aravind Adiga The unescapable back story behind me reading this phenomenal piece of fiction… I read Adiga’s ‘White Tiger’ four...
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J.S. Das
- Mar 27
- 2 min
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
Author: Nicholas Sparks The last time I read one of Nicholas Sparks’s books, I was barely 19. A disillusioned teenager, who believed in...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 23, 2022
- 3 min
THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF KABUL
Author: Deborah Rodriguez Total pages: 375 Total approximate words: 93700 SYNOPSIS The story is set in Kabul, the capital city of...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 23, 2022
- 3 min
ELEVEN MINUTES
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 291 Total approximate words: 81400 Paulo Coelho is a story teller, probably one of the bests that the...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
THE ALCHEMIST
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 170 Total approximate words: 43000 The first time I read this book, I was younger. Perhaps in my mid...
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J.S. Das
- Aug 6, 2022
- 2 min
DAUGHTERS OF LIVERPOOL
Author: Annie Groves Total Pages: 468 Total approximate words: 1,59,588 SYNOPSIS The story is set during the World War 2 in England. The...
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J.S. Das
- Jun 22, 2022
- 2 min
THE SINGLES GAME
Author: Lauren Weisberger Total number of pages: 337 Total approximate words: 1,18,000 SYNOPSIS The protagonist is an underrated tennis...
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J.S. Das
- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Author: Emily Bronte Pages: 322 Total approximate words: 115900 To try and write the synopsis of a story that has survived two centuries...
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J.S. Das
- Mar 29, 2022
- 2 min
NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS
Author: Jeffrey Archer Total pages: 336 Total approximate words: 1,00,800 SYNOPSIS Harvey Metcalf, one of the protagonists of the story...
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J.S. Das
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
THE HOPE FACTORY
Author: Lavanya Sankaran Total pages: 350 Total approximate words: 1,19,000 SYNOPSIS The plot has two protagonists, Anand, a family man...
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J.S. Das
- Feb 12, 2022
- 1 min
TEMPTATION
Author. Nora Roberts Total approximate words. 55000 Pages. 216 Temptation is the second book of 2022, that I have laid my hands upon. I...
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J.S. Das
- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Author: Harper Lee Total Pages: 309 Total Approximate words: 1,08,150 The new year hasn’t been the happy one so far that I was hoping...
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J.S. Das
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min
INHERITANCE
Author: Christopher Paolini Total Pages: 850 Total approximate words: 300,000 Last couple of weeks have been pretty interesting. I was...
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J.S. Das
- Dec 11, 2021
- 2 min
ONE PART WOMAN
Author: Perumal Murugan Total Pages: 240 Total approximate words: 71000 The novel was originally written in Tamil, and then translated in...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
THE DA VINCI CODE
Author: Dan Brown Pages: 590 Total approximate words: 1,94,000 Wow what a read! My absolute good fortune to be able to get my hands on...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
THE MARTIAN
Author: Andy Weir Pages: 369 Total approximate words: 1,39,000 Wow! Been a while I actually read something so prolific, so brilliant, so...
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J.S. Das
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
RAAVAN
Author: Amish Tripathi Pages: 374 Total approximate words: 104,000 RAAVAN is the third book of the RAM CHANDRA SERIES. RAM and SITA are...
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J.S. Das
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
SUHELDEV
Author: Amish & The Immortal Writer’s Centre Pages: 325 Total approximate words: 81000 REVIEW I have read almost all of Amish’s books (my...
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J.S. Das
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
ADULTERY
Author: Paulo Coelho Total pages: 287 Total approximate words: 77000 Back in 2015, when I read the book for the first time, the story...
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J.S. Das
- Oct 6, 2021
- 7 min
A CHANCE AT HAPPINESS
Author: Aseem Vadehra Total Pages: 171 Total approximate words: 62,073 I started reading this book a long time ago, perhaps a couple of...
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