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Another one of the Oke books I had in a four book set. This one isn't my favorite, but it's an enjoyable read nonetheless. It is a sweet story about a brother and sister raising their three younger siblings after the death of their parents. Of course, love has to come into everything somewhere but the "love" story here was actually far less interesting than just reading about the day to day lives of these characters.

The secret of the Nagas Author: Amish Tripati Published by: Westland ltd. ISBN: 978-93-80658-79-7 The second in the trilogy promised by Amish, I have not the read the first one, but this has inspired me to read it. Believe me I regret reading the Immortals of Meluha it is a spoiler to this book. Calling an amarachitra katha induced thriller is also belittling the author’s craft. Though I guess that is the nearest identification that our generation that grew on amarchitra katha can give it. Amish has beautifully demystified the mythology making it very interesting. If I were to call it a mythological thriller I would be ignoring the imparting of philosophy.There are small notables like the opposite of love is not hate but apathy. Though the IIM Alumnus has done a bit more homework this time round his lack of knowledge or deficiency in adaption comes through. !.Till few years before Kautilya the education was vocational oriented, and the guru-kula kind of system. so question of village schools did not arise. 2.Kshatriya women marrying Brahmans, was acceptable but not the other way round. Looking forward to reading the last book on this triology. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amish Tripati an alumnus of IIM quit corporate world to write the triology.

I first read this book in high school about 40 years ago, and as I recall was underwhelmed by it. Its Victorian wordiness seemed overblown and dated. In fact, what I most liked about the book was that it inspired one of my favorite movies, Apocalypse Now. I am glad to report that the book has much improved with the passing of the years. Funny how that works. Conrad has left us with a lot of memorable lines, some of my favorites passages being: * On war: "Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent ... and nothing happened. Nothing could happen." Hmmm, I believe that aptly summarizes the US experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. * On Kurtz and his mad lusts: "But the wilderness had found him out early, and taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core." * On Kurtz's last words: "I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror - of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was not more than a breath - 'The horror, the horror!'" Why has this book endured when just about everything else Conrad wrote has been largely forgotten? Something about this allegory sticks with me, maybe because it goes so far towards explaining how megalomaniacs lose their bearings and go horribly awry. And Conrad manages to do it by suggesting so much more than he actually says, providing a still more universal allegory of monsters and their horrific misdeeds.