Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

This is the second novel I picked of Dan Brown. I picked it as lot of my friends told me that it is better than Da Vinci Code.

The style of writing is same of both the novels.

In this novel Brown has shown one organization named ‘Illuminati’ against Church. Again the clues are spearheaded by Robert Langdon.

I came to know a lot about secret scientific societies via this novel.

Now I m looking forward to read other works of Dan Brown

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

I picked this novel for the third time. Last two times I couldn’t get past first 30 pages. And I kept on wondering, whats so special about this boring novel, that all my friends are crazy about it.

This is what I realized on my third time. The moment you get past the first 40 pages, its breathtaking. I used to wait whole day in the office to get it over, so that I can get home and read it.

It made me doubt the very foundation of Christianity, and gave me lot of glimpses of Pagan religion.

No wonder, it’s one of the best novels ever I read.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

EXODUS



By Leon Uris


I can't tell you what is there in this book, because I m not qualified enough to say that. And it will be blasphemy to try to do that. But I will try to tell why you should read this book. So WHY!!!!

  • Read this book if you want to know how a person feels if thrown out of his home for 3000 years.

  • Read this book if you want to know how a person feels when treated as a secondary citizen for 3000 years.

  • Read this book if you want to know how a person can still love God when God shows the utmost brutality towards him.

  • Read this book if you want to know what is Ghetto.

  • Read this book if you want to know how a person feels, when he knows his whole family is marked with most brutal death.

  • Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when a person contributes in the low level work of the actual execution of his whole community.

  • Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when everywhere you see but only one that is enemy.

  • Read this book if you want to know, what patriotism is.

  • Read this book if you want to know how it feels, to be in a Concentration camp.

  • Read this book if you want to know how it feels, when your new born baby is snatched from you to be thrown in concentration camp.

  • Read this book if you want to know what is ISRAEL all about.

  • Read this book if you want to know why there is constant war in GULF.

  • Read this book if you want to know how Judaism gave birth to two of the most followed religions of the world.

  • Read this book if you want to know what impact Holy Wars is having on today’s political landscape

  • Read this book if you want to know, that why everybody says “Its good to die for your country”, while Israeli’s says “It’s good to have country to die for”.

  • Read this book if you want to understand, how a teenager is trained to become a soldier for the survival.

  • Read this book if you want to understand, what despair is.

  • Read this book if you want to understand, what faith is.

  • Read this book if you want to understand, what courage is.

While reading this book I cried for hours. And it is one of the only three books I have wept while reading. One is Lajja, you can see its review in this blog and the second one is this and wait for the third one. What I can say about this book is that it’s a matter of experience rather than narration.