can u tell me da review of any of these books -Lord of the flies,i moved ur cheese,Malgudi days,exodus,coma???

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review of these books also - harry potter(any), Da Vinci Code, Swami and his friends, the monk who sold his ferrari, 5 point someone, Anthology of 20 century........if u know the review of any of these books ..please ..please tell me....i will b very thankful!!!

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Lord of The Flies' plot overview
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In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group.
Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death.
At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting.
When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice, to their horror, that the signal fire—which had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain—has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack, but the hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance. Piggy criticizes Jack, who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch shell and reprimands the boys in a speech intended to restore order. At the meeting, it quickly becomes clear that some of the boys have started to become afraid. The littlest boys, known as “littluns,” have been troubled by nightmares from the beginning, and more and more boys now believe that there is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island. The older boys try to convince the others at the meeting to think rationally, asking where such a monster could possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea—a proposition that terrifies the entire group.
Not long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. The boys, asleep below, do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal fire mountain, dead. Sam and Eric, the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, are asleep and do not see the parachutist land. When the twins wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes. Thinking the island beast is at hand, they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.
The boys organize a hunting expedition to search for the monster. Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge, deformed ape. The group holds a meeting at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting. Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office, but the other boys refuse to vote Ralph out of power. Jack angrily runs away down the beach, calling all the hunters to join him. Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire, this time on the beach rather than on the mountain. They obey, but before they have finished the task, most of them have slipped away to join Jack.
Jack declares himself the leader of the new tribe of hunters and organizes a hunt and a violent, ritual slaughter of a sow to solemnize the occasion. The hunters then decapitate the sow and place its head on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast. Later, encountering the bloody, fly-covered head, Simon has a terrible vision, during which it seems to him that the head is speaking. The voice, which he imagines as belonging to the Lord of the Flies, says that Simon will never escape him, for he exists within all men. Simon faints. When he wakes up, he goes to the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. Understanding then that the beast does not exist externally but rather within each individual boy, Simon travels to the beach to tell the others what he has seen. But the others are in the midst of a chaotic revelry—even Ralph and Piggy have joined Jack’s feast—and when they see Simon’s shadowy figure emerge from the jungle, they fall upon him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth.
The following morning, Ralph and Piggy discuss what they have done. Jack’s hunters attack them and their few followers and steal Piggy’s glasses in the process. Ralph’s group travels to Jack’s stronghold in an attempt to make Jack see reason, but Jack orders Sam and Eric tied up and fights with Ralph. In the ensuing battle, one boy, Roger, rolls a boulder down the mountain, killing Piggy and shattering the conch shell. Ralph barely manages to escape a torrent of spears.
Ralph hides for the rest of the night and the following day, while the others hunt him like an animal. Jack has the other boys ignite the forest in order to smoke Ralph out of his hiding place. Ralph stays in the forest, where he discovers and destroys the sow’s head, but eventually, he is forced out onto the beach, where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a British naval officer standing over him. The officer’s ship noticed the fire raging in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at the sight of the officer. Amazed at the spectacle of this group of bloodthirsty, savage children, the officer asks Ralph to explain. Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is safe but, thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets' plot overview
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets begins when Harry is spending a miserable summer with his only remaining family, the Dursleys. During a dinner party hosted by his uncle and aunt, Harry is visited by Dobby, a house-elf. Dobby warns Harry not to return to Hogwarts, the magical school for wizards that Harry attended the previous year. Harry politely disregards the warning, and Dobby wreaks havoc in the kitchen, infuriating the Dursleys. The Dursleys angrily imprison Harry in his room for the rest of the summer. Luckily, Harry's friend Ron Weasley steals Harry away in a flying car, and Harry happily spends the rest of the summer at the Weasley home.
While shopping for school supplies with the Weasleys, Harry has two unfortunate encounters. He first encounters Lockhart, one of his teachers, who demands to be in a photo shoot with Harry. Harry then encounters Lucius Malfoy, the evil father of one of Harry's enemies, who almost starts a fight with Mr. Weasley. As Harry prepares to return to Hogwarts, he finds that he and Ron are unable to enter the magically invisible train platform, so they fly the Weasley car to Hogwarts. They land messily, and both boys are given detentions. Lockhart, who believes Harry flew the car to get attention, lectures Harry.
Quidditch practices begin and Draco Malfoy is the new Slytherin seeker. On the field, he calls Hermione a "mudblood," insulting her Muggle heritage. After taunting Hermione, Draco is the suspect when, on Halloween night, someone petrifies the school caretaker's cat and writes a threatening message. Before the cat is attacked, Harry twice hears an eerie voice. He hears it first during his detention and second during a party, moments before the cat is attacked. Everybody in the school is alarmed. By doing some research, Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn that fifty years ago a chamber at Hogwarts was opened and a student was killed.
Playing for Gryffindor, Harry wins the Quidditch match against Slytherin. During the game, an enchanted ball hits Harry and causes him to lose the bones in his arm. Dobby, a house elf, has enchanted the ball in an effort to have Harry injured and sent home. That night, Harry sees the body of a first-year who has been petrified arrive at the hospital. Soon after, Lockhart begins a dueling club. During the first meeting, Harry terrifies his fellow students by speaking in Parseltongue to a snake. Harry's ability frightens the others because only the heir of Slytherin, who is responsible for opening the chamber, would have the ability to converse with snakes. Harry comes under further suspicion when he stumbles upon the petrified bodies of Justin Finch-Fletchley and Nearly- Headless Nick.
Determined to catch the culprit, Ron, Harry and Hermione brew a potion called Polyjuice. The potion allows them to assume the bodies of Slytherins and question Malfoy on the Chamber of Secrets. They find out that Malfoy is not the heir of Slytherin. No more attacks occur for a while, and right before Valentine's Day, Harry finds a diary in the broken toilet. The diary belongs to a ghost named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' restroom. Harry writes in the diary, which responds by writing back. Through this dialogue, Harry meets Tom Riddle, a boy who many years before had accused Hagrid of opening the Chamber of Secrets.
Hermione and a Ravenclaw girl are mysteriously petrified. Harry and Ron venture out of the castle to question Hagrid. Before they reach Hagrid, the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, and Lucius Malfoy remove Dumbledore and Hagrid from Hogwarts. As Hagrid is led away, he instructs the boys that by following the spiders, they can find out about the Chamber monster. Several nights later, Harry and Ron sneak into the Forbidden Forest to follow the spiders. They discover the monster who killed the girl fifty years before was not a spider, that the girl's body was found in a bathroom, and that Hagrid is innocent. The boys are almost killed by a colony of giant spiders. As they escape, Harry and Ron decide that Moaning Myrtle must have been the girl killed by the monster.
A few days later, Ron and Harry discover a piece of paper with a description of a basilisk on it in Hermione's frozen hand. They deduce the Chamber monster is a basilisk. Before the boys can act on their knowledge, the teachers announce that Ginny Weasley has been taken into the chamber. Ron, Harry, and Lockhart slide down a secret passage in Myrtle's bathroom to underground tunnels. When Lockhart accidentally curses himself, Ron helps him and Harry leaves them behind. Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets and encounters Ginny's still body and Tom Riddle. Tom turns out to be a younger version of Voldemort, who has been enchanting Ginny through his journal. Harry calls for help from Dumbledore. A phoenix and a magic hat arrive. Tom summons a basilisk, but the phoenix punctures its eyes. The hat produces a sword, which Harry uses to kill the giant snake. Harry sticks a basilisk fang through the diary, destroying Tom. Ginny wakes up.
Harry explains his adventure to Dumbledore. Lucius Malfoy storms into the office with his house-elf, Dobby, and Harry frees Dobby from by tricking Lucius into giving Dobby a sock. All is well in the castle as the students leave for their summer vacations.
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Coma's review (Robin Cook)
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it involves a young doctor who finds out about an organ-heist cartel, which basically involves surgeons and anesthesiologists working together to cull the best organ donors from a pool of people coming in for routine procedures such as D&C’s, cataract operations, laser operations to the cervix, and the like, after which they make sure that these organ donors end up comatose and in danger of death. (I will leave the method of coma induction to the reader’s imagination; suffice it to say that someone in the medical engineering section of the hospital was in on the secret somehow.) The coma patients are then sent to a special intensive-care unit that specializes in coma patients. One room of this center is set up for visiting, to look like the layman’s conception of what an ICU room looks like from his or her experience visiting people in a regular hospital.
In the back, however, the investigator is horrified to see these patients in what amounts to suspended animation. This is where they are kept until a call for a kidney or liver of a certain type comes in, at which time the right recipient is prepped and the organ of choice is removed surgically. This is all done without the knowledge or consent of the next-of-kin.
It all works out in the end, however. This book is extremely suspenseful reading .Trust your doctor? Terrific. Read the book and ask yourself the same question.
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Exodus overview
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A vast, sweeping panorama of a craggy mountain side. An introduction to a widowed American nurse. And a blind, clutching attempt at escape for a prisoner of a British internment camp. That is how Otto Preminger chose to open his screen adaptation of the successful Leon Uris epic novel "Exodus." And that's only the first five minutes of the film!
A beautifully assembled cast of screen legends and character actors lend their talents to this richly-textured drama, which tells the tale of the establishment of the Nation of Israel. Nurse Katie Fremont (Eva Marie Saint) is a volunteer nurse at a camp where thousands of disenfranchised Jews are being held tentatively, as they have no homeland to return to. The promise of their own nation in Palestine was made in the heat of the moment, and was quickly forgotten.

They endure endless injustice after having already made it through the nightmare of t he German concentration camps at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau, and now they sit in anticipation for the day they are liberated from tyranny. The man to liberate them is Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a Jewish rebel with a cargo ship, a small band of loyal followers, and a master plan to shake up the British government.

A brave rescue is hatched when Ben Canaan is able to secure 611 Jewish inmates for his voyage before being found out by military authorities. A ship-wide hunger strike is waged against the indifferent powers-that-be, and soon, they have no choice but to give in to the demands of the starving radicals. Meanwhile, Nurse Kitty has grown very fond of Karen (Jill Haworth), a young Jewish girl searching for her estranged father and some semblance of a normal life. She too has taken up Ben Canaan's cause, much to the chagrin of Nurse Kitty, who has plans to take young Karen to America in hopes of starting a new life.

Meanwhile, op position to the Jewish liberation partition is heating up, and Karen's misguided young beau Dov Landau (Sal Mineo) joins up with a radical Jewish terrorism network, led by Ari Ben Canaan's uncle Akiva (David Opatoshu), an anarchistic Jewish leader disowned by his family and hated by Palestine's British government. When their fatal bombing of the King David Hotel backfires, Akiva and his entourage are immediately taken into custody and issued a stiff sentence for their crimes. They are to hang within hours. Just blocks away from the ill-fated King David Hotel, Karen has met her shell-shocked father and now takes up residence in a thriving Jewish village. Nurse Kitty and Ari Ben Canaan have fallen in love, but they must hold off on their romantic involvement until things have settled with the liberation. But Uncle Akiva's incarceration proves to be a wrench in the gears, and Ari must somehow develop a plan to break the convicts out.

Dov Landau, who managed to escape the arresting soldiers in the nick of time, agrees to turn himself in so that he can use his vast knowledge of explosives to rig the prison and plan an intricate escape route. All goes according to plan when the equipment is set off and violence errupts in the prison, giving Ari and the escapees the perfect opportunity for artifice. But the authorities are crafty, and manage to put a bullet in Akiva's back during a frantic high-speed car chase. The old man soon dies, but not before causing a major uproar at the prison.

A liberated Israel is now in plain view, but Arab radicals, angered by the proposition of sharing their land with an "inferior race" plots to attack Ari Ben Canaan's camp and kill their leaders. Ari receives information about this attack ahead-of-time, and the group stages a mass overnight escape into the wilderness. Karen, ecstatic over the hopes of a new nation, proclaims her love for Dov Landau, and Dov reciprocates. They wile away the night-time hours thinking of long and happy life together that lay ahead of them. But as Dov sleeps, a wandering Arab radical assaults Karen, and in the morning, Dov's patrol party finds her blanched and lifeless body laid out on a tree-shaded dirty path, along with the body of one of their loyal compatriots hanging from a tree-limb.

At the Jewish burial ceremony, Ari swears on their bodies that someday, Jews and Arabs will live together and share the land in peace. A promise that, to this day, goes unfulfilled. Thus ends Otto Preminger's drama "Exodus," not with a bang, but with an unanswered promise, and the burden of lingering injustice.
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Malgudi days (short stories) review
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Narayan creates his characters with the simplest of words, and that is probably why this book appeals to me. The stories seem to be so simple, yet carefully unraveled in Narayan’s slow, and careful way, to create a reading pleasure similar, if not better than any other.
This is basically a collection of short stories, by the end of which one feels as if he knows that place. In these stories, Narayan goes on to describe umpteen characters from this town of Malgudi. The Beggar and the dog, the Thief who swore not to feel sympathy again and many more. The list of characters are just too many, and varied for me to give any comprehensive description. Take my advice and read this book, it will not let you down.
In the introduction, Narayan goes on to describe why he prefers short stories. There are also some details about how he found out about Malgudi. Disclosing them takes the fun out of finding out yourself.
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Swami and his Friends
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The story is about a boy, Swaminathan. He lives with his parents, and most importantly his Grandmother. His Grandmother, or Granny as he calls her, is his closest family member, willing to hear him out at all times, will fight for his human right’s against his oppressor’s like his father. And then comes his friends, of whom Mani and Rajam are the closest.

The story takes us through Swami’s school life and the up’s and down’s of school time friendship’s, and how he is carried away or affected by the Nationalist movement of the times. The story culminates with the founding of the M.C.C. or the Malgudi Cricket Club, and Swami’s role in the team which he regards could any day beat the rather clumsy club of Madras Presidency someday. It would be wrong for me to reveal anything more, reading them in Narayan’s own words is definitely more recommended.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is the story of Julian Mantle, a premier lawyer whose imbalanced lifestyle leads him to an almost fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. This set back forces him to seek answers



to the lifes most important questions.

He embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey to an ancient culture with an objective to find happiness & fulfillment. He discovers a powerful system to galvanise the potential of his mind, body and soul, and learns to live with greater passion, purpose and peace. Blending the spiritual wisdom of the East with the success principles of the West, this inspiring tale shows you a pathway for living with greater courage, balance, abundance and joy.

Author has followed a different approach of presenting India’s age old principles of happy living. He has constructed a Fable to say the same often repeated principles of Himalayan sages which helps in binding the interest of the reader. But the principles are the same old ones which many of us have heard umpteem number of times. However, no new method or technique is given for weaving these principles into the fabric of our fast paced life.
The book is an easy read and contains lots of tools for self improvement. The ’’Fable’’ concept delivers all that is required. The author reiterates through his book to be focussed, optimistic, do what gives you happiness and be passionate about whatever you do.
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Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat
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Meet Hari. Our Indianised version of Harry bumped (literally) into Sally aka Neha. Their unique relationship is one of the major threads of the book, as Neha turns out to be Prof. Cherian’s daughter. Papa Cherian is the kind of fellow you wouldn’t fancy meeting in the dark, with his reputation of being a strict disciplinarian.

Meet Ryan. The proverbial cool dude, with a physique to kill for and exceptional brains, which would have the best of scientists scurrying for cover. The most interesting character of the story, Ryan is a gold mine of talent and could have made it big in life, but he choses not to ? and he takes a strange pride in it. (This sentence was courtesy Mandy’s profile!)

The other extreme of Ryan is Alok, who has his responsibilities towards his families crushing his temptation to make merriment a la Hari and Ryan.
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It’s amazing how one identifies with almost each and every situation and character in the book. Hari is the simplest character in the book, representing every average teenager. A guy of simple desires, who fervently wants to live like the one he admires, a guy who wants to go all out to impress his lady love, a guy who gives into the temptation of cheating in his exam, merely to impress her.

The book is written with Hari as the first person and a unique aspect is how his interpretation of different characters changes with time. His observations are witty, be they his frustrations at the fact that Ryan and Alok are constantly squabbling, or his complaints about how deciphering the female psyche is even more difficult than the course at IIT.

While on the female psyche, Neha remains a special character in the book due to the fact, that although she is not one of the three friends, it is she, who indirectly causes all the major events in the story. Even her gradual realisation of how close she is to Hari is subtlely portrayed through her letters to her dead brother. In the case of the dead brother, lies another track, which effortlessly merges into the main story. Apart from lending a push to the story, her brother Samir represents a stark fact - the drastic steps which many students take due to parental pressures.

The kind of aura Ryan generates around himself rubs onto the others and especially Hari, who admires him to the core. Unabashedly, he admits that what he wants most is to be Ryan - a very symbolic statement, as we often admire the seemingly better attitudes of some our peers. Often, one feels that Ryan is too heartless to be true, as he pretends to not care for his parents. The transformation of the high-handed, self-centred Ryan into somebody who becomes more sensitive to his friends and more aware of his responsibilities is brilliantly portrayed by the author.

Apart from the exterior facade of not giving in to emotions easily, Ryan symbolizes the maverick as he continues to lament against the cruel system prevalent in IIT and most other colleges wherein an individual is identified by the number of marks he obtains in a particular test.
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The Davinci Code by Dan Brown
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Robert Langdon (first introduced in Angels and Demons) is a Harvard Professor of art history and religious symbology. He has spent a lifetime exploring religions and theology and explaining the use of their symbols in art and history. He is a veritable gold mine of information about the Catholic church, pagan religions, and religious mysteries. As The Da Vinci Code begins, he is in Paris to give a speech and to meet with Jacques Saunière, the curator of the Louvre, although he's unaware of why Saunière wants to meet with him. Unfortunately, Saunière is murdered in the Grand Hall of the Louvre and the French police get Langdon out of bed, ostensibly to help them understand the information and symbols Saunière left at the murder scene. Actually, Langdon is their prime suspect and they want to see if he inadvertently gives incriminating information before they arrest him. Trapped within his own gallery, Saunière had enough time to leave clues to his killer and to the information for which he was murdered. Langdon, however, cannot understand the clues left behind and the captain of the French police, Bezu Fache, is certain that they point to Langdon as the killer.

They are interrupted at the murder scene by Sophie Neveu, a police cryptologist who claims to have broken the code of the seemingly random numbers left next to the corpse. Unknown to Bezu Fache, Sophie is also Saunière's granddaughter and she is certain the clues he left behind were meant for her and that Langdon is not only innocent, but the key to helping her understand it all. She manages to help Langdon fake an escape from the Louvre which sends Bezu Fache away long enough so Langdon and she can study the clues left behind by Saunière. The dead body is naked and lying spread-eagle with a circle around it. They realize that Saunière was duplicating Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting, "The Vitruvian Man." They quickly decipher the information which leads them to different paintings by Da Vinci, and Sophie finds the item left behind for her by her grandfather. She then understands why he didn't want it to fall into the hands of the police. She and Langdon hit the road, one step ahead of the police and the people behind Saunière's murder who want what they've discovered.

All that occurs in the first few short chapters and it sets a pace which never wanes for the rest of the book. Sophie and Langdon manage to barely escape from many dicey situations, but never in an unbelievable way. They continue to solve each ensuing puzzle and riddle they encounter, leading them deeper into more mysteries they must comprehend. Jacques Saunière was much more than just the curator of the Louvre; he raised Sophie after her parents died in an accident and he constantly entertained her with puzzles, riddles, and secret information. Sophie and Langdon soon realize that he was also a member of a secret society called the Priory of Sion, which over the centuries had included men such as Da Vinci, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Isaac Newton. Langdon is more familiar with the Priory, and he tells Sophie the story of their long history and that they purportedly keep hidden documents concerning the truth about the early Catholic church that the church never wants revealed, and that they also allegedly know the hiding spot of the Holy Grail.

Without giving more of the plot away, suffice it to say that everyone in this book is in the hunt for the secrets hidden by the Priory of Sion including the Grail. Some want to protect it, some want to expose it, and some want to destroy it. With the information provided to them by Jacques Saunière, Sophie and Langdon are ahead of everyone else, but police, assassins, and churchmen aren't far behind. The race is on, the tension is high, and the puzzles to be solved seem incomprehensible.

Along the way, Langdon educates Sophie as well as the reader in large amounts of information concerning religions, symbols, history, and the story of the Holy Grail. Dan Brown is crafty enough to have Langdon present this in a way that comes across like a professor (which Langdon is) passing it on to his class without a lot of moralistic overtones. His explanations for clues and tricks hidden within Da Vinci's paintings make you want to go look at them all and see if it's true. His comments about the early church, the origins of the gospels, and the assimilation of pagan rituals and symbols into the church's practices and holy days makes sense when he tells them and they come across as easily understood historical facts, whether true or not. The pages turn quickly as the information is presented, the latest puzzle is solved, and the next escape is done by the skin of their teeth.

The characters in The Da Vinci Code don't play second fiddle to the storyline. Robert Langdon is one of those highly intelligent people who doesn't use it to lord over those with inferior educations. He's even-tempered with a touch of sardonic wit and quick to admit when he doesn't know something. Bezu Fache is the hard-driving police captain, smart, thinking one step ahead, and always aware of the political implications of what he's doing. Silas, believing everything he's doing is for God, is an albino Opus Dei monk who murders by instruction from The Teacher, an unknown man who directs the search for the Priory's secrets. Leigh Teabing is an affluent and eccentric Englishman obsessed with the quest for the Grail and disparaging of most things French. Dan Brown uses each of these characters to poke fun at their own culture and bring realism to the international scenarios necessary when dealing with secret societies, religious conspiracies, and the quest for what might be the ultimate mysteries of Christianity. The character who ties everything together and brings the proper sense of humanity and morality to the story, though, is Sophie Neveu. Dealing with the death of her beloved grandfather, coming to understand more of her past, and being the possessor of information that could change history and religion, she strikes the right tone of strength and vulnerability to make everything else in this novel believable.

The chapters in The Da Vinci Code are short, usually not more than a couple pages. Most of them end with a cliffhanger that immediately catapults you into the next chapter. So grab this book, sit back, and prepare to be entertained and educated. It's well-written, it's intelligent, and best of all, it's fun.
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Who Moved My cheese? By: Spencer Johnson M.D
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With "Who Moved My Cheese?" Dr. Johnson tells a parable of change, of how we react to it, and the dire straits we can find ourselves in when we don't follow that change. The story is told in simple terms, so simply that one might think there is little value in the story. And yet after hearing "Who Moved My Cheese?" our 11-year-old son was able to identify himself and his behaviors in the story.

The story concerns four characters, two mice, and two "little people." The characters live in a maze chasing after cheese. Of course the cheese is intended to be a metaphor for anything we chase after in life that we believe will make us happy. As in life, the characters are never sure why the cheese is placed in the maze, nor the source of the cheese.

In such simple terms, Dr. Johnson describes the trials and tribulations we all have in life: joy, excitement, sorrow, greed, envy, stubborness, fear, and the list goes on.

In a section after the story four friends describe the impact that the story had on them and how they saw themselves and their actions in the context of the story. We, as a family, read the story aloud and have discussed, and continue to discuss, our feelings and actions in the terms of the story.

The book is an incredibly fast read, less than one hour, even when read aloud. We find we reference it in our conversations almost every day.

Hope i was any helpful to you, pal..anytime! just ring da bell! ;)

Answer 2

Lord of the Flies

A story of school children on a boat/ship that crashed and marooned them all on a deserted island. At first the school children helped each other out but a power struggle developed and two parties were made. One group became violent and wanted to kill the other group and eventually some kid dies. A very moving novel which places great emphasis on how people interact with each other, especially under extreme circumstance. In the end the kids were found and the good leader (of the good group) was emotionally scarred but happy to be alive.
Turning point was when they found a horn which meant power.
Wow, that's a review and I had to plug it out of memory.

Answer 3

I LOVE Andy H's answer. I agree!! You just might try doing the work yourself by first reading the books and getting educated. That way you can move beyond minimum paying jobs in the future, and you can have aspirations to be something other than a low skilled, low paid worker.

Good luck!!

Answer 4

Put the author of these books into Google and you will get lots of reviews, that is what I do for my book club. Also try Amazon as they have book reviews.

Answer 5

reading is much better the book will keep u thinking and also you get greater detail in what folks are thinking therefore you get more imagination

Answer 6

Reading the reserve instead of enjoying the movie is the ultimate way to see what the author meant. Reading uses your creativity, hones your reading skills, and can better your vocabulary

Answer 7

Here's a thought. Try reading them.

It also might help you with "da" English, which could use some work. "Ur" heading for dropoutsville asking others to do your homework, so you might work on practicing saying "Do you want fries with that?" instead.

Buckle down and get to work if you want to have any fun in your life after high school.

Answer 8

AndyH is on the mark. Read.
Much better than "You're Fired"

Answer 9

amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com are very good sites for book reviews.

Answer 10

go to a nearby book shop or come to mumbai i can help u to get them at cheapest rates!