I am halfway through The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple. So far it has struck me as a book that’s written quite like a novel. And so easy to read. For someone like me who would rather spend the nights reading science fiction, this makes it a bit [...]
The Elder Wand and all that stuff
When I write my initial post about the Plot Holes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I never expected the kind of response it generated.
My plot holes were picked apart, analysed, dissected, destroyed, thrown in the garbage bin, recovered and refurbished and thrown in the garbage bin again.
The [...]
I finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows a couple of days back. In my view, the book is much more tightly written than the last two books. And that itself is a relief. Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley are much better etched out in Deathly Hallows, and there are quite a [...]
The first thing to strike me was - J K Rowling has learnt to write!
Frankly, don’t care if many of you think this is blasphemy. I sort of liked her initial two books in the Potter series. Then they started to drag. Tedious reading ensued. And of course it was not helped by Harry turning [...]
