What is with this little word that spins the big world around, you ask someone, and he will greet you with a grin and then ponder over it affectedly to associate it to it being the most pleasing thing present. Is it just that, or much more? Surely it can't be that simple, otherwise many other things in life would have supplanted that.
For me, it is the manifestation of love, that greatest thing that God has ever made. And if love is so pure for all , why is this tainted for many. Since childhood, we are taught pedantically every moral and righteousness in this world, and we sadly mark it out on top as a blacklisted zone. We tend to distance it, for fear of getting it close, and that is where we get defeated. The real adaptation of it is by learning its 'dos and donts' and not marking it as a don't. And idiot, who can mark it as a don't when this is the most real thing present. The truth of it shouldn't be hidden with the lies within it. I certainly don't defend it, as subjugation to it prematurely is bad, but what is not bad in excess and prematurity?
Let it come out in open and I believe the fear associated with it will wither. The best way to fight our negativities is to fight them upfront. And if every moral guardian in this world let go their parochialness, the failings in this world will reduce. There will be less violence, less warped minds and less diabolical designs, for everyone will be immersed in it. There will be people looking at each other with love and not with myopic look of caste, creed or colour. It won't be an orgy but a celebration of festivities within us. Won't that be wonderful?
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Brown Magic
If magic is what an author needs to weave, then Dan Brown is certainly master at it. My words of praise for him would look like an oft-repeated ovation, but here I write with all my gratitute to him for the boundless joy he has given to me till now while reading his novels.
I am a literature aficionado, per se. But there have hardly been times when I have liked an author's works so much . Though my personal favourite remains Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown's novels have much more appeal to them, for their easily identifiable themes.The first novel I read of Dan's was Da Vinci Code, and what an experience it was! I read it continously throughout the night, getting immersed in its backdrop. I hadn't had nor have such sort of excitement till now. The puritans might scoff at the scholastic simplicity of the work, but it doesn't lessen its captivating power. The research put in it was great and it showed in the facts enlisted by him in the novel.
Angels and Demons too was great, though it moved more on a cinematic path in the end. The other two novels, The Deception Point and Digital Fortress received much less attention but they too could compare with the very best. While it was just fascinating to read about NASA and its drama in the former, it was equally riveting to pass through the maze created by the Computers and Cryptographical Algorithms in the latter. I wait with bated breath his next work, The Solomon Key, which too would hopefully be a great rollercoaster ride.
Summing it up with the feelings of a normal reader, it is not in the literary grandeur that the greatness of a novel lies. It is in the impact that it creates on the reader. I still feel those twitches inside me while remembering those moments in his novels. Sheer moments of joy and I put a toast to this masterful storyteller for giving me those.
I am a literature aficionado, per se. But there have hardly been times when I have liked an author's works so much . Though my personal favourite remains Frederick Forsyth, Dan Brown's novels have much more appeal to them, for their easily identifiable themes.The first novel I read of Dan's was Da Vinci Code, and what an experience it was! I read it continously throughout the night, getting immersed in its backdrop. I hadn't had nor have such sort of excitement till now. The puritans might scoff at the scholastic simplicity of the work, but it doesn't lessen its captivating power. The research put in it was great and it showed in the facts enlisted by him in the novel.
Angels and Demons too was great, though it moved more on a cinematic path in the end. The other two novels, The Deception Point and Digital Fortress received much less attention but they too could compare with the very best. While it was just fascinating to read about NASA and its drama in the former, it was equally riveting to pass through the maze created by the Computers and Cryptographical Algorithms in the latter. I wait with bated breath his next work, The Solomon Key, which too would hopefully be a great rollercoaster ride.
Summing it up with the feelings of a normal reader, it is not in the literary grandeur that the greatness of a novel lies. It is in the impact that it creates on the reader. I still feel those twitches inside me while remembering those moments in his novels. Sheer moments of joy and I put a toast to this masterful storyteller for giving me those.
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