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Book: Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose

I must confess, when I started reading the book, I almost put down the book after the first 50 or so pages, but I had heard so much about the book that I continued, and boy, was I rewarded. This is a complex murder / detective mystery, but it is more than just that. For [...]

Book: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, is not an auto-biographical book of this great scientist. It is a book of anecdotes about this great physicist and scientist, containing many stories transcribed from recordings made by his friend Ralph Leighton, in a period of 7 years of drumming with Richard Feynman. The person they describe, Richard Phillips [...]

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption

Sometimes you come across a movie that is really good, slow, but good. This movie is an adaption of the novel ‘Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption’ by Stephen King. The movie was an excellent example of story-telling, and was a movie that delineated that hope never dies. It had great performances by Tim Robbins [...]

Movie: North by Northwest: A gripping thriller

(This review will contain the story of the film, so if you feel that your surprise of the movie is being spoiled, feel free to stop reading at any point of time) North by Northeast, released in 1959, is a gripping thriller, one of the most famous and successful of Alfred Hitchcock’s music. It was [...]