10. The hound of the baskervilles -sir arthur conan doyle:
This is where the habit book reading started for me...(i had read
the count of monte cristo before this,but this was really what directed me towards book reading...).But,this is no reason for me in rating this as one among the ten....Let's get into the story..It is about how
SHERLOCK HOLMES discovers the mystery behind the
hound which has been haunting the lives of the family of the
baskervilles ever since it killed
HUGO BASKERVILLE in the seventeenth century.But,as we all know,'no plot is difficult for
holmes to reveal',he did it again.If i tell you a single word more than this ,it'd become a spoiler to the book...
9. The Eldest -Christopher paolini:
This book is one of the books i was waiting so eagerly to read after the success of its predecessors
ERAGON,after the impact its story had on me...In this part,
Eragon and his dragon
Saphira undergo their training under the crippled rider
Oromis And it also circles around the life of
Ronan,Strong hammer as he begins to be called,and
Nasauda,the succesor of her father Ajihad to lead THE VARDEN...But for the twist in the end,when
eragon has to meet another rider in the
Battle of the burning plains,a totally unexpected one at that, this story didn't amuse me much..But 'twas good enough to be in this list...
8.Children of hurin
-Tolkien
To be honest, i never knew about this book before finding it in ma college library two weeks ago
...I'd have missed it but for its author's name written in bold...It's story line goes beyond the time of the
lord of the rings,at a time when
Morgoth was the darkest power in the world and
Sauron was just his lieutenant..It is about the life of
Hurin and how his bloodline vanishes just because of the curse laid upon his kin by
Morgoth....It is how
Turin,his son,finds everything he does ending the wrong way,being separated from his mother at the age of 8, never to be seen alive again by her..
7. Bourne trilogy- Robert luldum
An awesome work of action,I'd say. It circles around the life of
David webb and his mysterious past as the
assassin Jason bourne,which he seems to have lost in the first book of the trilogy,namely
Bourne identity...as the trilogy progresses he seems to reveal to himself his past, in the process falling in love with
Marie st.jacques but only to lose her at the start of the third part...And he tries to achieve the purpose of him becoming
Bourne...
6.Time to kill
- john grisham
The first of the many books to be written by the hands of
John grisham, was really a killer...
Empowered with an awesome narration the story circles around the trial of
Carl lee hailey,for killing the 2 men who raped his 8 year old daughter,
Tonya.He chooses the lawyer,
Jake brigance to represent him. And how
Jake saves him from being convicted with the simple idea of insanity is the story...
5.Eragon -Christopher paolini
The predecessor of
Eldest, this book was really an eye catcher. This book was which made the then fifteen year old boy
paolini popular..
It is about how a boy named
Eragon comes to find a dragon egg while hunting only to find out later that he was its so called
'rider'. It later turns that the village story teller
Brom can help him in his way to fight against the betrayer of the riders,
Galbatorix.Later he has to be parted from his uncle and family because of the dragon and his quest as a rider...In the process he meets the elf ,he keeps seeing in his dreams,
Arya and rescues her from the shade,
Durza..Later he fights for the warden killing the shade to be called the
shadeslayer.4.Murder of Dr.Roger ackroyd -agatha christie
This is one story where the narrator turns out to be the killer,hats off to
agatha christie for her talents in writing such a wonderful,gripping story.It starts of with the murder of
Mrs. Ferrars,a wealthy widow ,rumoured to have murdered her husband..Then the death of
Dr.Ackroyd throws some light on her suicide and this story pursues to reveal the way in which the great detective Hercule poirot,with help from
Doctor sheppard, finds the murderer who was always near....
3.Harry potter and his adventures... -j.k rowling
The boy wizard might be thought off as a fascination only for small kids,but i'll tell u, people can never be more mistaken.There are many of my friends who hate the series in spite of having known the popularity of the film just because they thought it was child's play...well,as far the story goes,i don't think i must throw some light on it...Anyways,it is about how the 11 year old boy,
Harry potter, who believes to have lost his parents in an accident,finds himself belonging to another world and finds the truth behind his parent's death and tries to withstand the wraith of the dark lord
Voldemort with sufficient help from the headmaster of
hogwarts,the school of witch craft and wizardry,professor
Dumbledore,and his two friends,Ron and Hermoine, only to kill him in the end..
2.The godfather -Mario puzo
For a person who loved fantasies and larger than life characters,the godfather written by Mario
puzo was a real change of course for me..It is an awesome work of drama ,i' d say centered on the Mafia..
This book centers on the
Corleone family,one of the five powerful families...It is about how
Don Corleone's son
Micheal avenges his brother's death and the attack on his father by a
Turk,which lead to the former...But this comes only in the later part of the book.Midway it describes the ascent of Corleone into power and also how his first son
Sonny deals the situation in the aftermath of the attack on his father,during which he gets killed very badly....At last
Corleone dies a natural death while tending his garden but only long after leaving all his powers onto his last son,Micheal's hands.
1.Lord of the rings -J.r Tolkien
The lord of the rings is the book which i think is,was and will be the best book I've ever read in ma life. When a thousand odd paged book keeps you obsessed with it even while you don't give a damn about what is happening around you,you'd agree with me...It is tale of the one ring ,
Sauron forged to control the other 16 rings which he distributed to elves, dwarves and men long before it was taken by
Isildur...After many many years it ended up in the hands of
bilbo baggins and later
frodo baggins, the
hobbits.
Sauron however knows that this hobbit has the ring and must now be prevented from attaining it,otherwise doom shall fall on all,men and elves and dwarves alike....This can be done only by destroying the ring in the
Mount doom ,where it was forged .
Aragorn ,the Heir of isildur helps
frodo indirectly in doing this by distracting the eyes of sauron,after he had defended the city of
Gondor from the onslaught of the
Sauron...and many more helped
Frodo in his quest,for he was their only hope....
Now these are my lines in tribute of this book
Blind ,are the eyes of humans, who don't observe the beauty of nature.. Blind,are the eyes of readers, who didn care to read the ring lore.
mpeted and both the teams deserved sharing honors, but the results turned out to be otherwise...As we all know,in sports,results defy logic most of the time....i don't want to discuss any tactics here,i think the young Indian side really challenges the likes of Clarke and Hussey when it comes to fielding,which is so unlike the Indians...But there is one chink in the armor now,there is no Yuvraj...that i think will be a huge minus for the indians,let's see how costly his injury turns out to be...BUT,it is time to put discussions and reputations apart,and starting to expect a great clash with the aussies,for the first time in many years now to go as the underdogs in their home soil.....