On 15th March last year, madhav bought Samit Basu’s The Simoqin Prophecies at Premiere bookstore, and a week later I borrowed it from him. I returned it to him at the beginning of May 2005, i.e this month, unread.
This Saturday, I found a copy of Simoqin at Blossom, and bought it. I was done reading it last night, took me about six hours.
Moral of the Story: The next time a friend wants to borrow a book, ask him to bugger off and buy his own copy.
How was the book? I once flipped through a few pages. While it wasn’t horrid, it didn’t grab my interest and I never bought it.
Mostly a non-Story. Basu is more concerned with referencing pop-culture in-jokes than making a story out of it. Which would be a good thing, except quite a few puns and jokes are very Bangla-related – which kind of doesn’t elicit the same chuckles if you don’t know the language. The same kind of problem that Haroun and The Sea of Stories had. An Indian would get the name-jokes, but not a western audience. In Simoqin, a non-Bengali person would find the book less funnier than a Bangla-speaker.
How amoral!
Positively immoral, I’d say.
I think you missed a ‘t’ somewhere in that line.
I was talking of what you did, and not of the length of time the misdeed would be remembered… :)
Amoral fine. Two better. Three too much, maybe…
Do think you would have read it in six hours, had you been the one to buy it last year?
Oh yeah. No laws against thinking things, are there? :D
Oh yes – you are hereby sentenced to 3 days without any ARR :-p
Well, I opt for community service, and a minor fine.
That sounds like lending me a few books when we’re geographically close ;-)
That sounds remarkably optimistix. :-“
It works the other way round for me.
You mean whenever you want to buy a book, someone lends you a copy? :D
Bwahahahaha! I borrowed five books from Ramu Narayan in 2000, and returned them in 2004, having not read a single one.
Remind me to stop you at the door, if you plan to visit again.
But it’s not my fault! I offered them back earlier, but he insisted I read them first.
And you didn’t listen even once in four years?
Oh, the crying shame…. ;)
As Kipling would put it,
“We be of one blood, ye and I”
Danny the Dog’s OST is kinda neat innit. Massive Attack… yeah, dude.
I downloaded the movie last night… is fun, not to big on plugging plot holes, though.
I bought the DVD couple of days back, watched part of it. Just didnt grab me, especially Morgan Freeman. Yugh!
But the music was really cool, which is why I downloaded the album. :-D
kindred, um, a*****les…
I borrowed mine from serioussam.
Returned unread, two months later.
Re: kindred, um, a*****les…
*snicker*