Every book doesn't impress on the same place although we take it for granted that they impress upon our feelings. The impression of a book on me is often physical. Some books make my brain fuzzy, some are like deep wounds in my groin, and some are like empty little pockets in my chest. The Sea took my body and broke every bone of it, pulled every muscle.
Since it is a novel, the first question you may ask is, "What is the story?" Well, it doesn't matter. Stories happen all the time and every story is as old as time. Who, and most importantly, how the story is being told is what modern literature is concerned about. When Max, the story-teller here, a self-made man, often vain, mostly sensitive, an intellectual born and brought up in the lower segments of the society tells his story candidly, yet always trying …
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Utsob Roy rated V for vendetta: 5 stars
V for vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd
A seminal graphic novel that defined sophisticated storytelling, Alan Moore's best-selling V For Vendetta is a terrifying portrait of totalitarianism …
Utsob Roy rated What I Believe (Routledge Classics): 5 stars
Utsob Roy rated The Dhammapada: 4 stars
Utsob Roy reviewed The sea by John Banville
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5 stars
Every book doesn't impress on the same place although we take it for granted that they impress upon our feelings. The impression of a book on me is often physical. Some books make my brain fuzzy, some are like deep wounds in my groin, and some are like empty little pockets in my chest. The Sea took my body and broke every bone of it, pulled every muscle.
Since it is a novel, the first question you may ask is, "What is the story?" Well, it doesn't matter. Stories happen all the time and every story is as old as time. Who, and most importantly, how the story is being told is what modern literature is concerned about. When Max, the story-teller here, a self-made man, often vain, mostly sensitive, an intellectual born and brought up in the lower segments of the society tells his story candidly, yet always trying to justify his actions, losses and laughs re-interpreted with the hindsight of a well-aged man, but not entirely coherent— that is not a story anymore. That is life. And life in its most raw form cannot be judged but only be accepted. This acceptance comes with a deep complex sensation, not love, not pity, not hope definitely, but like you're drowning, in the sea.
Utsob Roy rated Myth and meaning: 5 stars
Utsob Roy rated Van Gogh on Art and Artists: 4 stars
Utsob Roy reviewed The Republic by Plato (Penguin classics)
Utsob Roy rated The Sandman: 5 stars
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
Utsob Roy rated The Sandman - Overture: 5 stars
The Sandman - Overture by Neil Gaiman
Presents the Sandman's origin story from the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured.
Utsob Roy rated The sandman: 5 stars
The sandman by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Neil Gaimen (The Sandman, Vol. 1)
Preludes and Nocturnes collects the first eight issues of The Sandman comic by Neil Gaiman published by DC Vertigo. The …
Utsob Roy rated The Sandman.: 5 stars
The Sandman. by Neil Gaiman (Sandman library -- 9)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
Utsob Roy rated The Sandman: 5 stars
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman (Vertigo)
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
Utsob Roy rated The Sandman.: 5 stars
The Sandman. by Neil Gaiman (Sandman library -- 7)
A comic saga that chronicles the efforts of Delirium and her brother, Dream, to journey through the world of the …