After Shall we tell the President , just couldnt resist reading this one .
It is Jeffrey Archer's first novel , first published in 1976. It is said to have been inspired by Archer's real-life experience of near-bankruptcy .
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Shall we tell the President ?
It is always a pleasure to read Jeffrey Archer .
I read this one last week , though I couldnt recall if I had read it earlier , but the fast paced thriller was completely entertaining .
Written in 1977 it is the third in the triology after Kane and Able and The Prodigal Daughter . It features Florentine Kane , the protagnist in The Prodigal Daughter as the first woman president of the United States , although u can directly jump to this one and still make sense of the plot
The story is inspired from a real incident where a plot to kill the president of the United States, Edward Kennedy, is foiled by an FBI agent working with the head of the FBI
The mark of a great storyteller is that although written three decades ago it still finds relevance , considering the fact that America is soon goin to vote and history may just be rewritten if Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman president of the United States .
I read this one last week , though I couldnt recall if I had read it earlier , but the fast paced thriller was completely entertaining .
Written in 1977 it is the third in the triology after Kane and Able and The Prodigal Daughter . It features Florentine Kane , the protagnist in The Prodigal Daughter as the first woman president of the United States , although u can directly jump to this one and still make sense of the plot
The story is inspired from a real incident where a plot to kill the president of the United States, Edward Kennedy, is foiled by an FBI agent working with the head of the FBI
The mark of a great storyteller is that although written three decades ago it still finds relevance , considering the fact that America is soon goin to vote and history may just be rewritten if Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman president of the United States .
Friday, April 18, 2008
bout books n authors
I am an avid reader and having read different kinds of books written by various authors , i have reached this assessment that the best way to approach reading a book is to first find out about the author .
Knowing the background of the author , his origins , country , upbringing , profession , the time in his life when he wrote the particular work all help in gaining a better perspective toward his approach to the particular work . For instance if you observe the writings , the timeline of the works as well as a brief history is readily available via various sources , the easiest being the internet . When you go through the profile of an author and compare his own works over a period of time , you will find a considerable difference which you can relate to easily , if you gain an insight into the his life in the same period . For example you can observe in several of the popular works , how the treatment of the characters changes corresponding to the events in the authors lives .
Another important factor which cannot be ignored is the era in which the the book is written . It is understandable that the writings of the early 1900s and the present will have an astronomical variation with regard to style , vocbualory and content . The same can be observed for books written in the late 1900s and the present . This is partly because the pace of evolution of the world also determines the pace with which its literature changes .
In this space , you will find my views and comments on the books that i have read ..
Knowing the background of the author , his origins , country , upbringing , profession , the time in his life when he wrote the particular work all help in gaining a better perspective toward his approach to the particular work . For instance if you observe the writings , the timeline of the works as well as a brief history is readily available via various sources , the easiest being the internet . When you go through the profile of an author and compare his own works over a period of time , you will find a considerable difference which you can relate to easily , if you gain an insight into the his life in the same period . For example you can observe in several of the popular works , how the treatment of the characters changes corresponding to the events in the authors lives .
Another important factor which cannot be ignored is the era in which the the book is written . It is understandable that the writings of the early 1900s and the present will have an astronomical variation with regard to style , vocbualory and content . The same can be observed for books written in the late 1900s and the present . This is partly because the pace of evolution of the world also determines the pace with which its literature changes .
In this space , you will find my views and comments on the books that i have read ..
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