tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-122660772009-11-07T23:59:20.368+05:30Reviews of Books, CD's, Restaurants and Movies by the Sea-Serpent and friends.Jormund Elverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06757037501824142373noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12266077.post-20803482386183442162009-11-07T23:59:00.001+05:302009-11-07T23:59:20.582+05:30

Folks who know me would tell you that I’m an urban kind of serpent. Midgard is the natural habitat for this particular Elver and I’m not generally inclined to venture very far from the sultry waters of the metrop. But sometimes the leper colony where I have to go to earn my monthly paycheck occasionally gets on my nerves to such an extent that I have to get away in an attempt to forget the place

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Brisingr is the 3rd instalment in what the author tells us is to be a four-part saga that tells the story of Eragon, a farm-boy who finds a dragon egg on a forest trail and finds not just his life, but the world around him changes dramatically.As such, Brisingr shows signs of Paolini's growth as a writer. It is much better written than the first instalment of the series, Eragon though the

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Anna Pavlova with MordkinProfiling a great artiste is never easy. Very few biographies of the truly artistically gifted have come even close to doing justice to the brilliance of their subjects. The task undertaken by Richard Austin in “The Art of the Dancer”, of profiling six of the finest exponents of an art so visual as dance becomes, then, positively Herculean. Dance is an enthralling form

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[One of the major problems with being in a B-school - and North Midgard, for all its failings, must be termed as that - is that it leaves so little time for reading anything worthwhile. Since, like all good serpents, I fall asleep within ten minutes of opening a management text-book, this has meant I've done hardly any reading at all in the past six months or so. However, towards the end of the

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So, when it comes to talking about tagging I think I can safely declare that I have been a bit more successful when it comes to tagging or being tagged than cousin Jormund. I mean, being the wolf that I am, people generally had the good sense to leave me alone to revel in my own successes, so while playing those endearing childhood games I generally happened to be amongst the last to be tagged,

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Book Review : The Twelve Ceasars Suetonious, the illustrious author of "The Twelve Ceasars", lived in the time of Emperor Hadrian (he of the Wall). The affable historian, we are told, was dismissed from the service of the Emperor for "indiscreet behaviour" with the Empress Sabina while Hadrian was away on a campaign. (That Hadrian was probably having a very 'gay' time of it himself is...umm...

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So, riding the sweet wave of encouragement and appreciation from my esteemed and snaky cousin JE here I come - Fenderis the wolf with another of those uber-professional reviews. (Since I am a one-review old veteran I may call my self a pro, right? What say thou?)Well this time it happens to be a relatively decent place around our dear old Midgard that I nevertheless frequent. We bloodthirsty

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Those of you in the know would be aware that my cousin Fenderis and I both have mothers who exile us from our castles without any compunction whatsoever. Out of adversity, however, doth spring enterprise, as a Bard once said, and this little instance of our maternal parents’ ‘bringing up’ habits has led to our getting quite a feel and taste for the road cuisine around Midgard. Given that this

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Eragon The inside cover of Eragon informs us that it's author, Christopher Paolini, was 15 years old when he wrote the book. In a way this presents a peculiar problem. It makes it a touch unfair to hold him to the same standards as CS Lewis or Tolkien. Still, a published book is a published book and it needs to be judged on its own merit.Eragon doesn't break any new ground as far as fantasy

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The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book is acknowledged as a masterpiece of children’s literature. We should also now recognize that our generation will probably be the last to have actually read it. It will be too difficult to read for future generations of children brought up on computer games and Cartoon Network, and adults will dismiss it because it features talking animals.That would

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Catch - 22 Definitely recommend for all those of you who like their humour (even if not their coffee) black. It’s a masterpiece of modern satire, where the island of Pianosa becomes a microism of the society itself and the War a parallel to the struggle of daily existence.The beauty of Catch-22 lies in its characters. Yossarian, the protagonist, the lead bombardier who never hits anything but

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Now I imagine that there are a number of questions hovering about in the minds of the unfortunate souls who find themselves reading this page. Some of them being: 1. Why start this blog when there was an existing one that did the job perfectly well. 2. Who the hell gave the author the right to review works of other people when he's never done anything worthwhile himself. 3. How often can we

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