some Indian books

I laid my hands on soft copies of some works by Indian authors recently. Some thoughts:

- Wings of fire: by APJ Abdul Kalam -- inspirational autobiography. A good read. Also the first autobiography I've read.

- The financial wizard: by RK Narayan -- This is one author who never disappoints his reader. Nothing serious, simple, well told story.

- The calcutta chromosome: by Amitabh Ghosh -- A thriller, which is well told, but I lost the author at some points. And at some other points it looked like the script of a hindi horror movie from the 1950s.

-River Sutra: by Geeta Mehta -- not recommended. The book is sort of a collection of unrelated snippets of glorified descriptions of Indian culture -- the kind a "non-Indian" may enjoy.

- God of small things: by Arundati Roi -- could not complete. The scanning was very poor and most of the text was garbled.

(indian subcontinent still)- Lajja: by Tasleema Nasreen -- All the controversy and Hipe aside, I found the author launching into far too detailed descriptions of riots and repeating the same thing over and over...at which point I left reading. Will probably finish it some day to see if there is a twist in the story at the end.

shantaram

After about half an hour of struggling to sign in to my blogger account using various "forgot password" options, switching to the new google blogger, using "forgot password" again, trying to guess at my father's middle name several times and using all of my concentration to understand the screen reader version of the auditory verification code that you need to fill on every forgot password screen on gmail, I am almost proud to be able to put in my third entry......well, this is what happens when you don't update your blog for such a long time...
This is about a book that I just finished reading "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. I love the way this guy tells a story. I just kept turning page after page till the end.
PS: This may also be due to a peculiar habit I have...if I don't finish a book in one go -- reading it in all of my free time "continuously", I never finish that book.