Preface: I’m not sure if this will turn out to be a long review, because I kind of want to keep this short. If you haven’t read the book, please stop reading here and read the book. Spoilers will ruin your experience of reading this, even if you do not usually mind them. This is the […]
Continue reading Scary and Enthralling: There is no Antimemetics Division
Note: This review contains spoilers. Please turn away now. We have a phone for complaints regarding spoilers, but we deliberately do not man it. Nor give out the number. As a male from a famously male-dominated society, where many women are sold into slavery in the name of marriage, it’s easy for me to look […]
I have figured out why I like Murderbot so much. He/it affirms my faith in humanity. Here’s someone who’s superpowered, augmented, thinks and strategises at the speed of light, has so much potential to do harm; but he chooses to be good, to do good, to watch cheesy and boring TV shows; and is inevitably […]
Continue reading Do Good and Be Good: My (short) review of Fugitive Telemetry
I have a friend who reads just mysteries and thrillers – every time she talks about books, it’s either Frieda McFadden (who she hates, but loves to read – in order to hate), or Riley Sager, or many of the usual suspects whose names are thrown around in the mystery/thriller sphere. After she came to […]
Continue reading The Asian self-sacrificial urge: A review of The Devotion of Suspect X
I just watched the third and fourth season of Panchayat. And I do not like it. The characters are complicated, not in a good way. Things aren’t good-natured – some people seem to be actually malicious. Bhushan, who used to be a useful foil in the first two seasons, has actually become a bona-fide Banarakas, […]
