BOOK I TELL PEOPLE I'VE READ, BUT ACTUALLY HAVEN'T (OR HAVEN'T FINISHED)
Oh well, there are a lot of these books. No, none of the books listed in the last 22 days can be part of this category :-P. I really have read all of them. But I find myself pretending to have read up some books when I actually haven't... especially when it's part of a conversation and I need to keep it going. They are like those things that come up in the moment... "have you read that book? Oh yes, I have... my god, isn't it nice?" Come on... everyone's done it sometime. It helps, I suppose, that I read up a lot about books online, especially if they interest me.
I was trying to think of book I haven't read at all, then realised it was embarrassingly high. One of them is Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. And the tendency to bluff about the book emerged a little too strongly when the movie based on the book was released. I have never even touched the book... ever. I am not sure what the cover of the book looks like (though I guess after the movie, it must have been Tabu's face, or Irrfan Khan's). I thought the movie was okay... nothing as brilliant as some of my friends said. So every time one of my friends compared it to the book, I would vociferously support the book. This is also one of those books which I have not even read anything about. So my arguments usually were totally out of nowhere... I just assumed the book was pretty similar to the movie. I even claimed that since I didn't like the book, I couldn't like the movie either. Note: I've read Lahiri's other books, and a lot of her other writings and I quite like her work. I am just not sure why I never even try to read The Namesake. And clearly, if anyone's reading this blog, my wonderful critical analysis of the book or the movie is not going to hold much ground anymore.
The Namesake
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Price Rs. 395
Oh well, there are a lot of these books. No, none of the books listed in the last 22 days can be part of this category :-P. I really have read all of them. But I find myself pretending to have read up some books when I actually haven't... especially when it's part of a conversation and I need to keep it going. They are like those things that come up in the moment... "have you read that book? Oh yes, I have... my god, isn't it nice?" Come on... everyone's done it sometime. It helps, I suppose, that I read up a lot about books online, especially if they interest me.
The Namesake
Written by Jhumpa Lahiri
Price Rs. 395
1 comments:
gawsh i remember the movie....i think we went to watch it in a huge grp and the loooooong walk back from NANDAN
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