Books In The Pipeline

All the rumours you heard about Tyler Durden (if you dont know what I am talking about...... DIE!!!!! The first rule of Fight Club is....) can be alluded to me. I sleep 2 hours, am a suit (read pinstripes and purple Armanis) by day and a vigilante 21st Century guru by night (ahem.... I have punched holes in my teddy bear. And my mom thinks I look good in my pink pyjamas). I would have loved to provide you with an hour by hour breakdown of my daily schedule. But knowing how much you guys are dying to know that information (read: sarcasm reaching Jerry Seinfeld levels!) I will skip that bit and give you a lowdown on the list of books I have lined up in my library labeled "soon-to-be-read".


1. Maus - Art Spiegelman

If not for my significant other I would never have even come across this piece of literary bravado. Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a memoir by , Art Spiegelman presented as a graphic novel. It recounts the struggle of Spiegelman's father to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew and is largely an account of his father's recollections of his experiences.

The book reflects also on the reverberations of the war on the relationship between a father and son on the run and how this strain is gradually perpetuated onto further generations within the family. The Satirical nature of the novel is very evident in Spiegelman's character sketching:

• The jews are represented by mice.
• The Germans are represented by cats.
• The Americans are represented by dogs.
• The Poles are represented by pigs.
• The Roma(Gypsies) are represented as gypsy moths.
• The French are presented by frogs.
• The Swedes are represented by reindeer.
• The British are represented by fish.
• The child of a Jew and a German is shown as a mouse with cat stripes.

With a preview of this magnitude, I cant help but wonder: it took 23 years of my measly existence for me to come across this book. Some Pop culture guru I am!!! Oh and did I mention "1992 Special Pulitzer Prize Winner". Yup. We do live sad lives.


2. Desperation : Stephen King

In my far from modest/humble opinion, one of the greatest pulp fiction authors of our time. Many have attributed him with words that are far from kind, calling him a "literary rogue", "airport read author" to say the least. All that I have to say to all these unbelievers is "Philistines, and pseudo intellectuals.... Get a life!!!". The man has written epics; mind you, I use the word "epic" with complete and utter moderation; epics, I tell you!

Now during my first read of IT ,which might I add, is a sheer genius piece of literature(so much for my contribution of genious lit... cant get one bloody sentence right), I was introduced to King's "Dark Tower Series" by a fellow guru (If you know who you are send your blog link for me to hyperlink because I obviously recieve more hits than you. ummm ...Please... My kids are starving and my wife wants a billion dollar alimony) King himself has admitted to it being inspired from Tolkien's world of Middle Earth. This automatically placed the series at the top of my Book Club list (I am a proud member. They offer delish cookies, great punch, and then some so there humph!) However, while reading Insomnia I came to know that a lot of King's works have Dark Tower references, which has made me temporarily postpone my journey into the Gunslinger's world (yup a gunslinger.... not a hobbit with hairy feet... its already in an ubercool level of its own. No offence Tolkien sir... am a huge fan).

K... Time for using the greatest fine skill known in civilization.... Ctrl C(ing) and Ctrl (v) ing....

" Desperation is the story of several people traveling along the desolate Highway 50 in Nevada who all get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional ghost town Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts for his abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to “rescuing” a family from a nonexistent gunman. The travelers quickly realize that something is very wrong with Entragian, as his bizarre statements and mannerisms soon escalate to brutal assaults and murder...." .........and therein, as the bard would say, lies the rub.