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The Appreciation and Criticism of Poetry and other forms of Writing!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

GOD's DEBRIS - book review


A 132 page thought experiment, "GOD's DEBRIS" is no Scott Adams' usual Dilbert comic series. It's a thought provoking masterpiece creating illusion in the name of illusion. It's for reader's brain to comprehend such logic.

"WHY do you believe what you believe..?" is what the book is all about. It effectively handles a question with simple deceptive answers(which you never think are deceiving).


And don't think there is no premonition for orthodox believers of GOD who complain about the Title of the Book. And don't think this is a Atheist's work either.


The Author introduces the book with some Flabbergasting lines.

"The target audience for GOD's DEBRIS is people who enjoy having their brains spun around inside their skulls"

He takes a precaution not to offend any

"The story's central character has a view about GOD that you probably never heard before. If you think you would be offended by a fictional character's untraditional view of GOD, please don't read this!"


By now you must have understood what the book is going to deal with?


Picking up the threads of popular science and philosophy, God's debris gently weaves them into a captivating story.


A young man who delivers packages happens to meet an Old man to deliver one. The Old man, not just intelligent, but an avatar(that's what he has been referred to in the book) stops him with a catchy Question, "If you toss a coin a thousand times, how often will it turn up heads?" and there starts the conversation in the form of questions and answers bouncing back and forth with ourselves involving in it as spectators.


The first half of the book is undoubtedly awesome. The Old man consistently keep your brain at work with some unconventional thinking and concept, especially when He questions God's omnipotence. Then he introduces you to a completely different perspective about GOD. He always intrigues you with such a challenging logic sometimes even questioning Einstein's and Newton's laws. He leaves an impression that He has got comparatively wider perception. If you are the kind of a person who feels this novel's reinterpretations of GOD's nature offending, read no further. But his answers to life's biggest mysteries the nature of GOD, reality, freewill, probablity, science, creation and evolution, religion - all sound plausible.


BUT, But, but...


Along the lines, something seems to be wrong. There lies the author's challenge. Why the old man's answers wrong? You will hear him say that when there's more than one possible answer, the simplest one is probably right. But how often have you actually found that to be true? If it isn't true - if the simplest answers are, quite simply, wrong - why? Questioning the free will of Human beings, He gives a free will to the reader to judge his answers by asking the question - "Why?"


PLUS:


  • The Unconventional Thought Experiment

  • Interesting discussion about the theories of science

  • Tricky Philosophical Reasoning

MINUS:



  • Few explanations are absurd

  • Not so interesting at the End.

MY Rating: 4.5/5

Friday, May 1, 2009

Do you?

It appeared like a hardened feeling,

A stone of a heart, and painful dwelling,

A greeting of no warmth,

Like an intruder on her land,

I lived in, what was my sin?

I made no more choice, did you hear my voice?


It’s you, who done this to me,

Acting like you don’t own this property,

Told my instincts, and my rights,

Are not yours, liar, how could you be?

Calm and blamed my feelings,

When we walked through the lobby!


A thought would still glimmer,

On back of my mind,

That you don’t really hate me,

But the question remains,

Do you love me?

Just another day!

Lonely the mind has been

So am I, lost in a deeper thought

Searching for answers,

For the questions questioning clarity,

So close I was to know

That it was all my Insanity

It was hard for me to know

Am living in a Bedlam like unity


Never I gave up, swallowed the hiccup,

The search went on

And so gone my changing mind

And the tormented Wisdom

I laid and knuckled down

On what never existed


All of a Sudden,

It appeared like dawn,

I woke up, my eyes say,

The confusion’s still not gone away,

At Office, It’s just another day

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Friends, and damn circumstances!

Long Since I ve written, almost 7 months ans so I thought I should come back with something small atleast. But, it's turned out to be an interesting one cos I chose to write on people I love most.


"Just how the fog doesn't shiver in the cold,
and the water by the stones, can't be hold.
We, the friends are always told,
By the Circumstances to be bold.

Some of us choose our own way,
The choice may be here not to stay,
But those memories never fade away,
Let's all make Hay,
Those memories never fade away"

Monday, March 31, 2008

malice of beauty!

The outer cover of the malicious butterfly,

Looks pretty, venomous beauty it doesn’t die,

The eyes on those wings, do not cry,

Her dreams so real they seem,

Disappear in the truth so calm,

Immortal promises helping treachery,

So white they fade in dark iniquity,

Double-crossing been her daily activity.


And that stem of the wicked tree,

So tolerant she looks, her innocent body,

Her witchcraft so impatient turns loathsome,

Separated by no distance, the death syndrome?

Swallowing the grey matter, the unsolved conundrum,

The thirsty branches, pining for blood,

Fruits of misery drowning the distant flood,

Solace she seeks, staring at the lamenting.


The beauty of the brains, never appealing,

Ravishing is the skin of the cunning,

The vice it preserves underneath,

Spills beauty to eyes deceiving heart,

Beautiful may be a butterfly

And a distant tree, mantrap they might be,

Nature’s uncovered tranquility,

Lies not in beauty, but in the altruism,

Sleeping helplessly unnoticed!