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Previous	Quick review December 25, 2010 FICTION Sin Tropez By Aita Ighodaro Corvus 380 pages, Rs 299 This is a book about the rich, jet-set crowd and their somewhat absurd lives. Characters are flown in and out of parties, an obscenely rich guy with a yacht is the ticket to a girl's dream, friends call each other 'darling' and brand names are sprinkled like seasoning. Sin Tropez is meant to be sexy, amoral. It tries to be cheeky and daring. But it only elicits eye rolls. The writing doesn't help. There's giddy school girl (" There, dancing on a table under the stars with this man, nothing mattered" ) and plain corny - a red Lamborghini is an "open-topped love machine. " Please. Quick review December 25, 2010 NON-FICTION Wrong By David H Freedman Hachette 295 pages, Rs 595 Wondering why your stocks are down despite your broker's assurances? Or, why you can't seem to shake off the sniffles regardless of your physician's upbeat diagnosis? Then David H Freedman's Wrong is just the book for you. Written with a healthy dose of wit and sarcasm, Freedman not only exposes the unsavory truth about 'expert' opinions and studies but also our folly for falling for them. The book is particularly sceptical of informal experts - mechanics, talent scouts, lifestyle gurus, etc - and provides solid reasoning for the same. A good read for lovers of the Freakonomics genre. Quick review December 25, 2010 FILM Asian Film Journeys By Rashmi Doraiswamy and Latika Padgaonkar Wisdom Tree 640 pages, Rs 1495 Between the years 1988-2004, Cinemaya became a vigorous platform for writings on Asian cinema. From sex in Indonesian movies to the aesthetics and politics of Iranian cinema in exile, from the Devdas syndrome in Indian films to documentaries in Pakistan, the magazine had space for everything. Those insightful essays and reports showed the varying and the unifying patterns of Asian cinema. This book is a collection of the best essays published in the magazine. And the passage of years notwithstanding, they remain relevant as document and as reference material. Indispensable for any serious cinema buff. Quick review December 25, 2010 TRANSLATION What Really Happened By Banaphool Penguin 327 pages, Rs 299 Balai Mukhopadhyay, who used the pen name Banaphool, was the master of the short story in Bengali. Very short, to be precise. Some tales barely run into 300 words, others even less. And yet, they are always complete and perfect;adding even a single word to them appears unnecessary. Sample the best of this Bihar-born writer who has been translated into English for the first time. The richly-evocative stories illustrate a moment, a memory, an incident or an idea while exploring the human condition and life's cruelty. Read A Novel in Brief, The Tailor, Amala and others. You'll love them.	Next
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