These book pages exist because of two reasons -- I wanted to experiment with XML, and I hope that writing these reviews shall provoke me to think more critically about what I read. I hope they shall be of use to you.

Since I try to put out reviews for only those books that I liked a lot, and like different books for different reasons, I cannot rate them on a scale. But even though there are no ratings, I have tried to comment on two aspects of every book -- the technical quality of the writing, and quality of the content. For some masterpieces though, the distinction between the two does tend to blur.

More information about how I generate these pages can be found here. The book reviews are listed below, alphabetically by author, and by title.

listing by authors

• Andrew Tobias: The Only Investment Guide You will Ever Need
• Daniel Quinn: Ishmael
• Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer
• James Gleick: Chaos: Making a New Science
• Jiddu Krishnamurthi: The First and Last Freedom
• Paul Auster: The New York Trilogy
• Seamus Heaney: Seeing Things
• Wislawa Szymborska: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

listing by titles

• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney
• The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurthi
• The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
• The Only Investment Guide You will Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
• The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
• View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems by Wislawa Szymborska