ADDRESSING MY READERS

            

             Hello readers. I am nearing the first 40 blogs landmark. It’s quite an achievement considering my background. The thing is, I am not so happy with the present phase of blogging. The space between each blog is as long as the time I take to complete an entire book. To take up blogging as a hobby, I need to do it more frequently.

              Believe or not, in the middle of a winter night, in my sub-consciousness (whatever psychology may call it), a new idea sprang up! I usually prefer to read books that are either knowledge–giving –fictions or non fictions. So, what if I could blog about the facts that I gain from all these books apart from giving just a general review of it. Big deal! Still adhering to my blog’s central theme (a hub for all booklovers), I could share more useful stuffs to you. Once again:“FOR KNOWLEDGE, FOR HUMANITY!”

"THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT": millenium old conspiracy theory about the Father of Europe

                                                                              

                                                                

                      Steve berry had finally stuck the chord. In all his previous novels which includes almost great thrillers like ‘THE THIRD SECRET’ and ‘THE TEMPLAR LEGACY’, there lacked a element of ‘change-the -way-the –world-thinks’ ideas that are always available in Dan browns.

                 The central theme of ‘THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT’ is strong enough for anyone to loose their blind pride in today’s scientific advancements, creating a realization that there existed a superior race thousands of years before the last ice age. A stormy idea like ‘The Holy Grail’ in the ‘Davinci Code’.

                To say the truth, I was completely taken aback by the idea that even 50,000 years  ago ,there existed a human race that could construct advanced cities (not the skyscraper junk of today) that are even advanced than the cities of relatively more modern  civilizations like the Chinese and the Egyptian. They had practiced mining, extensive use of metals, conversion of different energy forms and so on. They even had almost modern moral codes and humane laws, people who traveled extensively throughout the whole world, even mapping places precisely.

                I guess you have to read this book to know more about this super-human race. further, this book also has the usual cotton Malone stuffs like the white house ,US president, American diplomatic shit, some high level villains, CIA-NSA-WHITEHOUSE deadlock, pursuit of money and positions, professional killers and some regular characters. Nothing new in the plot. Just the inspiring idea.

                 It also has some first hand information on Emperor Charlemagne (enough for a beginner in history) and the Gothic beauty of Germany. Then the usual riddle solving, churches and abbeys, exotic women and family conspiracy.

            Yet this book is worth reading for all those who are interested in this genre. It’s even better than its predecessors. Worth the 400INR.

  

"THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR": All Lies And Truths About History's Most Famous Explorer

                                                           

                     Finally I had come to the predicament that all the cotton Malone works are better thrillers than the non-Malone thrillers, but the non-Malone series are have better ideas and themes than the ones with Malone. One of the best historical thriller writers of our age, STEVE BERRY had once again stuck the right chord-Christopher Columbus and the conspiracy theories that circle around him.

                  Once again a book with typical Steve berry elements like powerful politicians, kingmakers, religious heads, professional killers, American heroes and some lost treasures with immeasurable conspiracies circling around them. Interesting for history maniacs like me. Pure entertainment. That’s it. The usual berry. Nothing more.

               No, don’t think that I am giving a negative review about the novel. It’s just that it has nothing out of the ordinary berry plots. Just like all the other ‘cotton-malone-absent’ novels of Steve berry, this one too has a ’what-in -the –world’ theme related to Columbus. Whatever you know about Columbus, the most famous renaissance explorer and the new world he discovered is all gonna turn upside down after you finish this book.

             Christoforo Colombo for the French, Cristobal colon for the Italians and Christopher Columbus for the British, is he actually CRISTOVAL ARNOLDO DE YASSAI, a Jew???Otherwise forever trapped in the catholic inquisitional Spain, did he actually mask his flee from Spain for finding a safer place to reside in as a voyage commissioned by the monarchs for establishing new colonies? Was he a Christian converso, still Jew at heart? Did he possess the lost temple treasures of the Jews? Why did he have a Jewish translator on board the first of four voyages? Whom did he wished actually to see in his supposed Asia? Was it the Jews? Was his voyages financed by Ferdinand and Isabella? Or was it a wealthy Spanish Jew turned Christian Alonso Sanchez de Huelva? Was he actually the first man to discover the Americas? Or was it a Portuguese sailor and merchant   Alonso Sanchez De Huelva? Though still revered through out the Americas on October 12(though not every where!), why was he never canonized by the Vatican despite of several pleas from many places? Is it simply because he was actually a Jew?

                     Answers to all theses intriguing questions had always perplexed historians throughout the past five centuries. And Steve Berry’s “THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR” provides one of the most possible answers and reasoning to all these questions, actually opening a whole new world of knowledge to me. The book had gained so much fame throughout the world, especially in USA, making it an international bestseller.

                    All the ideas in the book are revolutionary, that, if all the hypothesis in this novel could be proven somehow, then the entire world history from the 16 the century would have to be re written. And that would obviously make Steve berry quite a figure in history coz redefining the past is quite an achievement.

               Go for it if you are a history freak, especially the ‘Berry’ genre. As usual I ended up reading this novel saying”I wish i could write like berry!” Still, waiting for something more explosive by Steve Berry.