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Review: Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Review / February 6, 2013

Author: Umberto Eco
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2001
ISBN: 9780099287155
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
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Umberto Eco’s is never an easy read. And his book, Foucault’s Pendulum is no exception to this. Dubbed as a ‘serious reader’s Dan Brown’ type, in this novel, Eco deals with the world of secret brethrens and lost mysteries with a sardonic simplicity. Almost like a short history of everything controversial, perhaps even untrue, mysticism and spiritual hullabaloos of the west and their very many cults!

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Review: An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Review / February 4, 2013

Author: Vikram Seth Publisher: Penguin Year: 2000 ISBN: 978-0140285109 Rating: Read book reviews from other readers   When I first met Vikram Seth and later heard him speak at the Hay Festival in Trivandrum two years ago, I knew I would appreciate his written word as much as I was enthralled by the spoken ones. Having randomly chosen to read his work, ‘An Equal Music’, from the rest of the more famous lot, I find myself not just appreciative, but moved beyond words at the sheer beauty of the finely crafted story of music, love and loss. Set mainly in London and Vienna, among the musical legacy of Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Haydn, ‘An Equal Music’ is essentially the story of a man and a woman in love. It goes a step further by also being the stories of musicians – in quartets and in solitude, in success and in disillusionment. Our man and woman are all of these- lost and found and lost again to their passionate loves and passion for music. In fact so finely balanced is Vikram Seth’s prose on the technicalities and moods of various musical genres and instruments that the entire book feels like a…