tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post113432611283641467..comments2024-03-27T14:57:37.031+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: This little duckie wrote another bestsellerJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-88465250236051851662010-01-25T23:05:16.015+05:302010-01-25T23:05:16.015+05:30I was just browsing through your book reviews and ...I was just browsing through your book reviews and came across this. Though I loved and devoured Simoqin Prophecies and Manticore's secret - I was not so happy with The Unwaba Revelations. I felt if Basu had gotten himself lost in the hundreds of plots and characters that he had created. But I still recommend this trilogy to everyone - especially to all sci-fi and fantasy fansVipulahttps://shadesofwords09.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1137144320376421052006-01-13T14:55:00.000+05:302006-01-13T14:55:00.000+05:30I enjoyed Simoqin.Too bad Manticore is not availa...I enjoyed Simoqin.Too bad Manticore is not available in leading P2P software.<B> :( </B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136928885610065642006-01-11T03:04:00.000+05:302006-01-11T03:04:00.000+05:30No, No, you're just mildly grammatically challenge...No, No, you're just mildly grammatically challenged and carrying a rather large chip on your shoulder. <BR/>PuninderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136907234939907202006-01-10T21:03:00.000+05:302006-01-10T21:03:00.000+05:30i dont know. i definitely stole it from somewhere,...i dont know. i definitely stole it from somewhere, but i cant remember where, because i am an idiotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136905215435541202006-01-10T20:30:00.000+05:302006-01-10T20:30:00.000+05:30Dear xhecc I am not fighting for a writer. I am me...Dear xhecc <BR/>I am not fighting for a writer. I am merely trying to get under your skin. Successfully I think?<BR/>We Punjabi-Bongs (Pongs) rule!<BR/>Puninder<BR/>Did you steal the name xhecc from spaceman Spiff or was it your word verification?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136905038328286192006-01-10T20:27:00.000+05:302006-01-10T20:27:00.000+05:30when i repeat myself twice my head explodes.when i...when i repeat myself twice my head explodes.<BR/>when i repeat myself twice...<BR/><BR/>oops, my head just exploded. sorry about the flying shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136901751636672712006-01-10T19:32:00.000+05:302006-01-10T19:32:00.000+05:30Dearest Anonymous,I hope you are getting enough ou...Dearest Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I hope you are getting enough out of fighting for a trashy writer, even though he might not be getting any out of being one himself!<BR/><BR/>Get a life, get a name or get a better cause to rant about. Scoot, little verberoo scoot!<BR/><BR/>Bet U. LobotomisedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136901697198259252006-01-10T19:31:00.000+05:302006-01-10T19:31:00.000+05:30Dearest Anonymous,I hope you are getting enough ou...Dearest Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I hope you are getting enough out of fighting for a trashy writer, even though he might not be getting any out of being one himself!<BR/><BR/>Get a life, get a name or get a better cause to rant about. Scoot, little verberoo scoot!<BR/><BR/>Bet U. BrainlessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136890368893820032006-01-10T16:22:00.000+05:302006-01-10T16:22:00.000+05:30Dear Xhecc,Stick to critiquing Johnny Lever - it's...Dear Xhecc,<BR/>Stick to critiquing Johnny Lever - it's closer to your intellectual level. <BR/><BR/>You need a basic education in the art of using the word "educating" in a sentence. A primer on punning would be wasted on you at this moment. <BR/><BR/>Work at it, read a little more Fowler and a few years down the line you'll probably be set and ready to learn all about the art of punning.<BR/><BR/>Puninder, the Punjabi verberooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136889393580419732006-01-10T16:06:00.000+05:302006-01-10T16:06:00.000+05:30Aha! Fowler's distant spawn, it is detractors "of"...Aha! Fowler's distant spawn, it is detractors "of" not "for". There you go educating about the fine points of punning! So rich and so affected bengali cabal!<BR/><BR/>Fan following (choke, guffaw)!? <BR/><BR/>"<BR/>‘May I ask you something?’ asked Akimis. ‘What are those dark lines under your eyes?’<BR/>‘I don’t know,’ said Kirin. ‘They feel like little scales. I think it’s from wearing the Gauntlet too long.’<BR/>‘The Gauntlet is evil,’ she said. ‘But the lines bring out your eyes.’<BR/>Kirin grinned. ‘Thank you.’"<BR/><BR/>Tongue in cheek prose?? Sounds like something Johnny Lever can cough up in a nanosecond! But, wait he doesn't boast of a CR park address, and neither does he "tip his hat" (While the duck tips his hat, Tolkien writher in his grave)<BR/><BR/>Bet Ya SuckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136878246518456722006-01-10T13:00:00.000+05:302006-01-10T13:00:00.000+05:30Corridor moved much more than 50 copies; Shashkin,...Corridor moved much more than 50 copies; Shashkin, do not seekrait to know for whom the cash register tolls, Samit's fan following owes very little to the Delhi blahg cabal and very much to the fact that people like his tongue-in-cheek prose, complete with the tips of the hat he makes to Pratchett, Tolkien and co; and you with the boring anonymous handle, it's "love fest of the mediocrities", not "mediocres", if you'd had half a brain , you'd have punned on "mediocritics", but alas, another opportunity wasted.<BR/><BR/>I'm gonna start a campaign for better-educated detractors for The Duck and The Wock, I don't mind the lofty sneering tone of some of 'em, but I do mind the illiterate lofty sneering tone of most of 'em.<BR/><BR/>Bet E. TraskAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136735254714384862006-01-08T21:17:00.000+05:302006-01-08T21:17:00.000+05:30Pitiful, really! This love fest of the mediocres.Pitiful, really! This love fest of the mediocres.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136694704795332962006-01-08T10:01:00.000+05:302006-01-08T10:01:00.000+05:30Shashkin: I'm laughing so hard at your comment tha...Shashkin: I'm laughing so hard at your comment that my inner cash registers are ringing perilously. Tell me, what is it like to have absolutely no sense of humour? (ref. that "plaintive entreaties" bit)Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136662949568956362006-01-08T01:12:00.000+05:302006-01-08T01:12:00.000+05:30Right said shashkin!A bestseller is roughly define...Right said shashkin!<BR/><BR/>A bestseller is roughly defined as something that sells to begin with. With garbled prose, that would be some feat! So, arbitly naming books as bestsellers by itself can fool some bengalis sometime, but ..... thank god there are those who aren't lobotomised yet!<BR/><BR/>And yeah, ducks go quack, so maybe this guy so fondly referred to as "the little duck" could just call himself "the little quack" and then the hack can praise the quack and the paddle of mutual backslapping muddleheads can carry on talking about the fantasy "jaanra"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1136661580309141522006-01-08T00:49:00.000+05:302006-01-08T00:49:00.000+05:30If a bunch of Delhi-based blahgers - through mutua...If a bunch of Delhi-based blahgers - through mutual buttscratches - could make a uninspired, derivative book into a bestseller, then yes, 'The Manticore's Seeekraait' would be one. But, a thousand paeans in the blogverse do not actual cash registers ring, so your plaintive entreaties for us to buy '50 copies' are starting to sound as odious as they are futile.<BR/><BR/>Let Samit Basu worry over his next masterpiece. Try flogging 'Corridors' for a change. That book has not even moved 50 copies. Perhaps you'd be kind enough to help another of your brownnosing gang achieve this dubious record?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134572892609026602005-12-14T20:38:00.000+05:302005-12-14T20:38:00.000+05:30Samit Basu is great as usual but a lot of his idea...Samit Basu is great as usual but a lot of his ideas seem to come directly from Terry Pratchett.<BR/><BR/>1) The chaos butterfly _Interesting Time<BR/><BR/>2) Idiosyncratic Gods playing a game with the lives of men- All of them, particularly Interesting Times and Last HeroRohit Dehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974780088015911428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134495878325241622005-12-13T23:14:00.000+05:302005-12-13T23:14:00.000+05:30Hey, if only I had known that the launch was on 14...Hey, if only I had known that the launch was on 14th, I would have "preponed" my Delhi visit. Too bad. And 530 pages, yum ... lip-smacking.... Can't wait to tear into it. BTW, great review and purists be damned!Tridibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18324851679164286161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134458774246877312005-12-13T12:56:00.000+05:302005-12-13T12:56:00.000+05:30You guys go have a great time at the launch. And p...You guys go have a great time at the launch. And please don't bother to think about me. Sigh!The Marauder's Maphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05691114757718617846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134394332605586132005-12-12T19:02:00.000+05:302005-12-12T19:02:00.000+05:30*squealsquealsquealsquealsqueal!*I mean... erm... ...<I>*squealsquealsquealsquealsqueal!*</I><BR/><BR/>I mean... erm... I'm calm, composed, and not excited at all.<BR/><BR/>(The word verification for this is dukqs. Ducks?)Aishwaryahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12871059152281065272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134384584369529192005-12-12T16:19:00.000+05:302005-12-12T16:19:00.000+05:30A bestseller...? Well well..I dunno what makes a b...A bestseller...? Well well..I dunno what makes a bestseller ..5000 copies in 2 years? <BR/>You can also use words like revolutionary, breakthrough etc etc...!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134383516167458652005-12-12T16:01:00.000+05:302005-12-12T16:01:00.000+05:30and so, the mutual back-slapping of the watered-do...and so, the mutual back-slapping of the watered-down tolkien wannabe begins... only in delhi *sigh*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134379112009182882005-12-12T14:48:00.000+05:302005-12-12T14:48:00.000+05:30Nikhil: have fixed the link now. And again, para b...Nikhil: have fixed the link now. And again, para breaks not mine - they're randomly done by the geniuses who work on BS Online.<BR/><BR/>Swati: not "the book". 50 copies of the book. Now. Hurry!Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134378452955456702005-12-12T14:37:00.000+05:302005-12-12T14:37:00.000+05:30Jai,The Simoqin review link doesn't work. Appetite...Jai,<BR/><BR/>The Simoqin review link doesn't work. <BR/><BR/>Appetite has been sufficiently whetted, and this fan-boy can't wait to get his hands on a copy on The Manticore's Secret. I intend to read both the over the next couple of days. Cya tomorrow.Nikhil Pahwahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03693281110830585801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1134344621456244892005-12-12T05:13:00.000+05:302005-12-12T05:13:00.000+05:30If only all reviews were so bursting with enthusia...If only all reviews were so bursting with enthusiasm! This made me want to go out and buy the book like nothing else. Or perhaps I'm one of those who needs a verbal badger rather than a nudge to be stirred to action :)thalassa_mikrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01942716364297839680noreply@blogger.com