Comments on: Book Tag

By: sandra742

sandra742 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:28:33 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

By: anrosh

anrosh — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:42 +0000

i have seen and met rushdie several times.. they are mortal human beings who sits now on a pedestal for the work they do. good for them. i have tried to read him. i cannot understand his writings or may be he does not understand his audience – or he has his own connections getting awards – what more can i say !

By: Sharad

Sharad — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:01:43 +0000

Interesting…

A book tag… no one tags me these days.. lol.. I am kinda of forgotten [:)]

By: odzer

odzer — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:38:30 +0000

@ Amit : Oh it must have been exciting meeting a celebrity. I haven’t met anyone except Edmund Hillary. Oh well I guess we had to hear from someone who enjoyed Rushdie sooner or later!

@ Tenzin : Oh so nice, may be you could share some pictures?

@ Nita : I picked a bible out of a pile of 2nd hand books at a stall opposite of the university. How would I know….It was a joke! You guys! Really! Hmph! As for the name Odzer its just a translation of my real name which some of my friends started using so it sort of stuck.I have not connection with Cleo Odzer whatsoever

By: Nita

Nita — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:25:32 +0000

I was wondering why you call yourself Odzer and realised that it was a name of some author. Any connection there?

By: Nita

Nita — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:24:48 +0000

Can’t imagine you reading the bible somehow! And Enid Blyton was a fav with me too although I read Edgar Rice Burroughs a lot too. I have this tag pending and I think I should do it soon! I second what Shefaly said about question 7. How would you know a book is bad unless you read it? Or let me put it another way. Surely you must have picked up a book you thought you would like but didn’t like?

By: Tenzin

Tenzin — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:08:45 +0000

i went to the castle place in England where enid blyton got the inspiration to write some of her adventure books like the Famous Five. I was not suprised about that because the place was lovely, especially the Corfe Castle itself.

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:22:44 +0000

Odzer,
I’ve actually met Salman Rushdie. I was working in a book store in Boston and this guy casually walked in and asked me where his books were – to pre-autograph for sale. I was a bit taken aback when I recognized him, and because of the Ayatollah fatwa, I was expecting him to be accompanied by at least one security guard. But I guess he could afford to relax while in the US. I remember shaking his hand, saying hello and then leading him to a stack of copies of his latest book.

I loved his “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” but as you already know, found “Midnight’s Children” to be dense. Haven’t really read any of his other books to form an opinion regarding his over-rated-ness.

By: odzer

odzer — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:11:06 +0000

@ Vikram : Thank you and its a chapter of a book. I want to write a full book though :p

@ Aneeta : Oh I see, I think a lot of people surprisingly share my feelings about Rushdie’s writing. Interesting.

@ Shefaly : Always judge a book by its cover, that is how! I think the US version of that book already substitutes that word with something else. Political correctness has made a lot of things very difficult, may be it is politically incorrect to be politically correct all the time.

@ Trisha : Hear Hear fellow Rushdie tormented soul. Sherlock Holmes is nice but nearly as bitchy as Poirot. However both of them share a lot in common. I hear Christie was good friends with Doyle. I will email you about the “book”.

@ Arpit : Thanks, I never thought it was a man. However I would still not mind reading the secret seven or the famous five.

@ Arpit/Trisha : Would you guys like to do this tag? If you do I would appreciate it since you both have enjoyed it.

By: arpit

arpit — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:32:09 +0000

lovely tag! i have not come across this tag except on your blog .
i also read Enid Blyton thinking the author was a man