The movie drought at multiplexes is your perfect excuse to drop by at your nearest DVD library and rent these classics
The movie drought at multiplexes is your perfect excuse to drop by at your nearest DVD library and rent these classics
Novel: Schindler's List
Author: Thomas Keneally
This true story of a German, Oskar Schindler, who saved more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust, remains one of the most astonishing and fascinating stories even to this day. In this Booker Prize-winning novel, Thomas Keneally writes a fictionalised biography of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who risked his own life for four years, working privately to save Jews from death camps. A must read for those who would want to know more about the Nazi rule and the not-so well known Oskar.
Novel: Trainspotting
Author: Irvine Welsh
This is Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel. It is written in the form of short chapters, narrated in first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who are heroin addicts. The novel is set in the mid to late 1980s. The book explores the causes of drug abuse and what sustains it in its many forms. It talks about a group of Scottish youngsters who use heroin as their best route of escape from the chaos of their disorganised lifetyles and modern day existence. It also throws light on addiction, relapses and its grave effects on the mind. The novel has since achieved cult status. It is ironically funny.
Irvine Welsh made a cameo appearance as the drug dealer Mikey Forrester in the movie.
Novel: The Lord of the Rings
Author: J R R Tolkien
This is one of the most popular fantasy novels written by philologist JRR Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings started as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier work, The Hobbit, that had been published in 1937. The legacy of this novel has continued in its interesting trilogies. This masterpiece is an epic story magnificently told, an experience you cannot overcome.u00a0
Novel: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Yes, a literary classic and a tale narrated with great detail giving lovely colours to imagination. This tale is one to set the trend of the blood sucking notorious vampire Count Dracula, lord of the undead. The nightmares, the gothic era and the wicked Count Dracula, the book seems to have all the ingredients to make it a best seller. Narrated from several different viewpoints, Dracula is one of the most popular horror novels ever written.u00a0
Novel: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Hosseini's stunning debut novel throws light on the turmoil in Afghanistan. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan. The book is about friendship, regret, betrayal and life in Kabul. This splendid book is not just extraordinary but is thought provoking as well.
Novel: The Bourne Identity
Author: Robert LudlumThe Bourne Identity is the story of Jason Borne, a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. He doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows certain things that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, he knows a lot about firearms and he carried a microfilm that contains the code to an account of 4 million dollars. The story takes off from there, and it is fast paced, entertaining and engrossing.u00a0
Novel: Alive
Author: Piers Paul ReadAlive is the true story of a rugby team that crashes in the Andes. On October 12, 1972, a Fairchild F-227 of the Uruguayan Airforce, chartered by the young rugby team with family and friends, set off from Montevideo. Of the 45 people on the plane at the time of the crash, 16 came down from the mountain about 70 days later. Alive remains a classic survival tale.
