Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam by Anthony Grey

 To start with, this is hell of a book and rightly called an epic novel. Pun intended.

This one is huge with 900+ pages and took a lot of time (or maybe I'm getting slower). The plot covers around 50 years of Vietnam unrest (war/struggle) with a lot of family, friend, and love involved.

I'll not go into the plot but some how I believe that to make it an epic the same plot got repeated with multiple characters. It was even so common that I actually started waiting for the moment when each of the characters will die. And there is barely anybody left by the end of it!

Of course it has that charm from the colonial era but I would have loved to miss a lot of niceties.

But I'm just an ordinary reader, and this was not written only for me. I completed it (which is an accomplishment itself) but I'm sure this had a lot of thoughts and moments that I truly appreciated.

The size of the book is a bit intimidating but given the coverage of half a century, and if you're interested to learn about how it was in Vietnam, it is worth a read.

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Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence by Clifford A. Pickover

No prizes to guess that I picked this one up just because of the title.

Don't go with the title. It doesn't really have much to offer apart from the great things the author has done or written. Well it's not bad but I know which writer I'm not going to pickover again :)

The only good thing with this book is that it reminded me of my long due Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" but I'm still unsure if I should start it.

Not worth the time.