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The book review that wasn't!!!

One liner to begin a book review - Read the book wrapper!

Second liner to continue - book padikarapo wrapper cover OZHUNGA padikavum (self note) at least author perai muzhusaga padikavum!!!

After reading " The Widow" as a Jeffrey Archer novel and sharing a post about it as a Jeffrey Archer novel, i wanted to pick a different book by Archer to see if it was "any better" than "The Widow". En nalla neram, John Grisham en bloglaam padikrathilla. Or atleast any of his millions of followers. Illati court case aagi asingapatruka vendi irukum. Avvvv...oray the puppy shame moment. Enda unaku John Grishamkum Jeffrey Archerukumay difference therilaye neelaam book review podalamanu kekarathu nalla theriuthu. Irunthalum..yet another "hehe" momentnu thodachutu poga vendiyathay. How i ended up finding this is a thing in itself. When i was checking for the chronology of publication to "evaluate" (mmkum) if Archer wrote "The widow" before or after the "End game" (this post was actually a review post for that book!) google search spitted my own post as the first search item!!! Ada avlo popular aaitoma nu oru one second alpa sandhosham irunthalum apdilam nadaka vaaippilaiye nu check panni paatha aprum thaan found this!! 20 varusham blog adichi puniyam ila. oru 20 second spend panni bookoda wrappera ozhunga padikanum enbadhay moral of the story. John Graham booka nenachu padichiruntha may be review tone down aagirukalam. But Archera nenachu padichathu mattumay the mistake, book padichathu nejam enbadhai ingay koori kondu...avvvvv.. and after doubly confirming Archer actually wrote "End game" posting about it.

When i was under the impression that Archer wrote both the books, this is how i had started the review post for "End game". Evlo adhupu nu pathukunga!!

 "The ease with which the dialogues flew made me think If the location of the story(Virginia) could possibly be a reason. London being his home ground brings out a sense of familiarity to the writing which might have helped maybe. By the same token I would give credit to chetan bagat as well for all his "pun"jabs.. Bringing cb in same line as  Archer means I would be killed by both of them for the same reason of comparison but for different emotions"

Will continue with the review in a separate post as this was more of an atonement one and idhuvay romba lengthya poidchi!!

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