First short story in the 'CSlueth files' series. Note: This is purely a work of fiction! 1. The dead body Wednesday, Chalmers tekniska hogskola, 6:30 PM He had just walked out of the classroom in the V building. For the past forty five minutes he had been coding an exciting dynamic systems simulation after having completed a late and rather boring simulation exercises session class. He had to take the road in front of the Chalmers Bibliotek library as he wanted to meet a friend staying nearby. As he walked past the Information Sciences department building there was a gust of cold winter wind that struck his face and he raised the collars of this jacket, sinking in his chin into its warm, furry interiors. It was December and it would get dark really early. It was dark now and hardly anyone else around. He hummed a tune as he ran up the flight of stairs, the library was at an elevated level from the V building. He found himself humming some r...
In my mind is a strange attractor!
Picked up The fountainhead by Ayn Rand and The Hungry Tide last week. Reading the former currently. Find it interesting.
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Isn't there a film on this? I remember seeing a film where the lawyer is defending a luekemia victim and he has not even taken the bar exam.
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...it is "The Rainmaker" starring Matt Damon. It was a good movie. I can only say that the book must be better.
ReplyDeleteSandeep
Ashok, you beat me to the new Ghosh novel - an excerpt I read was good, so overall it should be a treat. 350 bucks is a bit too ... maybe I am miserly. The Glass Palace was 200 bucks (inflation ???)
ReplyDeleteSandeep, The Rainmaker is as you say turning out to be good with lots of dry humour and most of his books have been filmed. I have watched The Chamber which is the other novel in this combo book that I am reading.