Computer virus…Bollywood…management…and a vague ending:-)
‘Transmission’ is about Gary Swift a trans-world management consultant, Leela Zahir, a demi-god stature bollywood heroine and Arjun Mehta, a young computer geek just arrived in US…and taking the story forward is ‘Leela0x’ a computer virus, unleashed by Arjun.
Hari, a former Wired consultant, weaves the three worlds carefully, without the technical details going overboard.
‘Winning’ comes across a sincere attempt by one of the most successful CEOs ever, to shed off his larger-than life image and make an attempt to reach a variety of audience. In the process, Jack Welsh offers a little bit of everything for everyone.
One of the best things about this book is its structure. It starts of with the very rationale of a business. From an individual as an entrepreneur to an individual as an employee.
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Greatness of Michael Crichton is his ability to present some of the esoteric concepts in an entertaining form…and sometimes this is his failing too.
‘State of Fear’ falls in the second category. Set against the backdrop of global warming and all the hallabaloo of the environment agencies, the main characters try to race against time to thwart the plans of so called environment terrorists. A smart government agent, a billionaire, his beautiful secretary and his lawyer form the team that goes against this terrorism. Is this team enough to fight the so called ‘environment terrorism’–is a question that haunts you while reading the novel. And there are hackneyed sub-plots of misunderstood triangular romance, male-female typical conflict etc.
So, what starts off as promising novel, ends up as a huge repository for all the news items and research rallying against the so-called impending threat of global warming.