Hyperactve

The best thing about the book is it takes you right into behind the scenes of Horse Racing. Although, I don't know much about horse racing I enjoyed every bit of it.
The main problem about the story is its predictable. It can be said I knew Nottingham's Nightmare Lucifera will be tamed by Nicole; there will be an accident which will either make the mother & daughter come closer or it will take them far apart. Personally I like tragedies more.
Nevertheless, this is really well written, one should not feel any mental fatigue while reading this.
The story is about mother-daughter conflict between Rachel and Nicole, love/hate between two top trainers Rachel and Reno. The previous is the main plot. But these don't make the story progress. It is the horse racing, wins, losses; the racetrack. The writer being an ex-jockey has handful experience to make such story believable. And I think she has done a wonderful job. As a debut novel, it's solid.

Just installed LaTex in my Blog.
Those who already know about it (not that a lot of people reads my blog), may find it funny that what would I be doing with such scripts. Well, I don't know either. May be some math posts are coming or may be not. But I just wanted to play a little with it.
Those who don't know what LaTex is, it is a document markup language; in traditional formatted document editor such as Microsoft Word, Open Office the user doesn't need to know mark up process that was used in it as there is a very good GUI support. LaTex is mainly used for writing mathematical equations.
Here Goes:


Well seems okay. I couldn't work the

\mathbi{}

though. :(

There are two stories.
Kafka's story and Nakata's story

I pretty much enjoyed Nakata's story. Nakata was an interesting old guy. And also, Hoshino. I can guess Nakata and Hoshino were like comic characters with complexities of their own. But This storyline was interesting and made me read the book.

On the other hand, Kafka's story was full of sheer stupidity. I heard the idea was to tell a story of an adolescent boy. But such boys just don't always think about sex you know! Kafka was trying to find his mother and sister just to fulfill the prophecy his father made? Or just to be with his family again? Even the prophecy was an utter nonsense! There were several times I thought the story would get better it that just didn't happen! Kafka's storyline was pretty much disappointing.

And also, there were lots of hopping here and there from actual story in the Kafka's storyline. Big talks about Arts, Literature, Music bla bla bla..... That doesn't help the story. I don't mean they shouldn't be in a story, that'd make a story pretty much dull; but these things should be short. Not in epic size.

Though it's a single book, I rated it thus:
Nakata: 3/5
Kafka: 1/5

Cécile Corbel