Sidney Sheldon is one of my favorite and I enjoyed reading all his Novels released so far. I am left with “The Other Side of Me (The Other Side of Me)”:http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/features/sidneysheldon/othersideofme.html which is perhaps his last writing.
During his lifetime, Sidney Sheldon won awards in three careers – Broadway theater, movies, television then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men. Sheldon died Tuesday afternoon of complications from pneumonia at local hospital in Rancho Mirage, said his publicist of more than 25 years. He was 89. His wife Alexandra and his daughter, author Mary Sheldon, were by his side.
“Suketu Mehta (Suketu Mehta)”:http://www.suketumehta.com/ is a fiction writer and journalist based on New York. He have won many outstanding awards, to mention a few – the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work has been published in the *New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Conde Nast Traveler, The Indian Express, Man’s World, Himal and India Magazine*. He also co-wrote the Bollywood Movie *Mission Kashmir*.
I was asking my friend, “Have you read *In the Line of Fire*”. What he answered was funny that we all laughed aloud, “I will, we should *Know what the Enemy thinks*”. No, we don’t think of Pakistan as our enemy, atleast not me. I personally have no particular enemity with anybody or any country and won’t do that as far as I can. I was once even approached to go to Pakistan to train a team of Flash Developers. It somehow did not materialize as the relation between India and Pakistan suddenly deteriorated at that time. Being in India, I was expecting that the book would either be banned or there would be some hoopla somewhere somehow. But non so far of such incidents, instead the Book was sold out in the first week of its launch in India. Newspapers, Magazines and Tabloid carried articles of the book, most of them in a deregatory criticism. I am not in any position to give my judgement but yes, the book was a little jerky to read, unlike other free flowing english books that I have read so far.