Discussions on Books/Novel (Umera Ahmad & other writers) - Page 2

Amarbail is a must-read.. highly recommended. One of my all time favorite books.

of course I couldnt get my hands on AmarBail or would have read it already. I like Umera's work. Why aint she writing more?
Is it because of the screenplays she is taking in heaps?

^ I guess she has some issues going on with the publishing house. Her couple of books are in the pipeline for quite some time now. Aab-e-Hayaat (sequel to Peer-e-kaamil) & there is another one... i forgot its name..

I have heard about it too but is it going to go on forever.
Do you read other Pakistani writers...writers like Mohsin Hamid and Kamila Shamsia?

Originally posted by: Usman.

You dint like JKP?? I really liked the first part. 2nd wasnt that gripping.
And you're right about Nemrah pens down her men too good.. Badar was a well etched out character. I was somewhat disappointed at Zahra's character. Much more could have done with her character. Her character came out really strong in the beginning. But later on, she became a typical third angle of a triangle. :/
I have read about Namal, but i will read it once it will come out in book form.

I really enjoyed the first half of JKP but then it started veering into some sort of western thriller area and then I gave up on it. When it was revealed that one guy was acting as all these different people (i have forgotten names 😆) and he had kept tabs on her all throughout, I went all, "nopes! not my cup of tea!" and slammed it shut..

Badar is one of my few Urdu novel crushes! I really loved these layers which each character had plus the mystery was of the ghost of graveyard was very gripping. Special kudos to the end of the novel!

Originally posted by: AshesToDust

yes Farhat's writings and her stories are over-simplified and are good o read once you are in those high moods otherwise they sound far from reality. Plus he one's i have read are all about the high class, she never writes about the middle ones or the poor ones plus of course she is almost always high on romance.
I really detest characters who have nothing in life but a branded attire and party/ gathering on their minds.

I was crazy for Farhat's "Jo Bache Hain Sang Samait Lo" in the starting chapters but when I finished it, i didn't have this bittersweet feeling I usually have after finishing a good book. I gave my sister-in-law Diyar-e-Dil to read and when she finished it, she said some of the scenes from the novel were "inspired" by Judith McNaught's novels and I realized that she was right...Farhat ka style is making western contemporary romances set with Pakistani characters 😆 At that point i gave up on her...

Shab-e-Aarzoo ka aalam (Aneeza Ahmad)

Originally posted by: AshesToDust

I have heard about it too but is it going to go on forever.
Do you read other Pakistani writers...writers like Mohsin Hamid and Kamila Shamsia?

Originally posted by: lostmymusic.

I really enjoyed the first half of JKP but then it started veering into some sort of western thriller area and then I gave up on it. When it was revealed that one guy was acting as all these different people (i have forgotten names 😆) and he had kept tabs on her all throughout, I went all, "nopes! not my cup of tea!" and slammed it shut..

Badar is one of my few Urdu novel crushes! I really loved these layers which each character had plus the mystery was of the ghost of graveyard was very gripping. Special kudos to the end of the novel!

Usman I dont remember the director but it came on ARY. It had Mohib and that new girl the one they have casted in Bin Roye Ansoo as Mahira's older sister. She is pretty but she can't act AT ALL. The drama was so bakwas.