The BEST BOOK ever WRITTEN? The Shadow of the Wind - Book Recommendation no. 8
Channel: Writing Rahul
Date: 18/07/2020

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is my most favorite book and I just can't recommend it enough!

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Many of us have that one book which we want to keep revisiting every few years and read it again and again because reading that particular book is such a pleasure that we want to experience it over and over again. For me that book is The Shadow of the Wind. Now this is one book which has fascinated me for some reason like no other book. I know I have my biases about Spain and about the city of Barcelona and this book is set there so maybe that is one reason but the most amazing part of this book, for me is that how it just manages to tread this finely etched line between a historical fiction, a supernatural thriller and a simple outright mystery novel. Very few books achieve it so efficiently and effectively the way this book has. This is the strongest recommendation for a book that I can give to anyone. Most of the times authors are thrown with this question that which is your favourite book, for me it is this book and I cannot praise it enough for you to pick it up. Again, this is one book for which I would not indulge in spelling out what the book is about, what the plot is about and how it goes and all of that. I would just ask you to just blindly trust me and pick up this book and there is no way I think that someone would not enjoy this book. And if you don't then you don't! Don't blame me for that but this, is for me the best book that I have read in a long, long, long, long time and this is something which is definitely on the top of my charts. There is so much of beauty and there's so much of thought that goes in this book. I’ll just read out the first line of the first chapter. It says ‘A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept’. So what the author is trying to say is that it's not the secret that has the value of being the secret it's the people whom you want to either protect from it or the people whom you want to protect that information from and your connection, your love or your hatred for those set of people actually determines the value of a secret that is there otherwise it’s no valuable secret but just some mundane piece of information. So, this is the kind of book this is which on the surface may appear to be not that exciting and not that deep but if you read between the lines and if you reflect on what is written, it's really amazing. This is one book which I think I will pick up this year again sometime to re-read so if you guys are up for it, we can do a collective reading I can post another video and say that I’m starting this book again and I’ll be reading it so whoever wants to join can join and we can have our weekly or monthly discussions about what we think about the book and how we find it, just like a book club. I hope you enjoyed today's video and I hope you do pick up this book. It is a very strong recommendation and if you have read it already, I would love to know what you think about it and if you have any questions or if you want to say anything, feel free to comment. See you in the next video guys cheers.