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State your opinion

State.com is an opinion sharing network. It's interesting. Especially after my blog post on the difficulty of stating your opinion on facebook and facing the wrath of 500 people who may or may not have read your complete post or found a completely different angle or pulled your own comments on a different topic completely out of context and screaming at you to accept their point of view and worse, getting personal. There is a need for a network for stating your opinion and discussing it with others who are indeed willing to discuss it rather than deciding what is right. I think this forum has a good future.  Having said that I don't think I know enough of it to write a review. I received a neat little presentation from BlogAdda on what I must do to get access to this network and review it. On second thought, I could do without it. I needed to login everyday for 5 days and review it in a week of getting access. They were flexible around my holiday but I also work about 11

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The Child of Misfortune

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The story starts off abruptly with a phone call that Amar received that propelled him to jump on a flight. It keeps you guessing as to what is happening for a long time. Often it feels like it's rather childish, the rivalry that Amar and Jonah share. Only until the story goes back in time to narrate a childhood incident, the murder of a prominent politician. Then suddenly everything becomes real. It seems like Jonah is playing a very serious game. And mostly with himself because he keeps playing Amar's moves as well. And Amar keeps limping along trying to beat Jonah at his own game but failing miserably. Just like the story, he slowly gathers traction and along the way gathers some odd friends, a Tibetan monk, a Korean social engineer and a Kenyan pharmacist. And then there is an extraordinary twist in the tale. The story makes sense now. To you and to Amar. So if you thought you were confused till now while the story kept running from pillar to post hovering over