Prakat Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Just picked up Women Who Run With the Wolves that's been on my amazon wishlist for almost a year now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 The Last Jihad - Joel C. Rosenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 that's been on my amazon wishlist for almost a year now! I'll have to get another copy. The one I have is a gift for my sis. It is proving to be engrossing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prakat Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'll have to get another copy. The one I have is a gift for my sis. It is proving to be engrossing. Awesome! Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSK Fan Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 IT... the King one? very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulbul Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 the King one? very good! yes.. Colleugues recomended long time back... but seeing the size of book i hesitated Now reading in iPad :winky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiladka321 Posted December 24, 2011 Share Posted December 24, 2011 I am reading your minds right now ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonishaSarabhai Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Ask the Dust by John Fante. the first page has a review by New York Times that goes: Either the work of John Fante is unknown to you or it is unforgettable. He was not the kind of writer to leave room in between. hmm.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Barbarians at the Gate - The Fall of RJR Nabisco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triam Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 game of thrones george rr martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Karan Johar will make a movie on Immortals of Meluha - link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punjabi_khota Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Just traveled back to US yesterday, and picked up "The emperor of all maladies" at the IGI. It is 600 pages and I never thought I would even read half of it. But i was hooked and finished 450 pages inflight. The book is the biography of cancer, and quite simply, one of the best books I have read, from a very interesting doctor-writer, who also happens to be a desi. Pulitzer prize nonfiction 2010 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prakat Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Haha, go nichy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surajmal Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 why do people read fiction when they can just watch movies or go to a play? serious question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikred Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 why do people read fiction when they can just watch movies or go to a play? serious question. You get to write the screenplay in your head. :hatsoff: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surajmal Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 You get to write the screenplay in your head. :hatsoff: I asked this question to a different person and got a reply that it is a vocabulary enhancer and it makes sense because while preparing for GRE, it was a humbling experience how limited my vocab really is. I mean outside of reading the required shakespeare's works and few other fictional works for english class in high school, I have never touched a novel. That is the only plausible reason for a casual reader, as far as I'm concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelch Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Any one read this new poverty porn that everyone is raving about Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers' Some of the excerpts selected by the great Pankaj Mishra in his NYTimes review Many of the slum dwellers, including Abdul, gain their sense of upward mobility by contrasting their lot with that of their less fortunate neighbors, “miserable souls” who “trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner” or “ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake’s edge.” Migrants fleeing a crisis-ridden agricultural sector cause an oversupply of cheap labor in Mumbai, so the boy whose hand is sliced off by a shredding machine turns, “with his blood-spurting stump,” to assure his boss that he won’t report the accident. A 2-year-old girl drowns suspiciously in a pail, and a father empties a pot of boiling lentils over his sick baby. As Boo explains, “sickly children of both sexes were sometimes done away with, because of the ruinous cost of their care.” “Young girls in the slums,” she adds, “died all the time under dubious circumstances, since most slum families couldn’t afford the sonograms that allowed wealthier families to dispose of their female liabilities before birth.” Adults, too, drop like flies. One of Abdul’s friends ends up as a corpse with his eyes gouged out. Injured men bleed to death, unattended, by the road to the airport. Maggots breed in the infected sores of the scavengers Boo hangs out with. “Gangrene inched up fingers, calves swelled into tree trunks, and Abdul and his younger brothers kept a running wager about which of the scavengers would be the next to die.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSK Fan Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I asked this question to a different person and got a reply that it is a vocabulary enhancer and it makes sense because while preparing for GRE, it was a humbling experience how limited my vocab really is. I mean outside of reading the required shakespeare's works and few other fictional works for english class in high school, I have never touched a novel. That is the only plausible reason for a casual reader, as far as I'm concerned. Dude you have no idea what you are missing. No amount of plays or movies can equal the experience of reading a good fiction book. The mind is an amazing thing and reading a book is on a different level than movies or plays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulbul Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Dude you have no idea what you are missing. No amount of plays or movies can equal the experience of reading a good fiction book. The mind is an amazing thing and reading a book is on a different level than movies or plays +1 Some books like Harry potter , LOTR etc are equal good in movies also if made well because you can see things... But i think the best thing about reading a Good book is Visualising things...i think its difficult to beat that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 +1 Some books like Harry potter , LOTR etc are equal good in movies also if made well because you can see things... But i think the best thing about reading a Good book is Visualising things...i think its difficult to beat that Agreed. In fact if you are reading a book and you're unable to visualize what you are reading then it means it a badly written book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts