Yoda-esque Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Got the book today from a friend. He says its an awesome read. It is :nice: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vayuu1 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Immortals of melhua after that will read secrets of naga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desi Cartman Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Will start Satanic Verses from tomorrow I wanna find out what the fuss is about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeautifulGame Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Thanks for that detailed response tdigi. Btw' date=' any book you recommend to know about WWII? I want to learn more facts than fiction.[/quote'] Absoulte war by by Chris Bellamy.Particularly if u want to know more in detail about the war in east German invasion Russia.Great read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Merlyn Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Heroes of olympus:the mark of athena Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Will start Satanic Verses from tomorrow I wanna find out what the fuss is about been planning to read this for a long time......this time I will definitely read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raghav_12 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Very good book. But its sort of a political history of Independent India - if you are looking for something like that then definitely get this book. Got the book today from a friend. He says its an awesome read. It is :nice: Thanks guys.. Will get this one for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 got Nehru's biography 'The Making of India' by M.J.Akbar as gift.anybody read it?I'm not much into history,still can try if someone recommends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Reading Family of Secrets - the Bush Dynasty . It is an incredible book and shows in great detail how the Bush family has been manipulating the system in USA. finally finished it. :hatsoff::hatsoff: I would recommend this to anyone who has even a slight interest in American Politics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 got Nehru's biography 'The Making of India' by M.J.Akbar as gift.anybody read it?I'm not much into history' date='still can try if someone recommends[/quote'] haven't read the book by I do know that MJ Akbar is a very good writer. Saw some reviews on the internet - as expected, some people loved the book while others found it very partisan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Hilary Mantel Wins a Second Booker Prize LONDON — The British novelist Hilary Mantel won the 2012 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for “Bring Up the Bodies,” the second book in her planned trilogy about the life and machinations of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII’s chief minister and master manipulator. Set over the course of the year 1535, it tells of the initially triumphant and then fatally doomed reign of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, as seen through the eyes of Cromwell, who helped plot and orchestrate her dizzying downfall. “You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize; two come along at once,” Ms. Mantel, 60, joked upon accepting the award. She also won the Booker in 2009, for the trilogy’s first book, “Wolf Hall” (she has yet to write the third). On the sheer strength of “Bring up the Bodies,” which many critics thought was even better than “Wolf Hall,” Ms. Mantel was considered a favorite for this year’s prize. But in the Booker’s 43-year history, no one had won with a sequel, and no one had won so soon after winning the first time. Only two other authors — Peter Carey and J. M. Coetzee — have won twice. The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually to a novel written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Commonwealth. On Tuesday, much of literary London put on black tie and gathered for a formal dinner at the grand Guildhall to hear the winner announced; the BBC broadcast the moment live. Other novels on the short list of six finalists included “The Garden of Evening Mists,” by Tan Twang Eng; “Swimming Home,” by Deborah Levy; “The Lighthouse,” by Alison Moore; “Umbrella,” by Will Self; and “Narcopolis,” by Jeet Thayil. The list was memorable in part for what was left off, including novels by Martin Amis, Michael Frayn, John Lanchester and Pat Barker. Though two of the authors on the list, Ms. Mantel and Mr. Self, are very well known, the other four are not. Mr. Self, one of Britain’s nimblest and most inventive writers, was also considered a favorite for the unconventional “Umbrella,” 400 pages of sharp, acrobatic stream-of-consciousness prose that uses four points of view to whisk the reader backward and forward through the 20th century, with no chapter divisions and few paragraphs. The judges called it “moving and draining,” and said that “those who stick with it will find it much less difficult than it first seems.” Each of the finalists wins £2,500 (about $4,000) and a handbound edition of his or her book. The winner receives £50,000 (about $80,000) and traditionally a huge increase in sales. Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of this year’s Booker panel, said the judges had based their choices on “novels, not novelists; texts, not reputations” — a signal that they looked at “Bring Up the Bodies” as a work on its own, without considering its predecessor. The book — with language so intimate and immediate that some critics likened it to a fly-on-the-wall documentary of the Tudor period — received glowing reviews both here and in the United States. Critics praised Ms. Mantel’s ability to make a historically unsavory character come alive and seem wholly human, even sympathetic, and to infuse familiar historical details like the trial and execution of Anne with a sense of urgency and suspense. The book, wrote Charles McGrath in The New York Times Book Review, “isn’t nostalgic, exactly, but it’s astringent and purifying, stripping away the cobwebs and varnish of history, the antique formulations and brocaded sentimentality of costume-drama novels, so that the English past comes to seem like something vivid, strange and brand new.” Ms. Mantel is the author of a number of books on wildly different subjects. “A Place of Greater Safety” is set during the French Revolution and has Robespierre as one of its protagonists; “Beyond Black” is set in modern-day Britain and features a professional medium who is haunted by the dead people she cannot help seeing. Her memoir, “Giving Up the Ghost,” tells the harrowing story of her childhood and the health problems that have plagued her for years. New York Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 ^I'm really looking forward to reading this Cromwell trilogy. It was a very intriguing period in British History and this should be a good Trilogy. Meanwhile I've started the 1st part of the Empire of the Moghul series - its good but not great so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomainK Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Guys, suggest me interesting reads like Lee Child / Forsyth etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Guys' date=' suggest me interesting reads like Lee Child / Forsyth etc.[/quote'] check out books by Jack Higgins, Ken Follet, James Ellroy (mainly his LA Quartet and the Underworld USA Trilogy), John Dickson Carr (I haven't read his books but he is considered as one of the best detective/mystery writers.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vayuu1 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Finished reading Mahabharata,will now begin with valmiki ramayana after that will read 18 mahapurana that is( shiva,Srimad bhagvat,brahma ,brahmvaivart,bhavishya,skand,Vishnu,padam, varah,narad,kurma,matsya,garud,vaman,Agni,linga,vaman,markandeya ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomainK Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 check out books by Jack Higgins' date=' Ken Follet, James Ellroy (mainly his LA Quartet and the Underworld USA Trilogy), John Dickson Carr (I haven't read his books but he is considered as one of the best detective/mystery writers.)[/quote'] Thanks. I will look for the e-books. Let me know if you have the e-books.:two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Thanks. I will look for the e-books. Let me know if you have the e-books.:two_thumbs_up: check out this link - it has books of James Ellroy, Ken Follet and Jack Higgins. It may say Malware Detected on this link but you can proceed anyway - I have downloaded hundreds of books from this site and never had any problems. For John Dickson Carr this link has 10-12 books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomainK Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 check out this link - it has books of James Ellroy, Ken Follet and Jack Higgins. It may say Malware Detected on this link but you can proceed anyway - I have downloaded hundreds of books from this site and never had any problems. For John Dickson Carr this link has 10-12 books. Thanks, I will download. :two_thumbs_up: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sachin=GOD Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeautifulGame Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 The Money Changer- Arthur Hailey Just going to start.Anyone read it already , opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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