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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Mumbai,India
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My favorites are
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Sheth A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet Living To Tell The Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marques The Genesis Code - John Case Genome - Matt Ridley and many many more :|
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Delhi
Posts: 355
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Not many books that i can read again, if at all i would read only some paragraphs....definately not cover to cover
So I would rather carry 2/3 new books as rcommended or by my favourite authors..i keep taking recommendation, like i will like to take some from this posting 1. Tao of Physics or Uncommen wisdom : Fritjof Capra 2. Any of the Dilbert books : Scot Adams 3. The Gita (translated in English) 4. Any of Ruskin Bond/R.K.Naryan (one that i have not read, I can read anything that these two write..will sure read "India I love" as recommended by Shimla, Thanks.. Shimla) 5. The discovery of India : J.L. Nehru Ashish |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Yangon, MYANMAR
Posts: 4,125
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Hey Ashish,
Good to know that you too are a fan of Ruskin Bond ! You MUST read his "Landour Days" and "Rain in the mountains", if you haven't done so already.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: London, England.
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Molvania travel guide, by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch.
This book is a spoof travel guide to a fictitious east European country called Molvania. Is is so funny, it's not the kind of book you could read on a bus when your alone, it is almost impossible to stop yourself from laughing loudly. I opened the book in the shop at page 108 and started reading, two pages later and they could have charged me 3 times the cover price, I would have still thought it was worth the money. The funniest book I've ever read. http://www.molvania.com/ |
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shanti shanti
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Bangalore
Posts: 66
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The Outsider by Albert Camus
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The Bhagavad Gita Island by Aldous Huxley The Tibetan Book of the Dead; in case I don’t make it off the Island |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Cape Town
Posts: 342
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1. The Magus - John Fowles
2. An Atlas 3. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 4. The Diceman - Luke Rhinehardt or Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (can't decide btwn the 2) 5. The fattest, most informative textbook i could find on historical/cognative linguistics |
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Colder than a well digger's ass
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: North Atlantic
Posts: 1,663
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Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), for the black humour, and the disgusting, yet appealing characters.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey), my favourite film became my favourite book when I read this. Cosa Nostra (John Dickie), a personal interest, I don't know why, but visited Sicily this year just to satisfy an obsession in the subject. Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby), a book a lot of us could relate to about obsessions in our lives, in this case football, but valid in all walks of life. A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), because I just started reading it, and I want to finish it. Also, the title says it all.
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Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: The OC
Posts: 975
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Shogun, Lonesome Dove, A Fine Balance, Pillars of the Earth, The Night Manager, Daughter of Fortune - just to name a few.
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Loud-mouthed, Noisy Bird
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Chennai, India
Posts: 28,371
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So many favourites, and it so depends on how I feel at the time...
But one book always floats to the top of my list: most loved, favouritest ever, bestest book in the world: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Future Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 335
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Wild Swans The Little Prince Third Class Ticket Memoirs of a Geisha Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance My book: Chasing Rainbows in Chennai (Hacktreks, Vancouver) www.zine5.com/chasingrainbows |
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Maha Guru Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Posts: 637
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Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (re-read)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera (re-read) Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (am reading it now, so must bring it) The Windup Bird Chronicles - Hakuri Murakami The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Micheal Chabon |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: revolving around the sun standing still
Posts: 1,893
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as already mentioned:
the alchemist-paul coelho ("when you follow your heart the universe conspires with you") - I've read this 3x thus far; about due to read it again. siddharta - herman hesse - i've read this twice and often will read passages from it. not sure what else, but i like the celestine prophecy too, which i've read 2x.
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In no particular order
Trainspotting - For just the punch in the face it was to read this book in my own dialect and Catch 22 - Again and again I lread this book and laugh out loud ...pure genius Lord Of the Rings - The first book I read for pleasure ...Blew my mind Number 9 Dream - Simply beautiful as is Ghost written ...David Mitchells first book 100 years Of Solitude - Magical inspiring incredible In fact anything by this Marquez 1984 - The only book to scare me. I was upset for days after I finished this book Bryan
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 7
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Well, since this is a message board about India...
Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya |
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Loud-mouthed, Noisy Bird
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Chennai, India
Posts: 28,371
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Quote:
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