Who's reading what,when & the experience

sreejith

Last weekend i started translation of "The one starw revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka.

Though the topic is basically agriculture oriented, the philisophical side of this book is also very attractive.

This monday i started "The English Teacher" by Legendary R. K Narayanan. Reading this book makes my 3 hour daily bangalore travel an enjoyable thing.

hawaiiyogagrl

Anyone read the New Yorker mag?
I do, but have been totally behind in my reading.
Anyway, the issue dated Feb 5 has an article written by the polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski about his first trip out of Poland to India in 1955. Really well done- 1955, young, alone, trying to understand what is happening around him...I totally recomend it.

gregornot

Namaste,
Stephen King's Dark Tower Series (7 books) for second or third time
peace, gregor

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robotvoice

the hunter s. thompson letters, vol. one

Casey

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. This is a great read, although the first chapter took me two times through to understand it. I can see why it is on the 100 top literature picks. (and I'm no big fan of US male writers)

Shiver me Timbers

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.....just started it.

daresendez

Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse

littletyger

[quote=Prashant.M]Read Life of Pi by Yann Martel. A darn good yarn. Although it felt slow initially, the story picks up and has a good twist in the end.[quote]

I loved that book! I actually got it as an audiobook and listened to it during my 4 hour commute each day. I love audiobooks and Audible.com has pretty much anything you could want.

Right now I'm reading the Mahabharata, The Screwtape Letters, and a book on yoga, but I think I'm going to pick up The Bridge to Terebithia for my trip (since the Harry Potter book isn't out yet ).

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Merchant

A documentary was made years ago, with Frater retracing his steps. It aired on public TV in the US. Might have been a BBC production originally. It's on from time to time.

Nick-H

I've just started on The Life of Pi!. I even loved the author's note at the beginning; especially the story about the word 'bamboozle'

Mahabharat, eh? There are many translations, varying from nutshell to full multi-volume, but it is one hell of a great story. I'm very happy to have a DVD-with-English-subtitles set of the TV series on the shelf, though, so far, I've only watched it to the point of Krishna's 'coming out' with the death of Khansa.

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robotvoice

funny, i didn't peg you as the reading type, nick

capt_mahajan

The Dog Catcher, by Alexei Sayle.

Short stories, unusual but interesting.

Nick-H

Addict!

Used to be a commuting and bedtime reader --- now its just bedtime. So it can take me a long time to get through a book. But when I see the final pages approaching, if I have got the next one lined up I start to get twitchy!

If there was no internet I'd probably get through a book a day! Not particularly keen on TV.

robotvoice

commuting (ie: driving???) and reading at the same time? I hope you were on a train or something!

on topic: who's reading what, when:
i am reading india mike travel forum, therefore i am not reading any real literature.

ploink

Read the book "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, saw the film "The Namesake" by Mira Nair. Reading Manju Kapur's "Home".

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