Some Books I have Read & Would Recommend

[vyomb]

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[crow]

Few books worth reading that I have read.

1.Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged- Ayn Rand: Though I don't agree to much in them and also I guess I didn't read them that good to say I totally understood everything. But still These two feature here cos they were the first good books that hooked me onto reading(which i had tagged as just worthles time pass activity after reading few Sidney shildon's and John Grashim's).

2. The Stranger - Albert Camus: This book turned the direction of my reading as well as my life. Struggling to find any meaning in Life and everything, this book came as if was written for only me.
Albert Camus talks about or rather portrays the absurdism faced and reflected by an alienated man.
'The Plague' by Camus is also a very good novel. 'A Happy Death' and 'Myth of Sisyphus'(an essay) talk further about the absurdist themes but fail a bit the high expectations. though they are also nevertheless very good.

3. Metamorphosis - Kafka : A 100 page story about a man struggling with his inner repressed desires and the outer self that the world has churned out, and then turning into an insect. The novel is highly symbolic in nature.
'The Trial' was also good work.

4. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World & Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami : Murakami's stories have very deep layered, symbolic and dreamlike narrative. The characters are weired, eccentric and always have an air of melancholia about them. Can't say why but reading Murakami gives me the most satisfaction.

5. Man without a Country and Slaughter House 5 - Kurt Vonnegut : Humorist , satirist , moralist, constant critic of mindless modernization, graphic artist and above all a very good human being. Another author which i can read all day long.
Currently reading : Breakfast of Champions.

6. The Brother's Karmazov & Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

7. Harry Potter and all : Yeah I like them too and am eagerly waiting for 21st July.

few other good ones worth reading which are coming to my mind : Animal Farm - George Orwell, Snow - Orhan Pamuk, Age of Reason - Sartre, Selfish Gene - Dawkin, HitchHikers guide to Galaxy - Douglas Adam, Shantaram....

[kushalc]

Just finished VS Naipaul's A house for Mr. Biswas
It is an excellent book - Naipaul's sardonic sense of humour has been used extremely effectively. People who have been part of a reasonably large family will find it hilarious! Its also recommended for the reading parent community - it is a way of life that they have seen at closer quarters than us.

[mbakris]

Started my reading invasion with "5 point some one " by chetan baghat. I understood the power of reading the books ...hence selected the second one 'the ice cream maker " by subit chowdry........and was searching for some good books,,,mean while got to this forum which helped me zero in on some books ...thank you guys.........

[anayagarwal]

Originally Posted by kushalc

Just finished VS Naipaul's A house for Mr. Biswas
It is an excellent book - Naipaul's sardonic sense of humour has been used extremely effectively. People who have been part of a reasonably large family will find it hilarious! Its also recommended for the reading parent community - it is a way of life that they have seen at closer quarters than us.

had read A house.. long back
it was laden with sarcasm and showed the plight of a middle class family man perfectly but still I mean considering the fact that Naipaul has won nobel prize I found that it was not that gr8. ( I didn't like God of small things either)

So can you elucidate further why naipaul is considered such a good writer??

[fatuousbrain]

Originally Posted by mbakris

Started my reading invasion with "5 point some one " by chetan baghat. I understood the power of reading the books ...hence selected the second one 'the ice cream maker " by subit chowdry........and was searching for some good books,,,mean while got to this forum which helped me zero in on some books ...thank you guys.........

Hey...Can you tell me more about this book.....

[mbakris]

Hi fatuousbrain,

the book is all about three friends with different mindsets gets into IIT and screwed up by the system there ..they devise some ideas to confront the system ..but fails ultimately ...finally they had to struggle to get out of IIT ...the author had successfully elucidated the story in humourous way ...
It also has a love track .in between to add some entertainment like a typical movie... definitely theres no gyan and philosophy involved init..just added fiction ...makes it more interesting ..................

cheers.
kris

[fatuousbrain]

Some of my good experiances.....
Started with 5 point some one....really a great book to bring the reading habbits.....Then read One night@call centre....this one is Okay...I din't find it really good...............Other books on same taste are The year I turned 16 & The piece of Cake....Both are good but you will get bore after some time
Read the two books by Dan Brown...The Da Vinci Code & The Digital Fortess....Both are awesome...

Books suggested by others but not read yet : The India Unbound by Gurucharandas....

Autobiography of Steve Waugh(Out of My Comfort Zone) & John Wright(Indian Summers)......But both are costly.......

[fatuousbrain]

Originally Posted by mbakris

Hi fatuousbrain,

the book is all about three friends with different mindsets gets into IIT and screwed up by the system there ..they devise some ideas to confront the system ..but fails ultimately ...finally they had to struggle to get out of IIT ...the author had successfully elucidated the story in humourous way ...
It also has a love track .in between to add some entertainment like a typical movie... definitely theres no gyan and philosophy involved init..just added fiction ...makes it more interesting ..................

cheers.
kris

Ohh...Sorry, but actually I was asking about Ice cream Maker...

[mohitjha]

i m on a reading spree these days and of the numerous books i picked, the ones i was able to finish were mainly fictions. the books i would recommend are:
1. The Road Ahead by Bill Gates. it was written in 1995 and u will stunned by power of imagination by the software monarch. his thinking is so clear that by the end u too start dreaming of something similar.
2. The Tao of Physics by Fritzof carpra. physics lover will go to any extent to retain a copy of this. it draws parellels between eastern mysticism and western scientific thinking.
3.The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. i was searching for the unabriged version since my school days . the book is written in extremely lucid manner.
the ones which were beyond my comprehension abilities were the man in iron mask,uncommon wisdom, pickwik papers.