[ankurjain2k]

Hello Puys

I happened to read a very good book, infact it is a compilation of all the articles written by Thomas Friedman, the author of The world Is Flat.

His another great book, LONGITUDES AND LATITUDES.
man i must tell u all , this guy has great guts , he talks ferociously and his writings speak volume. this book is about US and its internal and external matters since 2001.

I must say this will broaden your horizons

[sumitrocks]

I just finished reading Tim Hartford's 'The Undercover Economist'. The man is an economist, and he's brilliant! With characteristic Brit humour, he explains daily economic phenomena that and their intricacies. However, he's different coz he explains them in almost conversational style.

[nostalgiuz]

Originally Posted by nostalgiuz

HI Utsav

Got the book at strand for 80 bucks...
Thx
Cheers
Rj

Just Finished the Funda of Mixology...its a very chilled out book
and would recommend every MBA aspirant to read that...

Cheers
Rj

[amithar]

Originally Posted by sumitrocks

I just finished reading Tim Hartford's 'The Undercover Economist'. The man is an economist, and he's brilliant! With characteristic Brit humour, he explains daily economic phenomena that and their intricacies. However, he's different coz he explains them in almost conversational style.

The Undercover Economist was good... better than Freakonimcs which I personally thought had very US=centric examples.... In Contrast, UC Economist had more "generic" examples from everyday life to explain Economic Phenomena..

However... I found the book too repetitive sometimes.... the same thing is repeated / said in 20 different ways in a span of 20 pages!

[kamal mittal]

guys if u are interested in Finance or want to understand Interest rates and all about Fed Rates.....FOMC and how US economy work and political pressure of Congress on Fed.

go for Age of Turbulence....By Alan Greenspan !!!

[alexfishbed]

folks,

just read a horrible book- Everything you Desire- yet another ill-conceived addition to the campus novel bandwagon about life at IIM-B. AVOID like the plague- poorly written and with little message beyond a retelling of campus antics.

A good book in contrast was Fiasco- about the Iraq war- very well written and timely.

Spent some time at the Delhi Book Fair last week, and had an interesting story for you guys- met the publisher of The Funda of Mix-ology, chatted with him, and got the author's contact. Have written to him, and got an instant reply- have asked him to come and visit the forum...lets see!

cheer
Ashish

[nostalgiuz]

Has any1 read Shantaram??..planing to pick it up...
and also any comments on Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami??

Cheers
Rj

[spirit11]

Originally Posted by alexfishbed

folks,

just read a horrible book- Everything you Desire- yet another ill-conceived addition to the campus novel bandwagon about life at IIM-B. AVOID like the plague- poorly written and with little message beyond a retelling of campus antics.

A good book in contrast was Fiasco- about the Iraq war- very well written and timely.

Spent some time at the Delhi Book Fair last week, and had an interesting story for you guys- met the publisher of The Funda of Mix-ology, chatted with him, and got the author's contact. Have written to him, and got an instant reply- have asked him to come and visit the forum...lets see!

cheer
Ashish

i completely agree with ashish,i also got that book but couldnt go farther than just couple of pages..same old campus boring story,i donn knw why do authors set up these kind of books now,i mean that plot has been so used up now that i got to knw the whole story just by reading up the frst couple of pgs..ddidnt dare to go much further than that........

[spirit11]

Originally Posted by nostalgiuz

Has any1 read Shantaram??..planing to pick it up...
and also any comments on Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami??

Cheers
Rj

Hi Rj,

this link will help you in knowing more about Haruki...

he has got gr8 revies @pg and elsewhere...

Hard Boiled Wunderkind Momus

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/chit-c...-read-375.html (Some Books I have Read & Would Recommend)

[utsavmamoria]

Originally Posted by nostalgiuz

Has any1 read Shantaram??..planing to pick it up...
and also any comments on Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami??

Cheers
Rj

Hi

Sorry for some shamless blog promotion.But the link in my signature has a post on shantaram

The book is amazing to say the least. I feel its impossible not to like it

Yenjay