[vileye]

Originally Posted by globetrekker

read quite a few books in the past two weeks.

The curious incident of the dog in the night time - read it for the second time. I am once again impressed by the innovative writing style and obscure humour of the author.

Ladies Coupe by anita nair - Poignant. Its a tale of a single 45 yr old woman called Akhila , her trials and tribunals in life. how she breaks out of the prescribed image of a 45 year old spinster by travelling all by herself in a ladies coupe . it is here where she gets to know four other women , their stories each unique in themselves. good read yet made me wonder why do books by indian authors tend to leave a bitter aftertaste. Nonetheless good read.

The emperor's new mind - a tale of modern physics loved it !

English august - upmanyu chatterjee - one of the best books i have read so far which portrays the change in the new generation of indians. how the change creeps in. what are factors which bring in these changes . most interestingly the demographic contrast in the society is put forward by a nothing but a brat is a fine journey.

The impressionist - Hari Kunzru - extremely witty narration of how a white skinned half Indian boy gets disowned by the high cast only to live as a cross dresser in a brothel. His struggles to live a fine life, not entirely moral or ethical but a life made of choices , a life of a survivor despite what fate brought for him.

I am reading A fine balance by rohinton mistry...so far so good!

you are like an automatic teller machine. Now that's what i call speed! Thanks for the reviews. Would look forward to read one of those if i stumbe upon any.

[sarsij]

Just finished reading 'If God Was a Banker' by Ravi subramanyam

Interesting read........

All I say is that it - even if 10% of what he has written about the high-flying careers in this corporate world, then I believe it nothing but the hell!

Although the book is more like Hindi Cinema with all possible masala and item numbers, but still worth a read........it gives an insight of the dirty corporate world.

[globetrekker]

Originally Posted by vileye

you are like an automatic teller machine. Now that's what i call speed! Thanks for the reviews. Would look forward to read one of those if i stumbe upon any.

Oh well ! automatic teller machine is much better than being called a bookworm I guess
Boring lectures in college act as catalysts to finish the novels one after another
English August is best of the lot

[ankit.3k]

Recently finished An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa...

It is a novel by a Pakistani author and is very well written... Book is set in late 70s and talks about America from a visitor's perspective who has been there for the first time..

Overall a nice read...

put up the review at An American Brat Book Review.

[vileye]

Originally Posted by globetrekker

Oh well ! automatic teller machine is much better than being called a bookworm I guess
Boring lectures in college act as catalysts to finish the novels one after another
English August is best of the lot

I simply used to bunk the lectures. I was one of those who had a consistent record of being in the defaulter's list. Books were only meant to be at home.

Right now I'm reading Adventures of Feluda by Satyajit Ray. There are two volumes of it. Feluda is a young sleuth, he solves cases with his wit like tintin. It's a nice read. I would recommend it to everyone if you are looking for some recreation.

[vileye]

@sarsij
thanks for clarifying on "If God Was a Banker".
There seems to be a lot of debate going on over it in this thread.

[Abhishek_fr_CAT]

This post will act as a repository of the books that I have read so far, since I began my MBA journey.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME - Stephen Hawking
A FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway
BUSINESS STRIPPED BARE - Richard Branson
COSMOS - Carl Sagan
FIVE POINT SOMEONE - Chetan Bhagat
FREAKONOMICS - Stephen Levitt
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY - Eric Berne
GLOBAL PARADOX - John Naisbitt
I BROUGHT THE MONK'S FERRARI - Ravi Subramaniam
IGNITED MINDS - APJ Abdul Kalam
IMAGINING INDIA - Nandan Nilekani
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL - Richard Bach
MALGUDI DAYS - RK Narayan
MEIN KAMPF - Adolf Hitler
ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTRE - Chetan Bhagat
HARRY POTTER series - JK Rowling
POWER SHIFT - Alvin Toffler
SNAPSHOTS FROM HELL - Peter Robinson
SELECTED WRITINGS - Friedrich Nietzsche
SNOW - Orhan Pamuk
THE 3 MISTAKES OF MY LIFE - Chetan Bhagat
THE ALCHEMIST - Paulo Coelho
THE CLASS - Erich Segal
THE DA VINCI CODE - Dan Brown
THE FOUNTAINHEAD - Ayn Rand
THE GODFATHER - Mario Puzo
THE GOOGLE WAY - Daniel Vise
THE GREAT INDIAN SCAM - SK Barua and JR Varma
THE WHITE TIGER - Aravind Adiga
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
THE NAMESAKE - Jhumpa Lahiri
THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG - David Schwartz
THE TOYOTA WAY - Jeffrey K Liker
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE - Stephen Covey
THE WORLD IS FLAT - Thomas L Friedman


I plan to make this a one page post before CAT '09.

Regards,
Abhishek

[coolbryan_love]

Originally Posted by sarsij

Just finished reading 'If God Was a Banker' by Ravi subramanyam

Interesting read........

All I say is that it - even if 10% of what he has written about the high-flying careers in this corporate world, then I believe it nothing but the hell!

Although the book is more like Hindi Cinema with all possible masala and item numbers, but still worth a read........it gives an insight of the dirty corporate world.

Well I read that few weeks back...

what I see is that after 5 Point Someone every Indian author is tryin to come up with a similar stories....
They try to bring the real picture of the things in a humourous way...n coz of this suddenly there is an upsurge in number of Indian authors9esp from IITs and IIMs)

By the way I wd recommend that for everyone...esp MBA aspirants with high dreams....

[geminishivani]

Just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Awesome is the word for that! The story, the narration, the character sketches, everything is just perfect. The only thing i did not totally agree was the way he got out of his guilt. Read the book to find out more..

Its a must read and can comply with your moods any and everytime.

Waiting to lay my hands on another book..
Till then..

happy reading

Shivani

[gammafunction]

I am currently reading "India after Gandhi" and I would say it is an amazing book-the way post independence India is brought out By Guha is mesmeric.