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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:24 AM
Mine are:
The Alchemist -Paulo Coelho
The Lord of the Rings, the trilogy-J.R.R. Tolkien
Bridget Jones's Diary-Helen Fielding ;=)
The Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
The God of small things-Arundhati Roy
Am reading..
Howards End-E. M. Forster
The Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison
Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy-Douglas Adams
The picture of dorian gray- Oscar Wilde
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ps: i happend to read this short story on suskera.com by a nepali dude.. i loved it... i find the way he writes very interesting.. very humourous..
http://www.suskera.com/mar2004/football.html
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| chubby_cheeks |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:39 AM
my all time favorite book
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Spark
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
~`CC`~
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| chubby_cheeks |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:41 AM
right now...i'm reading fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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| stillontheshelf |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:47 AM
manus1...read all books u placed as your favourite, pretty much agree except the God of Small Things. found it a bit of an anti climax.
best ever book is the trilogy you mention and I'm not saying that cos of the movies.
paulo cohelo was good, lovely ending. and helen fielding is just tooooo funny...makes us all 'inadequate' women feel like bridget.
i'd like to add memoirs of a geisha by arthur goldstein (think the surname is wrong), the classic wuthering heights by emily bronte, canterbury tales by arthur miller and finally beastly tales by vikram seth.
at the moment reading the bhagavad gita, and next whale rider but forget the authors name.
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| trin1ty |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:54 AM
Favorite:
Portrait of an Artist by James Joyce
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoevsky
Books I am reading now:
Toulouse-Lautrec Fin de Siecle
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Genome by Matthew Ridley
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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:56 AM
oooooh yeah wuthering heights...
also, the hobbit
i remember right after finishing reading bridget jones's diary, we started keeping journals just like her for a couple of months..maybe it was couple of weeks... :=0
i loved the movie too
colin firth ...mmmmm
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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:59 AM
Have been meaning to read ulysses by james joyce.. but i have been feeling intimidated.. heard it's a very hard book to read...
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| kalebhut |
Posted
on 03-May-04 10:16 AM
I enjoyed reading these books.
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Video night in Ktm - Pico Iyer
Memoirs of a geisha- Arthur Golden
Into thin air- Jan Krakeur
David copperfield- Charles Dickens
Guru of love- Samrat Upadhyay
The great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book I’m reading now: bible and my psychology textbooks.
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| chubby_cheeks |
Posted
on 03-May-04 10:20 AM
myan great gatsby rocks!!by the way..i like ethan frome by edith wharton
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 03-May-04 10:23 AM
Too Many to recall. Now, I am contented to read all of your lists; some of the books mentioned have jogged my memory.
Manas, great thread there!
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| kalebhut |
Posted
on 03-May-04 10:25 AM
And,
Erotica- Margaret Reynolds.(Parental guidance recommended- strictly no for juveniles)
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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 03-May-04 10:34 AM
Manaslu--- but the username was already taken so had to settle for Manas1u ;-)
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| porcelina |
Posted
on 03-May-04 11:04 AM
ohh... here, i'm going to bore you all AGAIN:
The Chronicles of Narnia was the last thing i read... well, not really, cause technically, the last thing i read was about the eipthelial cells lining the ducts of the salivary glands.. .so...
i loved The Guru Of Love... couldn't put it down... !
Manaslu, if you liked Bridjet Jones Diary, you'll also like the books by Marian Keyes. Shes an Irish author, and she posseses this really funny yet un_cheesy (the word is my own invention btw) aura about her...
I'm a big fan of Irish Literature.. writers like Roddy Doyle.. etc are absolutely brilliant!
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| HarvestMoon |
Posted
on 03-May-04 11:30 AM
Manas1u,
Here is the list of books that I have enjoyed reading:
Hotel Hampshire - Jorn Irving
Cider House Rules - "
World According to Garp - "
Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy - Dauglas Adams
Resturant at the End of Universe - "
Life, Universe and Everything - "
Goodbye and thanks for All the Fish - " (Didn't like it much... but some might!)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - JRR Tolkien
Hobbit - "
Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl
Switch Bitch - "
My Uncle Oswald - " (Highly recommended if you enjoy laughing your brains out... rolling on the floor and kicking your feet in the air... ;-))
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Beau Gueste - Christopher P. Wren
The book I am currently reading is the translated version of Seto Bagh...'The Wake of the White Tiger' - Diamond Shamsher (Should have read it a long time back)
It's fun recalling names of books that one had enjoyed greatly...! This is all I could remember ... !
HarvestMoon
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| porcelina |
Posted
on 03-May-04 11:36 AM
i loved the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... i've read em all over and over again!!
i cant say i care much for Paulo Coehlo's "the alchemist', though... :(
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| bhattu |
Posted
on 03-May-04 11:41 AM
best books i have read
1 THE BOURNE IDENTITY
2 THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
3 THE BOURNE ULTIMATEM
4 THE PARCIFAL MOSIAC
all 4 by ROBERT LUDLUM
1 DIFFERENT SEASONS
2 THE SHINING
3 NIGHT SHIFT
4 THE TALISMAN
by stephen king
1 THE CALL OF CHUTLUH AND CHUTHULU MYTHOS
by H.P LOVECRAFT
1 EATERS OF THE DEAD
MICHAEL CRITHON ????
1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME
BY STEPHEN HAWKINGS
forgive my spelling errors
i'll add more i forgot most of the stuffs i read
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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 03-May-04 11:46 AM
Has anyone read "Me talk pretty one day" by David Sedaris? It is sooooooooooooo funny.. especially the part where they are trying to have a conversation in French in a French class..(reminded me of my own french class) I was laughing out loud in the subway...
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| trin1ty |
Posted
on 03-May-04 12:59 PM
Have begun Ulysses but did not get far...will pick it up again soon. It is a pretty long book. Will take almost one semester or more to get through it!
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| isolated freak |
Posted
on 03-May-04 01:11 PM
Search For Modern China- Joanthan Spence
Jihad Vs. McWorld- Benjamin Barber
Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos- Robert Kaplan
Roosevelt's Secret War (forgot the author)
The Rape of Nanking- Iris Chang
How To Read Karl Marx- Ernest Fisher
Political Awakening in Nepal- PR Uprety
Tyas Bakhat ko Nepal- Sardar Bhim Bahadur Pandey
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers|@Paul Kennedy
The Da Vinci Code- Dan@Brown
The Analects- Confusious
The Art of War- Sun Tzu
Patterns of Culture- Ruth@Benedict
Nisa-Marjorie Shastok
Fan@Shen- Willian Hinton
and soon Iell be getting iThanks to AmazonBCom and a friendjF
1B KhruschevFThe Man and His Time
2B Longitudes and@Attitudes
3B In Retrospect
4B The Nation-State and the Crisis of World Politics: Essays on International Politics in the Twentieth Century
5B The Breaking of Nations : Order and Chaos in the Twenty-First Century
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| urbi |
Posted
on 03-May-04 01:16 PM
Rich dad and Poor dad
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| MunnaBhai |
Posted
on 03-May-04 01:58 PM
These are my all time favs:
1. The Hound of Baskerville
2. Study in Scarlet
3. Valley of Fear
4. Sign of Four
I know ..I know..I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and all the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle of his fictitious detective and Dr. Watson.
5. Gone with Wind- Ernest Hemmingway
6. The war and peace- Leo Tolstoy
7. Uncle Vanya- Antov Chekhov
8. Mother- Maxim Gorky
9. All the short stories by Guy De Maupassant
10. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
11. Pride and prejuidice-Jane Austen
12.Tale of two cities- Charles Dickens
13.Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Murder of Roger
14.Tales of Mystery and Imagination-Edgar Allan Poe
15. The Prince-Machiavelli
16.Stanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
17.Treasue Island-Robert Louis Stenvenson
18. All Short Stories of James Headly Chase
19. The Adventures of Hucklelberry Finn- Mark Twain
20.Shawshank Redemption- Stephen King
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| MunnaBhai |
Posted
on 03-May-04 02:04 PM
Anton*
Stanic*
Treasure*
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| MunnaBhai |
Posted
on 03-May-04 02:05 PM
lol..it's Satanic*
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| rohini_a |
Posted
on 03-May-04 02:15 PM
Satanic verses sucked big hanging dingdong. I am sorry, but that's how I felt.
"To be born again you have to die first"
Is that even true? What a moron Salman Pushkin is.
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| ALLY74 |
Posted
on 03-May-04 09:31 PM
The Sucker Punch by James Headly Chase(hindi movie "aar ya paar" is based on this novel)
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| monika |
Posted
on 04-May-04 04:23 AM
i love reading about paranormal,computers and medical thrillers...one such book that i thoroughly enjoyed is Host by Peter James....another one..third twin by Ken Follett.
loved reading....Alchemist-Paulo Coelho
Atlas shrugged-Ann Rynd
God of small things-Arundhati Roy
An equal music-Vikram Seth
Suitable boy-"
To kill a mocking bird-Harper Lee
Phew....the list is endless,i can go on and on.........
At the moment i'm reading...Veronika decides to die by Paulo Coelho...just started off...seems to be interesting !!!
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| lll_lll |
Posted
on 04-May-04 05:37 AM
My all time fav. book is Charlotte's web. Read it maybe 7-8 years ago when I was in 7 grade, infact, it was the first ever book I ever read. Don't even remember the authors name now. Great children's novel with bitter reality embedded in it.
Other than that, I love science fiction by Issac Isamov - the best one ever. Read his foundation trilogy - simply awesome.
Thumbs up to MuniBhai, I love Sherlock Holmes stories. I have read almost all of them, not to mention, Hounds of Baskerville is the best one.
Lord of the Rings trilogy rocks.
Right now:
The Bluest eyes - Tony Morrison
The legend of John Brown - dunno the author coz don't have the book in front of me.
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| rohini_a |
Posted
on 04-May-04 05:43 AM
The foundation series was the best I have ever read, hands down.
How about Dune?
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| Manas1u |
Posted
on 04-May-04 06:53 AM
snowcrash-Neal Stephenson
want to read==Neuromancer by William Gibson
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| baadal |
Posted
on 04-May-04 07:37 AM
manas1u, i loved "me talk pretty one day"! lll_lll, charlotte's web was written by e.b. white -- i still cherish my copy.
some other books that i have enjoyed are:
south asian authors:
shyam selvudarai's "funny boy"
shuana singh baldwin's "what the body remembers"
raj kamal jha's "blue bedspread"
bharti kirchner's "darjeeling" -- great for tea-lovers
general:
han suyin's "the mountain is young"
dorothy allison's "bastard out of carolina"
sandra cisneros' "house on mango street"
so much for now.
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| OU812 |
Posted
on 04-May-04 07:47 AM
Current fav author - Tom Robbins
Even the cowgirls get the blues - (Movie with Uma Thurman with copious amount of scent of women "combo of tuna/perfume", a chinese hermit who dances to bolero and news)
Still life with woodpecker - ********** (philosophy,red heads, romance, raunch, Hawaii, princess, outlaw, dynamite all tightly packed in a Camel Ciggi pack)
Fierce Invalids from Warmer Climates - ***** (The wacky hero, a CIA spy can name female organ in 70 different language)
Another Roadside attraction - So So
Jitterbug Perfume - (a Viking King escapes death and embarks on world adventure where he meets shaman who informs him that earth is actually round rather than flat, then meets Pan(Horny Goatie God) shares nymphs, is now in a monastery in Himalaya… reading)
Skinny legs and all - ( Next)
Half asleep in frogs pyjamas- (Next)
Indira Gandhi - Katherine Frank
Fantastic insight into the life of original woman of substance, the girl power et all, true daughter of Pandit Nehru and India. Extra juicy bits; inspired countless hindi movies with tales of corruption and sleaze. Infamous son Sanjay Gandhi bulldozed slums of Delhi, pocketed millions of dollars from his peoples car venture now known as "Maruti", radical family planning (snipped snipped almost 3 million men to curb population explosion), smear campaign against opposition Jagjivan Ram using compromising pictures of his 40+ married son with Delhi University student. hehehehe...I bet guys are googling right this moment. To speed up your search, go to tabloid section of Hindustantimes. You might be in for disappointment though. However, I assure you Protima Bedi (R.I.P) will make you smile. Charitrahin Chelis should take inspiration from her.
Counter Investigation - Devendra Gautam
Detailed account of life inside Hanuman Dhoka (Khor), where he was incarcerated without trial for 9 months. From Ghoos, beatings, prostitution, etc all in there. Make you want to line up all policemen and shoot them to kingdom come.
Next 2 = Arresting God in Ktm and Guru of Love. (Still waiting from Poonte)
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| sinke |
Posted
on 04-May-04 04:47 PM
I loved God of Small things. Superb narration....
Reading Vernon God Little, interesting, but, too many F words...
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| honeybuzz |
Posted
on 04-May-04 05:25 PM
1 Only the wind Remembers (marlo Schalesky)
Best on actual historical events
2 Kaaterskill falls (Allegra Goodman)
3The Plague Dogs (Richard Adams)
4The Generals daughter (Nelson Demillie)
5.The charm school ( '' )
6 How could you do that?? ( DR laura i forget last name)
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| Rosie |
Posted
on 04-May-04 09:46 PM
Not to sound cheesy but what about the greatest romance of all? "Gone with the Wind" I read this book when I was nineteen and thought that I was over the whole stupid "teenager crying over fictional characters phase." But I'm not lying when I say that this book put me on depression for a week. God, what powerful characters and what a great story!
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