Reviews on books

deepshi said:
well..eh! i read his ZAHIR... n there was nthin unusual...just a waste of time!:o
of course,,,THE DA VINCI CODE is really worth a reading...
(christianity ki dhajjiyan udaa rakhi hain;) )
n theres dis novel- TOXIN.,. fgot d author's name. bt dats also mind-boggling!
den there r Sidney Sheldon ones...alwaz rock...mesmerizing!;) :)
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The Alchemist is a really good story about pursuing dreams...!!
giv it a shot...!!!!
 
Another good Book from Amatya Sen:

The idea of Justice

Allen Lane an imprint of
Penguin Books
2009
One of the few contemporary powered thinkers and the best argumentative indian, Amartya Sen has given us yet another work containing rich food for thought , easily digestible in his recent book 'The Idea of Justice'.Hetre sen takes a fresh lookon the concept of justice.he goes on to examine the extant theoriesof justiceand shows how they have gone in thwwrong direction.He emphasisis is on how to reduce injustice.And for this he insistsupon the recignition of the role of public reason in brining about a society less unjust .In his principals of justice their is no place forparochialism. he would rather wish for global removal of injustice. In this 18 chaptyers book divided into four parts Sen refreshingly brings new insisightsin the interpretation of the central theme of the Bhagvadgita in the context of the exporion of his Idea of justice. He beatifully represents the respective case of Arjuna and Shri Krishna while he discusses concept of Niti and Nyaya. A good book to be read with profit by all, especially the yputh. at readers who fondly expand their caste name into 'Truth And justice' will find in the book a lot to agree with.
 
Book : Premashram
By : Munshi Premchand

It is a nice book and provides indepth study about the prevailing socio economic structure during 1920s...
at many places some points are not clear to me because they are no more relevent to us nowadays......Sometimes I think how our children will be able to understand these masteroieces
 
The Great Divorce by C.S Lewis

The book is about the difference between heaven and hell. Hell, seems so big when you are in it. All the little excuses we build around ourselves seem so important to us when we are unhappy. They seem like the most important things in the world. Heaven-When your emotional core is filled with strength, the whole world becomes friendlier, brighter, filled with opportunity. Everything is smooth, and cool. People like you and things seem to fall into place.The emotional charge of everything you perceive around you is dictated by your emotional core.
 
Books are one's best friends !!

As I picked up “To kill a Mocking Bird” for a hundredth time today, I wondered how much affection we have for our books! Some books really become inseparable for us. Fiction, motivational, biographies, travelogues, there is so much to choose from, we are spoilt for choice.

Of fiction I really cherish “To kill a Mocking Bird, The Alchemist and Pride & Prejudice”. Although known for his tragedies I love Shakespeare for his “Taming of shrew & Comedy of Errors” (the latter adapted in a movie “Angoor”). And who can forget our very own good old “Malgudi Days”.

Have you ever wondered how some characters reflect just us or someone we know! How we want to be like our favourite characters (I always wanted to be like Scout from “To kill a Mocking Bird”, bold, courageous, intelligent, quick witted, how innocent she was!). I so wish my father could be like Atticus (although my father is a very nice man, but no one could be like Atticus, he’s an ideal). Ever thought how we dread some characters (Voldemort), how we adore some (good old Dumbledore), how we hate some (Malfoy), (all from Harry Potter), how we are fascinated by some (Mr Darcy of Pride & Prejudice fame), how we are irritated by some (Lydia & her mother from same book), how we cannot understand some as many times we may read them ( Mr Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, I can never understand his psyche).

How our state of mind changes with that of characters we adore, we laugh with them, we cry with them, we live in their world while reading about them!

Do you have a fetish for a particular book, a particular character (I like Emma from Pride & Prejudice), and a particular incident (like Mr Darcy proposing Emma!) ??
Have you been wishing to take time off to grab your the copy of your favourite book n curl on lazily on sofa spending an entire night or an afternoon with it or you are eyeing some new ones ( I have a big list) ??

Common take some time out of your lives and indulge in the world of books, Steal some memories from your childhood and relive those glorious days with your favourite characters !!

P.S.: When you are gifting someone with books, you are truly gifting them memories which last longer………
 
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Dear Moderators,

I haven't reviewed any book in my post
guess u should've left it independent without moving it in here !!!!!!
 
Super Freakonomics is a sequel for Freakonomics. Both books are excellent - very engrossing. Everyday phenomena explained from an economics perspective. They are blockbuster books like the movie Sholay.

Here is the New York Times Freakonomics blog

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

Here is the link to the books on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/SuperFreakonomics-Cooling-Patriotic-Prostitutes-Insurance/dp/0060889578/

http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338/
 
People interested in some light reading on the origin of Indian Cuisine may find
"Curry: Tale of Cooks and Conquerors" interesting. One finds the exact Tamil and Telgu words that give Mulligawtny soup its name, difference between pulao and biryani and which ancient rulers liked what of out of them, meaning of the word 'Curry'. The book attempts to give historical perspective to the Indian Cuisine and how it evolved.
 
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Mishti said:
As I picked up “To kill a Mocking Bird” for a hundredth time today, I wondered how much affection we have for our books! Some books really become inseparable for us. Fiction, motivational, biographies, travelogues, there is so much to choose from, we are spoilt for choice.

Of fiction I really cherish “To kill a Mocking Bird, The Alchemist and Pride & Prejudice”. Although known for his tragedies I love Shakespeare for his “Taming of shrew & Comedy of Errors” (the latter adapted in a movie “Angoor”). And who can forget our very own good old “Malgudi Days”.

Have you ever wondered how some characters reflect just us or someone we know! How we want to be like our favourite characters (I always wanted to be like Scout from “To kill a Mocking Bird”, bold, courageous, intelligent, quick witted, how innocent she was!). I so wish my father could be like Atticus (although my father is a very nice man, but no one could be like Atticus, he’s an ideal). Ever thought how we dread some characters (Voldemort), how we adore some (good old Dumbledore), how we hate some (Malfoy), (all from Harry Potter), how we are fascinated by some (Mr Darcy of Pride & Prejudice fame), how we are irritated by some (Lydia & her mother from same book), how we cannot understand some as many times we may read them ( Mr Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, I can never understand his psyche).

How our state of mind changes with that of characters we adore, we laugh with them, we cry with them, we live in their world while reading about them!

Do you have a fetish for a particular book, a particular character (I like Emma from Pride & Prejudice), and a particular incident (like Mr Darcy proposing Emma!) ??
Have you been wishing to take time off to grab your the copy of your favourite book n curl on lazily on sofa spending an entire night or an afternoon with it or you are eyeing some new ones ( I have a big list) ??

Common take some time out of your lives and indulge in the world of books, Steal some memories from your childhood and relive those glorious days with your favourite characters !!

P.S.: When you are gifting someone with books, you are truly gifting them memories which last longer………
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Sorry the name is Elizabeth, wrote Emma as I was reading Madame Bovary those days, got upon this thread by chance today and realised the mistake !!
 
Ishmael is an interesting work by David Quinn.It deals and tends to define some basic questions that has been narrated in the forms of Socratic dialogue.

It is more of a dialgoue between Pupil and Guru. One excerpt says:-

"The premise of the Takers' story is 'The world belongs to man.' ...The premise of the Leavers' story is 'Man belongs to the world.'"

"For three million years, man belonged to the world and because he belonged to the world, he grew and developed and became brighter and more dexterous until one day, he was so bright and so dexterous that we had to call him Homo sapiens sapiens-- which means he was us."

"The Leavers' story is 'the gods made man for the world, the same way they made salmon and sparrows for the world. This seems to have worked well so far so we can take it easy and leave the running of the world to the gods'
 
i used to read a lott of buks earlier ,,, n few o em ve been a worth readin,,,,, like the secret!! by rhonda byrne ts very inspirin,, n den d oder one was the power of now! ,,,,dere was dis funny buk,,, which really made a lot o sense n i personally feel every gal shud read t once ,, d buk s " He"s not that into you",, dunn remember who wrote t but was an awesome read,,, de current buk m readin s "A princess remembers: autobiography of maharani gayatri devi",,, loved the pictres in tha
 
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ishika said:
i used to read a lott of buks earlier ,,, n few o em ve been a worth readin,,,,, like the secret!! by rhonda byrne ts very inspirin,, n den d oder one was the power of now! ,,,,dere was dis funny buk,,, which really made a lot o sense n i personally feel every gal shud read t once ,, d buk s " He"s not that into you",, dunn remember who wrote t but was an awesome read,,, de current buk m readin s "A princess remembers: autobiography of maharani gayatri devi",,, loved the pictres in tha
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Its always refreshing when someone discusses English literature in SMS.
 
Bhupinder said:
The Alchemist is wonderful book.

If you want to know your life and your destiny then read it.
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I barely managed to finish it. The whole destiny and "If you really want something, you will see signs pointing to it" jazz annoyed me big time. Was okay for a while, but then got on to my nerves when he kept repeating it throughout the book.
 
Finallyyyyyy.................!!! May be people did not to go against the popular review, worried that they might have missed something "intelligent" in the book. And suffer an off-hand admission that the book was beyond their comprehension/ over their IQ!!! :D

kapil.dalal said:
I barely managed to finish it. The whole destiny and "If you really want something, you will see signs pointing to it" jazz annoyed me big time. Was okay for a while, but then got on to my nerves when he kept repeating it throughout the book.
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anjoo said:
Finallyyyyyy.................!!! May be people did not to go against the popular review, worried that they might have missed something "intelligent" in the book. And suffer an off-hand admission that the book was beyond their comprehension/ over their IQ!!! :D
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...Hmm, my word! ...somehow would seem tad boorish here to then try and so completely preclude 'that' from the possibility, wouldn't you say?...


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ps. 'Books' as directly compared to most other things... become 'popular' and attain a reputation over the years for the most obvious of reasons ONLY...
...and oh, as a side-note trivia detail (not that it reflects on the above discussion much) 'The Alchemist' holds the world record for the most translated book by a living author......... I know, go figure! ;)
 
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Yeah.....alcohol, smoking.......alchemist.........and of course.....herd mentality, fitting in!!!! :)
shailendra said:
...Hmm, my word! ...somehow would seem tad boorish here to then try and so completely preclude 'that' from the possibility, wouldn't you say?...


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ps. 'Books' as directly compared to most other things... become 'popular' and attain a reputation over the years for the most obvious of reasons ONLY...
...and oh, as a side-note trivia detail (not that it reflects on the above discussion much) 'The Alchemist' holds the world record for the most translated book by a living author......... I know, go figure! ;)
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