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[Ahtims]

a few of our members have added reading threads of their own, where they keep a short account of the books they read, and why they like/dislike those. This thread is mainly for the large majority, who haven't created threads of their own. Here you can add any book you have read and liked or disliked with reasons for the same. This will help other like minded people to choose their books.

[Sudhang]

This thread is a great idea.. i was feeling too shy about my bare "read" list this year to make a thread :P

[Sudhang]

Apart from Agatha Christie's "Ten Little N***", the last book I read was Perineum by Ambarish Satwik.

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Anbu]

A common place to share our reviews.. It's cool.. :)

[Ahtims]

Sudhang wrote: "Apart from Agatha Christie's "Ten Little N***", the last book I read was Perineum by Ambarish Satwik.

My review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..."

read your review and also review of the book at GR site, the titles of each chapter/story are really yucky.

[Sudhang]

hahahaa it's by far the yuckiest book I have ever read. I'll keep my post here PG13, but suffice to say, the first chapter itself has you retching. but it isn't gratuitous [mostly].

[Ahtims]

my curiosity makes me want to read this book :D

[Sudhang]

it's definitely worth a read at least. it's a fun read too, but some of the stories are quite bland. the gross-out factor is worth the price of admission :P
fair warning though: it's full of medical jargon. i had to constantly refer to the dictionary.

[Ahtims]

that's fine by me :D

[Harsha]

oh i didn't notice this thread until now... as sudhang said, i am quite not ready to start my own thread due to my small read-list this year... maybe i will open one in 2012, if the world doesnt end that is... lol!
I just completedWives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell and I am extremely disappointed and sad that the author couldn't complete it before she died, though i had been forewarned about the fact... apart frm that, i really enjoyed the book, though i would have enjoyed it better if i could have read the last chapter in Gaskel's own words... but well no use thinking about that..

[Ahtims]

world ends by the end of 2012 (hopefully not) so you have nearly 12 months :D
I like Elizabeth Gaskell's works, haven't read this one though.

[Harsha]

Smitha wrote: "world ends by the end of 2012 (hopefully not) so you have nearly 12 months :D
I like Elizabeth Gaskell's works, haven't read this one though."

Oh yeah, so i have time to make a thread...:-D
I have read her North and South before and liked it very much. I also watched its TV adaptation by BBC and almost fell in love with John Thornton (who is the male protagonist) and read the book twice again... lol

[Roomani]

recently......................tar baby..by tonni morrison n stars shine dowm by sheldon

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

Just started The City & the City by China Miéville. Anyone read Mieville before? I picked this up thinking it was pure sf, turns out it is sf/fantasy from what most reviewers say.

[Ahtims]

haven;t so far. And sadly somehow I can't digest SF and fantasy

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

I too haven't tried out any fantasy ever except for Harry Potter but I loved it - have read only a few sf books but then I absolutely loved their premise of a future world built through the present. Let's see what this one turns out like. I've just started and have just reached the 9th page - but it's already very interesting - starts with a murder and written like a movie script - I can visualize immediately what it'd look like onscreen. So far, it is very interesting.

[Divya]

i'm currently reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.. its a big read.. more than being into the story line the book is more political based... he is a great writer but no offense i'm just reading it to finish up what i started..

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

Divya wrote: "i'm currently reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.. its a big read.. more than being into the story line the book is more political based... he is a great writer but no offense i'm just reading it..."

I abandoned it mid-way due to its unending descriptions - and I don't regret it.

[dely]

I started a book about Shaivism in Kashmir.
I think it will take me a lot of time to read it because it is very long and because it is not easy, it is above all about philosophical concepts. It makes also a lot of comparisons among the Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta's Tantrism and the Upanishad of the Advaita Vedanta.

[Shivani]

Gone with the wind- It is a mammoth, but difficult to put down. Hopes are high that I finish it within a month.

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

dely wrote: "I started a book about Shaivism in Kashmir.
I think it will take me a lot of time to read it because it is very long and because it is not easy, it is above all about philosophical concepts. It mak..."

LOL, you seem more Indian than any of us :)

[Ahtims]

She is. Sometimes I am ashamed that my knowledge of Indian mythology and traditions is far less than dely's.

[dely]

No :D
I must read things you already know.

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

We hardly know these things. You definitely read more about India than us.

[Adite]

I read Oleander Girl recently and I liked it, though did not love it. Would like to know if any of you have read it. You can see my review here...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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I am reading "End of poverty" by Jeffery Sachs..I must say as a student of management I have found many holes in economics studied by me..

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present by M.A.R. Habib - Chapter 22 Psychoanalytic Criticism

[Adite]

Just finished Tell a Thousand Lies, Rasana Atreya's debut novel. Interesting premise and well told... You can check out my review here. http://wp.me/P1kv0N-h1

[Muddle head]

Adite wrote: "Just finished Tell a Thousand Lies, Rasana Atreya's debut novel. Interesting premise and well told... You can check out my review here. http://wp.me/P1kv0N-h1"

Good to hear Adite, i met the author a couple of times during our group meets here in Hyd, wanted to check out the book, didn't happen till date.

[Adite]

Good to hear Adite, i ..."

There is a offline goodreads group in Hyderabad?

[Muddle head]

We have group meets from time to time in major cities -
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

[dely]

I have finished the book about Shaivism; now I will start The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade.

From the sacred to the profane, I have to balance!

[Loribeth]

Just finished When Strangers meet.. by K. Hari Kumar and now gonna read The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

[Pallavi]

I am reading Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary and Sudha Murthy's How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories

I am finding Sudha Murthy's book so boring, full of gyan.... :( i might drop reading it. This was my first Sudha murthy book

[Muddle head]

Pallavi wrote: "I am reading Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary and Sudha Murthy's How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories

I am finding Sudha Murthy's book so boring, full of gyan.... :( i might..."

Tommy and Tuppence - a loveable pair, one of the few love stories she has ever penned. Someone told me the series is extended further taking them into their old age as well :) This book just keeps twisting and turning - it is never really over till the last page!

[Pallavi]

@Aditya: I have read T & T stories ulta i guess... I read them first when they were old. And now i am reading them as young :)

[Muddle head]

Pallavi wrote: "@Aditya: I have read T & T stories ulta i guess... I read them first when they were old. And now i am reading them as young :)"

haa... so its a flashback for u! i read this during a Christie marathon i guess - along with The Unexpected Guest;A Play In Two Acts. and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

This love story pleasantly surprised me, though the twists and turns left me a bit dizzy towards the end. Happy reading!!

[Pallavi]

Aditya wrote: "Pallavi wrote: "@Aditya: I have read T & T stories ulta i guess... I read them first when they were old. And now i am reading them as young :)"

haa... so its a flashback for u! i read this during ..."




grrrr.... The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
U had told who's the killer in advance :(

[Muddle head]

Ouch, let's erase that part from our memories!!! :-|

[Pallavi]

Aditya wrote: "Ouch, let's erase that part from our memories!!! :-|"

ha ha :)

[dely]

I have read only 50 pages of De Sade and then I no longer wanted to continue, wasn't in the mood.

Bought and started this morning The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

[Archana]

Just finished Can you keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella. It is a mood lifter.
Now i am planning to read A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif.

[Kunal]

Just Read:
Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray (Marie Seton)

Current Reading:
Love and Obstacles (Aleksandar Hemon)

About to Read:
Exile and the Kingdom (Albert Camus)

[Adite]

Just finished reading Sophie Kinsella's Can you Keep a Secret. It's fun, funny and hits both comic and emotional highs that make you feel you are on a roller-coaster ride. Though some of the situations were clearly over the top, they do make you laugh out loud.

[Muddle head]

Just read Rafa , a phenomenal read for me!

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

Aditya wrote: "Just read Rafa , a phenomenal read for me!"

TBRed! I loved a biography of Steffi Graf, but I can't make out which one it was :(

[Muddle head]

Lit Bug wrote: "Aditya wrote: "Just read Rafa , a phenomenal read for me!"

TBRed! I loved a biography of Steffi Graf, but I can't make out which one it was :("

Am shipping it out to an online friend from another reading community who happens to be a fan as well. I didn't think this is much of a biography... it's more abt his tennis than any of his other personal aspects. But then with Nadal, at the moment, its a very thin line between his tennis and his personal life. I don't see much of anything else in his life.

[[deleted user]]

About to finish - And the mountains echoed by Khaled Hosseini

[Lit Bug (Foram)]

I guess it is so with most sportspersons - their sports training take up most of their waking hours - the one about Graf included her personal life and trials as well, including how her husband Andre Agassi played an important part in her life - there was a documentary too. But never saw a documentary on Nadal - did you buy it online or from a chain store like Landmark or Crossword?

[Muddle head]

Lit Bug wrote: "I guess it is so with most sportspersons - their sports training take up most of their waking hours - the one about Graf included her personal life and trials as well, including how her husband An..."

online, flipkart. Next in line is Agassi's biography, abt a kid who hated tennis!

Rafa has to be read to understand how fragile the individual Rafael Nadal is, how he is still terrified of lightning and thunder, how sensitive a kid he is, even at this age, and how his entire team (unchanged since the beginning) holds him together from falling apart, under pressure from his seemingly inhuman coach-uncle Toni! Rafa, the player is so unique a combination, so unique a team that its almost impossible to replicate, unless God is in a lazy mood and decides to do a copy-paste job :P Though his appearance is physically frightening, its his mental training and preparation that makes the difference, that made an ordinary tennis player (not much of a talent) into a champion, the same difference that reduced the other champion, with god-given talent, to tears!