tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81125922011-04-21T13:28:48.021-07:00Cover blown, tail between legs i come here. Reborn as chanakya. Older, wiser, yet as irreverent as ever.chanakyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587410235056519650noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8112592.post-1111876228706461482005-03-26T13:44:00.000-08:002005-03-26T14:30:28.710-08:00asterix - we all have to read comics once in a while. for me, it's asterix. a little history, a little play on words, great characters and drawings.<br /><br />sexus - if you get past the sex, really the story of what is true in life.<br /><br />midnight's children - starting this book is like quitting smoking. i've done it 5 times now. its not a casual bedtime read - need to know indian history to really appreciate it.<br /><br />parkinson: the law - liked it when i first read thinking it was fiction. loved it later when i found it was well researched.<br /><br />hitchhikers guide .. - learnt that sci-fi is not my cup of tea. that said, if it were, this would be my favorite.<br /><br />colo<em>u</em>r of magic - part fantasy, part fable. reality and fiction weaved together for a surreal read. left me wanting more - never did get around to reading anything else from pratchett.<br /><br />of paradise and power by kagan - an essay stretched to a book. us is strong, europe is weak. who knew.<br /><br />poetry of robert frost - new england pathos flows abundant. <br /><br />1984 - so it didn't happen. read it and the fear that it can will never leave you. big brother is watching.<br /><br />catch-22 - war's crazy, so what better than a crazy war book. ask major major major major. <br /><br />cather in the rye - great book on growing pains. we all felt that way once. guess now is probably a good time to go back and reread it.<br /><br />a suitable boy - 1200 pages of utter trash. some amount of history and sociology, but too much melodrama. your typical boy meets girls love story in rosy english.<br /><br />the god of small things - the bitch should be shot. writes crap, talks crap - sorry to say she is indian.<br /><br />lolita - now here's a twisted tale of illicit relationships. there's a little of humbert in all of us. scary thought but true.<br /><br />the grapes of wrath - a migrants quest for survival. slavery, exploitation, economics, drama. it's all there.<br /><br />of mice and men - another must read. short, touching, disturbing. the way of the world. <br /><br />wilt - british slapstick. funny the first time around.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8112592-111187622870646148?l=arthashasan.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>chanakyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587410235056519650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8112592.post-1111730342751981012005-03-24T21:30:00.000-08:002005-03-24T21:59:02.753-08:00piled up my book collection to weed out some stuff - back of my mind i'm thinking wtf am i going to do with all these when i go to school. <br /><br />i've become a lot more picky about what books i buy now. back in bombay, every weekend we'd be on book street (me and a very close friend both loved to read). used books (and i admit,the occasional knock off) cost less than a buck each - we bought tons. i read so many that i hardly remember much from any one now. <br /><br />reading all the BW boards, it's funny how different my reading choices are - everybody wants to read cheesy management books and i want, well, you'll see...<br /><br />surely you're joking mr. feynman - amazing guy. the best kind of crazy. everybody should read once.<br /><br />the old man and mr. smith - laugh out loud funny. god and the devil come to earth to check out how things are going. witty and insightful inside, funny on the outside.<br /><br />the great game - afghanistan has been war country for centuries - read up on the history, albeit from a we're brits we're holier than thou perspective.<br /><br />how to lie with statistics - somebody actually wrote down what you always suspected about those scheming statisticians.<br /><br />yes minister/yes prime minister - brit humor and political memoir. read it and get over your naivete.<br /><br />the innocence of father brown - amazing mystery short stories. ok, so many have predictable endings but still more enjoyable than chritie.<br /><br />an enemy of the people - idealism vs. pragmatism - guess which wins.<br /><br />the name of the rose - thriller with subplot. somebody translate the damn latin.<br /><br />may it please your hono<em>u</em>r - read both sides of gandhi's assassination before judging the assassin.<br /><br />animal farm - the truest fable ever written. <br /><br />economics in one lesson - most economic sense anything has ever made. should be compulsory reading for everybody.<br /><br />rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead - remember r&g from hamlet? now they star in a book entirely unlike the original - and yet based on its events. what,after all, is choice?<br /><br />the fountainhead - great outlet for angst in years past. be like us or die. no shades of gray here - and no empathy. <br /><br />the prophet - great for when you're really down, very corny in normal circumstances.<br /><br />good stuff - cynical view of the writing of a novel. devastatingly funny. <br /><br />that's the first pile. another pile for another day. <br /><br />funny how some things make sense from a distance. can't see the mountain when you're on it and all ...<br /><br />as for the recurring theme of what to do before bschool - i know what i'm going to do - ROAD TRIP!<br /><br />gonna take a month off and drive coast to coast visiting every friend i have. probably not going to keep in touch as much once school starts. plus i love to drive. flying sucks - unless of course you are in the cockpit. till that happens, the open roads beckon.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8112592-111173034275198101?l=arthashasan.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>chanakyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587410235056519650noreply@blogger.com3