I completed ‘India: From Midnight to Millenium’ and ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’. Then I began on the Anne Rice novel before I gave it up two-three days hence…
Anyways, there are so many books at home that I haven’t read yet. The complete Sherlock Holmes collection, the complete O Henry collection, the Ruskin Bond collection, Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, Herodotus, The Iliad, the complete G B Shaw collection of plays, ‘Discovery of India’, ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, ‘Lila’, ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’, Swami Vivekananda’s works… No requirement to go to the library any time now…
radhika74 says:
read ruskin bond next..you won’t regret it.
June 7, 2004 — 10:32 am
Lakshmi says:
Have read some of his stuff before; not all.
June 7, 2004 — 10:37 am
srusrid says:
one more to the list
read da vinci code..as i said before…
lovely book…i mean its been aeons since i read this sorta thriller stuff..kintu..this was definitely one of the better crafted ones..it had cryptic clues; for the flight this was perfect..kept me engrossed and there are some very occultish fundaes which will make u wanna research mroe(like iam doing right now)on the topic
June 7, 2004 — 1:01 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: one more to the list
I’ve already heard LOADS about this one; shall pick it up soon…
June 8, 2004 — 5:36 am
thefirstidiot says:
You know what, I have the strangest sense of Deja Vu here. I had almost exactly the same words repeated to me by my roommate in Pune 2 weeks back. And a lot of people seem to be all enthu about this book.
Sru!! A bigger review required. Not a teensy weensy line or two…
And is Shashi Tharoor a writer or what! Lakshmi, if you liked “Millenium…”, then try reading RIOT, and my personal fav “The great Indian Novel”. I guess you must have read this by now…
– Ashwin
June 7, 2004 — 6:41 pm
Lakshmi says:
Ash, Tharoor didn’t strike me as being very impressive, sorry to say… I liked ‘The Great Indian Novel’; was rather taken up by the concept and his proficiency in English. But ‘India: From…’ struck me as heavily verbose.. somewhat repetitive too. Pinch read Tharoor’s latest offering on Nehru and had the same thing to say.
What did your Pune roomie tell you??!! Didn’t figure that out…
June 8, 2004 — 5:44 am
thefirstidiot says:
Hmmm…you didn’t like tharoor? To each his own poison.:):)
June 8, 2004 — 7:37 pm