Would welcome any book recommendations that you guys have… Have decided to chuck The Lovely Bones since it’s too depressing.
P.S. Some of my recommendations (old and new):
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Bridget Jones-The Edge of Reason
Like Water for Chocolate
Grapes of Wrath
Steppenwolf
O. Henry’s short stories
and many more…
anindita says:
What kinds are you looking for?
Funny book.. Any of Wodehouse’s
The mystery kinds.. The Da Vinci Code
Bachcha book– reread Harry Potters
Thought provoking — Memoirs of a Geisha(though I don’t quite like the way they end it)
Serious and Good – East of Eden.
Please recommend a happy book to me too!
A
January 21, 2005 — 11:05 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
Wodehouse will be good for a break. Can’t get myself to read Da Vinci Code! Too much of raving all over the place…:-)
But seriously, it’s time I got to read the book!
Read the first Harry Potter. Nice but that’s about it for now. Memoirs of a Geisha… is that depressing? If so, no way am I going close to it! Have read East of Eden a long time back.. Thanks!
You can try Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durell. It’s genuinely funny. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, which I completed recently is a nice read too.
January 21, 2005 — 11:12 am
anindita says:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Its not a depressing book really.. its just a peek into a world quite different from ours. (Yes.. we do have our Indian geishas too.. Umraojaan types.. but lets leave that conversation for after your book reading is done!)
About Dan Brown’s book.. its hyped cos it talks of religion and the holy book and such– its fun to read though. Mind you, it gets predictable at times, but then, the story is a well told one.
And Thanks for your recos. Need to make a trip to the library today to get some life back into me!
January 21, 2005 — 11:19 am
surendra says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
I have started reading Da Vinci Code. Hope to get done sometime this week.
January 21, 2005 — 11:51 am
anindita says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
Do you like it?
I was glued to it and sleeping was made hard by the book (as also just about anything else which involved putting it down for the first few hours)
January 21, 2005 — 12:18 pm
surendra says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
Yeah I like it as of now. Got glued to it until late last night and was late for a conference call in the morning 🙂
January 21, 2005 — 12:22 pm
anindita says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
I know exactly what you mean! Everything fades into the background when a gripping book comes along, doesn’t it?
I am still to learn how to be an adult and such regarding reading only small bits and pieces and not rushing through the books which I fall in love with!
Hmm.. perhaps it is a good thing not to have a good book to read!
January 21, 2005 — 12:30 pm
surendra says:
Re: What kinds are you looking for?
Yup everything fades in the background when a good book comes along.
January 21, 2005 — 12:40 pm
arunshanbhag says:
again! memoirs of a geisha
rand’s Fountainhead – good prep for b-school
vikram chandra’s Love and longing in bombay; decent, language needs work!
Spencer Johnson, The present (also prep for b-school) I have mp3s if you want.
January 21, 2005 — 11:06 am
surendra says:
Which one’s do you have MP3’s. I would love to borrow from you.
January 21, 2005 — 11:50 am
arunshanbhag says:
just, The Present (this I can send quickly)
January 21, 2005 — 12:10 pm
surendra says:
Cool. I have The Fountainhead in mp3 format. I can burn it and send it to you if you need it.
January 21, 2005 — 12:13 pm
arunshanbhag says:
send me your e-mail (preferably gmail) and I will send it.
I do have Fountainhead in Audiobook format (not mp3) and it is excellent!
January 24, 2005 — 8:42 am
ruchikapoor says:
The books that make me the happiest are the ones that make me feel like a kid all over again. Since you would have read everything else that I would have recommended if you weren’t so much into reading, try these two (of course, assuming you too feel happy revisiting your childhood):
Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
Daddy Long Legs – Jean Webster (yes, even at my age I enjoy books like these)
They’re not books for kids, though. They’re books for people who’re kids at heart.
January 21, 2005 — 11:26 am
Lakshmi says:
Sounds good. Thanks, Ruchi!
January 21, 2005 — 11:59 am
Anonymous says:
My
Fiction: English August by Upamanyu Chatterjee
The great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood (if you have the patience)
Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal
Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
Pulp-fiction: A stone for Danny Fischer by Harold Robbins
If tomorrow comes by Sidney Sheldon
Non-fiction: India- midnight to millenium by Shashi Tharoor
Roots by Alex Haley
Humour: It was on fire when I lay down on it by Robert Fulghum
Swami and friends by R K Narayan
Since you are going to B-school, try “Snapshots from Hell” – forget the name of the author -is a B-schooler (Stanford/Wharton, I think)
January 21, 2005 — 12:32 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: My
Thank you, whoever you are…:-)
Have read many of the books on your list and yes, they deserve to be on the list.
January 21, 2005 — 3:09 pm
Lakshmi says:
Oh, I wasn’t looking for happy reads specifically. Just didn’t want to read any more depressing stuff… Thanks, Chechi.
January 21, 2005 — 3:10 pm
notanangel78 says:
hey, just bought and read “Q&A” by Vikas Swarup. Nice read. I read “The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear” next. I’m told it is a really good one. And if you’re in the mood for a funny book on punctuation, read “Eats shoots and leaves.”
January 21, 2005 — 6:18 pm
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Roo-chi!
January 23, 2005 — 2:45 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Hey!!
🙁
Just didn’t want to read any more depressing stuff
Sorry!!
😀
I shudder to suggest any books – and anyway, not been reading much either..:( too much work..
January 21, 2005 — 10:05 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: Hey!!
BTW, Steppenwolf is depressing too, or so ppl will tell you..I found it uplifting…
..but O Henry is good…
January 21, 2005 — 10:21 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: Hey!!
I loved Steppenwolf. One of the really good books I’ve read in a long while… As for O Henry, he’s pure brilliance.
January 23, 2005 — 2:46 pm
tomlinsonian says:
Re: Hey!!
donno if this was before your time, but I resurrected an icon i had a long time ago..
January 23, 2005 — 2:52 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: Hey!!
It was; I haven’t seen it before…
January 24, 2005 — 7:32 am
ruchikapoor says:
Oh, have you read Roald Dahl’s short stories? (the book with that black cover, I think)
I really liked them – almost ALL of them, which is quite something (I’m not terribly fond of short stories).
January 21, 2005 — 10:42 pm
Lakshmi says:
I love Roald Dahl.. He has such a wicked sense of humour!
January 24, 2005 — 7:32 am
ruchikapoor says:
The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan, if you haven’t already read it.
I promise, this is going to be the last one from me.
January 21, 2005 — 10:54 pm
Lakshmi says:
Have heard lots about the book; shall check it out sometime… Thanks!
January 24, 2005 — 7:33 am
anindita says:
Thanks!
I picked up Like water for chocolate yesterday, when it was drivable again, and am enjoying the book!
Thanks for putting it up in the suggested list of books!
A
January 23, 2005 — 11:43 am
hithaz says:
Books
1. The Monk who sold his ferrari is good.
2. Da Vinci Code is also good.
3. Snapshots from hell since u r goin to B school
January 23, 2005 — 11:29 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: Books
Thanks…
January 24, 2005 — 7:33 am