Sthir book tagged me.
So here it goes.
Total Books I own:
Between 25-30. Mostly related to Computer Science.
A Book by Vivekananda.
Few books by Krishnamurti.
Best of Keats (pocket book), I flicked it from a friend.
Last book I bought
Three books by J Krishnamurti. One was This Light in Yourself (or Oneself, I don't remember)
I don't remember the title of others.
Last book I read:
A Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham.
This book is the story of a young man, who seeks.
Currently reading:
The moon is down, by John Steinback.
A book banned under Nazi rule. It's about a town which hasn't seen war in hundred years and how it reacts, when is occupied by helmet wearing machine-gun carrying men.
Books that have had an impact on me:
1. The C programming Language, by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ricthie
A must for C programmers. A great introductory book to programming.
To this day, I am in love with it.
2. Fundamentals of Physics, vol 1 and 2, by D Halliday and R Resnick.
I was in love with this book during my 11th and 12th Standard.
3. Aulad, I don't remember the author.
This book ruined a part of my life. Or atleast I wish to think so.
4. Commentaries on Living, by Krishnamurti
A friend introduced me to him. He said, "You shouldn't read
him, he's too dangerous for you"
5. ? Poetry by Keats may be.
I will pass on the book tag to
sagnik
megha
meera
manu (my roomie!)
and in all probabilities they don't read me, so it's a namesake.
Sthir, apology for a late response.
That's all about it, I mean the meme.
Some other nice books I've read in last two years (ok, I want to boast, and I will):
A Tale of two cities, Charles Dickens
We the living, FountainHead(partially), Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
NameSake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Life of Pi (partially) Yann Martel
Man in Search of Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Midnight Children, Salman Rushdie
Malgudi Days, R K Narayan (and lot other works by him)
Ramayana, C Rajgopalachari
My Master, Swami Vivekananda
Vedic Mathematics, Shankracharya (as far as I remember, this one died in 1960)
ArthaShastra (online version), Chanakya
Taras Bulba, Nikolai Gogol (worth read!)
The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol (worth read!)
Russian Short Stories, various authors, translations by Walter Zimmerman (vol 2)
Mystic Masseur, VS Naipaul
Geetanjali, RabindraNath Tagore
Surely you are Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman
God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
A Space Odyssey, 2001, Arthur C Clarke
Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance, Robert Pirsig (worth read !)
Lila, same
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Bible, (the part which has teachings of Christ)
Ulysses, (part of it), James Joyce
Old man and the Sea, Sun also Rises, A Moveable Feast, Ernst Hemingway
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (partly)
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Story of a Startup, Jerry Kaplan
Ah ! One more thing. My parents were(are) strictly against reading "novels". They would say "Novel mat laya kar, apni comics padh". And "Arre dekho, yeh, na-vel padh raha hai. Phenko iski kitaab". So in my childhood, which was until I left home (only 4 years ago), I was forbidden to read "novels". They firmly believed "novels" would spoil me. They were so right.
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Hey spoilt man,
That was an interesting list. I have read quite a few of those. My Krisnamurti is on its way from India and I hope to read it over the summer.Hey, Resnick Halliday reminded me of good ol' Physics days when I wanted to buy it but it was
unaffordable!
hey ag, i told the same thing to bridalbeer (who tagged me on the same thing) - I don't read AT ALL :) My reading list comprises of authors like James Gosling :)) So I will pass this one but please do tag me for any other thing that comes across - till then I shall try to read up something :)
Sthir,
Krishnamurti is a good read. And unrelated, my uncle (who is into a lot of these things, so it's a family business, you see :)), told me that "Woh kitaben nadi main baha do, bilkul mat padho. Agar tumhe dhyan karna hai toh muladhar chakra par dhyan karo, which is the seat of Ganeshji and gives us childlike innocence". Ofcourse I being spoilt, didn't follow his advice.
Sagnik,
Actually, I read your response at bridalbeer's page, but by then I had already tagged you and so left it like that. And if I may suggest, you would find "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" a worth read.
anshul
Sagink,
:D apology for unsolicited suggestion.
useless fellow.. yeah.. I do read your blogs.. You should probably get yourself a page hit counter and keep tabs on who's visiting n stuff.
Ok! I have to change my initial statement :) I don't read - and that's true for 99% of the times. I like reading biographies and semi autobiographical writings and have aread quite a few of those. So I have actually read "Surely ..." Actually I read the wholel book in a 3 hour span when I didn't want to climb up a hill with my friends and was left alone in the car with the book :)
manu,
:) I don't use the page hit counter to keep the unknown alive. But then I would like killing it, in the future.
sagnik,
I too read that book in one sitting :)
Silly, but even my parents had this weird irritation with me reading novels! :-)
attagirl,
yeh it's silly. and I have heard stories, that my grandparents didn't allow their children to watch movies, until a much later age. imagine.
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