The Joy of Reading

hi Kamal,

John Grisham gives you a picture of what goes on in the legal world. The lifes of lawyers, how lawsuits and people are manipulated by the powerful companies.

Michael Moore - Fahrenheit 9/11 - USA politics - good to read.

Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat. - This book is a wake-up call to USA. He discusses how India and China are taking over the world economy - a must read!! Infact, Americans started joining their children in additional math and science classes after this book was released.

regards,
Sharada

Sharada,

John Grisham sure looks interesting.I am very interested in lega l matters, bcs i used to read Perry Mason, and loved Perry Masson,Paul Drake,Della Street, and the public prosecutor Hamilton was it ?So this should be interesstiong.

The world is flat, is what my daughter has got now and is forcing me to read it.It has been recemonded to her by her teachers at the institiute where she is preparing for CAT.I will start it today.

Thanks for the valuable info, and i fu come acroos any other names , do feel free to write.Thanks and regards.kamal

hi Kamal,


If you have not read "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse, you should. It is a small book, but a heavy classic. "Roots" by Alex Haley.... There are a lot of classics I can think of... Leo Tolstoi's "Anna Karinina", "War and Peace", Maugham's "Razor's edge", "Of Human Bondage" etc.

Tell you what... if you want to cultivate a hobby of reading.. go to the nearest British Library and become a member. They have all the good books. Easy reading to intense. There will be people to help you with your flair for books. They have weekly-monthly programs, book reviews, meet the author,.. etc,. Again, these are all optional. you can pick any book you want and walk out.

I will definitely let you know about any contemporary writer's books. I think books are a person's best friend! I'm So Sure you will say, "No, my dog Tuffy is"!!
have fun!
Regards,
Sharada

Sharada,

Tell u what.Tuffy is my best friend, but before him and even now,novels are my best friend.


I dont read classics or heavy stuff.Just novels, the ones i mentioned, the commercial ones.That is why my blogs are not classics.HAHA.

Thanks for the list, and taking the trouble for all that.Regards.kamal

Hello Kamalji
i too love to read books cannot sleep if I don't read them how much ever tired I am must read atleast a page or two. Da vinci code was my favourite one too I love to read frictions, suspense and romantic books it should be good to read that is more important than the author, most of the time I don't remember they names

Hi Kamal

Reading and music are two of my lifelines
I like reading Jeffrey Archer, Erich Segal, richard bache.
Also, 'Chicken Soup' offers a wonderful collection of real life stories.

enjoy reading!
Charu..

Dear Kamalji,

I love reading... I like historical novels - Tamil written by Kalki, Chandilyan... Though I have read lot of detective novels, sydney, Harrold Robins, Aynrand etc... I love cowboy stories... Especially JT Edson / Oliver Strange... I have very rarely seen somebody with that taste... Though I am trying to get the whole collection of JTE... I am not getting it...

There were days, I skip food and read... For which I used to get big time from my mom and later from my wife....

If anywhere you come across JTE collection, please let me know... Would love to buy it...

hello Kamlji
If u like comics & superman etc u will sure love the Harry potter series .Amazing books.
The Day of jackal
ICe station Zebra
Night without end.
where Eagles dare
Oddessa file
Mila 18
Fountain head & Atlus shrgged By ayn Rand
The prize
And all books by alister maclean are very good read.
Medical thriller - try robin cook series ,start with coma & fever his oldes ones.
All books of fredrick forsyth.

Charu,

i loved Chicken Soup sreies, and also Erich Segal's Love story and "Man Woman Child.

Thanks and regards.kamal


Aruna,

Da Vinci was class, as are so many other books.Regards.kamal


Veda,

if i get my hands on the edison series i will surelylet u know.Good to k now u too are a book lover,like me.Regards.kamal


Jaishree,

All the names u have taken are top hits and super novels.i have read most of them.really good ones.regards.kamal

Hello Shanthi ma'am
Sorry for the delay in reply!
That was a slip of my finger:) Yes Ayn Rand is a "she". (i smile as i write this..So silly i was)

Thank you ma'am. I have not heard about the other book which you had mentioned ma'am. Will surely read when ever i try to get hold of a copy!

Regards

Originally Posted by shanvy

Hi Ramya,

Ayn rand is a "SHE" and her philosophy is called Objectivism...the other book that is too good is atlas shrugged..but it is more on the same principal, so for who have read fountainhead..it will look like it is a repetition mainly so because her characters have the same streak... in both the books....