I love minors. They offer the best time to kill. If you love killing time you also know you must kill it when it's most valuable. That way you get to satiate your need to kill it, in much lesser time (I presume the said satiation has very much to do with value you associate with your time), and thereby get some time for other constructive works too! More on that some other time. Today, let me just complete this tag that passed itself on to me from Phoenix's blog...
A book that made you laugh: High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby.
A book that made you cry: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
A book that scared you: Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was one long single scary thought. Scary, not in the sense of frightening, but in making one wish to not be in a Kafkaesque plight ever. (Apparently, the translation was not quite smooth- some rotation and disfigurement occurred in the process.)
A book that disgusted you: None so far; thankfully.
A book you loved in elementary school: Premchand’s short stories: Nasha, Eidgaah, Do Bail ki katha etc. Still love them for the use of common man’s language (i.e. a Hindi not laden with sanskrit).
A book you loved in middle/junior high school: Love Story by Erich Segal. What was that line..“ To know her is to love her.”
A book you loved in high School: The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. I don't talk of symbolisms in the book which, anyhow, I came to know of only later; I love it as a tale of the spirit of a man.
A book you loved in college: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
A book that challenged your identity: Shantaram by G. D. Roberts, Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, Animal Farm by George Orwell.
A series you love: Numbers put me off in advance :(. But now I’ve made up my mind to give Potter a shot soon.
Horror: Read none.
Science fiction: Read none.
Your favourite fantasy: Fountainhead. The first 100 pages of it had me almost wishing I were in Roark’s shoes and behaved like that.
Your favourite mystery: None. Found myself too dumb to understand Sherlock Homes. Honestly. So couldn’t continue tAoSH beyond 20-25 pages.
Your favourite biography: Half read Gandhi's. Read none else.
Your favourite “Coming of age” book: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Every observation the author makes, made me feel- ‘yeah, yeah! That’s the way life/people is/are. How come I never noticed?’
Your favourite classic: The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
Your favourite romance book: Love story by Erich Segal.
Too many 'read none's :(... Somebody please write something- Who knows, I might just get to fill one of the above empty slots! :P
[Sorry, dear Tag, you get a dead end here. May you live longer in other routes you were directed on to. :) ]
14 comments:
I like a lot of books on that list!
good stuff!
and try harry potter, I a a big fan :D
At least you did the post :D
And you know now what all to read too ;)
Shantaram has been on my to-read list for too long now :(
Nice choice of category for The Fountainhead!
Oh don't worry about reading a lot: just worry about reading the right stuff. As for your minor wala thing (yes, I have read the post ;)), chill, everything in life has a first and who's to say, tomorrow when you are famous and successful you'd think about this then and laugh a lot! :)
I have done worse things I mean, in my fachpan, I struck across my entire MAL110 major paper after finishing it to deliberately get an E and save myself from a tainted CG. (I had missed minor1 + reminor1 thanks to the insti admin's detachment with attachees..khair that's a diff story)
Summer mein I got a 6 in that course, to my cg is waise bhi tainted, but it's ok, I laugh about it now ;)
[Chandni]
Potter fans, Potter fans, everywhere! And especially in the blogosphere.
[Phoenix]
:)
:D
Padhna wadhna chhod. Write, TK, write!
[Vibhav]
How lack of choices make a choice so easy! :)
[Akshay]
I do worry about reading a lot. Reading a lot is really worrisome ;) But hey, don't worry about reading the right stuff :D :D
[Akshay]
I never had a 'first' sem- so for me it's like walking a tightrope for 7 packed semesters. Still, I had my share of.. deliberations. Can't afford them in final sem. :)
I've really started liking your Bro-No-Groaning(?) fundas. You are high on positive energy. Keep it up. And don't worry, I'll sail through :)
Kya likhoon!? :(
Anything which doesn't have IIT central to it, because in that case it would run high risk of being dimissed as another FPS, AFYM or EYD, however brilliant it be. Waise main to padhunga hi.
wow...so many books..... i never remember.....whatever i have read...!! seems like a disgrace on the writer part that my li'l insignificant brain is trying to fathom the vastness of the author's skill n knowledge n expertise!!
since ur a Pro@ Blogging...n im just a novice....let me give the honor to add u to my blogroll..
and what happened after the first 100 pages of fountainhead ?
i am just curious.
"If you love killing time you also know you must kill it when it's most valuable. That way you get to satiate your need to kill it, in much lesser time (I presume the said satiation has very much to do with value you associate with your time), and thereby get some time for other constructive works too!"
-that entire thought was a gem! I won't forget it anytime soon.
[Rush.me]
Read some of your posts. They are really good. Would blogroll you soon :)
[Pooja]
The first 100 something pages struck a chord somewhere, but afterwards it read like just another novel I enjoyed reading.
[Siyaah]
First I tried to write a poem with this idea, but didn't find that good enough. Glad you liked the thought!
i;'ve got the High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby on my reading list.. yet to get around to it..
also got 1000 splendid sins that a friend gifted me while in bby.. just starting on that~~~:)
[Aaarti]
Do read. You'll like it.
Splendid 'sins'!! Typing errors generate good humor sometimes.
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