Books Tag

Once upon a time, long long ago, when this blog had jus moved to wordpress, it had a page tat went by the name “Books am reading”. It had a list of around 15 to 20 books which were in various stages of reading, rereading. Then I removed the page 😦

Instead am putting up a post about books. No. Not a ranting about Authors. A simple tag. About Books. THnx to Priya 🙂 Here it goes.

1.Books that changed your life:

1. Windmills of the Gods, Sidney Sheldon. Flicked it from my aunt when I was in 6th. Couldn’t understand most of it. Read it just for the heck of it. But Sidney@6th std raised lots of eyebrows! 😉

2. Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham. No Idea how I found this book. Read it during high school.

3. Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne. OooOps! Robert Ludlum. Responsible for my cynical outlook towards world in general and also inspired my alter ego, Jason Spencer 😉

4. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand. Inspired lots of idealistic visions and crap posts.

5. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie. I bow, Sir!

6. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger. As a wise friend of mine quipped once, in one way or the other, we all relate to Holden Caulfield.

2. Books that You have read more than once:

1. Barbarians at the Gates, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Heard about LBOs?? any idea how Flextronics became Aricent?? read this book.

2. I met a Lady, Howard Spring. A beautiful book.

3. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie.

4. Paperweight, Stephen Fry.

5. As the crow flies, Jeffrey Archer.

3. A book that You’d take onto a deserted Island:

err…only one?

1. One Hundred Years of solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (no pun intended :P)

4. Books that made you laugh:

I don’t usually buy or read books that is intended to make me laugh. Prefer sombre works.

1. The Monk who sold a Ferrari, Robin Sharma.

2. Paperweight, Stephen Fry

5. Books that made you cry:

1. City of Joy, Dominique Lapierre. Learnt about the side of my birth city I had never known till then. And cried.

2. A short story written by Jeffrey Archer. Don’t remember the name. It was about a letter written by a son to his father about his love.

6. Books You are currently reading:

Ah! A long list:

Dr. Zhivago, Boris Pasternak.

Surely you are joking, Richard Feynman.

Yes Minister transcripts.

First among Equals, Jeffrey Archer.

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy.

and lots more…

7. Books You have been meaning to read but yet to read:

1. Snow or My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk.(Was to be my bday present for myself but watched Sivaji with friends instead..not that I complained.)

2. Ulysses, James Joyce.  Paulo Coleho wrote in “Like a Flowing River” that Ulysses is the book every writer loves but can’t explain why.

3. Works of Samuel Beckett.

4. Crime and Punishment and other works of Fyodor Dostevosky.

5. Ponniyin Selvan , Kalki. Ok, I suck at tamil but ever since I heard my friends rave about it, I been wanting to read it.

6. The Golden Gate or A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth.

7. Das Kapital, Karl Marx.

8. Yet to beg/borrow/steal:

Wanna move onto the Classics now. Dickens, Jerome K Jerome,etc. And lots of modernist stuff too. Especially James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot,etc Also wanna read works of Tagore, Nehru and Rajaji.  And read more poems. Really regret hating them at school.

Everyone is free to continue this tag. Happy reading !