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 !

Taggit

Trinity Teal had tagged me…so finally got sth to blog abt..
its a set of 10 qs..here r my answers

1..One thing you are very much afraid of?
What if all those dystopian thoughts in my head come true one day..??

2.Two incidents you can never forget in your life?
1.Watching DDLJ with my dad and sis sometime during feb ’96…last days of innocent childhood..
2.My engineering studies…an exercise in futility.

3.Three books you would love reading again and again?
Tried voting here…
realised i have not read anything at all..:-(

rmmr:these r books i enjoy reading again and again…ther r whole lot of books which r gr8 but i cant read them again..

.Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
.I met a lady by Howard Spring
.Barbarians at the Gates by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.

4.Four women who are most beautiful?
.Elisha Curthbert.
.Ayesha Takia.
.____________
.____________
[to be filled in later…;-)]

5.Five of you favorite food items?
.Onion vetha kuzhambu(with tiny pieces of fried coconuts :D) and deep potato or cabbage or kovakka fry cooked by ma mom(unlyk my sis, my mom deep fries it..i prefer it tat way)
.Akka’s patented veg. rice and whole lot of other food items[she experiments a lot..almost everytime i ve been the guinea pig 😦 ]
.Paati’s puri masala and rava kesari.
.Coffee@5 30 am…@Chennai…no adding any water to arokya milk and rite amt. of dicoction and sugar.(for the exact formula, ask my dad)
.Finally,Martini, shaken but not stirred :P(seriously,vodka…)

6.Six words you use very often oral/written?
Fill it wit six swear words in any lang…fuck tops the list tho

7.Seven things you like about yourself?
And I thot this was a tag…not a job interview 😛

8.Eight film personalities who are your all time favorites?
.A. R Rahman and Illayaraja
.Sivaji Ganesan and Kamal Hassan.(Sivaji only b&w…exception:thevar magan..)
.Martin Scorcese and Robert De Niro
.Al Pacino.
.Steven Spielberg,Tom Hanks and Janusz Kaminski
.Mani Ratnam, P.C Sriram and Santosh Sivan.
.Darren Aronofsky.
.Countamani, Senthil, Vivek and Vadivelu
.Jyothika…..first heroine on whom i had a crush..
[yeha i ve listed more than 8..cant count..so wat? :P]

9.Nine movies you wont mind watching again and again?
Gonna watch Scorcese’s Raging Bull, Goodfellas this weekend…
1.Godfather( I and II)
2.Iruvar, Mouna Raagam.
3.The Departed.
4.If Only
5.Reservoir Dogs, City of God(this movie deserved an Oscar for the best picture..)
6.The Matrix Trilogy (duh!)
7.Munich, Saving Private Ryan
8.American Beauty,Requiem for a Dream
9.Karakaatakaran, Micheal Madana Kaama Rajan, Singaara Velan.

10.Ten songs you would like to listen to everyday?
Been listening to rock for quite sometime but listening to it seriously these days[yt to listen to metallica,iron maiden and lots of others..studyin II std in the skool of rock :-)].
1.Stevie Ray Vaughan cover version of Hendrix’s voodoo child(first song in any playlist of mine…SRV=God)
2.John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess’ Hang On and Furia Taurina(Petrucci and Rudess create magic!)
3.Illayaraja’s melodies from the 70’s,80’s,90’s(any time,any day..)
4.Breaking the Habit from Linkin Park’s Meteora(lyrics speak for itself)
5.Dream On and Janies got a gun by Aerosmith(truly inspiring stuff!)
6.Your body is a wonderland by John Mayer(even romantically challenged wud b swayed by Mayer’s singing)
7.Santana’s Evil Ways and Smooth[Santana’s guitar+Rob Thomas’ voice=Grammy 😉 ]
8.Bob Dylan’s Things have changed[Best lyrics in any english song i ve heard till now..]
9.High Hopes by Pink Floyd.[Best Pink Floyd song according to me]
10.Music Director: A. R Rahman. Song:_________ (U can fill it :D)

Anyone who wants to continue this tag,feel free to do so 🙂