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  What are you reading?

  Out with it :)

  Abhiroop started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Abhiroop (edited)

  I'm in the process of bludgeoning my way through the massive Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Bloody funny, seriously!
  
  Along with that, I'm employing my newly acquired but entirely rudimentary skills in Bangla to read a Bengali book. Finally!
  
  PS Any bongs here?

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    Pippilota M 

    City of Djiins - amazing way to tell the history of Delhi :)

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    reena singh 

    Hi Abhiroop, haven't been to this discussion group since months......after Pickwick Papers, try Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. Just finished reading it....haven't laughed so much since years. It's hilarious. How's life? Merry X'mas and all the best for 2009! Cheers

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  Gaurav S. 

  I'm currently alternating between Boudica by Manda Scott & The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens...
  
  Or wait, does the manual to my new (as yet undelivered) camera count?
  :p
  
  Actually, I've been reading up on photography & photo-manipulation like mad these past few days... I don't know if that counts as actual literary activity, does it?

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    Maneesh 

    i picked up a collector's edition of Peanuts !
    Reading about The Red Baron !!

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    Abhiroop 

    @Pippilota M
    You must read The Last Mughal !! :)
    
    @Gaurav S
    Reading manuals counts! Reading biscuit packets counts! Everything counts!! And congrats on the new acquisition :)
    
    @Maneesh
    That, sir, is awesome. Good ol' Master Brown :)

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  Pippilota M 

  I want Peanuts so much... ;)

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  gandalfgreyheme 

  21 Stories - Greene. Got interested because of the story mentioned in Donnie Darko. Till now the stories have been good and surprisingly engaging! Am also parallel processing the Lucifer comic. Brilliant stuff!

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  Abhiroop 

  A Brief History of Time. I was surprised to see its a pretty small book! I was expecting, with such a ponderous title, a fat tome with a dark cover and tiny letters. Guess I should've realized that a book this popular cant be a very daunting read :)
  
  Its a cheery little thing, this one is.

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    Gaurav S. 

    If you manage to emerge from it unscathed mate, I'd recommend "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene
    It talks about the search for the "Unifying Theory of Everything" and although it gets a bit too science-y at times, it's a great read!
    
    I'm on Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said..." right now. Everyone needs a shot of PKD every now n' then!

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    avi7 

    its a great book for sure ...it surprised me too

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  winnie_the_pooh 

  unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa lehri...nthng like unputdownable yet something u can relate to and makes you ponder on the different instances which seems so close to life and happenin all around us.

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  avi7 

  i am reading arguementative indian by amartya sen...its a great book...very informative and very entertaining

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  aania_neo 

  Brisingr... not sure many of you would know about that ! It belong to the fantasy genre... :)
  If anyone remembers 'Eragon' and 'Eldest' by Christopher Paolini.... its the third book in that series. Just started with it.. so will let you guys know more abt this as I get along...

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  avi7 

  just finished shantaram and what can i say about the book...just amazing

  posted 11 months ago. ( reply )

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  aania_neo 

  Just finished reading 'The Hollow' which is the second one in the Sign of Seven trilogy by Nora Roberts. Now.. I didn't like the first part that much...but I had laid my hands on a trilogy and I needed to know what was happening to the story.. so despite the disappointment of the first one, I went on to read the second. And I felt SO much better than the first this time. Three girls and three guys pair up against an evil force. The author apparently plans to cover one couple per book. So, the second book was all abt how the relationship of the second couple grows while the six figure out ways to defeating the evil. 'The Hollow' had a faster pace than 'The Blood Brothers' (that'll be the first one) and you get to know more about the history of dark force and whatever happened at the Pagan Stone three hundred years ago. Personally, I'd feel much better if the author had put in some more pages of research and lesser ones more the romance... but then, I realized too late that Nora Roberts was actually a romance writer...so... my bad !
  So.. you should go for this one because:
  1. Well... if you can survive through the first.. go on and read the second(its much better)
  2. If you've had just too much of plain romantic novels then go for this because it flavours your usual romance with some demon kicking, nightmare fighting, super healing adrenalin rush.. :)

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  Howard H 

  To The Delh Book Lovesrs I,am reading The Awakning of Intelligence by J.Krishnamurti and Lytton Strachey The New BIOHEY by Michel Holroyd and The Amsterdam Cops by Jan willem van de. Wetering and PURE PULP by Edited by Ed Ed Gorman and Kabir The Weaver of God,s Name and WRITING for YOUR LIFE by Deena Metzger. Howard H. foys.

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  Howard H 

  IT Lytton Strachey The New BiographybyMichael Holroyd

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  avi7 

  just finished reading penguin series of world at 60tes..
  also finished white tiger n now scouting something nice to read

  posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

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  Param Jit M 

  Am a new member in the group. Currently reading The Sound of Water by Sanjay Bahadur.

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  avi7 

  currently reading book on beatles called the love u make.....actually i personally never heard about unti i found it in daryagunj last sunday...its good till now...

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  Aishwarya Swan-Cullen 

  Percy Jackson and the Olympians ka series....

  # 1 - The Lightning Thief
  # 2 - The Sea of Monsters
  # 3 - The Titan's Curse
  # 4 - Battle of the Labyrinth
  # 5 - The Last Olympian (to cme out in may)

  YOU GUYS HV GOTTA READ IT...

  posted 7 months ago. ( reply )

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