On 4/4/08, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife's tastes and mine do not overlap at all. Neither, for that
matter, do our music tastes. Doesn't seem to make the slightest bit of
difference, though.
-- b (happily into his 7th year of marriage without an itch in sight)
Interesting!
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
one of my favourite books, calvino's _if on a winter's night a
traveller..._ interleaves a story about two people who meet while
browsing in a bookshop with snippets of tales they read.
http://cheeni.net/books/
The only thing we have in common is the love for the
works of Vikram Seth.
:)
and to you dear reader, who didn't question the crude credentials of this
verse / but backed your brashness with your purse
(from golden gate. approx)
which is your favourite Seth?
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:38 PM,
WOW
On 4/4/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cheeni.net/books/
That's our book collection as of a few months ago, my wife and I
intersect about 20% of the time. I wonder if you can make that out
from this combined list.
Alexander McCall Smith and Dorthy L Sayers
Srini Ramakrishnan [04/04/08 16:49 +0530]:
http://cheeni.net/books/
That's our book collection as of a few months ago, my wife and I
intersect about 20% of the time. I wonder if you can make that out
from this combined list.
Well, almost all the works of Louis L'Amour, lots of Sir Walter
divya manian [04/04/08 19:39 +0800]:
Alexander McCall Smith and Dorthy L Sayers definitely your wife. I
love such stuff so I am hazarding a stereotype :D (I love PGW too so I
guess that forms a part of the 20% :) )
I read both. And its a crying shame Anthony Minghella died before he could
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dorothy Sayers .. well, her detecting is good, but Lord Peter Wimsey is a
bit of a twit.
Since everybody's confessing their book loves...
Richard Bach and Nevil Shute
Devan (of CID Chandru and *Thuppariyum
On 4/4/08, Abhishek Hazra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and to you dear reader, who didn't question the crude credentials of this
verse / but backed your brashness with your purse
(from golden gate. approx)
which is your favourite Seth?
You know, I first came across him in my 9th standard
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [04/04/08 17:23 +0530]:
If you folks haven't read Nevil Shute's 'A town like Alice', please do.
I have. Years back. And So Disdained, Stephen Morris etc.
Damn whoever started this thread. I'm going to get forced to pull all those
books off the shelves and start
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [04/04/08 17:23 +0530]:
If you folks haven't read Nevil Shute's 'A town like Alice', please do.
I have. Years back. And So Disdained, Stephen Morris etc.
Have you read the book
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i'd be very interested to know as to how you got that going. it is time
that i worked on arranging my bookshelf
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What a lovely medley of authors this thread has unleashed.
I am surprised that Wodehouse seems such a favourite; I thought he was
passeand I thought I was part of a minority (and of course Vod ka
Raja who often uses Wodhousian phrases) who would like him.
Yes, Vikram Seth has a W with W, as
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [04/04/08 17:36 +0530]:
I have. Years back. And So Disdained, Stephen Morris etc.
Have you read the book 'Beyond the black stump'?
That was my first Shute book.
no. dont know if i want to start hunting for shute, he isnt exactly common
/ easy to get in second
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
no. dont know if i want to start hunting for shute, he isnt exactly common
/ easy to get in second hand bookshops in adyar.
I bought that at Luz's Alwar's shop. He might still have a copy or two.
C
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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
I bought that at Luz's Alwar's shop. He might still have a copy or two.
Is that the old guy with the flowing beard who has the books stacked
on the pavement ?
he is still alive ? must be a 100 now
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:52 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
I bought that at Luz's Alwar's shop. He might still have a copy or two.
Is that the old guy with the flowing beard who has the books stacked
on the
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What a lovely medley of authors this thread has unleashed.
I am surprised that Wodehouse seems such a favourite; I thought he was
passeand I thought I was part of a minority (and of course Vod ka
Raja who often uses
Didn't we do a thread on favourite reads a couple of
years ago?
--- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dorothy Sayers .. well, her detecting is good, but
Lord Peter Wimsey is a
bit of a twit.
No, no - he just plays one, very successfully...
Deja vu all over agin... didn't we
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:09 PM, divya manian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WOW
Thanks!
On 4/4/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cheeni.net/books/
That's our book collection as of a few months ago, my wife and I
intersect about 20% of the time. I wonder if you
Divya Sampath wrote, [on 4/4/2008 6:17 PM]:
Didn't we do a thread on favourite reads a couple of
years ago?
Yes, as also favourite REreads [1].
Udhay, who found himself reading Rucker's _Infinity and the Mind_ as a
comfort read a couple of days ago. It's not usually that, but I've read
it
Stephen Colbert 'nails' Clay Shirky, in his usual
style...
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=164882
The new book sounds interesting.
cheers,
Divya
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
| http://cheeni.net/books/
i'd be very interested to know as to how you got that going. it is time
that i worked on arranging my bookshelf
Created using Bookpedia.
Divya Sampath [04/04/08 05:47 -0700]:
No, no - he just plays one, very successfully...
Deja vu all over agin... didn't we also have this
exact same argument before?
Agh. Yes, I guess we did. Though there's a fine line between sounding like
a twit and actually being a twit. A brilliant
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
A more modern version - read Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin books? An upper
class russian bureaucrat + detective in late 19th century moscow. A very
interesting read.
I quite like Boris Akunin... I am reading Murder on the
all. Wrote almost too soon after first reading.
http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/2004/11/03/ponniyin-selvan/
Quoting from there ..
Even Ayn Rand didn’t have this much of an influence on me.
So we have Hash (of course), and now you. Who else?
srs
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:38:46PM -0400, Charles Haynes wrote:
Abuses? That seems like a strong word to describe something that I
would characterize as failing to adhere to a cultural expectation.
[...]
Let's see
Since there are many Indophiles on this list, I thought that you may enjoy
seeing my photos of the Holi festival in Banaras [1], one of the holiest
Indian cities. Holi [2] is the festival of colors and is a Hindu spring
festival. Till 12 noon on the festival day, shops were shut and streets were
The Guardian had a blog on the attractiveness of book lovers a couple of
years ago, spun off a poll about what people noticed most about others:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/08/01/i_bet_you_look.html
I enjoyed the blog and the responses immensely at the time: what I
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:30:35PM +0100, va wrote:
Not increasing ? According to the NRCB (2006) reports:
/quote
Murder has increased by 231% (from 9,803 in 1953 to 32,481 in 2006);
Rape by 678% (from 2,487 in 1971 to 19,348 in 2006); Kidnapping
Abduction by 356% (from 5,261 in 1953 to
On Saturday 05 Apr 2008 5:05:08 am Rishab Ghosh wrote:
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:30:35PM +0100, va wrote:
Not increasing ? According to the NRCB (2006) reports:
/quote
Murder has increased by 231% (from 9,803 in 1953 to 32,481 in 2006);
Rape by 678% (from 2,487 in 1971 to 19,348 in
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