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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, > and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black > type of novels

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sruthi Krishnan > wrote: > > Rand is a pretty good writer, and it isn't tedious. > > If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you read Rand? > > I have this corollary that people who are introduced to Ms

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> If you want kitschier romance and worse sex than M&B, all you have to do is > to read one or more regional magazines .. swathi in telugu for example, or > mangayar malar etc in tamil. > I was curious as to why there was this major readership for this kind of writing and found some interesting pi

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Sruthi Krishnan [16/06/10 10:36 +0530]: I never read MandB growing up. Recently while I was cooped up in B'bay recuperating unable to travel much, I had no recourse but to pick some. The local library in Goregaon boasts an inexhaustible collection of MandB and only that. So I did end up reading t

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Udhay Shankar N [16/06/10 10:07 +0530]: * Anita Blake (this one was a real pity - I loved it until book 9 or so, after which it became shoddily done porn. I object more to the shoddy part.) Not really 'series' but there is a whole lot of Heinlein that falls into the same mode. Start off great

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:11 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: > >> I never got around to finishing the neuroscience bits of the book. > > > > >> You didn't miss much. I've always thought that "consciousness being a result of gravity on cytoskeletal

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On 16-06-2010 10:07, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > There are several series I've given up on partway through. Some examples: > > * The Song of Ice and Fire I am informed by those who know about such things that this is true of the author as well. -- Regards, Aadisht Email for lists: li...@aadisht.ne

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> and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black > type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so > I wonder what's wrong with my genetic makeupbecause what I read

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> > If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you read Rand? > > I have this corollary that people who are introduced to Ms. Rand in > their mid-to-late 20's or later don't like her much. Your corollary remains safe. :) I read her in my 11th standard, was around 15 - 16 methinks. It was

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Raj Shekhar wrote, [on 06/16/2010 02:16 AM]: After I read Dune, I was very impressed. Then I picked up its sequel, Dune Messiah and plodded through it. I then picked up its sequel, Children of Dune and could not go beyond the first 10 or 15 pages and I gave up on that series. Today I learned tha

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Pranesh Prakash wrote, [on 06/15/2010 11:38 PM]: I really wish I hadn't read Life of Pi. Ugh ugh ugh. Jude the Obscure. Why on earth did anyone care to write a story about a depressive who has a very depressing life that gets progressively more depressing until it reaches a crescendo of unbeli

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Autobiography of an unknown Indian India after Gandhi Al Beruni's India Atlas Shrugged At least the first 3 are "tough to read" because of the wealth of detail in a format that is not entertaining to read. Like a textbook. They look good on your bookshelf because they are fat and people think yo

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--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian > Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 7:57 > Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 07:50 > +0530]: > >It's addictive. Also, unlike Tolkien, he kee

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Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 07:50 +0530]: It's addictive. Also, unlike Tolkien, he keeps picking up an obscure part of the narrative and polishing it for a book at a time. The result is that they won't finish until 2012! ... if at all. Jordan is in full soap opera (or maybe what local tv calls 'm

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--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian > Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 5:53 > Raj Shekhar [15/06/10 13:46 -0700]: > > After I read Dune, I was very impressed.  Then I

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Raj Shekhar [15/06/10 13:46 -0700]: After I read Dune, I was very impressed. Then I picked up its sequel, Dune Messiah and plodded through it. I then picked up its sequel, Children of Dune and could not go beyond the first 10 or 15 pages and I gave up on that series. Today I learned that the

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Sean Doyle [15/06/10 19:27 -0400]: Another book I had trouble with (finished only about 1/4 of it - unusual for me) this last year was Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I took a strong dislike to all the characters - I suspect it was class Not pride and prejudice, for me. Wuthering Heights - for

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Radhika, Y. wrote: > I never liked Ayn Rand - always felt like she was a drill sergeant insisting > on her way...and all that aggrandizement of architects - utter rubbish. Yes - I couldn't stomach the characters and the tone. It's been a while since I touched thi

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In infinite wisdom Anil Kumar said the following On 6/14/10 11:42 PM: Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk - http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Article1-557458.aspx Oh well; the others too... After I read Dune, I was very impressed. Then I pi

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Heather Madrone wrote: > At 6:46 PM +0530 6/15/10, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > >> In particular, there's this >> >>> passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right >>> Way of eating chocolate cereal. >>> >>> >> First reaction: Shudder. >> Followed by: Tiny voice

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Heather Madrone wrote: > When embarking on authors of this period, > know that you're traveling by packet boat and that you'll get there when you > get > there. In the meantime, enjoy the scenery. The book I have tried (and given up) reading the most number of t

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > Rand is a pretty good writer, and it isn't tedious. If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you read Rand? I have this corollary that people who are introduced to Ms. Rand in their mid-to-late 20's or later don't like her much.

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Snow Crash remains one of the best- and most engrossing- books I have read. Cryptonomicon was good too, but about 600 pages too long. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: > > > Most people can't get through Stephenson, but I'd recommend starting with > _Snow Crash_, _The Diam

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On Tuesday 15 June 2010 11:26 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: I really wish I hadn't read Life of Pi. Ugh ugh ugh. Jude the Obscure. Why on earth did anyone care to write a story about a depressive who has a very depressing life that gets progressively more depressing until it reaches a crescendo

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On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:11 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: The Emperor's New Mind by whatsisface Really? I felt Penrose made things easy to get through thanks to his in-depth explanations. I read more than half of it over four days I was sick (and was thus bunking work during an internship a few

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david copperfield is fantastic! On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, > and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons a

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At 6:46 PM +0530 6/15/10, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > In particular, there's this >> passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right >> Way of eating chocolate cereal. >> > >First reaction: Shudder. >Followed by: Tiny voice inside urges, maybe if it is well written Most peop

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Title: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read At 6:19 PM +0530 6/15/10, Anil Kumar wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Agree with Venky Hariharan; though I did not abandon reading God of Small Things; finished it only to feel a depression set in; readin

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--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > From: Udhay Shankar N > Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 19:06 > Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/15/2010 > 6:46 PM]: > >  In particular, there's this > >> passage of ~15 p

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At 11:51 AM +0200 6/15/10, Eugen Leitl wrote: >On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:00:39PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: >> At 2010-06-15 12:38:37 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote: >> > >> > I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it >> > several times over the years. >> >> I read it on

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I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so I

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Indrajit Gupta wrote: > //Just say Russian, read Plum about the Russians, and let it go at that. _By Order of the Czar_ has always been the best book that never existed. It shares shelf space in my imaginary library with _Only a Factory Girl_. Thaths -- "Lisa

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I never liked Ayn Rand - always felt like she was a drill sergeant insisting on her way...and all that aggrandizement of architects - utter rubbish. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:42 AM, J. Alfred Prufrock < another.prufr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ayn Rand ... I no longer find her books difficult to read

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Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/15/2010 6:46 PM]: > In particular, there's this >> passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right >> Way of eating chocolate cereal. >> > > First reaction: Shudder. > Followed by: Tiny voice inside urges, maybe if it is well written I encou

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Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstader I've always found GEB easy enough to read; it's understanding[0] it that takes some effort. For instance, it wasn't until recently running across a handholding explanation of the slogan "syntax and semantics are adjoint"[1] that I've felt I've fi

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > For me, the toughest book to read has always been Catch-22. I've started it > some 7 times, and have always abandoned it in a fit of irritation. What did you find difficult with the book? Give it another try. It is the best anti-war book th

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In particular, there's this > passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right > Way of eating chocolate cereal. > First reaction: Shudder. Followed by: Tiny voice inside urges, maybe if it is well written

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--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > From: Kiran Jonnalagadda > Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 18:00 > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM, > Udhay Shankar N > wrote: > > I also bounced hard off book 6 o

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Anil Kumar wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: >> >> Supriya Nair wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:09 PM]: >> >> > Does Udhay's Harry Potter dismissal equate 'tough' with 'boring'? That >> > will inflate everyone's bounce lists. >> >> Fair q

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Supriya Nair wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:09 PM]: > >> Does Udhay's Harry Potter dismissal equate 'tough' with 'boring'? That >> will inflate everyone's bounce lists. > > Fair question. I guess that "boring" is a subset of "tough to finish", > th

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Supriya Nair wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:09 PM]: > > > Does Udhay's Harry Potter dismissal equate 'tough' with 'boring'? That > > will inflate everyone's bounce lists. > > Fair question. I guess that "boring" is a subset of "tough to finish", >

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Supriya Nair wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:09 PM]: > Does Udhay's Harry Potter dismissal equate 'tough' with 'boring'? That > will inflate everyone's bounce lists. Fair question. I guess that "boring" is a subset of "tough to finish", the overarching criterion being "I don't care what happens to these p

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Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:16 PM]: > Usually I get screams of horror when I say this -- I couldn't get > through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this > intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I > thought. Have you read anything by Neal Steph

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I also bounced hard off book 6 of Harry Potter (half blood prince?) > after reading, with varying amounts of pleasure, the preceding books. > Gave up on the series after that. I found book 6 the most enjoyable of the series, until book 7 t

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On 15 June 2010 17:11, Biju Chacko wrote: > The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose > +1 Took me a year and more to finish it, just for the sake of finishing it. Made excellent reading during my 1 hour train ride to office and back everyday when I was working in Bombay. Initial enthusiasm (firs

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > So, what are your hardest books to read? Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstader The Emperor's New Mind by whatsisface A Brief History of Time by Hawking Oddly enough, I've never attempted anything on the list. -- b

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J. Alfred Prufrock [15/06/10 16:12 +0530]: Ayn Rand ... I no longer find her books difficult to read because I don't touch them in the first place. Faulkner, "Scarlet Letter", "Moby Dick", "War and Peace" - all digestible in the tin-of-biscuits fashion i.e. one goes back to them once in a while,

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Ayn Rand ... I no longer find her books difficult to read because I don't touch them in the first place. Faulkner, "Scarlet Letter", "Moby Dick", "War and Peace" - all digestible in the tin-of-biscuits fashion i.e. one goes back to them once in a while, doesn't try to finish them at a sitting. J.

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> > You are obviously neither a (a) guy, nor (b) a geek :-) > :) You never know. Someone the other day told me how gender is quite a fluid concept. And I staunchly believed that I was a geek, a lifetime ago.

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Venkatesh Hariharan [15/06/10 14:49 +0530]: >> >> I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds > > You mean there's more to the plot than turds? Even the name of that place > read rather funny in tamil (sort

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--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Anil Kumar wrote: From: Anil Kumar Subject: [silk] Ten toughest books to read To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 12:12   Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk -     http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-re

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > Usually I get screams of horror when I say this --  I couldn't get > through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this > intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I > thought. I remember it well because i

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> Forsyth has all these painstaking steps on everything from faking a > passport to making a nuke. The Fourth Protocol has all that as well as a > complete org chart of MI5, MI6, the KGB etc etc. Not bad, for all that. I remember being very sad. It was the first book I let go without finishing ful

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> Maybe it's a guy thing, but I had the opposite reaction, and read and > re-read the sections about the making of the hollow points and the > dirty bomb:-) This was before the Internet and Wikipedia made it easy > to get at this kind of information of course. > Yes, that's exactly what people hav

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On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [snip] > I read it once, a very long time ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Then I > kept hearing people say it was so long and boring that they couldn't get > through it, and I began to wonder if I had really managed to read all of > it. So I read

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Forsyth has all these painstaking steps on everything from faking a passport to making a nuke. The Fourth Protocol has all that as well as a complete org chart of MI5, MI6, the KGB etc etc. Not bad, for all that. If you want unreadable by those standards, there's always good old James A Michener,

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> > Looks like this is only fiction. If not, Stephen Hawking's "A Brief > History of Time" would qualify. > > Venky > I've tried several times to read 'The End of Time'. I start to lose it just after the author tries to explain 'triangle world'. http://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Time-Revolution-U

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Sruthi Krishnan wrote: > Usually I get screams of horror when I say this --  I couldn't get > through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this > intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I > thought. I remember it well because

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:00:39PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2010-06-15 12:38:37 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote: > > > > I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it > > several times over the years. > > I read it once, a very long time ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly.

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Venkatesh Hariharan [15/06/10 14:49 +0530]: I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds You mean there's more to the plot than turds? Even the name of that place read rather funny in tamil (sort of) ayemenem = aayi manam (feces aroma) How very apt

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Usually I get screams of horror when I say this -- I couldn't get through this book The Day of the Jackal by Forsyth. There was this intense detailing on making a gun which was terribly boring, I thought. I remember it well because it was the first book I abandoned without reading fully.

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: > I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds [...] My list of abandoned books is rather long - often because I don't care for or disagree with what the author has to say anymore. Sometimes it's also because it

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>> *4. The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot:* This tremendously dense modernist poem is told in five parts and abruptly shifts between characters, time, place, and languages (English, Latin, Greek, German, and Sanskrit) with nothing more than the reader’s own erudition to make the connection between passages

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I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds and realizing that the plot might never emerge, even if I read the whole damn book. Istanbul by Pamuk and Living to tell the tale are some of my other "abandonments." Venky On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Anil Kumar wrote: > > > http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Article1-557458.aspx For me, any book that I don't care much about is difficult to read. That said, I found Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day rather hard going. For th

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On 15-06-2010 14:10, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > So, what are your hardest books to read? > > Udhay > Books I've abandoned: * The Gospel According to Jesus Christ * The God of Small Things * Don Quixote (is a huge pain to get through unabridged) Books I've struggled to complete: * Vanity Fair

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Looks like this is only fiction. If not, Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" would qualify. Venky On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Anil Kumar wrote: > > Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk - > > > http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Ar

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Lahar Appaiah wrote: > For me, the toughest book to read has always been Catch-22. I've started it > some 7 times, and have always abandoned it in a fit of irritation. I also bounced hard off book 6 of Harry Potter (half blood prince?) after reading, with varying

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: >> I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it >> several times over the years. >> > Can't understand why. I read it in seven nights. It's like an action > movie with bonus conspiracy theorising and delicious satire. So

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For me, the toughest book to read has always been Catch-22. I've started it some 7 times, and have always abandoned it in a fit of irritation. I read Foucault's years back. I agree with Aadisht on the action movie comparison-it was quite unputdownable. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Sruthi Kris

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> > > I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it > several times over the years. > Silly coincidence. I just got Foucault's Pendulum from the library for a re-read. Finished it in one feverish go few years ago and loved it. Of the list, I don't think Atlas Shrugged was prob

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On 15-06-2010 12:38, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it > several times over the years. > Can't understand why. I read it in seven nights. It's like an action movie with bonus conspiracy theorising and delicious satire. -- Regards, Aadis

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Abhishek Hazra wrote: > udhay has a great memory for past silklist conversation > Foucault's Pendulum has featured on this list earlier i think...? A couple of examples are here [1] [2] Udhay [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/21167 [2] http://

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udhay has a great memory for past silklist conversation Foucault's Pendulum has featured on this list earlier i think...? On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Aditya Kapil wrote: > A frustrated friend once referred to it as "F**k-all" Pendulum... > Adit. > > On 6/15/10, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > O

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At 2010-06-15 12:38:37 +0530, ud...@pobox.com wrote: > > I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it > several times over the years. I read it once, a very long time ago, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Then I kept hearing people say it was so long and boring that they couldn't ge

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A frustrated friend once referred to it as "F**k-all" Pendulum... Adit. On 6/15/10, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Anil Kumar > wrote: > >> http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Article1-557458.aspx > > I certainly agree with _Foucau

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>>*1. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce:* i have always felt that Finnegans Wake is more of a sound art piece than a novel to be read from cover to cover! :-) On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Anil Kumar wrote: > > Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk - > > > > http://www.hindustantimes.c

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Anil Kumar wrote: > http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/books/Ten-toughest-books-to-read/Article1-557458.aspx I certainly agree with _Foucault's Pendulum_. I've bounced off it several times over the years. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)