The book I am reading currently

A Song of Ice and Fire series available for Rs 1353/- on Flipkart.
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avi said:
Guys need some good books for improving english.

I will be buying this : http://www.homeshop18.com/glossary-...-m-h/books/fiction/product:18734867/cid:11275

but need more. Thank you :)

PS : Already have wren and martin and word power made easy.
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Finished with Jack Vance's Lyonesse Trilogy. Brilliant stuff and perfect to widen your vocabulary.
Random passage from the book;
The same ideas had occurred to Cwyd. He said: “Hear how the storm yells, like a giant in pain!” And again, with russet eyes fixed knowingly upon Aillas: “Pity the poor traveler who must brave such ferocities! And all the while we sit snug before our fire!” And again: “In conditions like this the word ‘avarice’ loiters sickly by the wayside while the concept of ‘gratitude’ marches forward in triumph, like Palaemon’s conquering army!”

Aillas responded: “When storms rage, then is when folk become aware of their common humanity, and like you and Threlka, they willingly extend hospitality to those unfortunate enough to be at disadvantage, just as you, in your hour of inconvenience, will hope for the same! In these cases, the thought of payment is cause for embarrassment, and the host cries out: ‘What do you take me for? A jackal?’ It is heartwarming to meet such folk out here on the high moors!”

“Exactly so!” cried Cwyd. “Out here on the high moors where conditions are so hard, ‘sharing’ is the watchword, and each gives of what he has without stint! I open my larder wide and light my best and most cheerful blaze; you are of the same disposition with your superfluity of silver coins; thus we honor each other!”

“Precisely to the point!” declared Aillas. “I will reckon up my little store of coins and whatever I find to be superfluous you shall have! We are in accord; let us say no more on the subject….”

Cwyd mused. “Our conversations have raised a number of interesting points. I could describe every turn of a long road, reciting each of the perils to be found along the way and its remedy, thus saving your life a dozen times, and you would gratefully reward me with a bag of gold. However, if I casually mentioned that the man you wished to see at the end of this road were dead, you might thank me but give me nothing, though all went to the same effect. Is there not an inherent disequilibrium at work here?”

“Yes indeed,” said Aillas. “The paradox resides once again in the distortions worked upon the fabric of our life by greed. I suggest that we free ourselves of this ignoble vice, and seek to help each other with full and wholehearted zeal.”

Cwyd grumbled: “In short, you refuse to pay me what my information is worth?”

“If you saved my life even once, how should I pay you? The concept is meaningless. For this reason such services are generally held to be free.”

“Still, if I saved your life a dozen times, as well as your father and mother and the virtue of your sister, and you gave me a single copper groat, at least I could put my belly up to the board and drink a mug of beer to your health.”

“Very well,” said Aillas. “Tell me all you know. It may be worth a copper groat.”

Cwyd threw his hands in the air. “At least in dealing with you I exercise my tongue…. Where do you fare?
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^The Book Thief. Finished recently when the first trailer of the movie was out. I thoroughly enjoyed. The narrator is Death and it is filled with lots of sarcasm & laughs. It's like a experimental fiction. I highly recommend it. Do give a try, I am very sure you cannot it put it down after reading first few chapters.
 
Is there any readable/worthy book in the Amazon's Republic Day sale? link

I have selected these
  • Theodore Boone : The Accused - John Grisham,
  • Bankerupt - Ravi Subramanian,
  • The Hunters - Chris Kuzneski
  • The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth (already got this. Yet to read though)
Any addition/deletion/suggestion? :p
 
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