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Spacescreamer said:
This is one issue which i also have with the book. But maybe that is how the books get sold in India.
We have a penchant for a bit of a drama here and there (atleast there were no 3X zooms thrown in..)

Thanks for sharing a slice of anecdotes from your life. A self made man is always the best possible hero we can come across in life :)
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That is a valid point. One only has to see how people fall head over heels with so-called biographical movies of famous people in India. Case in point being Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

Also, thanks for the appreciation but I edited that part out. The intention was to talk about Mudaliar's standing among Tamils from the lower stratas of life and I think I digressed a bit. All good now.

:)
 
My 12 year old cousin is asking me to get some 'story' books for him.
Could some one please recommend me some?

I can see in Fk/Amazon that the - Whimpy Kid series, Percy Jackson series have pretty decent ratings. How are those?
Or anything else?
 
mathrisk said:
My 12 year old cousin is asking me to get some 'story' books for him.
Could some one please recommend me some?

I can see in Fk/Amazon that the - Whimpy Kid series, Percy Jackson series have pretty decent ratings. How are those?
Or anything else?
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At that age, i was happy with the Hardy Boys books. These are mainly light mystery books. There are some 160 books in the series.
 
Just re-read (this time more attentively) 1984 by George Orwell.

This prophetic masterpiece never ceases to amaze me. Quite analogous with the times we're living in.
 
Criminal said:
^^ come on... are we really living in distopian time?
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Let's try this next weekend, and see if we have an answer:

Walk down the erstwhile Aurangzeb Road wearing a LGBT support t-shirt, holding a sumptuous boeuf steak in one hand and carrying a copy of "India's Daughter" in another and see if we're living freely enough? :)
 
~Romil said:
Just re-read (this time more attentively) 1984 by George Orwell.

This prophetic masterpiece never ceases to amaze me. Quite analogous with the times we're living in.
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Just remember one thing, even though surveillance is a large part of 1984, the true themes are brainwashing and propaganda.
 
Can you guys recommend me some really good spy/thriller novels and some solid fantasy as well ? I have read the entire Jack Reacher series (liked many but also a handful of them were meh). Started the ASOIAF and about to start the Witcher saga as well.
 
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Mr.J said:
Just remember one thing, even though surveillance is a large part of 1984, the true themes are brainwashing and propaganda.
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I concur. But, I'm curious as to know why I'm served with this reminder? ; )[DOUBLEPOST=1465569037][/DOUBLEPOST]Reading another one tonight, The Clan of The Cave Bear by French writer Jean Auel -- A speculative fiction about social life and it's dynamics in the late Pleistocene epoch (~30K years ago). A fascinating and promising read.
 
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Started A Song of Ice and Fire. I know I am late to the party. I was waiting for series to finish and then start, then looking how GRRM was taking time, I changed my mind.

I finished AGOT and ACOK, both are amazing. Will start ASOS soon :D
 
avi said:
Started A Song of Ice and Fire. I know I am late to the party. I was waiting for series to finish and then start, then looking how GRRM was taking time, I changed my mind.

I finished AGOT and ACOK, both are amazing. Will start ASOS soon :D
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I got a bit bored @ 60% of ACOK. So I started the Witcher series, now at the 8th and final book of the series. Hopefully will resume the ACOK after this :p
 
sabby said:
I got a bit bored @ 60% of ACOK. So I started the Witcher series, now at the 8th and final book of the series. Hopefully will resume the ACOK after this :p
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Really? A lot of shit happens by 60%, I don't know why you got bored. Also ACOK has lots of Tyrion, which I absolutely loved it.

Btw finished 70% of ASOS. Will finish by this weekend :)
 
avi said:
Really? A lot of shit happens by 60%, I don't know why you got bored. Also ACOK has lots of Tyrion, which I absolutely loved it.

Btw finished 70% of ASOS. Will finish by this weekend :)
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I just finished the Devos chapter where he took certain someone to a certain place via a boat. Not much happening in the past few chapters. Let's see if that changes now.
 
Updating the thread after a long time.
These days my reading has drastically reduced. Hardly read 20/30 pages a day. Completed the following in recent months
  • Cometh the Hour - Jeffrey Archer - Clifton series #6
  • This was a Man - Jeffrey Archer - Last(#7) book of clifton series - typical archer style story. Monotonous at times. Finishing was decent.
  • The Forgotten Man - Rober Crais - (Elvis Cole series) - a casual murder mystery book. Something like a episode of "Castle".
 
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