tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post1696721244423440167..comments2024-01-18T11:34:21.654+05:30Comments on The Intelligent Woman's Toyboy: Book of ListsAjit Chaudhurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-15611956116776934522013-10-21T12:02:41.750+05:302013-10-21T12:02:41.750+05:30Interesting list I think except for Khaled Hossein...Interesting list I think except for Khaled Hosseini's "Kite Runner", we don't have any in commonanirmukerjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00399339347969207116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-70627622457876997852012-09-05T20:12:42.809+05:302012-09-05T20:12:42.809+05:30It is just so lovely to hear from u, as always! I...It is just so lovely to hear from u, as always! I know I'm part of that crowd (if it is a crowd), that gets ur mail, greedily devours ur two-pager, and then just never takes the time to tell u how much I've enjoyed it, or what it's made me think of or what memories it's brought back...<br /><br />But they always do, evoke a wonderful sense of something and great fulfilment, so THANK YOU! May u keep them coming hard and fast!!<br /><br />Lots of love,<br />Nishka CrishnaAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-12629031603190976162012-09-05T20:11:15.256+05:302012-09-05T20:11:15.256+05:30This was awesome. Nostalgic and heartwarming. Some...This was awesome. Nostalgic and heartwarming. Some of these I havent read and promise to. The ones I would have listed (and all these were read in thr teens, for some reason I remember that era of reading fondly).<br /> <br />John Buchan - The Thirty Nine steps - Racy story of a middle aged man on the run, chased by German spies, bravely trying to avert disaster.<br /><br />F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby - the mysterious American tycoon, and a great love story.<br /><br />Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca, a most intriguing romance. Also read My Cousin Rachel and Jamaica Inn<br /><br />Will send a few more soon. Among recent reads, Keep is a masterpiece....of black maids in America.<br /><br />Amir KhanAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-74089767385138964392012-09-05T20:08:28.923+05:302012-09-05T20:08:28.923+05:30Ok, here are a few you might like to check out:
c...Ok, here are a few you might like to check out:<br /><br />count of monte cristo - alexander dumas<br />the magic mountain - thomas mann<br />the jungle - upton sinclair<br />tin drum - gunter grass<br />cannery row - john steinbeck<br />Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger<br />nine stories / For Esme, With Love and Squalor - JD Salinger<br />Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger<br />the old man & the sea - ernest hemingway<br />the great gatsby<br />in cold blood - truman capote<br />death of a salesman - arthur miller<br />memed my hawk - yasar kemal<br />slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut<br />one day in the life of ivan denisovich - alexander solzhenitsyn<br />so many hungers - bhabani bhattacharya<br />things fall apart - chinua achebe<br />100 years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez<br />bullet park - john cheever<br />revolutionary road - richard yates<br />my god died young - sasthi brata<br />invisible cities - italo calvino<br />the family of pascal duarte - camilo hose cela<br />the storyteller - mario vargas llosa<br />midnight's children - salman rushdie<br />all the names - jose saramago<br />the song of solomon - toni morrisson<br />the name of the rose - umberto eco<br />the english patient - michael ondatje<br />the famished road - ben okri<br />blindness - jose saramago<br />rouse up O young men of the new generation - kenzaburo oe<br />a quiet life - kenzaburo oe<br />women as lovers - elfriede jelinek<br />the golden gandhi statue from america - subimal misra<br /><br />V RamaswamyAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-66510255414464359792012-09-05T20:05:16.240+05:302012-09-05T20:05:16.240+05:30For once i read you email immediately as the inter...For once i read you email immediately as the interest to know about books is still there. Excellent choice, have read a few and i would like to add to this list someday. <br /><br />Two i recall instantly- Great Indian Novel- Sashi Tharoor and Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh. Sea of Poppies was not too bad also.<br /><br />Amitabh KharkwalAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-66565432076752631922012-09-05T20:03:47.836+05:302012-09-05T20:03:47.836+05:30Thanks for letting us know of so many interesting ...Thanks for letting us know of so many interesting books. Of these, I have read only a few: To <br />Kill a Mocking Bird (liked both the book and the movie), and Animal Farm, and seen the movies <br />on The Hunt for the Red October (I didn't see a single woman in that movie!!) and One flew <br />over the Cuckoo's Nest.<br /><br />I am surprised not to find Uncle Toms Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe), and none by V.S.Naipaul <br />(one of my favourites is A Turn in the South), and Paul Thoreau ( The Great Railway Bazaar; I <br />like travelogues) in your short-list!! There were no biographies or auto-biographies either.<br /><br />RK AnilAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-71658061437435749462012-09-05T20:02:32.444+05:302012-09-05T20:02:32.444+05:30In your list I miss Snow Leopard and what about To...In your list I miss Snow Leopard and what about Tolkien, Gone with the wind, not Thorn Birds but another one from her (?) and did you not read Cutting for Stone? I read it as preparation for a mission to Ethiopia and while on mission read 'A vision for Africa' (Wangari M). Was a great way to connect what I was seeing.<br /><br />Rupa MAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-52494470948704340422012-09-05T20:01:15.090+05:302012-09-05T20:01:15.090+05:30Some of the old ones that come to mind... these we...Some of the old ones that come to mind... these were so important during school days<br /><br />Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br />Uncle Tom's Cabin<br />Guns of Navarone<br />Fountainhead<br /><br />Thanks for the trip down memory lane with that list.<br /><br />Mathew JohnAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-21560307130386382672012-09-05T19:59:25.451+05:302012-09-05T19:59:25.451+05:30Just realised what a poor reader as compared to yo...Just realised what a poor reader as compared to you...still remember how you used to sneak in the casual novel (anything you got your hands on) during your board exams too. Nothing disturbed you whilst you read! Reading was always so important to you. I feel happy you kept it up and more than what I<br />can say for myself, gave reading the time and dedication it deserves.<br /><br />There are a few books which have deeply touched me...don't know if they are your type, but they are powerful and definitely worth a read if you haven't<br />read them already.<br /><br />An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer (a historical novel leading to the battle of Waterloo) Also, Faro's Daughter and These Old Shades by the same author.<br /><br />The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni ( The story of the Mahabharata from the eyes and point of view of Draupadi)<br /><br />Daddy Long Legs by ___Webster (you must have surely read this...about the orphan girl who was sent to college and her daily diary to her benefactor)<br /><br />Desiree by Anne Marie Selinko - (the bestseller about napoleon's first love)<br /><br />Some more, but I forget now!<br /><br />Lots of love<br /><br />Nomita RoyAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-48731089030192090792012-09-05T19:55:53.959+05:302012-09-05T19:55:53.959+05:30The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautica...The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished by Patrick O'Brian, set during the Napoleonic Wars and centring on the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, who is also a physician, natural philosopher, and secret agent. The first novel, Master and Commander, was published in 1969 and the last finished novel in 1999. The 21st novel of the series, left unfinished by O'Brian's death in 2000,<br />appeared in print in late 2004. The series received considerable international acclaim and most of the novels reached The New York Times Best Seller list. These novels comprised the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and a myriad British authors central to the English literature canon.<br /><br />The 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World took material from books in this series, notably Master and Commander, HMS Surprise, The Letter of Marque, The Fortune of War, and particularly The Far Side of the World. Russell Crowe played the role of Jack Aubrey, and Paul Bettany that of Stephen Maturin.<br /><br />Highly recommended as it covers not just naval engagements and life afloat in the ocean, but society and social norms, science, philosophy, natural history, aspects of human nature and, of course, the bitter-sweet sides of romance, all set in those times. Go for it. You may just need to set aside a large chunk of your life to read these, as I have, and be richer for it!<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />Indrek RoyAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-550878305275660328.post-2136378294768696512012-09-05T19:50:56.137+05:302012-09-05T19:50:56.137+05:30Thanks for this.
Your introduction (about the bre...Thanks for this.<br /><br />Your introduction (about the breakfast and conversation) really cracked me up!<br /><br />EshaanAjit Chaudhurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02375314355362644733noreply@blogger.com