A book that made you laugh: Abol Tabol – Sukumar Roy

A book that made you cry: Childhood’s end – Arthur clerke

A book that scared you: The Fly

A book that disgusted you: Stephen King , most of his work

A book you loved in elementary school: The Treasure Island

A book you loved in middle school or junior high school: 20000 leagues under the sea – Jules Verne

A book you loved in high school: Sherlock Holmes – Arthur conan doyle.

A book you loved in college: Many actually. sci-fi by arthur clerke, isaac asimov. Emotional ones by Paulo Coelho, Philosophical ones by Ayn Rand

A book that challenged your identity: Veronica Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho. Made me realise so many things I would not be able to think otherwise.

A series that you love: Garfield. Hagar The horrible. And now Calvin and Hobbes.

Your favorite horror book: None I guess.

Your favorite science fiction book: Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy – Douglas Adams

Your favorite fantasy: Artemis Fowl – Eion Colfer

Your favorite mystery: all Sherlock Holmes.

Your favorite biography: Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi.

Your favorite “coming of age” book: Atlas Shrugged. The one that evolved me as a person.

Your favorite classic: Shakespere. too cliched, isn’t it?

Your favorite romance book: Have never read mills and boons. But I used to write some, which so far has been my favorite.

Five point someone.

To me, this book started with a big contradiction from the front-left cover page that started with a chetan Bhagat Biography and his education, and the end cover page that stated the five points why Hari, Ryan and Alok’s life were in mess because of all the stupid things that they did. From the beginning, I couldn’t see it as some close to real belieavble read, but just a fancy tale of an intellegent mind. Probably the how-to-do-worse-at-IIT and also how-to-miraculously-get-outta-it was something that the author has pondered over in this book. Those characters potrayed in the book are probably someones that the author hasn’t been in the shoes of. Probably that is. Well, his GPAs throughout the IIT and IIM says otherwise anyways.

So even though the book was a good read, I still kinda felt it to be unbelievable in some sorts. of course a few of my friends from IITs and IIMs said the book to be mostly near to truth, It was still just a piece of fiction for me.

What was your take on this book?

Ektz.

ps. The next book I am buying is ON@CC from Chetan Bhagat. I like his style of writing anyhow.

“if god exists, and I truly don’t belive he does, he will know that there are limits to human understanding . He was the one who created this confusion in which there is poverty,injustice,greed and loneliness. he doubtless had the best of intentions,but results have proved disastrous; if god exists,he will be generous with those creatures who choose to leave this earth early. and he might even apologise for having made us spend time….”

Alak posted this on her blog and i am having the same effect of it as i read the book the first time. Its refreshing to see that someone is exactly getting the-very-thing about the logic of the writer, that affected me. I am very happy for you, Alku!

I’m not at all gonna write a review about the book here…
… you want the review… go n read!!

Ektz.

ps. It was RAkshabandhan(rakhi-day) today. I was very happy to be on the receiving end for the change:D, as now i have more than 4 rakhis on my wrist:)

Book : [The left hand of darkness, Ursula K Le Guin]

“The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, thats what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action…[What is known?]That we shall die. There’s really only one question that can be answered, and we already know the answer.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”