Thread: Book Recommendations

I would love to read more books, but dont have the time. But i can always make time when i know there is something interesting, so i would like you guys to recommend some good books to read.

Please tell me why you recommend it and a very short description of the book.

It would be easier if you r a bit more specific

Which kind ? Ficition- Non Ficition ?

Political ?

Any really, because i don't think its necessary to have a certain type of book for it to be good, it can be any book

read this
chaacha choudhary aur japaan ki gudiya

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

read this
chaacha choudhary aur japaan ki gudiya

:lol: :lol:

classic

Boss pls tell Admin to change the rules ... unable to repo lots o guys ... you know that msg

Originally Posted by smoothvibes

read this
chaacha choudhary aur japaan ki gudiya

haha so funny round high heel boy!

thanks thanks.. you can read some good books like
Living with great himalayan masters by Rama Swami
Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam
otherwise for entertainment purpose
chachaa choudhry rocks :lol:

Thanks Eddy

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

I would love to read more books, but dont have the time. But i can always make time when i know there is something interesting, so i would like you guys to recommend some good books to read.

Please tell me why you recommend it and a very short description of the book.

Are you done with Chetan Bhagat's Series??

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

I would love to read more books, but dont have the time. But i can always make time when i know there is something interesting, so i would like you guys to recommend some good books to read.

Please tell me why you recommend it and a very short description of the book.

I wud say you'll have to spend some time to select a book for yourself. No one can tell you specifically which book you may like.
I can give you list of 300 books of your choice but may be you'll like only one of them (In case you read all)

Do this.. Take some time off... go to a book store (which has a browsing table).... select then section / Subject / genre.... pick 6 books by the colors u like (that's true)... browse 4 pages randomly... and pick 1 book out of 6 (its a rule)...

BUY ONE BOOK ONLY AT A TIME.

99% of the time this method works... take care that the book you select by colors are not same shades. Also note... do not go on size of the book.

Originally Posted by Manish

Are you done with Chetan Bhagat's Series??

I never started that!

I will never cease to tell everyone. Please read "India Unbound" by "Gurucharan Das".

This book will really bring the patriotism in you. I also believe that your outlook will change.

Here are the excerpts"

"INDIA UNBOUND is a lively, interesting and well documented answer – the first of its kind – to a key question: why was India rich, why is it poor, when will it be rich again? It is also full of the kind of stories which make that fascinating country come alive for the reader."
-- Olivier Bernier, author of "The World in 1800"

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative.

Das tells the stories of the major players in a period of rapid and profound change—from early days of Independence to the current software impresarios—and makes comprehensible and compelling the economic and political developments responsible for these changes. He weaves his personal story into the larger context of contemporary history: his family's move t America in the mid-1950s, his education at Harvard, his years in India as a young marketing executive wrestling with a socialist system he feared would undermine the country's vast potential. He also shows us the reasons behind his optimism for his nation's future, among which is the exciting landscape of information technology today.

Das argues that the changes of the past fifty years have, at last, amounted to a revolution—and it is one that has not been chronicled before. With India Unbound, he gives us a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written—an essential insider's road map to India, then and now.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Wise Elephant

Part One: Our Spring of Hope (1942-65)

1. Ranting in English, Chanting in Sanskrit
2. Smells of the Bazaar
3. The Train to Nowhere
4. Blind Then, Blind Now
5. If We Were Once Rich, Why Are We Now Poor?
6. The Paper Route
7. Capitalism for the Rich, Socialism for the Poor

Part Two: The Lost Generation (1966-91)

1. Bazaar Power
2. Lerma Rojo and Taichung Native No. 1
3. Caste
4. Multiplying by Zero
5. Merchants of Marwar
6. Dreams in Kabutarkhana
7. Licensing Blues

Part Three: The Rebirth of Dreams (1991-99)

1. The Golden Summer of 1991
2. A Million Reformers
3. New Money
4. Old Money
5. The Rise and Rise of a Middle Class
6. Modern vs. Western
7. Democracy First, Capitalism Afterwards
8. Knowledge is Wealth
9. A New Country

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

I never started that!

Then do it, you'll find it good

I used to read novel books. But now I read a lot of articles online. It's much better that way.

There is a book "BLINK" by Malcolm Gladwell... Have you ever wondered why love at first sight, so seemingly ill-advised, sometimes works out for the long-term? Malcolm Gladwell may have the answer... In BLINK, Gladwell asserts that snap judgments can quite often be as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately...

Using a wide variety of examples-- an ex-Marine's victory in a war-game simulation, a museum's purchase of a bogus statue, an emergency room's method for diagnosing heart attacks-- Gladwell asks us to step back from overly analytical decision-making and trust our instincts and experience...


Blink (book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I would recommend you to read wild swans by jung chang.It is an exceptional auto biography literature i had ever read.It is the best way of killing time.

Madonna once said: "I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive,"

Beyonce Knowles said: "When people find out that I'm just a human being I guess I disappoint them."

Well, these are some of A-listers' famous ludicrous utterings, which have now been compiled in a new book.'Dim Wit: The Funniest, Stupidest Things Ever Said' by Rosemarie Jarski, offers wackiest quotes by celebrities.


Below are some more:


England football star Rio Ferdinand: "Our club captain Gary Neville's been out for a year now, but Giggsy has taken up the mantelpiece."


West Ham star Kieron Dyer: "I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me."


Film star Ewan McGregor: "Isn't Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I'd like to be in her with - I mean I'd like to be with her in."


Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills: "When you find your soulmate, you could sleep under their armpits."


Rapper Eminem: "England? England is in London right?"


Actress beauty Kate Beckinsale: "I'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas."


Spice Girl Victoria Beckham: "What do you wear on a running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes."


Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton: "I like my mug shot. I think I have a really great mug shot. It looks like a magazine shoot."


Designer and model Jade Jagger: "What gorgeous staff I have. I can't understand those who have ugly people working for them."


TV football pundit and England star Alan Shearer: "One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best."


Singer Christina Aguilera: "My grandma was like: 'Oh, Christina, you look like a whore!' I explained that's the idea."


Actor Russell Crowe: "You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'"


Ex England skipper David Beckham: "I remember so clearly us going into hospital so Victoria could have Brooklyn. I was eating a Lion Bar at the time."


Former Big Brother starJade Goody: "If you chopped off my head, I'd still carry on talking, because the head stays alive for a bit. I've seen that in films."


TV star and singer Kelly Osbourne: "If more families were like us the world would be a better place."


Pop star James Blunt: "I always wanted to be a Muppet."

Governor Arnold Schwarz-enegger: "I think gay marriage should be between a man and a woman."

if ur too lazy to read the entire chetan bhagats series.. i ll suggest 3 mistakes..
its awesome..and so many things u can relate to in his books

Thanks for the suggestions guys, hope i get some time to read books now!

I will recommend The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot

Thanks for sharing Pri_dm...

BTW, I'm sure that Preeti hasn't read any of the recommended books on this thread yet... Have you Preeti?

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Thanks for sharing Pri_dm...

welcome maddy well if you like reading i can recommend few more

Read - A tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens . Quite emotional.

Originally Posted by Pri_dm

welcome maddy well if you like reading i can recommend few more

Well, right now my hands are full... Have to complete couple of them before I think of another... You can always recommend... whenever you wish... Somebody may read it now... I'll read sooner than later...

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Well, right now my hands are full... Have to complete couple of them before I think of another... You can always recommend... whenever you wish... Somebody may read it now... I'll read sooner than later...

Sure whenever you are free you can try

sons and lovers by D.H. Lawrence

Although i did not have much time or if i got some time then normally I read bengali books but I hope I will get some time to read few of them.
Thanks kix,Mohit,Luke and Pri_dm for mentioning such books