Tuesday, September 05, 2006
meme
stolen from The Smallest Minority:
1) A book that changed my life: Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do by Peter McWilliams and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It's a toss up.
2) A book I've read more than once: well, both of the above...most of Neil Stephenson's stuff, especially Cryptonomicon...Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...The Iliad...there are more...
3) A book I'd take to a desert island: oh. Just one? Is this a vacation or a survival situation? Assuming it's a vacation, Whirlwind by James Clavell or the Federalist Papers because I haven't found enough collected time to read them. If it isn't a vacation, can I have a knifeinstead?
4) A book that made me laugh: Unhinged by Michelle Malkin
5) A book that made me cry: my own journal
6) A book I wish had been written: an instruction book for my own life, or at least a handy reference guide, complete with photographs in the appendix to help identify relatives at parties.
7) A book that should never have been written:
2061 by Arthur C. Clarke. 2010 and 3001 were moderately enjoyable, but there was no point to 2061.
8) A book I'm currently reading: Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley. It's a biography of the marines who raised the larger flag on Mt. Surabachi on Iwo Jima, who were immortalized in a statue very close to my home.
9) A book I'm planning to read: The Lonely Bones by Alice Sebold
10) Five people I'll send these questions on to: eh. Take it or leave it.
1) A book that changed my life: Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do by Peter McWilliams and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It's a toss up.
2) A book I've read more than once: well, both of the above...most of Neil Stephenson's stuff, especially Cryptonomicon...Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...The Iliad...there are more...
3) A book I'd take to a desert island: oh. Just one? Is this a vacation or a survival situation? Assuming it's a vacation, Whirlwind by James Clavell or the Federalist Papers because I haven't found enough collected time to read them. If it isn't a vacation, can I have a knifeinstead?
4) A book that made me laugh: Unhinged by Michelle Malkin
5) A book that made me cry: my own journal
6) A book I wish had been written: an instruction book for my own life, or at least a handy reference guide, complete with photographs in the appendix to help identify relatives at parties.
7) A book that should never have been written:
2061 by Arthur C. Clarke. 2010 and 3001 were moderately enjoyable, but there was no point to 2061.
8) A book I'm currently reading: Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley. It's a biography of the marines who raised the larger flag on Mt. Surabachi on Iwo Jima, who were immortalized in a statue very close to my home.
9) A book I'm planning to read: The Lonely Bones by Alice Sebold
10) Five people I'll send these questions on to: eh. Take it or leave it.
Comments:
You are familiar with Tolkien yet have you ever read the greatest epics ever, which inform the lives of over a billion living people today?
I refer to
Mahabharata and
Ramayana
which are both available in various abridged versions retold in English.
I refer to
Mahabharata and
Ramayana
which are both available in various abridged versions retold in English.
# posted by 
: 12:36 AM, September 08, 2006
: 12:36 AM, September 08, 2006
Code Name: God by Mani Bhaumik
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"This book may change your life."
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"The author's personal odyssey..to find common ground between.. Spirituality and ..Science is eloquently told and makes for fascinating reading."
Editorial Reviews
Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar and Tony award winning author with 300 million books in print.
"This book may change your life."
Fritjof Capra, author of the best selling The Tao of Physics
"The author's personal odyssey..to find common ground between.. Spirituality and ..Science is eloquently told and makes for fascinating reading."
# posted by : 1:12 AM, September 08, 2006
: 1:12 AM, September 08, 2006
I have read the Ramayana and loved it. I have not read the Mahabarata - it had always been my understanding that the until epic had not been completely translated into English. Is this not true? If it is in English, then it definately needs to be on my reading list.
Moth
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