Friday, September 29, 2006

Books of note

I've always been quite fond of reading and though it's been some time since I've read a book, a discussion with someone today got me talking about the books which have had some kind of influence on me, so here is the short list in no particular order:

  • Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach
  • Illusions by Richard Bach
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
  • A Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray
  • Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Delhi Is Not Far (A Collection of Short Stories) By Ruskin Bond
  • Best of O' Henry by O' Henry
  • We, The Living by Ayn Rand
  • Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I am currently reading Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (I've been trying to read that for past 2 months!), the to-read-next list contains Bhagvat Gita, Fountainhead among others. Any recommendations based on kind of stuff that I like reading (life philosophy, love stories et al)?

Oh, by the way I stumbled upon this quote on /. today, which I found to be quite funny:
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe!

2 comments:

  1. We seem to have similar tastes. One book I'd recommend to anyone would be 'Lust for life', Van Gogh's dramatized bio. Irwing (Irving?) Stone, I think the author was. Fountainhead's excellent, by the way.

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  2. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll add these books to my "To-Read-Next" list.

    S

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