Books/Novels Discussion Thread V1: Literary Gems
Read "1984" by George Orwell a month ago. It was an amazing yet draining experience. It gets hard to read because of the disturbing situations near the end of the book. I spent a lot of time thinking about this book after reading it.
Overall its a must read book but only if you are mature enough to understand how deep it is and have a strong stomach.
Overall its a must read book but only if you are mature enough to understand how deep it is and have a strong stomach.
Sankalp Tripathi
Broken In
I have completed The Accidental Prime Minister sometime ago.just because it was on the bestsellers list
Now reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.He has written some good books.Kafka on the shore and 1Q84 is next in the list
Now reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.He has written some good books.Kafka on the shore and 1Q84 is next in the list
Finished The Giver - Ending felt a bit like The Road, open ended. We all make choices and that's what life is all about. Do we know beforehand the outcome of choices made ? Not necessarily at that moment if we haven't experienced it before. But still it is what we choose to do. Bad or good choices, doesn't matter. And how do we define something we don't even know. Something which our senses are not conditioned to recognize ? Are there feelings and things in world which we can cannot perceive at all ?
Completed To Kill a Mockingbird - Not as easy read as The Book Thief but the story told from 10 year old's perspective and the use of language in such clever way warrants a read. Overall an impressive story, well developed characters, nicely intertwined events, with some good lessons in life.
izzikio_rage
Technomancer
Read the following three almost back to back, my mind is a mess now
Do androids dream of electric sheep is a pretty cool book, especially if you look at it in terms of how much our belief system can change due to really bad circumstances. The religion of mercerism, use of mood organs, the huge social pressure to have an animal etc all make you feel that most of what we believe and do, most of what we think as ingrained is actually coming from years of conditioning
1984: Again, very cool. A look at how much can go wrong if you have a selfish government
Brave new world: The very opposite of the world in 1984, how far we can mess up if we decide to ensure that everyone is as happy as possible. becomes a little too confusing towards the end, but still a great read
Do androids dream of electric sheep is a pretty cool book, especially if you look at it in terms of how much our belief system can change due to really bad circumstances. The religion of mercerism, use of mood organs, the huge social pressure to have an animal etc all make you feel that most of what we believe and do, most of what we think as ingrained is actually coming from years of conditioning
1984: Again, very cool. A look at how much can go wrong if you have a selfish government
Brave new world: The very opposite of the world in 1984, how far we can mess up if we decide to ensure that everyone is as happy as possible. becomes a little too confusing towards the end, but still a great read
rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
Oh I loved this book. And the love motivated me to watch the movie which sucked.
Started Brave new world.
Book was good enough. Have you read To Kill a Mocking Bird ?
rhitwick
Democracy is a myth
No, seen the movie though *www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/
b/w, I see you are venturing out to other genres than sci-fi. I would like to recommend you "Chaos walking" series by Patrick Ness
Book 1 : Knife of never letting go
Book 2: The ask and the answer
Book 3: Monsters of men
P.S. I was unallocated at the time I read them. Finished first book in two days. Couldn't control the curiosity and ordered the other two from flipkart. Finished all in one week! You may like it. 10% sci-fi and 90% drama/adventure/thriller
Completed A Brave New World - I'd trade happiness and stability over truth and love.
It's like how closer a society can get to perfection. I kind of agree with the idea.
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Thanks. Will look into that. I usually buy on kindle store.
It's like how closer a society can get to perfection. I kind of agree with the idea.
Few stopped playing games and watching movies for a while just like me. It's about priorities.
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Thanks. Will look into that. I usually buy on kindle store.
TheSloth
The Slowest One
Thanks for replying. I really needed to know.
Completed The Madman and Of Mice and Men. Both are worth the reads. The Madman is more about wisdom and poetry. Of Mice an Men is a compelling story within hundred pages.
Stardust is good. Different ending than the movie.
Stardust is good. Different ending than the movie.
Neo
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Read these in the past month or so:
1. A thousand splendid suns: Just read this masterpiece. Totally loved it.
2. Inferno, Dan Brown
3. Da vinci code, Dan Brown
4. The alchemist
5. Lux Series(set of 5 books) : hot female main character, had great action but was so girly.
6. Bloodlines Series (5 books, one is yet to come) : strong female protagonist, vampires and magic. Was really hooked up to it.
Is female protagonist the new trend or something? Tris from Divergent and katnis from hunger games are just so hot.
After reading some of dan brown's, i can fairly say that Robert Langdon is quite the runner xD
need some suggestions in YA, Sci-fi, fiction, thriller or well anything in general.
1. A thousand splendid suns: Just read this masterpiece. Totally loved it.
2. Inferno, Dan Brown
3. Da vinci code, Dan Brown
4. The alchemist
5. Lux Series(set of 5 books) : hot female main character, had great action but was so girly.
6. Bloodlines Series (5 books, one is yet to come) : strong female protagonist, vampires and magic. Was really hooked up to it.
Is female protagonist the new trend or something? Tris from Divergent and katnis from hunger games are just so hot.
After reading some of dan brown's, i can fairly say that Robert Langdon is quite the runner xD
need some suggestions in YA, Sci-fi, fiction, thriller or well anything in general.