Love for books

A book tag- I was tagged by smyta I was never a reader till college. Mum used to fight world wars to get me read Hindu (Mum for this I can never thank u enough). 1982-1995(…)

1. Tinkle
2. Ambulimama
3. Akbar Birbal stories
4. Tenali Rama stories (From dinamalar siruvar malar (a weekly) I think!)

Mostly I remember reading Hindu and solving crosswords (of the rest, my memory is vague) .

1995-1999(9,10th,11,12)

1. Merchant of Venice (Was a school play)
2. The count of Monte Cristo-Alexander Dumas (Till date among the fav books I read when I was at school)
3. A tale of two cities-Chalres Dickens (Kids edition.still haven’t read the original version)
4. Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens (+2 supplement in English )
5. Pickwick papers- Dickens
6. War of the Worlds – H.G.Wells (This one is too gud. I guess Tom cruise will soon be protagonist for this novel)
7. Invisible Man - H.G.Wells

1999-2005: (College and Thereafter)

1. Dooms day conspiracy- Sydney sheldon (Remember the first novel I read @ college. Borrowed from 1 friend called Meyyappan.)
2. Entire Sherlock Holmes Series-Arthur Conan Doyle (I had the original edition from penguin classics) Of all holmes series I like “The Hound of Baskerville” the best
3. Right ho Jeeves-P.G.Wodehouse
4. The Fan club-Irving Wallace
5. Who moved my Cheese-Dr. Spencer Johnson
6. Word power made easy –Norman Lewis J (for obvious reasons)
7. Disclosure-Micheal Crichton
8. Sphere-Micheal Crichton
9. Airframe-M.Crichton
10. Jurassic Park-M.Crichton
11. The Andromeda Strain-M.Crichton
12. Time Line –M.Chricton
13. State of Fear –M.Chricton
14. Prey-Micheal Crichton
15. The Lost World-M.Crichton
16. The eaters of the dead-M.Crichton (This book is ultimate. I really enjoyed reading this one)
17. Hotel-Arthur Hailey
18. A time to kill-John Grisham
19. The last juror –John Grisham
20. The king of torts – John Grisham
21. The Client –John Grisham
22. The Partner-John Grisham

Here like to point out tat I did not buy a single Sheldon book. All borrowed books from friends.And personally don’t like to waste money on these books ;)

• If tomorrow comes-Sidney Sheldon (This is one exception in his case)

Best Laid Plans-Sidney Sheldon

A stranger in the mirror-Sidney Sheldon

Naked Face-Sidney Sheldon

The other side of midnight - Sidney Sheldon

The memories of midnight - Sidney Sheldon

Are u afraid of the dark? - Sidney Sheldon

Windmills of god - Sidney Sheldon

The rage of the angels - Sidney Sheldon

Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon

Master of the game - Sidney Sheldon

Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon

Morning,Noon and Night - Sidney Sheldon

Nothing lasts for ever- Sidney Sheldon

The sky is falling - Sidney Sheldon

War and Peace : Leo Tolstoy

Archies comics (Not much! used to borrow stuff from pals at hostel)

To cut a long story short-Jefferey Archer

Kane and Abel-Jeffery Archer

Prodigal Daughter - Jeffery Archer

Shall we tell the president-Jeffery Archer

The sons of fortune - Jeffery Archer

As the crow flies - Jeffery Archer

Prison diary I,II,III - Jeffery Archer

Quiver full of arrows - Jeffery Archer

First among equals- Jeffery Archer

Not a penny more, not a penny less - Jeffery Archer

36 short stories of Jeffery Archer

Honour among of thieves - Jeffery Archer

Fourth Estate - Jeffery Archer

The Eleventh Commandment - Jeffery Archer

Perfect Murder - Jeffery Archer

Twelve Red Herrings - Jeffery Archer

Rendezvous with rama-Arthur C Clarke (Too gud a book. Simply amazed by the knowledge of Clarke regarding physics/cylinder)

Gardens of Rama - Arthur C Clarke

Rama II - Arthur C Clarke (I read the third part first and then the second part )

2001: Space odyssey - Arthur C Clarke

2010: Space odyssey - Arthur C Clarke

3010: Arthur C Clarke not sure if its 3010 or 3000. But still vaguely remember tat the monolith wakes up in the end.

Love story-Erich Segal (The only book of its kind. And vowed never to read such book again)

Davinci code –Dan Brown

Angels and demons - Dan Brown

Digital fortress- Dan Brown

Deception point - Dan Brown

Jonathan livingstons sea gull -R.Bach (One of my favorites)

Cujo – Stephen king (Didn’t find it interesting. Idea of a hungry dog threatening to eat a handcuffed person didn’t excite me)

Bourne Identity- Robert Ludlum

Sicilian tragedy - Robert Ludlum

Following r the ones of which I am happy that I read them. Both JRR and Asimov rank as my fav writers in this list.

1. JRR Tolkien – Lord of the rings (Fellowship of the Rings, The Two Towers, The return of the King)
2. JRR Tolkien – Hobbits
3. JRR Tolkien – Silmarillion
4. JRR Tolkien – Unfinished tales of Middle Earth

Issac Asimov collection … (Thanks Romit for introducing me to the world of assimov !!! ) Foundation series except for one Prelude to the foundation

1. Foundation 2. Foundation and Empire 3. Second Foundation 4. Foundations Edge 5. Foundation and the earth 6. Forward the foundation

Robot series 1. I, Robot 2. Robots of the dawn 3. The naked sun

Other books: Magic, Bicentennial Man, Robot dreams (Asimov)

These books r just for the kicks –author Herrold Robbins (some of these books were available at my college library :D)

1. Betsy
2. The lonely lady
3. The raiders (At least this had some substance. not as bad as the rest)

There was one more book involving some stock market bull shi*. Don’t seem to remember the name.

Total Number of Books I own: Must be around 40. Coz most of the books I bought were at central Railway station(Chennai) and used to discard the worthless stuff for some other book.

Total number of books given to others and never came back : Not many actually. Coz I am the one who borrows :)

Total number of books fliched from others : not filched but borrowed and too damn lazy to return. About 5. (atleast 1 I remember from KK “are u afraid of the dark?“)

Last Book I bought: Eaters of the dead –Micheal chricton

A book that I am most eagerly awaiting to read: Nothing. It just happens tat I choose anything randomly. May b if Archer writes something interesting, I will think abt it.

Last Book I was gifted: None. If i consider “are u afraid of dark?” as a gift from kk then tats the one. Else none. Most of my friends don’t read books or even if they do, don’t gift :D

Last Book I gifted: The monk who sold his Ferrari

Last Book I read: Eaters of the dead –Micheal chricton (On my way from Bangalore to pune)

I am currently reading: Unix Network programming –Sockets API. Richard Stevens

Five Books that mean a lot to me: 1. Lord of the Rings – JRRT 2. Foundation series – Asimov 3. Rendezvous with Rama –Clarke 4. Eaters of the Dead – Chricton 5. Jonathan Livingston Seagull-By Richard Bach

Books I started reading, but never completed: The monk who sold his Ferrari

Book that made zero sense to me: Danielle steel - Dynasty (My first and last attempt with steel. Ridiculous!)

The most treasured book : LOR – JRRT

Who am I gonna tag ? All of you are welcome to take this up!!!