Keep It Simple! » books http://blog.sumanth.us BETA forever Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:04:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Me and my book fetish http://blog.sumanth.us/me-and-my-book-fetish/2010/01/17/ http://blog.sumanth.us/me-and-my-book-fetish/2010/01/17/#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:28:33 +0000 Sumanth http://blog.sumanth.us/?p=469 In one of these rare retrospective moments after a long day’s work and quite a bit of malted barley, I realized how reading books had given a completely different perspective, sometimes even a tangential view of certain aspects. It is almost as if writing/reading are man’s best inventions. Reading voraciously has been something that I started really early, partly because of my grandfather, Kolar Krishna Iyer (who wrote Great Men and Women of Puranas and others) and partly because I was head-over-heels over my English school teacher. It is definitely something that has grown into one of my favorite pastimes and its highly probable, it’ll stay that way.

Fast forward to today – I’ve an hour train journey daily and after discovering a public library close to home with tons of great books, I see no reasons why I should not indulge a lot more. Another great thing about reading books is that is that it goes well with my new years resolution of blogging more interesting stuff often. In the age of 140 chars, blogging might actually sound wierd to some people — I’ve my reasons and thats an another post, a long one actually.

This is my current queue of books. I’ve read a lot of science fiction and am looking to branch out. For some reason, I also want to read Milton’s Paradise Lost this year.

Image of Dune Dune by Frank Herbert
Image of Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys Complete Guide to Guys by Dave Barry
Image of The Pelican Brief The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Image of 1984 (Signet Classics) 1984 by George Orwell
Image of Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Short Stories by W.Somerset Maugham

Have any comments, suggested reading lists/books? I’m all ears.

Side Note : I used Amazon Showcase for WordPress for the display above, and the geek that I am, spent more time hacking the CSS and the widget code than for the actual writing of this post.



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