Hey Guys!!
Not sure how many of you are into reading novels and books. But I am sure there are some good readers and writers out here.

Which writers or books have had lasting impressions in your life?

In my case, its George Orwell's Animal Farm, Ayn Rand's Fountain Head. And I envy Kahlil Gibran poetic writings. How about you?

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

read this when i was just growing up

this book made me like PORN!

THANK YOU Mr. D H Lawrence

Has any one read "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra about Mumbai's underworld ?

Its been compared to God Father by Mario Puzo.

Shirish -

I haven't read the book yet but heard this interview with Chandra on the radio the other day - thought it might be of interest :)


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Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
Wicked book!

"The Class" by Erich Segal is my all time favorite novel. Its a must read novel if you haven't read this one yet.

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desia, one of my all time favs... it's set in the old delhi back in the day, just a wonderful read. The last templar is one of the recent ones that i really liked it's by raymond khoury, its a historical thriller.. if your a Dan Brown fan u'll definitely enjoy this!

A classic book to date, I could not put back on the table was "the Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The descriptions were so vivid that it made me feel like I was peeking through a window to witness each scene in the story.

Last Templar sounds appealing. Just the thing I'm into. Conspiracy theories. Thanks Ocenus, i'll take a look:)

pillars of the earth by ken follett

Hey Crystal: Finally so glad to find someone that likes Rand. If anyone like to understand how the free market works read Rand. She is the best. Fountain Head is a classic. Atlas Shrugged is a masterpiece too although it took me few months to finish it.

eminitrader,
after i read fountain heaad, for a long time after that.. i couldnt read any books with interest.... fountain head was so intense, that it was difficult to be absorbed with atlus shrugged...

You'll love Atlas Shrugged if you liked Fountain Head. Personally, I feel Atlas Shrugged is her best work and Fountain Head is very very close second.

Checkout aynrand.org. Lots of good info.

Love Story is another great one

i have to start with

my jihad by aukai collins
old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
terror and liberalism by paul bergman
the doors of perception by adalous huxley ( thats why after reading this book jim morrison named his band the doors)
karma yogi by swami bivekananda

peace

soul mountain by gao xingjian

As far as I remember, the first novel I read was 'King Solomon's Mines' by Henry Rider Haggard, quite adventurous and enthralling, set in a Zulu village somewhere in southern Africa. I read it in fifth or sixth grade.

My favourite writer, however has been Jules Vern, writer of a number famous science fictions, 'Around the World in 80 Days', '20,000 leagues under the Sea', 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth', 'Five Days in a Balloon', ' Around the Moon', etc.

I have got my teeth at the mo into another Richard Dawkins - the good ol Oxonian don!

The God Delusion.

Through Chapter One - so far so good.

oh yes and stephen king dark tower series are wonderful

had any one had read Fiasco By Thomas E. Ricks......i need to find a ebook....
later