Topic suggested by Ramanan on Wed Aug 26 12:07:27 .
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

we the people who read a lot will have our favourite ones.

How about listing them irrespective of what category the book falls into and if possible state why you liked the book ? Ofcourse for Science Fiction and Fantasy, we go to the SF & F forum.

The idea is to get to know good books so that the next time we go to a library or bookshop we know what to look for.

Responses:

• Old responses
  
• From: bb (@ dialup-209.245.195.141.houston1.level3.net) on: Thu Jun 10 01:22:22
  
  i recommend "an equal music" by vikram seth. have reviewed it in the book reviews thread.
  
  
• From: Gokul (@ pool-207-205-187-179.clev.grid.net) on: Mon Jun 14 23:57:17
  
  bb: I read the review of "an equal music" in the Newyorker magazine. From the review the book
  does not sound to be very promising.
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ mecca.spd.louisville.edu) on: Tue Oct 26 17:14:03
  
  I'd like to recommend "Possession" by A.S.Byatt. Excellent book with complex gripping characters. Supposedly a romance (the title itself says so) but I'd like to call it a literary romance.
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ mecca.spd.louisville.edu) on: Tue Dec 7 11:42:07
  
  Check out this article on Borges.
  http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/feature/1999/12/06/borges/index.html
  
  Very interesting.
  
  
• From: Era.Murugan (@ 131.241.26.63) on: Thu Dec 9 22:09:03
  
  Just completed reading Yasunari Kawabata's 'Snow Country' and 'The House of Sleeping Beauties'. The first is a wonderful haiku-in-prose novel. The second one can be termed esoteric - a subject never handled by any author. The translation from Japaneese is excellent.
  
  (Kawabata was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1968.)
  
  Half way thru Guntar Grass's 'Tin Drum' (this year Nobel award winner). Magical realism at its best - a shade better than even my all time favorite Gabu (Marquez)
  
  
• From: aruLarasan (@ vengu.umsl.edu) on: Fri Dec 10 16:57:16
  
  era murugan,
  
  appadip pOdungka. tin drum is a worthy of a dissertation. enjoy the reminder.
  
  
• From: era.murugan (@ 131.241.26.63) on: Fri Dec 10 17:42:20
  
  Yes Arul, with Grass's drumming pnome Oskar, I can walk along into his fascinating world. With Gabu, it is sort of getting swept off the feet and flying along.
  
  
• From: murug (@ 131.241.26.63) on: Fri Dec 10 17:48:51
  
  typo regretted - Gnome instead of pnome
  
  
• From: raju (@ host212-140-113-87.host.btclick.com) on: Wed Dec 22 19:35:03
  
  a bit late... 'the beach' by Alex Garland
  the film out soon
  
  
• From: seti (@ ) on: Sat Nov 9 18:56:24
  
  Talking of morrison (I'm a big fan of her's) check this one out
  
  http://forumhub.com/elit/27626.02.03.50.html
  
  Literature - It's Connection with History as captured in the Black American Literary Tradition - Case: Morrison's "Beloved"
  
  
  
• From: LayMan (@ 64-60-36-99.cust.telepacific.net) on: Thu Nov 14 16:37:16
  
  Atlas Shrugged is great too.
  
  
• From: Sumi krishnan (@ ) on: Fri Oct 29 09:46:19
  
  I don think Vikram seth's The Golden Gate that much interesting.If Anil can help me , of that amazing aspects I'll be grateful.
  
  

Want to post a response?