Book List

Got this from Pranjal's blog ; Liked it and picked up straight away.

Bold - ones I've read
Underlined - ones I read for school
Italicized - ones I started but didn't finish

Addendum
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
ATale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
OliverTwist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything - SorryMr. Bryson
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaghterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Conclusion :
1) I am ashamed at the number of books i left unfinished
2) Thanks to Pranjal ; I have a huge book list to choose from!

Once again, This is not a tag but whoever reads this and "reads" should do this !

Its All About 5... Unlucky People....

The word Hate got absorbed in my psyche about the time Algebra was introduced in the school curriculum, till such time I was oblivious to this very basic human feeling. I had only love to give and share to one and all. But when math became algebra; i.e numbers became alphabets, 1,2,3 became a,b,c ; I was expected to prove that a=b and B for reasons yet unknown to me can never be equal to C. I started to nurture hatred, hatred so wild, so potent it consumed me and had grave and unmentionable effects on my math teachers too. It all started with hating the subject, then it grew, grew enough for me to be able to hate another fellow human, the Math’s teacher(s). It was then under unavoidable circumstances; a guy whose names denotes love, satisfaction, happiness was forced to Hate, and he uttered the 3 golden words. I HATE MATHS.

From humble beginnings, my association with hate and hatred as grown, the list has grown longer and longer and keeps growing. Now it has reached such a peak that brown girls in the ring have started TAGGING me to spit fire about the people I hate, and the loving and kind hearted soul that I am, just could not decline.

At a very subtle level, I have begun to hate the following people, acts, or behavior not necessarily in the order in which it’s written here.

I Hate : People who jump queues, People who come late into a cinema hall and search for seats and take their own sweet time to settle down, Auto drivers of Bangalore in general, People who misuse money if it doesn’t belong to them; specially if its office money, People who do not respect others time ; come late and giggle!, who give advice on every topic as if they have solutions to every problem others have, People who associate respect with wealth, who write “ I LOVE SUNITA OR I LOVE SUNIL on heritage sites ; etc etc etc.

But to render justice to the TAG requested, I need to dig deeper into my hearts chamber of hatred and come up with the list of the TOP 5 … Ahem Ahem

1.They say it takes years to build trust and seconds to break it. Sometimes in our lives even we ourselves are at fault, for reasons unknown to us, or reasons beyond our control we end up breaking the trust that someone would have placed on us. But then there are people who come into our lives with a reason, they play around you, with you and then Poof! When the deed is done, the cow is milked; they would hardly even recognize you. The harm that these species do is not restricted to that particular relation or association, but it leaves a far deeper scar in our trusting instincts. We end up not trusting in general and makes the whole society a place where suspicion is the first thing that creeps in whenever a new relation, friendship, or simple commradare is about to happen. Questions like ….
Hmm why is he helping me so much? Does he/she have a personal interest in this? No one does anything for anyone without seeking some gain out of it… better not trust him/her and go for it alone.

2.Marriages are made in heaven; but dowries are paid on earth. I hate from the bottom of my heart the guys who put a price on themselves and sell themselves as part of matrimony and also some of these creepy leeches have the cheek to say “ I dint want dowry, my dad forced me” I fail to understand how these guys can use the money, appliances that would have come as part of dowry. All those cars, washing machines etc; I hope they go out of warranty as soon they start using it! The worst kind whom I hate more than anything else are those who are not satisfied with the first installment and the demand more and more again and again, and go the extent of wife-beating or even killing. Are they “Men”??

3.People have to have a point of view, People ought to respect others point of views. Then there are these who think there is only one point of view in no matter what, and it is theirs. There are no two sides for a debate, actually with these guys there is only one side, there is scope for dialogues, there are only monologues. They can rant on and on about something and make you feel you are invisible, or whenever they let you talk, its only to ensure you are listening, once they have this confirmation they start off again. I hate coming across such people, but sadly they are abundant.

4.I can’t eat non-veg today; today is Saturday, I can’t drink today; today is Tuesday. Bloody Crap. I hate the pseudo-religious junta. Either you do the stuff that your religion prevents you from doing or you don’t. Simple! You cant create conveniences to work around all the prohibitions. I have seen people waiting desperately for the clock to tick 12.00 in the night, so Tuesday becomes Wednesday and he can start gulping beer.

5.Last but not the least, the species I have never met, but I hope and pray the cease to exist; I can understand murderers or killers who killed for revenge or for the reason that someone would have wronged them, or even if they stand to gain directly from their death. Even though it’s a heinous thing to do; I would say ok atleast he/she had a personal motive atleast they had the courage in them to face the person they are killing and look in their eye. But I hate these guys, cowards who keep bombs and vanish; killing and maiming hundreds of people. These are the only people I hate so much, I wish and pray they die a same painful, ungrateful death.

There! I am done… I feel so much better :-) And now to passing the buck, I know of only 5 people who read my blog regularly ; I TAG YOU !!! :-)

Smiles and Frowns

• Read this sign board on the Bangalore-Mysore highway." Learn Unlimited English. 500 Rs only"
• Bangalore Traffic Sucks. Elections should happen once in 100 years.
• Me to a colleague. "Buddy coming for lunch ?" He : No man you carry on, I recently had breakfast !
• Bangalore Traffic sucks. Offices should be walking distance from home
• Read this sign board near Cox town, "A-one class paying guest accomodation available. Male members only. Andhra style" I wonder what they do Andhra style :-)
• Bangalore traffic sucks. They should let us work alternate days.
• Overheard at office. A guy to a female. " I Can't open it: Can you please ZIP it again properly?" I wonder if he would be still working tomorrow, or facing harrasment charges.
• Bangalore Traffic sucks. Our cabs should function the same way like outstation buses do. They should stop en-route for snacks, at TOILETS etc.
• Nobody is ever happy after appraisals {Wink Wink}
• And ya of course, How can i forget, Bangalore traffic sucks !