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  1. The Wind in the Willows The Wizard of Oz Peter Pan And some Enid Blyton book about a flying chair or something. I really want to find the name of that book someday.
  2. The edition of W&P I have is ridiculous. Some 1500 Pages and each character is printed small as footnotes in normal books. It's like the book keeps daring me to read it one day. I want to buy Anna Karenina one day. Why? I got bored of Lego.
  3. That reminds me. Fantasy is an excuse to read/study stuff you might think pointless/immensely pressing during the normal course of human lie. Wartactics, statecraft, weaving, sewage, townplanning, herbal medicine, religion, ancient history, exhuming corpses 101, torture methods, exotic diseases etc. When writing fantasy, it's only natural to read up about stuff like that. When reading, well it offers all of that and more through a filter so to speak.
  4. vinay87

    Hiya!

    *Bows* Hello everyone.
  5. Okies any time you or the others wanna try starting then. I don't know which translation I have. I have two versions of Les Miserables. 1. Penguin Popular Classics (Abridged Bleh!) Translated by Norman Deny 2. Wordsworth Classics with notes by Roger clark university of Kent at canterbury. The second one is the one I'm going to read. It's larger and the notes make the story more enjoyable. Even though I loathe endnotes. Yet I wonder who translated it... Probably Roger Clark himself.
  6. lol Sure thing. How about starting around the first week of feb? haha Well, seeing as Bleachers and Rainmaker are two of my favourite books, I think I will like his work all the more. I've also read The Testament but it's been so long I don't remember much except the scene where the old guy jumps off. lol
  7. A second hand store 8 km from home. Mostly because I don't work and I have to manage with pocket money. Plus I get most books second hand there at ~2$. An awesome price.
  8. Not that I have a problem with mammoth books you see. But a book about an "evil" St Bernard just begs to be read.
  9. I never can seem to finish a Stephen King book for some reason. And oddly enough I've read On Writing several times and I love it. I put Cujo, Gunslinger and Drawing of the Three on my TBR for this year. Let's see what happens.
  10. vinay87

    Hiya!

    Thank you. It means Humble fame. I take pride in having an oxymoronic name
  11. Because I write fantasy fiction. I love what-ifs too so it makes for a good escape from real life. Plus I don't often need to understand the setting for it from general knowledge. Like when I was reading Les Miserables for the first time, I needed to understand a bit of Napoleonic history. The same with The Count of Monte Cristo. But with fantasy the setting and backstory are delivered part and parcel sans footnotes that I loathe.
  12. I specifically love his "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner". It made me buy a collection of his poems. I read one or two occasionally making a point to read them out loud to enjoy them. I also like his Asra poems. Anyone else read his work?
  13. I make my own. Sadly my best one got worn out so I only use it to mark rereads of the Wheel of Time.
  14. The books are brilliant. I'm listening to them all on audiobook now just to see if I can guess
  15. Loads of times. I remember reading four Agatha Christie books at a stretch about nine years or so ago. I've read most Harry Potter books, post The Order Of The Phoenix, at a stretch. I've read Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife in about three or so hours.
  16. Les Miserables is my favourite book The Scarlet Pimpernel is worth a read, it's a small book so it shouldn't take more than two days. I had an entire 36 hour train journey to keep me at it. Well, I enjoyed it because I could see how it served as a precursor to the superheroes of our comics these days. But to my sad loss I discovered the Pimpernel's identity by mistake and ruined the suspense part of it. The style is simple enough, the plot quick. It doesn't feel like a classic to tell you the truth. It just seems like it flows through chapter to chapter. And the ingenuity of the SP is just brilliant. I wish the edition I had (Bantam) gave a short historic note to what was actually going on. I don't know any French history after all. Yet, I say it's pretty timeless and worth 8.5/10 atleast. I hope to find the rest of the books in the series some day. Do read it someday. It's also in Project Gutenburg so getting it is easy enough unless you abstain from touching ebooks like I do.
  17. So here's my reading list for 2010 so to speak. I plan to hit atleast 30 books this year, a large target for me. Legend : Bold - Read Italics - Reading ® - Reread (W) - Wishlist Silver - Dropped 1. Melanie Rawn - The Star Scroll ~5/10 2. Baroness Emmuska Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel ~8/10 3. Melanie Rawn - Sunrunner's Fire ~2/10 4. Charles Dickens - Nicolas Nickleby 5. Fyodor Doestovsky - The Idiot 6. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables ® 7. Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers 8. Alexandre Dumas - The Man In The Iron Mask 9. Sun Tzu - The Art of War 10. Musashi Miyamoto - The Book Of Five Rings 11. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince 12. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art Of War 13. Tad Williams - River Of Blue Frie 14. Tad Williams - Mountain Of Black Glass 15. Victor Hugo - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 16. Nathaniel Hawethorne - The House Of The Seven Gables 17. Agatha Christie - Lord Edgware Dies 18. John Grisham - The Client (W) 19. C S Lewis - The Horse And His Boy 20. C S Lewis - Prince Caspian 21. C S Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader 22. C S Lewis - The Silver Chair 23. J R R Tolkien - The Hobbit ® 24. J R R Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings ® 25. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrel ® 26. John Grisham - The Runaway Jury (W) 27. Stephen King - Cujo ~7/10 28. Stephen King - The Gunslinger 29. Stephen King - The Drawing of the Three 30. Alistair Maclean - Ice Station Zebra (W) 31. T H White - The Once And Future King 32. T H White - The Book Of Merlyn 33. Agatha Christie - The Myserious Mr. Quin ® 34. Mark Twain - Joan Of Arc ~9/10 35. Herodotus - Histories 36. H G Wells - The War In The Air 37. Charles Dickens - Barneby Rudge 38. C S Lewis - The Last Battle 39. Christopher Reeve - Still Me ~8/10 40. Charles Dickens - Hard Times 41. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist 42. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Fanshawe 43. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The House Of Seven Gables 44. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - Faust 45. Rabindranath Tagore - Gora 46. Rabindranath Tagore - Hungry Stones And Other Stories~10/10 47. Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study In Scarlet ~8/10 48. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign Of Four ~10/10 49. Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes ~10/10 50. Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound Of The Baskervilles 51. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley Of Fear 52. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes 53. Charlotte Bronte - Villette 54. Thucydides - History Of The Peloponesian War 55. Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales 56. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus And Criseyde 57. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter 58. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun 59. Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Blithedale Romance 60. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales 61. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes 62. Arthur Conan Doyle - His Last Bow 63. Arthur Conan Doyle - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 64. Bram Stoker - Dracula ~10/10 65. Jules Verne - A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth ~9/10 66. Carlo Collidi - Pinnochio ~5/10 67. Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities 68. RL Stevenson - Treasure Island ~10/10 69. Johann Wyss - The Swiss Family Robinson 70. Anna Sewell - Black Beauty 71. Joseph Conrad - Victory 72. HG Wells - The Invisible Man & The Island of Dr. Moreau 73. Mark Twain - The Prince And The Pauper 74. John Milton - Complete English Poems 75. L Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz ~10/10 76. Edgar Allan Poe - Spirits Of The Dead: Tales And Poems 77. Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 78. RL Stevenson - The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Merry Men & Other Stories ~9/10 79. Cecila Ahern - P.S. I Love You 80. F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender Is The Night 81. Jane Austen - Pride And Prejudice 82. George Eliot - Silas Marner 83. Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince ~10/10 84. Washington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ~8/10 85. Jules Verne - Around The World In Eighty Days ~10/10 86. George Orwell - 1984 ~10/10 87. Pearl S. Buck - The Story Bible Vol. 1 : The Old Testament ~10/10 88. Michael Crichton - Timeline ~6/10 89. Jane Austen - Persuasion 90. Pearl S. Buck - The Story Bible Vol. 2 : The New Testament~10/10 91. Thomas Bulfinch - The Age of Fable 92. Mary W. Shelley - Frankenstein 93. Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass 94. Lew Wallace - Ben Hur ~10/10 95. Virgil - The Aeneid 96. Appollonius of Rhodes - The Voyage of the Argo 97. Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island~10/10 98. Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
  18. vinay87

    Hiya!

    My name's Vinay Keerthi and I'm from Bangalore, India. I decided I needed to find people who read books like I do since my friends abhor the habit (!) and so found myself here early this morning. I've been an avid reader since the eighth grade before which I didn't really like anything other than comics. I admit that I don't read as much as I would like to, money playing a role in the matter. I own a mere 200 books and don't frequent a library, or atleast I haven't in about 10 years. I also write for a hobby and I've completed two books, though I've sent neither in for publication. Both of them need a lot more work but writing the next book is so much fun that I keep putting the editing off. I mostly read fantasy but I also enjoy classics. Some of my favourite authors are Saki (H H Munro), Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, J R R Tolkien, G R R Martin, Jonathan Stroud, David and Leigh Eddings, J K Rowling, Agatha Christie, P G Wodehouse. My favourite books are Victor Hugo's Les Miserables; Fyodor Doestovsky's The Brothers Karamazov; Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; J R R Tolkien's The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings; Agatha Christie's ABC Murders, Parker Pyne Investigates, The Mysterious Mr. Quin; Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife; Alistair Maclean's Guns Of Navarone, Force 10 From Navarone, Night Without End; Stephen King's On Writing; P G Wodehouse's Heart Of A Goof, Right Ho! Jeeves; John Grisham's The Rainmaker, Bleachers among others. Oh wow, I feel this forum working wonders for me already. I haven't read new books by Grisham, Maclean, Christie and Wodehouse in more than six years! Time to make a TBR list! Hello again and I hope to meet a lot of people with a taste for books I love here.
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