Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror?
not horror...oreeeebaba!!
also, haven't read much fantasy to be honest
Hitchhiker or Discworld?
both?
Bookmark or Dog ear?
usually browse through to find it again and sometimes bookmark
Asimov’s Science Fiction or Fantasy & Science Fiction?
if fantasy + sci fi= Pterry then yes; if not then Asimov
Alphabetize by author, Alphabetize by title, or random?
random, i guess.
Keep, Throw Away or Sell?
keep (fighting against parents all the time who tend to give away my books to all the philistines of this world)
Keep dust-jacket or toss it?
keep but not while reading
Harry Potter or Lemony Snicket?
Harry Potter has sorely dissapointed me....so Lemony Snicket (though i haven't read the first three and the last two)
Stop reading when tired or at chapter breaks?
tired/sleepy
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"?
both, both
Buy or Borrow?
buy when there's money...which means mostly borrow
Buying choice: Book Reviews, Recommendation or Browse?
mostly the latter two
Lewis or Tolkien?
umm...haven't read T
Morning reading, Afternoon reading or Nighttime reading?
mostly afternoon and nighttime..sometimes morning too
Standalone or Series?
both (this is really pathetic)
Favorite book of which nobody else has heard?
er...Char Yaari Kotha ?
Top 5 favorite genre books of all time?
jaani na baapu...ki qhoshchen!!
Favorite genre series?
same as above
Currently Reading?
Jeeves Omnibus: Joy in the Morning
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Saturday, June 07, 2008
my favourite season's in the offing...i must watch Pather Panchali now...don't remember the film...nor the brishtite bheja Apu-Durga...
haven't been out in a while...not in the rain...rain isn't as much fun as it used to be...jumping in puddles has lost its attraction...i grow old, i grow old...
i'm dying to use my new KING sized brolly...it's rather drab though...there's no accounting for some people's tastes, huh
the last two movies i watched were without that connection...primarily because, Donnie Darko i was told was a funny film...well, it is hilarious in bits...but it's not a comedy...it's quite dark..Romance and Cigarettes was okay...nothing great....didn't enjoy/feel it much...
also, talking about Apu-Durga...i think Taare Zamin Par is a terrible terrible movie...it's unredeemed by acting (on top of terrible plot + script and horrendous editing: it was sooooooooooooo long) because in spite of the choice of the kid being great the kid couldn't act....much like the pretty kid in Life is Beautiful (which is a superior film none the less because of the plot, story,Roberto Benigni, production, Roberto Benigni, etc)...well, maybe because i don't go gaga (gagagagagagaga) over kids, i refuse to see what was soo wonderful about the film...i'm not saying it's his fault--it's the director's...if you want examples of amateur young actors who excelled (often they just acted in one single film) look at Pather Panchali, Ladri di Biciclette, Le Ballon Rouge, Machuca, Shonar Kella, Malena, Makdee, Malgudi Days (which isn't a film, but still) etc
PS: It's a Magic Brolly!
haven't been out in a while...not in the rain...rain isn't as much fun as it used to be...jumping in puddles has lost its attraction...i grow old, i grow old...
i'm dying to use my new KING sized brolly...it's rather drab though...there's no accounting for some people's tastes, huh
the last two movies i watched were without that connection...primarily because, Donnie Darko i was told was a funny film...well, it is hilarious in bits...but it's not a comedy...it's quite dark..Romance and Cigarettes was okay...nothing great....didn't enjoy/feel it much...
also, talking about Apu-Durga...i think Taare Zamin Par is a terrible terrible movie...it's unredeemed by acting (on top of terrible plot + script and horrendous editing: it was sooooooooooooo long) because in spite of the choice of the kid being great the kid couldn't act....much like the pretty kid in Life is Beautiful (which is a superior film none the less because of the plot, story,Roberto Benigni, production, Roberto Benigni, etc)...well, maybe because i don't go gaga (gagagagagagaga) over kids, i refuse to see what was soo wonderful about the film...i'm not saying it's his fault--it's the director's...if you want examples of amateur young actors who excelled (often they just acted in one single film) look at Pather Panchali, Ladri di Biciclette, Le Ballon Rouge, Machuca, Shonar Kella, Malena, Makdee, Malgudi Days (which isn't a film, but still) etc
PS: It's a Magic Brolly!
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Lost in Translation is an incredibly beautiful film...like a heartache...almost too perfect for this rain-drenched cloudy Kolkata afternoon...although i was handicapped by the malfunctioning speakers and the fact that my version has some cuts....it is one of those films that i must come to again and again emerging, each time, with some newly dis-covered meaning
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tag from Srin: The following is apparently a list of books, "most of them sitting unread in people's bookshelves to make them look smarter". The rules are: bold the ones that you have read and italicize the ones you have started but didn't finish.
NB: I have marked the books that were part of my Graduation and Post Graduation Courses to show, how 'nobby' my university education is. Except for things like Illiad and Emma, i had read most texts before (like Madame Bovary or One Hundred Years of Solitude). Also, i don't have most of these books. I have marked those i have in RED.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (text)
6. Wuthering Heights (text)
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: a novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick (an abridged version, yes, and that i've read too, i think)
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary (text)
14. The Odyssey (joint ownership with dibbo, nare?)
15. Pride and Prejudice (3 editions)
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs and Steel
20. War and Peace (except the last 100 pages or so...i was tired of Freemasons and wars)
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad (text)
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assasin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway (text, but enjoyed a lot)
28. Great Expectations (2 editions) (text, ISC)
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
37. The Canterbury Tales (course text book: the millers tale :)
38. The Historian: A Novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. Middlemarch (dibbo's book actually)
45. Frankenstein (text)
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible
53. 1984
54. Angels and Demons
55. Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray (text)
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse (am sort of reading it now)
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (text)
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels (text : have read selectively in course of one day before exams, was great fun)
65. Les Miserables (Bille August's movie adaptation is rather niceeee)
66. The Correction
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People's History of the United States: 1492-present (huh? why??)
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners (text : i'm not sure whether i've read it entirely or not)
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved (text)
82. Slaughter House- five
83. The Scarlett Letter
84. Eats, Shoots and Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake
87. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas (text)
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid (course text book : bk 6)
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
102. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers (can't remember whether i've read the original book or not...may have...)
NB: I have marked the books that were part of my Graduation and Post Graduation Courses to show, how 'nobby' my university education is. Except for things like Illiad and Emma, i had read most texts before (like Madame Bovary or One Hundred Years of Solitude). Also, i don't have most of these books. I have marked those i have in RED.
1. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2. Anna Karenina
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Catch-22
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude (text)
6. Wuthering Heights (text)
7. The Silmarillion
8. Life of Pi: a novel
9. The Name of the Rose
10. Don Quixote
11. Moby Dick (an abridged version, yes, and that i've read too, i think)
12. Ulysses
13. Madame Bovary (text)
14. The Odyssey (joint ownership with dibbo, nare?)
15. Pride and Prejudice (3 editions)
16. Jane Eyre
17. The Tale of Two Cities
18. The Brothers Karamazov
19. Guns, Germs and Steel
20. War and Peace (except the last 100 pages or so...i was tired of Freemasons and wars)
21. Vanity Fair
22. The Time Traveler's Wife
23. The Iliad (text)
24. Emma
25. The Blind Assasin
26. The Kite Runner
27. Mrs. Dalloway (text, but enjoyed a lot)
28. Great Expectations (2 editions) (text, ISC)
29. American Gods
30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
31. Atlas Shrugged
32. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
33. Memoirs of a Geisha
34. Middlesex
35. Quicksilver
36. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
37. The Canterbury Tales (course text book: the millers tale :)
38. The Historian: A Novel
39. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
40. Love in the Time of Cholera
41. Brave New World
42. The Fountainhead
43. Foucault's Pendulum
44. Middlemarch (dibbo's book actually)
45. Frankenstein (text)
46. The Count of Monte Cristo
47. Dracula
48. A Clockwork Orange
49. Anansi Boys
50. The Once and Future King
51. The Grapes of Wrath
52. The Poisonwood Bible
53. 1984
54. Angels and Demons
55. Inferno
56. The Satanic Verses
57. Sense and Sensibility
58. The Picture of Dorian Gray (text)
59. Mansfield Park
60. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
61. To the Lighthouse (am sort of reading it now)
62. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (text)
63. Oliver Twist
64. Gulliver's Travels (text : have read selectively in course of one day before exams, was great fun)
65. Les Miserables (Bille August's movie adaptation is rather niceeee)
66. The Correction
67. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
68. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
69. Dune
70. The Prince
71. The Sound and the Fury
72. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
73. The God of Small Things
74. A People's History of the United States: 1492-present (huh? why??)
75. Cryptonomicon
76. Neverwhere
77. A Confederacy of Dunces
78. A Short History of Nearly Everything
79. Dubliners (text : i'm not sure whether i've read it entirely or not)
80. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
81. Beloved (text)
82. Slaughter House- five
83. The Scarlett Letter
84. Eats, Shoots and Leaves
85. The Mists of Avalon
86. Oryx and Crake
87. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
88. Cloud Atlas (text)
89. The Confusion
90. Lolita
91. Persuasion
92. Northanger Abbey
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. On the Road
95. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
96. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
97. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values
98. The Aeneid (course text book : bk 6)
99. Watership Down
100. Gravity's Rainbow
101. The Hobbit
102. In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
103. White Teeth
104. Treasure Island
105. David Copperfield
106. The Three Musketeers (can't remember whether i've read the original book or not...may have...)
Sunday, May 25, 2008
this blog is rather pretentious, but pretty...
hopefully, this day onwards, i'll be alone in the house for a few days (i'm feeling quite, quite hopeless in this regard, actually)
hopefully, buri will get fat with an extra scrambled egg (with milk and a li'l butter) added to her meal...perhaps Pedigree/biscuits in the morning/afternoon?
things might resume this thursday at Jodhpur park meaning chemotherapy for dog and spaying for Elvis-Pelvis
Also, 'hopefully' is wrong english i was told l-o-o-o-o-n-g back.
This is a genuine post...so i posted it here to infuse a degree of truthfulness in this fake template of smiling faces and pretty pictures
hopefully, this day onwards, i'll be alone in the house for a few days (i'm feeling quite, quite hopeless in this regard, actually)
hopefully, buri will get fat with an extra scrambled egg (with milk and a li'l butter) added to her meal...perhaps Pedigree/biscuits in the morning/afternoon?
things might resume this thursday at Jodhpur park meaning chemotherapy for dog and spaying for Elvis-Pelvis
Also, 'hopefully' is wrong english i was told l-o-o-o-o-n-g back.
This is a genuine post...so i posted it here to infuse a degree of truthfulness in this fake template of smiling faces and pretty pictures
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