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I had no idea about this book. Thanks for sharing.
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Reading "Songs of Blood & Sword" by Fatima Bhutto :)
Loving the book - Im not a pro-PPP, but I really respect fatima bhutto for the kind of struggles she went through to write this book, for the research she did into the lives of her great Grandfather, grandfather and father. Anyone looking to read something powerful and yet humbling at the same time should definitely get a copy!
I have always been facinated by political dynasty families...after reading my way through the Kennedys', Nehru/Gandhis'...I started on the Bhuttos after Benazir's death. I discovered Fatima's journalistic articles for various news websites and am a big fan of hers..however, I found "Songs of Blood and Sword" to be a very one sided "hero worship" view of Murtaza and his life...which is understandable! I still enjoyed the book, and love her style of writing..it's always good to see a different side....
(PS...I know next to nothing about Pakistani polictics, as I am US born and raised, and my family has no political leanings either way! I'm just curious and love to read about fascinating people!)
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The alchemist
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I started reading collection of short stories by 'Gulzar'
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Last night finished reading A Clash of Kings...it's absolutely amazing. I liked it so much and hence finished it very quickly. I need to buy the next book now which is in two parts in UK (A Storm of Swords).
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Life of Pi, totaly engrossed :)
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Done with "the risk" and "daddy's girl"....not too good...
Reading " the alchemist" and "white fang" .
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Safe Haven - Nicolas Sparks
basically its a very safe book.
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peer e kamil...english version the only urdu novel i was able to find in english
where did you find this? is a good read? Is it written in American English or British English?
http://umeraahmed.weebly.com/pir-e-kamil-pbuh-the-perfect-mentor.html
Muqawwee gave me this link and I cant thank him enough..just finished reading it in 2days time cause I couldnt bear the suspense..omg such a good book..loved salar’s character more than imama..argh cant stop thinking about it..
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Age of spiritual machines
Ray kurzweil
Im not sure of the genre - philosophy i guess
Its basically talking about the concept of singularity. And what this concept entails is that humans and machines will become a single entity. In fact you can see this happening right now. Case in point - plastic surgery. The idea that humans could become anything that you want them to be also. Technology is progressing so rapidly that it looks like its headed for that direction. I mean think about the 80s - computers (and i mean the huge gigantic things not what we have today, was a huge thing) The idea of iphones, ipods and was farfetched to say the least. 30 years down the line and look at where we are. I was watching something the other day, a lady was having some kind of chip inserted in her that freezes nerves to eliminate pain. Also, Ray kurzweil is a scientist - and he has made some pretty bold predictions that have some true. Google the singularity concept its pretty interesting but deep stuff.
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Ranjeet Singh - Maharaja of Punjab by Khushwant Singh
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Compared to you all I'm reading light material right now, 'Adrian Mole - The prostate years' by Sue Townsend.
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just started Catch 22 today
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The Himalyan Blunder by Brigadier J P Dalvi, Book on India's strategic blunder's in 1962 Indo-China war:(
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the kaur - I love your name.
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WHAT DO I READ
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Intelligence Profiles by Brig. (Rtd.) Tirmizi
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The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
on one hand i'm such a skeptic and want to label his concept of happiness as glorified denial and irresponsible, on the other hand i'm extremely curious if this is actually what being happy is. so annoying. i like the idea of calming the mind of random and negative thoughts, and making the mind work for you than vice versa. anyone else read this or any of his other books and have an opinion?
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The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
on one hand i'm such a skeptic and want to label his concept of happiness as glorified denial and irresponsible, on the other hand i'm extremely curious if this is actually what being happy is. so annoying. i like the idea of calming the mind of random and negative thoughts, and making the mind work for you than vice versa. anyone else read this or any of his other books and have an opinion?
I've read it. Was going through a pretty tough time last year and a friend suggested it to me. Though reading it did calm me in some ways, it's extremely hard to get that desired effect of constantly being in the now, where you don't let things affect you. But the breathing exercises and some other things in there definitely do have a calming affect. It's always a work in progress trying to reach that state, but overall reading the book definitely had a very positive outcome.