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OMG D - I came to the thread looking for a good book to read and totally found TWO!!!
Thanks Doll!
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Interesting topic. Who are the publishers?
it says anchor books on the paperback I have.
this guy is so beyond alchemist and whatnot. there is such philosophy in what he writes and how he writes it.
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Aww..I came into the thread for the same but since I found nothing interesting thought to share what I am reading. Out of the two listed, the beginning and the end is hands down one of the best books I have read in a while. Whereas the Holy Woman has appeal simply because it focuses on a family in Pakistan. This book I just started half an hour ago looks to be promising:
“Ali and Nino” is the story of an Azerbaijani youth who falls in love with a Georgian princess. Essentially, the book is a quest for truth and reconciliation in a world of contradictory beliefs and practices – Islam and Christianity, East and West, age and youth, male and female. Much of the novel is set in Baku’s Old City (Ichari Shahar) on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution beginning around 1917–1918. The novel was first published in 1937, in a foreign country (Austria), in a foreign language (German), by someone using the pen name of Kurban Said (Gurban Said, in Azeri).
(BTW I think this is a much better way to post what you are reading…with the image of book as well and a short review)
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Yeh the Holy Woman jsut turned me off after I read the synopsis on amazon. Reminded me of the old dramas like Marvi and such that focus on Sindh and the whole marrying to the Quran ritual.
I'm just picked up Breakfast at Tiffany's for a quick two hor read and then I think I'm going to try one of the last two books you mentioned.
PS scrounge the thread - lots of interesting books mentioned. What genre are you in the mood for?
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For everyone who has not yet done so, read the Cairo Trilogy by Naghuib Mehfouz
The three novels are, in order:
- Palace Walk (original Arabic title: بين القصرين, Bein el-Qasrein, 1956)
- Palace of Desire ( قصر الشوق, Qasr el-Shoaq, 1957)
- Sugar Street ( السكرية, El-Sukkareyya, 1957)
The books’ Arabic titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz’s childhood and youth. The first novel. *Bein el-Qasrein, is named after a street where the protagonist, and his family live, the second, *Qasr el-Shoaq, is named after a street where his eldest son Yasin and his family live, whereas the third, *El-Sukkareyya, is named after a street where his daughter Khadijah and her family live
***The trilogy follows the life of the Cairene patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad and his family across three generations, from 1919 – the Egyptian Revolution against the British colonizers – to the end of the Second World War in 1944. The three novels represent the three phases of the Cairene socio-political life, a panorama of Egypt, through the life of Abd al-Jawad and his children and grandchildren.
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Yeh the Holy Woman jsut turned me off after I read the synopsis on amazon. Reminded me of the old dramas like Marvi and such that focus on Sindh and the whole marrying to the Quran ritual.
I'm just picked up Breakfast at Tiffany's for a quick two hor read and then I think I'm going to try one of the last two books you mentioned.
PS scrounge the thread - lots of interesting books mentioned. What genre are you in the mood for?
Fiction always
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Just finished Mainay Dhaka Doobtay Dekha few days ago... and now reading Raja Gidh
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Just finished Mainay Dhaka Doobtay Dekha few days ago... and now reading Raja Gidh
Are you reading Raja Gidh for first time or you are re-reading it. I know many people who read this novel once, always re read it after few years.
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Are you reading Raja Gidh for first time or you are re-reading it. I know many people who read this novel once, always re read it after few years.
first time : ) yeah i know pretty late.
it was in my list for loooong time but never got a chance, very interesting and disturbing at the same time : s
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first time : ) yeah i know pretty late. it was in my list for loooong time but never got a chance, very interesting and disturbing at the same time : s
Disturbing in what sense? due to serious topic?
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seriousness isnt a problem, but its just disturbing... i dont know.
havce you read Pressure Cooker? its like that, makes you depressed
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Fiction always
I think you'll like
_ breakfast at Tiffany's (recently read and loved it )
_ Skipping a Bear
_ The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
_ Shantaram
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^ I was reading Shantaram a few weeks ago, didn’t complete it,
thanks for reminding.
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I think you'll like
_ breakfast at Tiffany's (recently read and loved it ) _ Skipping a Bear _ The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake _ Shantaram
once i return to Lahore I will hit up the bookstores and look for these. none available where i am. any good ebook sites?
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once i return to Lahore I will hit up the bookstores and look for these. none available where i am. any good ebook sites?
Let me know if you néed any book, will see you soon insha Allah ;)
There are few of ebook sites,
Here is PDF of Shantaram
coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2010/08/free-download-gregory-david-roberts.html?m=1
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i bet u never like it : )…
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i bet u never like it : )...
Have you read it?
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Have you read it?
jee tabhe aceones ko keh rahee hoon k un ko pasand nahi aye na dobara kabhi perhna chahain gay
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jee tabhe aceones ko keh rahee hoon k un ko pasand nahi aye na dobara kabhi perhna chahain gay
why? are you referring to the parts where the writer portrayed some characters contacting dead people?
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why? are you referring to the parts where the writer portrayed some characters contacting dead people?
nahi ..mainay 2008 main perha tha..ab itnee tafseel say yaad nahi lakin mujhay woh resons yaad hain jis per mainay is ko Aceones k napasand honay ka kaha hai
mujhay maloom hai raja giddh Adab ki dunia main bohat bara naam rakhta hay ..or perhnay k dermiyaan bohat say aysay maqaam hain jahan main bohat mutaasir bhi hoye jaisai rizq-e-halal or haraam ki jo is main philosphy samjhayee zabardast thee
lakin rohaaniyat per writer ki tehqqeq bohat kam hai or is cheez main mujhay afsos hai ..woh insaaf nahi ker paayen...or i dont know k yeh adab ka taqaza hay ya kia ...alfaz ka khula pan or baybaak manzar kashi is sub say tabiyaat or zeyhan per acha assar nahi perta ...