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since childhood (classic)
Pearl S. Buck (good Earth)
Ernest Heminghway(the oldman & the Sea)
Jane Austen(pride & prejudice)
Charles Dickens(Great Expectatins & other )
Thomas Haredy
Shakespeare (julius Caesar,Cleopatra,Hamlet ..)
Nirad C.Choudhry(autobiography of unknown indian)
Les Miserables
Edgar Alan Poe
John Stanbyck
barque(bijli) yoon akadti hai apne karname pe ke
jaise phir naya hum aashiyaan bana nahi sakte
my top 10 fav. books are:
my left foot
by Michael A. LedeenCivil Disobedience
by Henry David ThoreauThe Comedy of Errors
by William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra
by William ShakespeareThe Awakening
by Kate ChopinEmma
by Jane AustenFallen Angels
by Walter Dean MyersHard Times
by Charles DickensHeart of Darkness
by Joseph ConradInvisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
i recommend u read em all i onw the hard cover version of all of em..!!!
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
:) interesting topic ...in no particular order:
Long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela
Education of Little Tree - Forrest Carter
Othello - Shakespeare
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Dibbs in search of self - Virginia M. Axline
African voices, African visions - Olugbenga Adesida and Arunma O. Oteh
Pity the nation: Lebanon at war - Robert Fisk
Dry white season - Andre Brink
Children of AIDS - Emma Guest
interstingly most of the books are by foreign authors and are directly or indirectly related to syllabus course books.
How little we know of our own cultural heritage.
The Earth (Zola)
Germinal (Zola)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
The Prophet (Kahlil Jibran)
Tess (Thomas Hardy))
Return Of The native (Thomas Hardy)
Crime and Punishment (Dostosvisky)
Travels (Michael Crichton)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Man And Superman (Bernard Shaw)
Only thing common among all guppo is all of themread & write English.I know urdu & have another set of favouvarite so does i m sure many bengali ,punjabi sindhi or other language knowing .Its rather premature of you to judge by what we write.If i just went by what i see of you ,i would think of you as Mini dwarf ,adult man,freak of nature .You wouldnt like that .right .Just to remind you that when you A$$.U.& .ME b/c you assume a lot.
Just recently hit upon KORH KI KASHT by Dr. Haq Haqee. REally nice.
Shehabnama
Freedom at midnight
Indus Saga
Aab-e-Gumm
Black Album
Brave New world
My Feudal Lord
Memories of a Gicha
Moth Smoke
Leo Afrikan
Hey one more thing
These things are hard to explain
For some it seems strange... to swallow
The frontier of our minds
Is the last place we find
But maybe the first place we should go
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Originally posted by Rooster-Blues:
**Shehabnama
Freedom at midnight
Indus Saga
Aab-e-Gumm
Black Album
Brave New world
My Feudal Lord
Memories of a Gicha
Moth Smoke
Leo Afrikan
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leo afrikan and moth smoke are one of my favs!!
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
Well these are mine favourites; I bet you do not hear most of them, may be I am a strange reader who reads the books that are not much heard about:)
1-The Bridge on the Drina---Ivo Andrich
2-Orient Express---Agatha Christie
3-The miracles in Quran---Harun Yahya
4-The caftan with pink pearl---Omar seyfettin
5-The love in days of riot---Ahmat Altan
6-Black Angel---Mika Waltari
7-Eternal divine light---Fethullah Gülen
8-Orchid---Pearl Buck
9-Hadji Murad---Tolstoy
10-Safahat---Mehmet Akif Ersoy...
1 The Art of War
2 Lord of the Rings
3 The Hobbit
4 Absolutely anything by Enid Blyton
5 Crime and Punishment
My reply would have to be: The Giving Tree ..by Shell Silverstein....
And when he was tired.....he would sleep in her shade.
And the boy loved the tree....very much.
And, guess what?........the tree was happy.
But time went by.
And the boy grew older.
And the tree was often alone.
Then one day the boy came to the tree
and the tree said, "Come boy, come and clmb p my trunk. and swing from my branches and eat apples and play in my shade and be happy.
I read the message wrong and just listed one book and excerpt of it...
I also love:
The Good Earth - Buck
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
The Source - James A Mitchener
The Mummy - Anne Rice
Xanth Novels - Piers Anthony
Clan of the Cave Bear Series - Jean Auel
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
I don't really read a lot of fiction, mostly history books - don't really have a favorite in this catagory.
I also like the origins of life/science type books by authors such as Richard Leaky.
And I love Cook Books of any kind.
I loved the movie The Education of Little Tree. Saw it recently. Never read the book.
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typpical paki…criticizing others for their good…well…ya know what…here in north america most of the people read for pleasure…its there hobby…and if u really wanna know what books i read related to my syllabus course then u would think i am a boring ol guy…which i am not!!!
so please dont generalize!!!
“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”