What is your latest read?

[podalangai]

I have mixed feelings about Midnight's Children, as I do about Shalimar - I understand why Rushdie felt the need to write them both, and they're perfectly decent books, but they're not amongst my favourites. My wife also convinced me to read The Ground beneath her feet and The Moor's last sigh. Both were OK, but I didn't really like them that much.

The one Rushdie story I really liked was Haroun and the sea of stories.

[complicateur]

Kahlil Gibran's - The Prophet. Wish I had read it earlier than I did - life's truisms condensed.

[Sinthiya]

The Passion of Tasha Darsky...story of a famous violinist's journey from a child to a passionate violinist to a loving mother...

[crazy]

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard - Kiran Desai
very funy book


Midnight's Children- Rushdie

[Sinthiya]

The Valkyries...Paulo Coelho

[Querida]

The Valkyries...Paulo Coelho

I'm always wary of inspirational literature...especially when people say things like "it changed my life profoundly!"

I have read his most acclaimed "The Alchemist" short read, it felt like a long forward that you get in your mail...with quotes very well placed...I found some parts worth noting down and the rest was just simple language used to tell a well philosophical tale....:

A Sample:

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”

My most favourite part is actually what comes before the story even begins...a captivating prologue which shares another "lesser known" version of The Story of Narcissus...

[Wibha]

Have Any of you read

Kamala Markandaya's- Nectar in a Sieve?

[Wibha]

Kite Runner

[Sanguine Sridhar]

Windmills of the Gods - With which I have completed all works by Sheldon except his autobiography.

[Wibha]

Windmills of the Gods - With which I have completed all works by Sheldon except his autobiography.

Which one do you like and think is the best?

Piano Lesson- not great
Awakening-