Recommendations

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Hi Friends!!

I would also like to add to the list of "must-reads". I am not including those already repeated like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Pirsig, etc.

I would highly recommend these following novels-

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse - amazing portrayal-
very "Indian" - if I might say so..

The good Earth, Come, my beloved - Pearl S. Buck
- again oreintal thought- and hence much more closer to heart.

I saw someone mention R.K Narayan -the book " Waiting for the Mahatma"- on another plane- much unlike his other writings.

Remains of the Day - Ishiguro- the meaning of life- ideals and beliefs.

Wonderful classics-

three men on a boat - Jerome K Jerome

far from the Madding Crowd - Hardy

Wuthering Heights - Bronte - one of the few books that leave you with a feeling of eerie and uneasiness- all about the feelings of evil and jealousy in the otherwise innocent human mind- lovely protrayal.

Catch- 22 - Joseph Hellerr- much unlike the aforementioned novels- amazingly written -every line has so much pun in it that you can sit on every sentence for minutes together.

The Golden Gate _ vikram seth- beautifullywritten book- construction and story is very good.


SO many titles come to my mind now... but I guess I would have bored most by now...

namaskaram,

anil.