“Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. Tag up to 15 friends, including me because I'm interested in seeing what books my friends choose” "
Whatever. I, like my preceder, stick with books.
Now all that I have done in this internship of mine, is read. Read books, articles, presentations, papers and ocasionally write. So here goes my list of 15 books:
- The Toyota Way: The ultimate book, if you want to understand what's the future of making stuff (i hate the word mfg.) and why toyota beat the brains out of GM, Ford, Chrysler, Renault and later even BMW, Merc, Jaguar etcetera..
- Reality Check: Two words: Guy Kawasaki. The guy's brilliant, and his writing is 'brillianter' still. Explains everything abt entrepreneurship: from getting that billion dollar idea, to getting those first 1000 bucks as investment to finally managing ur own MNC. In his own words, hes a 'kick butt'
- Angels and Demons: Mast fast pace thriller. Da Vinci's nthing in comparison.
- Twenty Years After: From the romances of D'Artagnan, this is a very mature book about court intrigues in 17th century France. Reality dips in every line, nothing fancy, still classy.
- Three Musketeers: An age old classic. Focuses on brawn more than brains. Still works because of all the honour that the musketeers attach to their words.
- Lord of the Rings: Guess this should come very high in the list. HP is nothing in comparison. A very long and tiring read indeed, but the world is so carefully built, u cant help but be engrossed. PS: the level of detail. The bloke's invented languages for this, and comes with very detailed history about every tom, dick and harry (and there are several of them) that pops up in his world..
- Harry Potter saga: Problems - logical inconsistencies, crappiest ending ever, every blokes already read it, analyzed it, re-read it, saw the movie, read the fan-fiction, read extra details, and a few also know more than the author.
- Godfather: the book makes an offer, you cannot refuse :)
- Da Vinci Code: loved it more for the historical stuff then the storyline
- Sherlock Holmes: THE best detective of all times. But ofcourse, he always knows the answer, so seems far-fetched..
- Brave New World: is kinda scary..
- The Alchemist: transporta you to a different world altogeather
- Dracula: rocks
- The Dilbert Future: read it, re-read it.
- Right Ho, Jeeves: u need to read P.G.Wodehouse to understand why he is considered by many as the best comedy writer of all times. The loyal Jeeves always rushes in the dying moments to save the day. Reminds u of O'Henry style of sudden change.
Good going.. But dont dare insult HP, it might be injurious to health
ReplyDeleteHP:
ReplyDeleteLogical inconsistencies: None. I can vouch for it. Come to me for a one on one discussion if you can't believe it.
Crappiest ending ever: Subjective, yes, but the subtle brilliance in the entire series more than makes up for it (if you believe the end to be crappy, which may not be the case ;) ).
Counter for other allegations: Yes they are there, but this field doesn't let me copy paste. So, sometime later.
PS: When you come for the one on one, I will enlighten you on the fine points and the beautiful ones and all those things that make the series so nice that even if you kind of hate it, you mention it here in the list of 15 books. :)
@shruti: no, it isn't. checked with the health and safety department..
ReplyDelete@aniket: logical inconsistencies is then, not the correct word. but the story does seem senseless at times. for example: why is everyone afraid of voldemort's name. and he is said to have commanded massive armies, when all he had was: at max 4 dozen death eaters, a few giants (not every giant sided), at max 4 dozen imperiused junta. that's not even 100 folks. hardly an army. why the fear of a takeover?
however, yup i agree, despite all this its a beautiful story :)