Okay, okay. Following the deluge of requests from Abhishek Pal, Bidisha Sen, Shomik Chakraborty, Utsav Kumar, Anirban Mukherjee, Kartik Sunku ... and yes, thats about it, heres a list of ten books which have.. uhm.. inspired my ridiculously under-read and grossly un-informed self. 1. The Foundation Saga by Isaac Asimov (the most mind blowing trilogy ever written. Period.) 2. Logicomix - Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou (Not your usual graphic novel) 2. The Harry Potter series - J K Rowling (Yes. After all this time? Always.) 3. The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé, and Asterix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (Thats a sizable portion of my childhood right there.) 4. Almost anything and everything by PG Wodehouse, but to choose a favourite, it would be the Blandings stories. (For gems like this -“Into the face of the young man there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.”) 5. A very large number of Agatha Christie novels, my two favourites being The Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None. (Christie at her most convoluted and mind-bending greatness) 6. 2001 : A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke (slightly less open-ended than the film. But an ingenious masterpiece nonetheless) 7. Contact - Carl Sagan (somewhat anticlimactic towards the end. Still ranks high in the profoundmeter) 8. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (yes, I dont think Ive ever read and re-read, anything more than that prison escape sequence in this book) 9. Almost all of Jules Vernes classics. (Far more technically sound sci-fi than H G Wells) 10. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddharatha Mukherjee. (Probably the only book about biology and diseases and such stuff, that Ill ever read. Thankful that I did.) 11. The Martian - Andy Weir (the latest addition to my list of favourites. Excruciatingly technical sci-fi) I pass on the baton to Kanishk Mehta, Shaleen Kumar Sharma, Siddharth Shah (though I doubt he posts anything on Facebook apart from football stuff), Aman Gupta and of course, Neeharika Palaka, Abhishek Iyer and Sriram Jayaraman in the hope that they too shall add to the general irrelevance of Facebook.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:58:31 +0000
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