What is your latest read?

[Roshan]

Bought theses two books yesterday and they are my next reads..

Taliban - Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (By Ahmed Rashid)

Getting away with Murder - The real story behind American Taliban and what the US government had to hide (by John Walker Lindh)

[19thmay]

Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" - Theme is like God of small things. This novel talks about how servants are treated by Indian masters, like the rookies in the coop and how a white tiger breaks it and comes out in a most dishonest way. However the white tiger justifies his action in the climax.The mind change of Balram Halwai from a loyal servant to a cruel cheat was well captured. The bad side of India including corruption, pollution, rich-poor unfairness, caste bias and hypocrisy are explained in a detailed way. So what you get? booker prize! Something like Slumdog wins Oscars. If you are more patriotic about India, skip it!

[Roshan]

I dont know where to post this as I dont see a thread dedicated to post poetries that we have read. Hence posting it here. Loved this piece as I thought it's a never-thought-of way of expressing the love and affection for a mother. The second half is so beautiful and got me moved..

There are times of vacancy
the between of fingertip and key
thought, thought-break and thought again
the routined interruptions of routine
times of passing
when the world watches me
and I feel you watch the world;
you are resident
not so much in memory
as in eye
in gesture
and the mannerisms of humour
and feigned agitation,
and I lament
that I cannot touch my feet
in venerating you;
that much is different
yours were tender,
so tender on the eye and my hands.

[Sid_316]

Suggest some humor themed books pls

[kid-glove]

Try some of the war chronicles by the man in Groucho's avatar. Spike Milligan.

[inazerowmo]

I am now reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Yet to complete but it has been a good and interesting read so far.

[inazerowmo]

My current read is A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon.

[NOV]

excellent reads AR.... now I am reading Bourne Legacy

[inazerowmo]

excellent reads AR.... now I am reading Bourne Legacy

I am about to start on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

[app_engine]

This is not my latest read...but of the "most-times-read-books" during my school days :
http://www.ebook-downloader.com/down...elman-46210819

Of course, I read the Thamizh translation only and never the English translation that is in this link. (Original was possibly Russian as the writer is Yakov Perelman, the Thamizh version was made in erstwhile USSR and of top-quality material, distributed by NCBH in India those days).

Go to the "pdf" tab to read in that format. I would recommend jumping to PAGE 98, for a very thrilling story!
(Old Indian King rewarding the inventor of the CHESS game)