Topic started by Marius (@ ti511210a000-0018.dialup.online.no) on Fri Jun 13 18:45:41 .
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What is your favourite book/writer?

Responses:

• From: neo_morpheus (@ ppp-219.65.96.204.chn.vsnl.net.in) on: Fri Jun 13 19:21:35 EDT 2003
  
  I wouldn't say that it's my all-time favourite book - but one of my favourites is -
  
  'A Brief History of time' by 'Stephen Hawking'.
  
  It's true that it may not be written for 'absolute' amateurs in science/astronomy, but it gives an amazing perspective on human endeavour in terms of understanding the world we live in, the place of human beings in scheme of things in our universe, and most importantly an incredible account of 'time' itself.
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-244.now-india.net.in) on: Sat Jun 14 02:21:30 EDT 2003
  
  Richard bach...ONE
  Micheal crichton...timeline(is it gonna be released as a movie?!?)
  Erich segal....Doctors
  Sydney sheldon....midnight memories
  
  Agatha christie....ALL MOST ALL ...fav is 'LORD EDGEWARE DIES'
  
  alexander xxxx.....ROOTS (forgot the author name)
  Irwing wallace...SEcond lady
  Daphne du maurier....REBECCA
  
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  kalki.......ponniyin selvan
  kalki...... sivagamiyin sabhadam
  kalki......kaLvanin kaadhali
  
  sujatha.. some short stories..(dont remember names!)
  
  
  lots more...i dont remember some names and authors...
  
  
• From: puzhu (@ dclient80-218-19-32.hispeed.ch) on: Sat Jun 14 03:39:15 EDT 2003
  
  Shakthi
  Roots is written by Alex Hailey.
  Irving Wallace's "The Man" is better than "Second Lady"
  
  
• From: puzhu (@ dclient80-218-19-32.hispeed.ch) on: Sat Jun 14 03:40:00 EDT 2003
  
  Has anybody read the superb book "The Life Divine" by Sri Aurobindo?
  
  
• From: puzhu-Observer (@ cvg-65-27-251-73.cinci.rr.com) on: Sat Jun 14 12:51:15 EDT 2003
  
  Vaazhga puzhukkaL.
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-244.now-india.net.in) on: Sun Jun 15 01:36:58 EDT 2003
  
  puzhu,
  
  are u sure its alex hailey!
  
  alex part is convincing...i think its alex something else...
  
  Roots talks about, a black american tracing his roots back to south africa! How his ancestors ages back were brought to america as slaves etc
  
  VERY VERY VERY TOUCHY AND NICE BOOK
  
  
• From: puzhu (@ dclient217-162-114-113.hispeed.ch) on: Sun Jun 15 05:47:43 EDT 2003
  
  shakti
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1580601170/102-3228081-0334529?v=glance&s=books
  
  Roots is by Alex Hailey.
  I remember the character "Kunta Kinte" very clearly.
  I read the book when I was 19 or so.
  
  
• From: puzhu (@ dclient217-162-114-113.hispeed.ch) on: Sun Jun 15 05:50:08 EDT 2003
  
  Kunta Kinte is the central figure in Alex Haley's 1976 book Roots. According to Haley's research, Kinte was 17 when he was captured and taken to America as a slave aboard the ship Lord Ligonier in 1767. Roots traces the lives of Kinte and his descendants down to Haley himself, Kinte's great great great great-grandson.
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-244.now-india.net.in) on: Sun Jun 15 05:57:41 EDT 2003
  
  OHHHHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHH
  
  KUNTA KINTEEEEEE
  
  wow how can i forgot!
  
  thx puzhu
  
  
• From: puzhu-Observer (@ cvg-65-27-251-73.cinci.rr.com) on: Sun Jun 15 10:43:24 EDT 2003
  
  After he found out that his ancestor was Kunta Kinte, the author shouted 'KaNdu koNdEn, kaNdu koNdEn'.
  
  
• From: Jog (@ 202.88.239.234) on: Mon Jun 16 13:00:02 EDT 2003
  
  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
  
• From: brenda gauhary mccallum (@ 202.188.223.11) on: Mon Jun 30 22:25:42 EDT 2003
  
  writer John Saul and his masterpiece "Shadows" about gifted childrens' brains sacrified for artificial inteligence.
  writer Mignon G.Eberheart(America's Agatha Christie)her masterpiece is "Hasty Wedding" about hassels and trouble caused by crime in wedding.
  writer Francine Pascal and he is the soul writer of the series SVS, SVH and SVU.dream book of every teenagers.
  writer Charles Dikens and his masterpiece "Tale of Two Cities" and "King Solomon's Mine".
  sanskrit transelator SWAMY PRABHUPADHA of Bakthi Vedhantha Books Foundation and his masterpiece is "Elevation to Krsn Conciousness".
  
  
• From: ALISON (@ 1cust225.tnt34.dfw9.da.uu.net) on: Tue Jul 15 12:42:28 EDT 2003
  
  MY FAVORITE BOOK IS THE BIBLE AND ITS WRITTEN BY GOD!
  
  
• From: Pavalamani Pragasam (@ dialpool-210-214-8-15.maa.sify.net) on: Tue Jul 15 14:32:31 EDT 2003
  
  Robin Cook's novels make interesting reading!P.G.Wodehouse books & Erle Stanley Gardener's Perry Mason novels are also fun to read.
  
  
• From: Pavalamani Pragasam (@ dialpool-210-214-9-17.maa.sify.net) on: Wed Jul 16 00:01:01 EDT 2003
  
  I once loved reading Grimm’s & Hans Anderson’s fairy tales & Enid Blyton’s mystery stories for children
  
  
• From: Kajan (@ 24.156.114.180) on: Wed Jul 16 01:29:25 EDT 2003
  
  Book :
  
  I can no remember the title,
  
  it was talking about 100 people who did something good or made some significant changes.
  
  Jesus, Newton, Allah lots and lots.
  
  Writers that os a big list,
  the one always strike in my mind Mu. Varatharan
  
  Poets,
  Metha
  Abdul Rahuman
  kaNNathAsan
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.115.22.74) on: Wed Jul 16 11:02:39 EDT 2003
  
  Kajan,
  The title of the book you've mentioned is "The Hundred". It does not have anything about "Allah" but it has "Prophet Muhammed" in the 100 list.
  
  It is a "must read" book. I have read both the English and the tamil translation.
  
  
• From: Marius (@ ti511210a000-0060.dialup.online.no) on: Wed Jul 16 13:10:02 EDT 2003
  
  I've started reading Anne Rice and H.P. Lovecrafts books, I think they are good horror genre writers.
  
  

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