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My Book Choices

By thescian on August 18, 2006.

The book tagging meme is back! I love it. Arunn of Nonoscience has a nice list up and has passed on the book love to yours truly. So here goes.

One book that changed your life?
"The Real Man" by Boris Polevoi. I read the tamil translation from Mir Publishers.

One book you have read more than once?
"Surely you're joking, Mr.Feynman"

One book you would want on a desert island?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics

One book that made you laugh
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchet. All the Hitchhiker books.

One book that made you cry
None. But, some books brought a lump to my throat. India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul was one. Vairamuthu's "Kallikattu Idhikasam" (tamil novel) was another.

One book you wish had been written?
A bestselling howto book on becoming scientific

One book you wish had never been written?
None.

One book you are currently reading?
The Story of Art by E H Gombrich

If you would be so kind, share your book love. Send me a note and I'd be glad to link your book tag post here.

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Any and all Tom Robbins, but especially Jitterbug Perfume. I solely credit TR with igniting a passion for learning anything I can, a trait that was unfortunatlely absent throughout my high school and college years.

My absolute favorite TR quote, which is also my socio-political mantra is:
"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who believe there are only two kinds of people, and those who know better." - Still Life with Woodpecker

Since you mentioned India, you should like "The God of Small Things" by Arundati Roy for another lump in the throat.

As to Feynman, the biography by James Gleick "Genius" is good. Gleick also wrote, "Chaos: Making of a New Science". A companion to that is "The New Scientist's Guide to Chaos".

Books that changed my life? Nietzsche "On the Geneology of Morals" and BF Skinner, "Beyond Freedom and Dignity".

Reading now and rereading: Balzac, "La Peau de Chagrin".

Lots of laughs too, "You make me doubt the power of god for you are stupider than he is powerful."