The Edward Hyde Show: 38 : You cannot judge a book by its author

"Sometimes I get to feelin’, I was back in the old days - long ago
When we were kids when we were young, things seemed so perfect - you know
The days were endless we were crazy we were young,
The sun was always shinin’ - we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don’t know,
The rest of my life’s been just a show."

--Freddie Mercury, These are the days of our lives.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Episode 38 : You cannot judge a book by its author

Till I gather enough patience and effort required to finish the first installment of The Motorcycle Diary, here is a distraction.

Now reading-

  • SHANTARAM - Gregory David Roberts

Books read in 2006 (in reverse chronological order)-

  1. THE INSCRUTABLE AMERICANS : Anurag Mathur
  2. ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTRE : Chetan Bhagat

Books read in 2005 (in reverse chronological order)-

  1. THE HOUSE OF BLUE MANGOES : David Davidhar
  2. THE KING OF TORTS : John Grisham
  3. TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD : Harper Lee
  4. TOXIN : Robin Cook
  5. A PRISON DIARY : Jeffrey Archer
  6. THE BOURNE IDENTITY : Robert Ludlum
  7. THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME : Mark Haddon
  8. ANGELS & DEMONS : Dan Brown
  9. THE ZAHIR : Paulo Coelho
  10. HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE : JK Rowling
  11. HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX : JK Rowling
  12. HARRY POTTER & THE GOBLET OF FIRE : JK Rowling
  13. HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN : JK Rowling
  14. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN : Mitch Albom
  15. CHENNAI LATTE : A MADRAS BREW : Ranjitha Ashok & Biswajit Balasubramanian
  16. DIGITAL FORTRESS : Dan Brown
  17. DECEPTION POINT : Dan Brown
  18. HARRY POTTER & THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS : JK Rowling
  19. HARRY POTTER & THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE : JK Rowling
  20. THE HOBBIT : JRR Tolkien
  21. THE THIRD WORLD WAR : Humphrey Hawksley

The ones left incomplete (in reverse chronological order)-

  1. THE LORD OF THE RING - JRR Tolkien
  2. LIFE OF PI - Yann Martel

Aired at 1/10/2006 10:52:00 pm  

7 Comment(s):

  • At 1/16/2006 10:14 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Alrightie then, I want

    ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTRE : Chetan Bhagat

    THE HOUSE OF BLUE MANGOES : David Davidhar

    THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME : Mark Haddon

    THE HOBBIT : JRR Tolkien

    >:)

    Also I demand that a shout box thingie be installed asap! And also that posts not be deleted without informing all readers regarding the reasons in detail.... Now go write 300 words as explanation! :P

     

  • At 1/16/2006 10:15 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Also lets get rid of word verification ...its a PAIN!

     

  • At 1/16/2006 11:11 am, Blogger Hyde said…

    If I do not have word-verification, I will not know if a human or a robot commented here. And when people insist on commenting anonymously, it becomes mandatory. So WV stays.

    No shoutbox. As for the reason in 300 words, I'll use three.

    It's my wish!

     

  • At 1/16/2006 11:11 am, Blogger Hyde said…

    ON@CC is not my book, I had borrowed it for the day. The Hobbit is an e-book, so I can send you that. As for the remaining two, come and get it!

     

  • At 1/17/2006 9:49 am, Blogger La Figlia Che Piange said…

    House Of Blue Mangoes was good, I read it two years ago and that rhyme is still stuck in my head, "sapuru kannu sapuru, neelam illam sapuru", it goes something like that, does'nt it?

     

  • At 1/17/2006 11:05 pm, Blogger Hyde said…

    Yes, something like that. :-)

     

  • At 1/20/2006 10:20 pm, Blogger Hyde said…

    Well, books 2 to 6 happened in a span of one-and-a-half months when bike riding was a no-no.

     

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