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Originally Posted by GOTFIVEONIT
i recommend the english translation of the poems of allama iqbal. my dad had a copy of it once and i read it, it was pretty interesting to read.
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Awesome. They're good when translated, but not the same as in Urdu. My dad reads Iqbal to me sometimes; it's powerful stuff.
(You have to hear my dad do God when he reads Jawaab-e-Shikwa, haha.)
We used to have a whole thread on Iqbal back in the day... back when Dream34 wasn't so busy with med school.
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Originally Posted by Pushpa
Just finished this:
Riddled with stereotypes and cliches, the jokes and thrills are cheap, the sentiments are facile, and the writing is amateurish. I was after some lighthearted entertainment and thought it might deliver; I was expecting something along the lines of Jane Green. Alas, not as witty or stylish. I physically cringed over the first couple of pages, and I felt like I was actually betraying my brain by reading this drivel. Her first book was 'Chapatti or Chips' and her latest one is 'Brides and Bindis'. Just says it all.
 I read one of her books too. I think it was Chapatti or Chips. Can't remember now though, but the protagonist falls in love with her playboy of a friend (who's White) and he interrupts her wedding or something Indian- |
I'm reading Anita Diamant's "The Red Tent". I know... several years too late, but I got it off a friend just today. Especially relevant 'cause I'm reading the Pentateuch for my Five Books of Moses class. We're still on Genesis.
