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And I picked up Madras on Rainy Days. Just read the first few pages. No comments as of now.
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I won't be picking up random books from the fiction section any more. Some parts of the book were okay though. I was expecting the book to be more about cultural clash and all that. Hmm. These days blurbs aren't very helpful. Rather vague.
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Cool, it would be interestin to know what you think of john steinbeck. Not gone very far with A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but what i have read of it is hilarious 
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The whole series is hilarious! Some of the greatest literary quotes came from it!
"Arther hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. He then realized there was a contradiction involved there and merely hoped there wasn't an afterlife."
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Structured Computer Organisation-Tanenbaum =(
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11-13-2007, 01:35 PM
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The whole series is hilarious! Some of the greatest literary quotes came from it!
"Arther hoped and prayed there wasn't an afterlife. He then realized there was a contradiction involved there and merely hoped there wasn't an afterlife."
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Yeah it was ok, it qualified for light entertainment
I'm reading Life of Pi now 
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11-13-2007, 01:43 PM
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Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
its funny, but way too LONG
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LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT?! You have no soul!
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The Deserter's Tale: The story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq by Joshua Key.
Account by an ex soldier about the army's abuses against Iraqis, lootings,random killing, rapes, jailing all the men found in homes etc.
excerpt: Why I fled George Bush's war | Macleans.ca - World - Global
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life of Pi was so awesome...personally the first half of the book was alright. However, i was unable to put the book down for the secand half.
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what's Life of Pi about?
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three cups of tea by greg mortenson
a must read!!
about an american man who set out to build schools in the poverty striken areas of pakistan and afghanistan 
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LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT?! You have no soul!
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 it is amazing what a great imagination he has but that's about it, it's a lot of randomness in one book, great to read but not too difficult to replicate. struck a nerve? 
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life of Pi was so awesome...personally the first half of the book was alright. However, i was unable to put the book down for the secand half.
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absolutely, but the second half brought in a lot of the information that was given in the first half but yeah the second half was more entertaining. I really enjoyed it.
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what's Life of Pi about?
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Its all about a boy who lived on a zoo (pondicherry zoo) and the family decides to go to canada. So they emigrate via sea and the ship sinks. The boy survives in a survival boat thing with a zebra, hyena and a tiger. Eventually it's just him and the tiger and they survive for over 200 days stranded out at sea until he's found washed up on the beaches of Mexico.
It's a great book, about life, instinct, survival etc. Whilst i was reading it, i found i actually did more in my day than i usually do, thinking "if Piscine Moliter Patel can survive in the middle of the Pacific then this is a small task for me!"
it's very improbable but like all fiction, it's based on a lot of truth
i'm reading Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
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absolutely, but the second half brought in a lot of the information that was given in the first half but yeah the second half was more entertaining. I really enjoyed it.
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true, i was just really cought up in the action..lol
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Life is given in order to worship, life without worship is shameful.
Indeed, after " Allah adorns mankind with this verse:
And we have perferred them over many others" (17:70)
..in reward of worship, we recive honor and respect
"he who is the lover of beauty of Allah Is the leader of all creation"
w/ the darkness w/in, i still fight for the light. Raising my hands in this plight
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freakonomics
oil on the brain
two very well written books
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11-23-2007, 10:43 PM
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A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS BOOK read it in 4 th grade
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Murder Mysteries
by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
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