The Joy of Reading

Hello Kamalji,
Good that you have read that book. As Shanthi ma'am had suggested, probably you can go through her other creation too!

Let the thirst for knowledge continue!

Regards

 

hi Kamal,

Dont miss Erich Segal's "Doctors".

Also check out the Robert Ludlum's books. All his books are good ...his "Bourne" series especially! Please dont see the movie. First read... the story is in your imagination. watch the movie later, and you will see the director's imagination!

Regards,
Sharada

 

Dear Kamalji,
oh, to read a good book is like being in heaven. I like to read and I used to read comics first. Then came Enid Blyton. I had some rich friends who were book lovers and who would lend books to me. I used to read even Tamil monthly novels, hidden in school books. My mother did not like my reading habit and would be very angry. So I would read with out her knowledge. I have enjoyed Phantom comics very much and even now like them. Then came Amar Chithra katha.Also I hve read many James Hardley Chase books.
I lived in Trivandrum and there are so many libraries there, the British Council, Public Library, the University Library, my, how I enjoyed to go to all these, brings books home and read them. I started reading Agatha Christie, Arther Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) and other british authors from BC, magazines which had so many beautiful pictures of homes (Good Housekeeping) exotic recipes and so many household ites. This was some 25 years ago. All those are in India only recently- the modular kitchens, furniture, desserts etc.
I also got to read books by Auther Hailey, Sidney Shelden, Jeffery Archer, Robin Cook, and recently Mary Higgins Clarkand Da Vinci Code and of course, J.K.Rowlings. I have read all the Potter books.
I have initiated my son also in the reading habit and he enjoys it. I have bought many books for him, from comics to Potter. Ramakrishna Math is publishing religious books in comic style with good quality binding etc. I have got a set for him and now he knows our culture etc also. He also has Panchathantra stories book.R.K.Narayan and Arther Conan Doyle also he reads.
I read RD regularly from the library near to me. I also subscribe to Week and we both read it regularly. And of course, the Hindu newspaper and a Tamil daily too.
Hubby dear is just opposite, no reading or any hobby for that matter.
I have a dream, to read all Tintin comics.

 

Hi kamalji
yes these ones r top hit & Supernovels but they r like old frends to me & when I cant find any thing to read I turn again & again to these.( like some people sees their favourate films many time )
Ayn rand one has to read many times to fully undersand her theories of objectivism. Just now I finished the vinci code ( good one ) & now I am reading the monk who sold his ferrari .
There r some good novels in reader digest select edition ,like white out ,paronia & few others good reading.

 

Dear all.,

I too used to read a lot of comics . Phatom, Mandrake and all amar chitra katha comics. I remember there was the "Ramayana" bumper editions, which was Rs 9 then and it was considered to be very costly.
"henry" in the last page of Amar chithra katha was a delight.

Then even chacha choudhary series were a favourite.

Even now I don't miss the small comic section in the daily newspaper. Winnie The pooh is my current favourite.

Of course Enid blyton's famous 5 series and Hardy boys followed.

Later somehow I was a bit slow in reading novels. I read GAndhiji's "My exoeriment with Truth" when I was in college. and there a quite a few others also.

But always newspaper were and is my constant companion. Though almost all the dailies are posted online, there is nothing like spreading the newspaper on the floor and reading it. during my school and college days I used to rush to read the paper first, though almost always my Dad used to finish and only then give it to me.

I m a addict of Sudoku now.

bye...