Thursday, July 07, 2005

This Tagging madness

Thanks to Vishu, I have been tagged. and This tagging madness has waken me up from my blogging hibernation.
OK..here goes: Ctrl+c Ctrl+v from Vishu's tagged post:
Number of books I own: Quite some...around 70+
Last Five Books I Read:
Coma – Robin Cook
The murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Mystery on the orient express - Agatha Christie
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
The Color of Magic - Terrt Pratchett
Presently reading:
Udayavar III - Balakumaran
Guerillas - V.S.Naipual
Catch 22 - Joeseph Heller
My favorites:
LOTR - IMHO, the best fantasy ever written
(ofcouse, I consider Mahabharata/Ramayana to be epics not fantasies)
Sherlock Holmes series - Have reread it soooo many times and still is interesting.
Fav authors:
Herge, Goscinny/Uderzo - I still love tintin and Asterix/Obelix
Arthur Conan Doyle – My favourite since quite some time (my 6th std :-))
P G Wodehouse – I root for the Earl, Earl of Emsworth(ofcourse, include all the
usual stars the wodehouse firmament - wooster,jeeves etc.).
Terry Pratchett - If you like Douglas Adams, Pratchett would definitely be better.
Discworld-The funny fanatasy, with a consistent whacky thread of
logic maintainted throughout.
JRR Tolkien - Man! if Colridge wrote Kubla Khan in a drugged trance, Tolkien must have been stoned half his life.
The amount of imagination and thought put into Middle Earth is
astounding - own language for each race, consistent folklore in /all/ the novels.
Sujatha - The best contemporary writer in Tamizh (or Tamil if you prefer).
Devan - PG Wodehouse of Tamizh - Sambu is a evergreen hero - the anti-thesis of Sherlock Holmes.
I don’t read much of autobiography, business books.
I am strictly against the self-improvement books :-) more on that later.
Have read some English classics but, the difference in language does reduce the interest.
Its my turn, and I would like to tag:
Sai
Abdul

Bye,
Shanmu.