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[mahmood]

I would like everyone to contribute to this thread. If someone reads an interesting book, please write the name and author of the book, and also to which kind of a reader would be most inclined to read it. if we start book reviews like, it would be a great benefit for the people of general interest.

[Dr. Farrukh Malik]

Dear all,

For those who are interested in Literature/fiction, I would like to recommend the book from Garcia Marquez named Love in the Time of Cholera.

The style in which Marquez has dealt with the characters is splendid. It is sort of away from his ‘One hundred years of Solitude’ as he has not given his peculiar tinge of ‘Magical Realism’. The way he has depicted the changes in the lives with growing age shows his understanding of human behaviors. The Novel starts with Dedication:

‘For Mercedes, of course’

Followed by lines from Leandaro Diaz:

“The words I am about to express:
They now have their own crowned goddess.”

Following are few quotes from his novel spread over 348 pages:

"Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when time comes is to help him die without the fear of pain."

"Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."

"The conjugal dawns grew calm because he had returned to the childhood his children had taken away from him."

"Death was not only a pertinent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality."

"The man who has no memory makes the one out of paper."

"Most fatal diseases had their own specific color, but that none was a as specific as old age."

"Old age was an indecent state that had to be ended before it was too late."

"The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name."

"We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice."

"When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about."

"It is life, more than death, that has no limits."


Source: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Published by Penguin Books India

[mahmood]

I have been reading " the greatest show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins. it is recommended for those people who are into life sciences, especially evolutionary sciences.
the othe one that i recently finished reading was that "the conscience of a liberal" by the nobel laureate Paul Krugman. though its by an economist, it is written in such a clear way that anyone will understand it. its a great read, as anything by Krugman is.

[mahmood]

these days i have been reading "the tipping point" by Malcolm Gladwell. Its a very interesting book on a general topic. well written and easy to read.