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Just finished Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Did not find it all that great. Too gory.Does he really have to graphically explain how the christians tore Fra Dolcino to pieces with hot irons? Yeuck. Barbarians! But Foucault's Pendulum was great. Mostly because of the variety of subjects he touches up on there. I've lent Foucault.. to Appa- lent it about 3 months ago, actually. He still hasnt read it. But poor thing, he keeps telling me everytime that its an excellent book! :).

Favourite Books: Re-Upgraded List::

1. Wuthering Heights
2. Razor's Edge (Maughaum)
3. Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
4. Peter the Great: His Life and his times (Robert Massie)
5. Love Story (Erich Segal)
6. Jonathan Livinston Seagull (Bach)
7. Mind's I: Fantasies & Reflections on Self & Soul (Hofstadter and Dennett)
8. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
9. The Count of Montecristo (I Almost forgot that one!!) - Dumas
10. The Three Musketeers (Naturally!!)- Dumas
11. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
12. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
13. The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
15. Catcher in the Rye (J D Salinger)

Books I like (But wouldnt qualify for entry to the "favourites" list)
1. Roots - Alex Haley
2. All's Well that ends well - Shakespeare
3. Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope
4. Illusions - Richard Bach
5. The Lord of the Rings
6. The Hitch-hikers guide to the Galxy (Will have to add it atleast for "Babel Fish" if nothing else! A super example of a self-referencing/self-destructive analogy!)
7. Surely You're joking, Mr Feynman - Richard Philip Feynman
8. Pride and Prejudice (How could I have missed that one!)
9. Pretty much every one of Oscar Wilde's plays

"Popular" books (Books a lot of PPl would die for, but which havent particulary affected me):
1. Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell)
2. A thousand years of solitude - (Gabriel Garcia Marquez- and that would be one books I have ever read and actually disliked! Got sick of a 1000 Jose Arcadios and what not!)
3. Bridges of Madison County (Throw in a bored housewife and an itinerant photographer for protagonists, The National Geographic for respectability, lots of s*x for a story, two kids and a husband for the "other side" and voila! you get a "masterpiece"!)

posted by Aish @ 11:26 AM