(Basically I will compile the list after we are done and post it on a separate thread under "Banglacricket Members 1001 Books To Read Before You Die". So it will be an amalgamation of users' mix choice. Then again the more you contribute the more you will feature. So the personalization will just crease out.)
Originally Posted by Zeeshan
(Basically I will compile the list after we are done and post it on a separate thread under "Banglacricket Members 1001 Books To Read Before You Die". So it will be an amalgamation of users' mix choice. Then again the more you contribute the more you will feature. So the personalization will just crease out.)
Originally Posted by Yankees
why? whats the point?
Because God is bored and takin a break from punctuated equilibrium and morphic resonance of creating gazillion different beetle species and admiral dragonflies over millenia?
Originally Posted by Zeeshan
Because God is bored and takin a break from punctuated equilibrium and morphic resonance of creating gazillion different beetle species and admiral dragonflies over millenia?
Originally Posted by aklemalp
I love Burmese Days, as mentioned earlier. The characters in it are awesome.
That's a great one too. Great promotion for Burma as well, and they know it. When I was there, it's a common site to see people carrying just that book only, in the hope of selling it to a tourist like you.
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40. the english patient
41. night - eli wiesel
42. the corrections (hilarious!)
43. the god of small things - A. Roy - carrying on the legacy of excellent bengali writers.
Originally Posted by Yankees
ok looking at the lists, I guess I gravitate towards drunk russians, south asians, or obscure american authors (besides the classics).
In that case mandatory books forced to read in high school:
44. Joy Luck Club (You asked for it!)
45. My Antonia (again I have no control...)
and the existentialists (more like short novellas)
46. No Exit (Sartre)
47. The Stranger (Camus)
48. Metamorphosis (Kafka)
and of course, obligatory Joyce
49. Ulysses
50. Finnegan's Wake
Love Terence Mckenna's discussion on the last one!
51. I am allowed to inject personal taste so I choose "Never Quit".
It's not another macho military book, but rather gives a first-person POV of a goddamn ninja who can breeze through life carrying himself with cadence and swagger. PJ's maroon beret is one of the hardest objects to earn with a phenomenally high attrition rate.
Heck this should be a required reading for our players!
Collected letters from freedom fighters who went to war in 71... I still get goosebumps reading some of them (even after reading them on multiple occassions )... No fiction based novels can ever do this to you.
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66. Why buddhism is true. (I initially excluded this, but since Quran and Biible is fair game).
67. A people's history of the us - zinn (history written like a narrative, easy to read)
68. The blood telegram: nixon, kissinger and forgotten genocide - every Bangladeshi needs to read this. Archer blood was the american diplomat in then East Pak.