1001 Books To Read Before We ALL Die, BC?

[Zeeshan]

No but you have to be a nerd. Or someone with too much time on their hands...lol

O---------------kay.

39. To See Every Bird on Earth



https://www.amazon.com/See-Every-Bir.../dp/B001O6MDUE

(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.)

[Yankees]

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.)

why? whats the point?

[Zeeshan]

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?

[Yankees]

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?

ok and what is zeeshan's excuse?

[Zeeshan]

LOL!!! ^^^^

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Zeeshan
No but you have to be a nerd. Or someone with too much time on their hands...lol

In my introductory college writing course, the first line in my essay read as follows:

"In books lie knowledge."

Those words have never been truer

[Roey Haque]

Some very good books mentioned thus far. George Orwell's my favorite author.

I would add Animal Farm and 1984 to this list.

[aklemalp]

Originally Posted by Roey Haque
Some very good books mentioned thus far. George Orwell's my favorite author.

I would add Animal Farm and 1984 to this list.

I love Burmese Days, as mentioned earlier. The characters in it are awesome.

[BengaliPagol]

biography of Malcolm X

[Roey Haque]

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.

[Yankees]

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.

[Yankees]

ok looking at the lists, I guess I gravitate towards drunk russians, south asians, or obscure american authors (besides the classics).

[Zeeshan]

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!

[Zeeshan]

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!

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Quit-Wi.../dp/1250102995

[zman]

52. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

[Zeeshan]

Originally Posted by zman
52. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

Mentioned it in #16.

52. Demian by Hesse.

Hesse is DEEP Af man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demian

[aklemalp]

53. A House For Mr. Biswas by Naipaul.

[tonmoy.dhaka]

54/ Ekattur er chithi (Letters from 71) -

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.

[Zeeshan]

55. Tao Te Ching
56. Holy Koran
57. Holy Bible
58. Complete Ramayana
59. Bhagavad Gita
60. Entire Talmud

[aklemalp]

What about this classic?

61. War and Peace

[DinRaat.]

Originally Posted by zman
52. Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

+1

seven character limit.

[ToBeFair]

62. Seven habits of highly effective people - Steven Covey
63. An Introduction to the Sciences of Quran - Yasir Qadhi
64. The Divine Reality - Hamza Andrea Tzortzis

[ToBeFair]

065. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Yankees]

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)

[Yankees]

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.