read these books

I have read and found excellent Dr Phil’s Life Strategies.
Trying to read Feel the Fear and do it anwyay. An excellent first chapter.

White Man’s Burden by William Easterly about the failure of foreign aid. Very interesting but quite academic. Still anyone with a passion for saving the world might like to read it.

Its a bit slow… A bit tiresome. I’m not really enjoying it.

I have read a lot of books about India lately, particularly while i was away.

the biography of Indira Ghandi by Kathleen ? – excellent
several books by RK Narayan – utterly beautiful
Karma Cola – by Gita Mehta – all right
The Arguementative India – by Amartya Sen – very interesting
Everybody Loves a Good DRought – by P Sainath – enlightening, a must read
The Inheritence of Loss – by Kiran Desai – very good
The Glass Palace – by Amitav Ghosh – got so boring i had to dump it. Disappointing.

Off teh top of my head that’s all i can think of

Different list from my first:

March by Geraldine Brooks
Just reading Disgrace by Coetzee now. Pretty good.
The Kite Runner
Keith..?

Just to make me feel good…

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley?
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Anna Karenina – Tolstoy
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevski
HALF OF The Brothers Karamazov
The Idiot
A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
First Circle – Solhzenitsyn
Tale of Two Cities – Dickens
Tristram Shandy – Lawrence Sterne
The Trial – Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
In the Penal Colony
King Lear – Shakespeare
The Red and the Black – Stendahl
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
Emma
Sense and sensibility
persuasion
Mansfield House
Voss – Patrick White
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Villette
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
La Peste – Albert Camus
L’Etranger
La Chute
Nausea – John Paul Sartre
The Age of Reason
L’Enfance d’un Chef
POrtrait of a Lady – Henry James
The Europeans
The Turn of the Screw
To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men
My Brother Jack – ???
Hunger – Knut Hamsen
Kristen Lavransdatter – ??
? – Elie Weisel
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Attwood
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
The HUman Factor – Graham Greene
Our Man in Havana
The Quiet American
A Passage to India – EM Forster
Junkie – William S Burroughs
Naked Lunch
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Don Quixote – Cervantes
The Iliad – Homer
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Tin Drum – Gunther Grasse
Midnights Children – Salman Rushdie
The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
The Safety Net – Heinrich Boll
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann (buddenbrooks most acclaimed work)
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Goethe
Doris Lessing
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino
To Be cont…

Plays
Pygmalian – George Bernard Shaw
The Dolls House – Ibsen
- Ionesco
TBCont…

Non Fiction
Among the Believers – VS Naipaul
The Prophet – Karen Armstrong
The Gulag Archipelago – Solhzenitsyn
On Photography – Susan Sontag
Viruses???
A Short History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
– Stephen Jay Gould
- Roland Barthe
Eric Fromm
William James

Remembering this is going to be difficult

To Be Cont.

auto/Biographies
Anne Sexton (american poet)
Charles Darwin
Marcel Duchamp
Letters – Virginia Woolf

this was on my original list. i have got in my hot little hands now. i am reading it. off i go.

and adding Jack Kerouac to my list.

...a week later. i finished my first anne mustoe book. i have a second one ready to go now. it was definitely worth reading if you are contemplating or planning a round the world bike ride. She really liked Malaysia which was the biggest surprise in the book. America did not come across very well. Quite boring and trashy was the general mood, not that she said as much.

4 weeks later – good grief – i am almost finished the second book. Not as good as a travel tale but still useful for guidance with my proposed trip.

I emailed her and she sent a nice reply back.

umberto eco on beauty

Yakety Yak, bombay to beijing by bike, Russle McGuniness
New York by lily brett
philosophy by Nicholas Frearn – i think its a beginners guide but iwth a good contemporary take on it.
Buddhism for dummies – since that’s about all i oculd find in teh library that deals iwth my particular enquiry. which is what does buddhism say about anger.

1.The Artist’s Way – as suggested by another 43er.
2.The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – a classic in self-help literature apparently.
3.The diceman’s rules; luke rheinhardt – as suggested by another 43er
4.what was that book that shireen mentioned today about being/becoming an artist and doubts? ask her again.

5. buuddhist booooks: “Being Peace” by Thich Nhat Hanh? Yeah that’s a very terrific book! Another one… “Peace Is Every
Step”.

6. jack Kerouac

7. Calling in the One – about finding someone to love you.

8. Anne Mustoe should have been on this list. cyclist traveller. I am reading it now. and another waits for me at the library.

9. Moby Dick by Melville.

10. study- the bible, koran, bagvad gita, buddhist books for their morality principles. a special project.