“So many books, so little time.”
- Frank Zappa
Encouraged by my parents who gifted me a book every birthday, I have been a avid consumer of all kinds of books. I spent my early teens mostly reading fiction. Since entering college, I have been more into Philosophy (Camus and Quine), a lot of Popular Science (Oliver Sacks and David Quammen ), and Indian fiction (Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry). Of late, I have found graphic novels to be a really interesting medium (Apostol Doxiadis (Logicomix was mind blowing), Alan Moore, and Osamu Tezuka).
Arnab's bookshelf: read
One of the best graphic novels I have read. Though it can be called a biography of Russel, ends up tracing a path from Euclid to Von Neumann through Godel and Alonzo Church, leading up to the invention of Computers, littered with beautif...
Gawande brings to our notice simple problems plaguing the healthcare system and how some people are trying to make it "better." This is one guilt trip for the medical professionals as they might come to face with the problems they have b...
A bit confusing at first due to loads of characters being introduced all together, give the book a few more pages and it will settle down nicely.The plot is great, the build up is good. Very detailed. Plausible explanation of all the eve...
Randomly picked it up half expecting it to be full of crap but turned out to be suprisingly good, highly motivating. A boring second half though.
A lovely read if you want a better view of the life of our countries babus, a must read if you intend to become one.
A detailed and more importantly unbiased account of Operation Bluestar. It becomes really difficult to not take sides when the author is so closely following up the developments leading to 6th June 1984 but it seems he did just that. A g...
One of the best books read so far it gives you a very true picture of how life actually is without the rosy wrappings.
Fun filled to the brim. Good book for a quick read.
