If you want kitschier romance and worse sex than MB, all you have to do is
to read one or more regional magazines .. swathi in telugu for example, or
mangayar malar etc in tamil.
I was curious as to why there was this major readership for this kind
of writing and found some interesting
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Rand is a pretty good writer, and it isn't tedious.
If you don't mind me asking, how old were you when you read Rand?
I have this corollary that
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to,
and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could
never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina
Like other people, I'm a baffled by the inclusion of Foucault's Pendulum.
Read as a thriller it is addictive (if you're willing to keep the
internet/an encyclopaedia on hand to look things up). I enjoy Eco in general
- I'd disagree with the Baudolino dissing elsewhere in this thread, because
in
they are. But when it comes to reading Rand, I must say I loathed her from
the 3rd page of the Fountainhead onwards. I have plodded through Atlas
Shrugged and Fountainhead (I was 17 - 12th Standard summer break) when Rand
was discovered and have never liked her - everything has been a problem,
--- On Wed, 16/6/10, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 9:03
Autobiography of an unknown Indian
India after Gandhi
Al Beruni's India
Atlas Shrugged
--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Nishant Shah itsnish...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Nishant Shah itsnish...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 12:18
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Aaargh!
Georgette Heyer and sex!
Stop RIGHT THERE, young man, and go and wash your mouth out with yellow soap.
Come back when you are fit for civilised company.
Haha.
I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of
Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/16/2010 5:10 PM]:
Haha.
I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of prudishness. Swoon.
I read Heyer for basically the same reason I read PGW. The language, the
semi-to-full-fledged-farce, and
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:59:25AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Exactly my sentiments about the Thomas Covenant series.
Ugh. I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated it.
--
Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
al Beruni was mediaeval; those have their own flavour and nuances, but
he's preferable to others, like ibn Battuta, who was a bigoted little bastard,
and a misogynist of stature. al Beruni probably is difficult reading
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
A recent episode of the BBC Radio program In Our Time was about Al Beruni:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00smnlk/In_Our_Time_alBiruni/
I really liked this one, IOT has previously also done a show on Ibn
Khaldun which is
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/16/2010 5:10 PM]:
Haha.
I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of prudishness. Swoon.
I read Heyer for basically
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Anil Kumar anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com wrote:
Calling the attention of the bibliophiles on Silk -
1. Finnegans Wake, James Joyce: Internet searches on “most difficult” and
“hard to read” novels unfailingly recognize Finnegan’s Wake as the most
difficult
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
Most people can't get through Stephenson, but I'd recommend starting with
_Snow Crash_, _The Diamond Age_, or _Anathem_. _Cryptonomicon_
is like candy if you happen to be up on Alan Turing and Enigma, however.
I love
At 5:53 PM +0530 6/16/10, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Sruthi Krishnan wrote, [on 6/16/2010 5:10 PM]:
Haha.
I picked up Heyer recently, and I think her books = MandB plot +
Overdose of Victorian fashion + lots and lots of prudishness. Swoon.
I read Heyer for basically the same reason I read PGW.
--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Andre Manoel an...@corp.insite.com.br wrote:
From: Andre Manoel an...@corp.insite.com.br
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 19:59
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Anil
Kumar
--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 20:12
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.comwrote:
Add to that the fact that many romance novels are witty and knowingly self-
parodying, and it's easy to see how they become junk read addictions.
At the edges of the genre, I can recommend Amanda Quick (her heroines
I read Heyer for basically the same reason I read PGW. The language, the
semi-to-full-fledged-farce, and the comfort of the same story over and
over again. Of course, for the last named, I could just read Mills
Boon. Or JT Edson.
Udhay
I was quite a fan of JT Edson when I was in 9th or
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
The book I have tried (and given up) reading the most number of times
has to be Tristram Shandy. Everything I read about the book tells me I
would love such a shaggy god story. I even liked the film that was
made a few years ago.
Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 21:49 +0530]:
Obviously you like 'the Russians'; acid test: did you like the Inspector
General? But this lot, well, War and Peace was as good or as bad as one of
That gogol social commentary disguised as farce play? I love it. Anything
at all by Gogol in fact (darker -
Aishwarya Subramanian [16/06/10 22:05 +0530]:
I recently read my first Amanda Quick book and thought it was hugely
enjoyable. I only ever seem to read Regency romances (the influence of
Heyer, I suspect) but favourite authors are Loretta Chase (hilarious and
vastly underrated) and Julia Quinn
I haven't read a single Mills and Boon in my life. Is that a world record? For
me it was a purely sexist phenomenon. It was for girls and sissies.
Oh and thanks for reminding me. I could not make it through Godel, Escher and
Bach.
But I'm guessing that the really bad ones are the one's whose
On 15 June 2010 18:06, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Have you read anything by Neal Stephenson? In particular, there's this
passage of ~15 pages in _Cryptonomicon_ that has to do with the Right
Way of eating chocolate cereal.
I have the entire Trilogy, but haven't gotten around to
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