Must Read Books/Novels Recommended by Digitians

[Pathik]

5ps is a book evy engg student can relate to..

[esumitkumar]

yo pathiks u r right.....me an engg student also...now working for arnd 3 yrs....engg nostalgia those days were awesome....

[Pathik]

hehe.. I just entered 2nd year now.. And i loved it absolutely..

[xbonez]

yeah 5PS is waaaaaaaayyy better than one night@call centre. anyways, read inheritance trilogy, Angels and Demons

[piyushp_20]

^^ do u mean bhagyashree the old actress??

buddy i dont knw it.

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

Robert Ludlum epecially the Bourne Series FTW.
The Covert One series has been has been desecrated by Ghost writers, though it still much better than anything churned out by the likes of Dan Brown.
Michael Crichton's Prey is entertaining, though stay away from his other recent forays, better grab his two decades old. timeline, the novel is better than the disappointing movie made out of it (which shows why we need Spielberg) A Case of Need (his first novel). It is more mature than those he wrote after years of writing.
Truthfully, i could never finish a Rushdie. But if you really wanna brush up your vocab, get yourself one of his and one of Vikram Seth's.
Avoid Sidney Sheldon like the medieval black death, and not just the stray bubonic plague, unless you like B-grade flicks.

[esumitkumar]

PET SEMETARY by STEPHEN KING...must read ...movie is crap compared to novel

[Freshcider]

PET SEMETARY by STEPHEN KING...must read ...movie is crap compared to novel

My favourite book too. Also The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams Douglas

[iMav]

Guys after reading 5 point some 1 i thought chetan bhagat's other novel namely a night at the call center would be as good but my friend it isnt and recommended Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ....and i got it ... its for the 1s who like serious hollywood movies like the da vinci code and other such highlky engrossing stuff ... believe me u guys read 50 pages of it and u will be like OMFG and if u arent dont go further ... i havnt finished it yet but the book is just toooooooooo freaking good

[The_Devil_Himself]

^^infact all books by Dan brown(4 in all) are like that but I personally think Angels and Demons is his best work so far.Waiting for his next book(some freemasonry stuff).

I also recommend Digital Fortress by Dan Brown if you liked Angels & Demons so much.

[Quiz_Master]

Post here the books/novels and the respective author that u have read recently and found good..also rate them out of 5..
for starters , i wd recommend
1. Five point someone
2. One night @ the call center
both by chetan bhagat
Awesome books.. Wd give them both a 4/5..

Perfect books...
My GF's friend (and my best friend) gave me these two. Amazing Books.

A recommendation : If you like these two you gonna like "Anything for you , ma'am : An IITian's Love Story " too. Its a book by an IITian Tushar Raheja.
Price : Rs. 100.
(Offtopic : My personal experience says Girls know better about books. )

[eggman]

Godfather ..excellent novel.....
Sidney Sheldon's early novel (If tomorrow comes, Other Side Of Midnight,Master of the Game, Sands of time, Rage of angels) ....avoid his later novels(except Tell Me Your Dreams), which are quite mediocre.
The Bourne Trilogy By Robert Ludlum
Any of Dan Brown's last 3 books(Avoid the Awful Digital Fortress)

Erich Seigal's Love Story , The Class , Doctors
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Agata Christie's Murder At Orient Express, And Then There were none (A bone-chilling novel)
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time(Illustrated Version), Black Holes and Baby Universe
Paulo Coelho- Alchemist, Like A Flowing River, Eleven Minutes
H.G.Wells - Time Machine
all these are amazing books


Can someone tell me if Lords of the Rings is worth reading?On of my avid reader friend told me that its quite boring.Can anyone clarify it? Also , is it neccesary to read Hobbit before it????? I always put down the book , by looking at its size and small fonts.

[xbonez]

^^LOTR is definitely worth reading. i've read the entire trilogy twice. the movies are relly gud but the books are much better. and no, it isn't necessary to read the hobbit b4 reading LOTR. i myslef read the hobbit after reading the trilogy

The entire English speaking world is divided in two parts - those who have read The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read it

[[xubz]]

Star Wars - The New Jedi Order Series - Traitor
Star Wars - Legacy of the Force - Exile
Star Wars - Legacy of the Force - Sacrifice

My Favorites!

[Phreezer]

Books by Ruskin Bond. They're just so awe-inspiring. The spectacular simplicity & beauty of his words just touches a chord somewhere, brings you closer to nature & your surroundings. Those minute details he notices, truly a writer who makes you experience India (particularly the hills) in all its glory.

[Pathik]

Guys how s Deception Point???
I m thinkin to get the whole dan brown series...
EDIT: Well looking at the plots of the book i think Deception Point and Digital Fortress shd be more interesting than Angels and Demons...

[The_Devil_Himself]

get it(the dan brown series).My sequence in order of preference:
1.Angels and Demons
2.The Da Vinci Code
3.Digital fortress
4.Deception Point

[Yamaraj]

What's with everyone recommending Chetan Bhagat's load-of-crap? Whatever happened to the books of classic literary giants like Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte, Alexander Dumas, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Nabokov, Jane Austen, George Orwell or even N C Chaudhuri?

[eggman]

Guys how s Deception Point???
I m thinkin to get the whole dan brown series...
EDIT: Well looking at the plots of the book i think Deception Point and Digital Fortress shd be more interesting than Angels and Demons...

Deception point is very very good. Great political drama with the NASA spice.
Angels & Demons is the best Dan Brown work, mezmerizing. However, his debut, Digital Fortress is a dated and childish novel. Avoid it.

[naveen_reloaded]

Guys how s Deception Point???
I m thinkin to get the whole dan brown series...
EDIT: Well looking at the plots of the book i think Deception Point and Digital Fortress shd be more interesting than Angels and Demons...

man dont read deception point .. it will make u sleep//.

i threw the book when i was 75% thru it ..

have any one read lord of the rings ..??? man the book is worth a million...

[eggman]

What's with everyone recommending Chetan Bhagat's load-of-crap?

I wa about to say that. Both of his novels are childish.

[vish786]

kane & abel...

[dreamcatcher]

Well..quite an irony..we have movies,tv shows,music albums but no thread for recommended books??...

Well..better late than never...here goes..

1)Kite Runner-khaled hosseni
2)Thousand splendid Suns-khaled hosseni
3)The gameworld triology(All three books)-samit basu
4)The harry potter series-jk rowling
5)my name is red-orhan pamuk
6)interpretation of murder
7)lord of the rings-tolkien
8)the last testament-sam bourne
9)jeffrey archer series(last impression fr me being the best)
10)john grisham(must read)
11)fountainhead-ayn rand
And many more.........wil fill it up later...cant keep track..


now guys ur turn..share ur literary tastes..

[Rollercoaster]

this is something not to be missed for SF fans. like the matrix movie. i would probably kill of more books from vinge.

Vernor Vinge's -
1983 - 1985 - Realtime 1,2,3 - Across Realtime -> 1987 Prometheus Award
1992 - A Fire Upon the Deep -> winner 1993 Hugo Award
1999 - A Deepness in the Sky -> winner 2000 Hugo Award & Prometheus Award
2006 - Rainbows end ->winner 2007 Hugo Award


1985 - Neuromancer by William Gibson -> winner of the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award
^This is where the word 'cyberspace' was invented, It is among the most-honored works of science fiction in recent history, and appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language novels written since 1923

[Faun]

Here is the old thread from yard
Must Read Books/Novels Recommended by Digitians

PS: We do hav more than one threads dedicated to books

[dreamcatcher]

okk MODS..close this thread..wil start posting there

[dreamcatcher]

1)Kite Runner-khaled hosseni
2)Thousand splendid Suns-khaled hosseni
3)The gameworld triology(All three books)-samit basu
4)The harry potter series-jk rowling
5)my name is red-orhan pamuk
6)interpretation of murder
7)lord of the rings-tolkien
the last testament-sam bourne
9)jeffrey archer series(last impression fr me being the best)
10)john grisham(must read)
11)fountainhead-ayn rand
And many more.........wil fill it up later...cant keep track..

[RCuber]

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum , if you love the movie then you will be blown away by this book. This is the one and only novel which I read ..

[ssdivisiongermany1933]

Bhagavat gita
james bond series :Ian fleming
The Himalayan bluder :Sam manekshaw [must read]
God of small things :Arundhati Roy
The Satanic verses :salman Rushdie
Mien kampf : Adolf Hitler [Must read]
Vedanta ,voice of freedom : Swami Vivekananda
Jane eyre : charlotte bronte
The witch of Portobello : paulo coelho
Mom I need to be a girl : Just Evelyn
Das Kapital :Karl marx

[Rollercoaster]

is there some place on the net(legal) were i can get Bhagavat gita and similar ebooks ?