Comments on: Book Reading

By: Liju Philip

Liju Philip — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:03:58 +0000

Poonam, thanks. Actually i had read Aamir Khan’s blog and he too had written some good review of the book “City of Djinns”. Would love to read a detailed review from you.

Thanks Akhil. Actually, i had been wanting to ask you about the bookshops. You read my mind

By: lazybug

lazybug — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:31:45 +0000

I haven’t read any of those books. Heard good reviews about The World is Flat and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Tim Harford is good too.

But when you are in Hyderabad, visit the Crosswords store in City Center, Banjara Hills. I am sure you’ll find most of those books there.

By: Poonam Sharma

Poonam Sharma — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:48:14 +0000

William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns is a very interesting read, not too heavy as The Last Mughal. It is a book about Delhi, I live in Delhi and yet there were things I learnt about the city from the book. A review of the book is among my drafts on wordpress, only lazy me does not finish it.

There was a play recently staged on City of Djinns in Delhi starring Zohra Sehgal and Tom Alter. I heard it was as good.

The Reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid is on my wish list too. Don’t care much about finance and economics books though.

By: Liju Philip

Liju Philip — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:32:41 +0000

Brian, thanks. Will try to lookout for the books you have mentioned. Cheers.

By: Brian L. Belen

Brian L. Belen — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:27:47 +0000

I'm a fan of Thomas Friedman myself. I think his best work is really From Beirut to Jerusalem. The World is Flat is pretty entertaining and builds on many of the ideas he first brought up in The Lexus and the Olive Tree (which was itself a brilliant book and the first of Friedman's I ever read). Tim Harford's book is quite good. If you want something similar, Robert Frank has a book called The Economic Naturalist that's quite similar but more straightforward in that it examines the economic reasons for otherwise ordinary things.