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I have added a link to your blog on my blog.

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thanks.

I must be pretty uncultured because I have ready 4-5 books on the list. Personally, I think the list is skewed toward books published in 20th century. I have a lot of classics, but most of them aren’t on the list like Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice.

I find James Joyce to be a tedious and overrated author, whose work Ulyssess is unreadable drek.

Nevertheless, screw this list. Madhoo. How about giving us your top 10 books?

You can even include Harry Potter books.

Nandan, no problem at all - Thanks :)

Niraj, my top 10? Sounds like an interesting idea. Will figure out over the weekend ;)

Maybe we should do a Desi blogger top 10…

For once I disagree with you Shanti - I think you have to understand the book within the context of time and place - a very different time from ours.

I still love the book, but then I never liked Jo. I liked Amy best when she ‘growed up.’

Catcher in the Rye? I’m with you on that one.:nice:

I definitely agree with you in that the period of the book had to do something with the story - I just felt like it didn’t hold up to the contemporary times :)

I do like Amy better than the others, I have to admit.

Ayn Rand anyone?

Rand’s an interesting read if you skip the sermons.

I still enjoy ‘Little Women’ but only as a glimpse into the ideals of a different culture. We’ve grown since then but it’s interesting to see where we once were. (I’m speaking from a western perspective here…).

I agree that “little women” may not seem ‘politically correct’ in the modern era — but its a period novel and contextual to the year it was set in. I quite liked it. I must admit that I’ve never read Ulyssess as a complete novel, but the prose when read in parts is really fantastic and evocative…
And ‘catcher of the rye’ is highly overrated. Though, there is something wrong with the list — they’ve left out ‘the mystic masseur’ and included on of naipaul’s not so good books — same with philip roth & conrad. And where’s umberto eco??