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READING
I'd say that I do read a lot, be it magazines, newspapers or novels. Basically I feel that being in touch with whatever that is happening in the world is very essential for a quizzer!
Some of my favourite novels include:
Godfather ,The Last Don (Mario Puzo)
The Matarese Circle ,The Matarese Countdown, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum (Robert Ludlum)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D.Salinger)
The Inscrutable Americans (Anurag Mathur)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Diaries of Adrian Mole (Sue Townsend)
The Collected Short Stories of O.Henry
Kane and Abel, Honour Among Thieves, Shall We Tell the President (Jeffrey Archer)
Sherlock Holmes -The Complete Works (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mahabharatha and Ramayana
Day of the Jackal, Icon, Fist of God, Fourth Protocol, Phantom of Manhattan, Dogs of War, The Odessa File (Frederick Forsyth)
Airframe, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Timeline (Michael Crichton)
The Chamber, The Testament, Runaway Jury, The Client, The Street Lawyer, The Brethren, The Partner (John Grisham)
Hotel, Airport, Wheels, Detective (Arthur Hailey)
Tom Brown?chool Days (Thomas Hughes)
Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Water Babies (Charles Kingsley)
I used to like Ruskin Bond when I was a kid, but find him too senti nowadays.
After having watched the movie "Great Expectations" I read the unabridged version of the book. Dickens couldn't have written a better book. It describes situations in life much too aptly. Otherwise I feel that Dickens wrote gloomy stories.
There is a poem which often comes to my mind, which my grandmother taught me when I was around 9 or 10 yrs old. I have it in her handwriting. It will remain with me for the rest of my life.
The poem goes:
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog its day.
When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and maimed among:
God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young.
(Taken from "The Water Babies", a classic by Charles Kingsley)
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