Don't people read anymore?

by **Lucifer** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:25 pm

Currently reading JAcki Collins' Hollywood Wives. What a crap heap! That woman is totally overrated. :evil:

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:23 am

Jackie Collin's the Shobha De of USA (or is it the other way round?)...no one takes her novels seriously :roll:

by **SimarikSmokin** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:25 am

iknow shoba de i saw an interview with her

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:27 am

did u read her novels: Starry nights, socialite evenings etc etc...?

by **SimarikSmokin** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:43 am

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................................ no i didn't

by **The Scorpion's Sting** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:10 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:did u read her novels: Starry nights, socialite evenings etc etc...?

Have u?

by **CtrlAltDel** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:29 pm

The Scorpion's Sting wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:did u read her novels: Starry nights, socialite evenings etc etc...?
Have u?

yes

by **The Scorpion's Sting** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:42 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
The Scorpion's Sting wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:did u read her novels: Starry nights, socialite evenings etc etc...?
Have u?
yes

How are her books? Haven't heard much of her

by **Lucifer** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:12 pm

I read a Shobha De book. Don't remember what it is called. It is about four women who get together a few years after leaving school. They are all married and settled. It totally sucked. Was not even pornographic. I have no idea what she was trying to say. :roll:

by **mark** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:24 am

i'm reading "A Brief History of India" by some french guy at the moment. only started, but i'm starting to dislike the Aryans already. dig those dravidians, they really rock. especially in Kerala, i like the idea of a matrarchary. i think its really weird that Krishna was a sort of dravidian hero (in that he was an advisor for the southern natives rather than the northern invaders) despite being embrased by hinduism as an avatar of a god (have i totally got the short end of the stick?)

by **Jaszalcatraz** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:32 am

I'm reading The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss.

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:38 am

Mark, first of all, that book is written by a French guy. No offence, but throughout history Westerners have defaced non-western history throughout the world. A case in point is the 1857 War of Independence. The British call it mutiny. Indian historians rightly call it the War of Independence. That one incident shook the very foundations of the British Empire. It just has to be more than a mutiny.

Secondly, Aryans were not invaders. There is a difference between an invader and a settler. Chengiz Khan was an invader because he came to India 14 times only to loot it and go back. The Aryans settled here and embraced Indian culture. During their time, art flourished in the country. Some of the best works in mathematics, science, philosophy, etc. have taken place during the Vedic Age.

Third, if you want to know about the real India, I suggest you read Pandit Nehru's A Discovery of India.

by **ycr007** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:42 am

Me read A Discovery of India a Long Time ago.......

Right now am reading As You Like It.......a Shakespeare which imanaged to

fish out from the attic :twisted:

by **mark** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:48 am

Lucifer wrote:Mark, first of all, that book is written by a French guy. No offence, but throughout history Westerners have defaced non-western history throughout the world. A case in point is the 1857 War of Independence. The British call it mutiny. Indian historians rightly call it the War of Independence. That one incident shook the very foundations of the British Empire. It just has to be more than a mutiny.

Secondly, Aryans were not invaders. There is a difference between an invader and a settler. Chengiz Khan was an invader because he came to India 14 times only to loot it and go back. The Aryans settled here and embraced Indian culture. During their time, art flourished in the country. Some of the best works in mathematics, science, philosophy, etc. have taken place during the Vedic Age.

Third, if you want to know about the real India, I suggest you read Pandit Nehru's A Discovery of India.

sorry Luci, don't know if you have done research on the guy (you may well have) but he lived in India for 20 years studying Sanskrit and interacting with the great modern Indian historians, also there is a hell of a lot of evidence that the ancient dravidian culture of india is responsible for most of the acient mediterian cultures that gave rise to european civilisation, and that the Aryans were technologically inferior to the much older dravidian races of India. This can be seen by the fact that there are a multitude of relics from before the Aryan settlement, but none after it for about 500 years. The Aryans when they arrived were illiterate, their culture and legends were passed along orally, they basically borrowed writting from the races that were already present in India when they arrived.

however, for me, much more reading is neccessary. I shall have a proper conversation about this when i learn more.

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:05 am

No, Mark. I have not done any research on the guy, and I know nothing about him. May be my judgement is clouded where westerners' writings about India are concerned because, frankly speaking, save for Mark Tully and Dominique Lapierre, they have not given me any reason to think otherwise.

by **mark** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:13 am

Lucifer wrote:No, Mark. I have not done any research on the guy, and I know nothing about him. May be my judgement is clouded where westerners' writings about India are concerned because, frankly speaking, save for Mark Tully and Dominique Lapierre, they have not given me any reason to think otherwise.

well this guy thinks the sun shines out of India's ass, and who am i to disagree with him? I will definately have to expand my readings on your history and historic texts, however this was recommended to me by an Indian who has a love of his countries history. It assumes no familiarity with Vedic texts, Puranas, etc, so it seemed like a good introduction for a firang (i.e one written by another firang). Often people with a distance from your culture have the greatest insights to it.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:51 pm

mark, cud u gimme the name of the author too...i'd like to get my hands on it...

the idea of backward aryans gives me a kick! :lol:

by **rock_26iin** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:24 pm

Just finished "Like A Hole In The Head' by James Hadley Chase. Nice book.

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:22 pm

rock_26iin wrote:Just finished "Like A Hole In The Head' by James Hadley Chase. Nice book.

Love James Hadley Chase. This guy and Erle Stanley Gardner might not have written classy stuff but every bookreader just has to read a few of their works. Their stuff is fast-paced, and usually the story wraps up in a couple of days.

PS: CAD, you don't have to flaunt your descendence. :roll:

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:58 pm

Lucifer wrote:Love James Hadley Chase. This guy and Erle Stanley Gardner might not have written classy stuff but every bookreader just has to read a few of their works. Their stuff is fast-paced, and usually the story wraps up in a couple of days.

...i love Chase's books too..tho never got around to reading much of Perry Mason's adventures.

Lucifer wrote:PS: CAD, you don't have to flaunt your descendence.

:? my what?

by **Lucifer** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:12 pm

CtrlAltDel wrote:
Lucifer wrote:PS: CAD, you don't have to flaunt your descendence.
:? my what?

Sorry... My bad. That was supposed to be ancestral descent. My head is totally messed up today.

by **CtrlAltDel** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:39 pm

Lucifer wrote:That was supposed to be ancestral descent.

:lol: did i seem to flaunt it? i am not of pure Dravidian descent anyway

by **klark** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:57 pm

Clearly lots of book lovers here. Here are two links for lovers of classics:

http://www.gutenberg.org

http://www.bibliomania.com

by **The Jackal** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:21 am

Just finished The Fourth Protocol by Fredrick Forsyth and all I can say is wow!!!!!Fredrick Forsyth is the god of all espionage authors.

by **Alexis** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:21 am

CtrlAltDel wrote:
The Scorpion's Sting wrote:
CtrlAltDel wrote:did u read her novels: Starry nights, socialite evenings etc etc...?
Have u?
yes

I have too!

Don't people read anymore?

Do people still read?

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