I was given a copy of The Guy in the Glass when i was in my 8th grade. It was a huge influence on me. Even today i do not remember who gave it to me,but i still carry the same copy of the poem in my wallet. I admit i am not a big fan of poetry, but i love these three poems.
1. The Charge of the
Light Brigade By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. The Road
Not Taken By Robert Frost
3. The Guy in the
Glass By Dale Wimbrow
I love reading books, watching movies, listening to music on radio.
I come across a lot of brilliant quotes
through various mediums, and it makes me wonder about the wisdom of people who said it.
Even though my reading is mostly newspaper, i am not exactly a news junkie.
Thanks to websites like news.google.com
life for news junkies has become much easier. I also manage to read books mostly when i am on metro.
The to read list as always is way far ahead than the done list.
My reading list so far...
| Y2007 | |
| The Inheritance of Loss | By Kiran Desai |
| The Road Ahead | By Bill Gates |
| Kim | By Rudyard Kipling |
| Y2006 | |
| Shantaram | By Gregory David Roberts |
| The Caine Mutiny | By Herman Wouk |
| The Da Vinci Code | By Dan Brown |
| Queen of Dreams | By Chitra Divakaruni |
| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | By Robin Sharma |
| By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept | By Paulo Coelho |
| Y2005 | |
| Jack: Straight from the Gut | By Jack Welch |
| The Art of Deception | By Kevin D. Mitnick |
| Being Logical | By D.Q. Mcinerny |
| The Elegant Universe | By Brian Greene |
| A House for Mr. Biswas | By V.S. Naipaul |
| The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan | By Robert Kanigel |
| Y2004 | |
| The Tin Drum | By Gunter Grass |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | By Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| Marjorie Morningstar | By Herman Wouk |
| The Tao of Physics | By Fritjof Capra |
| Life: A User's Manual | By Georges Perec |
| Train to Pakistan | By Khushwant Singh |
| Y2003 | |
| Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals | By Robert M. Pirsig |
| 1984 | By George Orwell |
| Animal Farm | By George Orwell |
| The Buddha and the Sahibs | By Charles Allen |
| Beyond a Boundary | By C.L.R. James |
| The Great Gatsby | By F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Age of Reason | By Thomas Paine |
| The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science | By Paul Krugman |
| The Old Man and the Sea | By Ernest Hemingway |
| Life of Pi | By Yann Martel |
| A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper | By John Allen Paulos |
| The Satanic Verses | By Salman Rushdie |
| Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death | By Jr. Kurt Vonnegut |
| Cat's Cradle | By Jr. Kurt Vonnegut |
| Beyond the Last Blue Mountain | By R.M.Lala |
| To the Lighthouse | By Virginia Woolf |
| The Anti-Christ | By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe | By Amir D. Aczel |
| Y2002 | |
| The Metamorphosis | By Franz Kafka |
| Lady Chatterly's Lover | By D. H. Lawrence |
| Of Human Bondage | By W. Somerset Maugham |
| Brave New World | By Aldous Huxley |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values | By Robert M. Pirsig |
| The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream | By Paulo Coelho |
| A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man | By James Joyce |
| Siddhartha: An Indian Tale | By Hermann Hesse |
| Mutant Message Down Under | By Marlo Morgan |