Comments on: An Equal Music: Book Review http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/ ...reason and emotion, shaken and stirred... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:49:56 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mahendra http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2080 Mahendra Thu, 07 May 2009 16:15:20 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2080 Oops! How did I think he would use your alias? Silly me. :-) Nope, I haven't read much science fiction. Something to think about. Thanks. Oops! How did I think he would use your alias? Silly me. :-)

Nope, I haven’t read much science fiction. Something to think about. Thanks.

]]> By: Dottie http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2079 Dottie Wed, 06 May 2009 15:32:25 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2079 lol. I like sci-fi, although I think Asimov is more futuristic fiction! Clarke is more my style. oh and BigGeek won't comment under my moniker :) lol. I like sci-fi, although I think Asimov is more futuristic fiction! Clarke is more my style. oh and BigGeek won’t comment under my moniker :)

]]> By: Mahendra http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2078 Mahendra Wed, 06 May 2009 03:31:55 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2078 Shefaly, please do not refer to Hindi as the H-word, at least on my blog. All languages are sacred. Language is the expression of man's conceptual faculties, which make us human and unique. I assure you that no one disrespecting any language will be tolerated on my blog. I liked 'Ek Suyogya Var' better, but I do not know anything about the book. Is it because you are an unmarried female that just thinking of 'Koi Achchha Sa Ladka' makes you want to read the book again? :-) Just kidding. Hats off to you if your appetite of Hindi is as voracious as English! Shefaly, please do not refer to Hindi as the H-word, at least on my blog. All languages are sacred. Language is the expression of man’s conceptual faculties, which make us human and unique. I assure you that no one disrespecting any language will be tolerated on my blog.

I liked ‘Ek Suyogya Var’ better, but I do not know anything about the book. Is it because you are an unmarried female that just thinking of ‘Koi Achchha Sa Ladka’ makes you want to read the book again? :-) Just kidding.

Hats off to you if your appetite of Hindi is as voracious as English!

]]> By: Mahendra http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2077 Mahendra Wed, 06 May 2009 03:25:40 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2077 Somehow I have never been in a book exchange situation. I'm too possessive of my books and lend them only to very close friends. Yet I have lost dozens of books that were lent and never returned. I'm moving out of Shelfari. I now have my bookshelf as an XLS with ISBN details so that I should be able to upload to any site. Let me finalize on a good book site. Your recommendations and comments would be very valuable, and I prefer using an online site for them, so that not just me, but many others will benefit! :-) Somehow I have never been in a book exchange situation. I’m too possessive of my books and lend them only to very close friends. Yet I have lost dozens of books that were lent and never returned.

I’m moving out of Shelfari. I now have my bookshelf as an XLS with ISBN details so that I should be able to upload to any site. Let me finalize on a good book site. Your recommendations and comments would be very valuable, and I prefer using an online site for them, so that not just me, but many others will benefit! :-)

]]> By: Mahendra http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2076 Mahendra Wed, 06 May 2009 03:22:03 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2076 Hmmm...somehow, I've never read Catch 22. With most of the books that take the world by storm and everyone seems to be reading it, I'm usually late to the party. On the other hand, sometimes I've bought and read books much before they became well-known, like A Brief History of Time. Reading while traveling does pose its own challenges. I too would not read serious non-fiction on the go. Hmmm…somehow, I’ve never read Catch 22. With most of the books that take the world by storm and everyone seems to be reading it, I’m usually late to the party. On the other hand, sometimes I’ve bought and read books much before they became well-known, like A Brief History of Time.

Reading while traveling does pose its own challenges. I too would not read serious non-fiction on the go.

]]> By: Mahendra http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2075 Mahendra Wed, 06 May 2009 03:18:34 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2075 Given that music is not your prime concern you may give this a pass. Speaking for myself, I never give up these rare opportunity to listen to music and at the same time learn from someone's insightful commentary on it... Given that music is not your prime concern you may give this a pass. Speaking for myself, I never give up these rare opportunity to listen to music and at the same time learn from someone’s insightful commentary on it…

]]> By: Anand http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2074 Anand Tue, 05 May 2009 18:41:30 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2074 I buy lots of book at one time and then read them over time. That way I never run out of reading material. I pick up at least 10-12 books during every India trip. So to answer your question, one of these books was collected over time and I ended up reading it when I was travelling. Of the other two, I swapped one with a fellow traveler (great minds think alike and travel and read random books) and picked up the other one at a book exchange (great minds don't always meet face to face, but at times communicate through book exchanges) ;) If you want I can send you an email with book recommendations and then nag you to respond in kind :) I buy lots of book at one time and then read them over time. That way I never run out of reading material. I pick up at least 10-12 books during every India trip.

So to answer your question, one of these books was collected over time and I ended up reading it when I was travelling. Of the other two, I swapped one with a fellow traveler (great minds think alike and travel and read random books) and picked up the other one at a book exchange (great minds don’t always meet face to face, but at times communicate through book exchanges) ;)

If you want I can send you an email with book recommendations and then nag you to respond in kind :)

]]> By: Poonam http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2108 Poonam Tue, 05 May 2009 06:44:58 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2108 I rarely give up reading a book midway. If I do, even bhulakkad person like me remembers that. One book I came close to giving up recently (last year actually) was Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. It was as if I had already picked up all points that emerged from Heller's dark humor, and I found it repititive. That's one calsic I couldn't enjoy. But I persisted. I am not only a fiction lover, I do read non-fiction. Since my reading is squeezed into travlling, I take to reading stories rather than some serious stuff that I want to read with contemplation. But I am always interested in non-fiction barring self-help books, which I loathe. I rarely give up reading a book midway. If I do, even bhulakkad person like me remembers that.

One book I came close to giving up recently (last year actually) was Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. It was as if I had already picked up all points that emerged from Heller’s dark humor, and I found it repititive. That’s one calsic I couldn’t enjoy. But I persisted.

I am not only a fiction lover, I do read non-fiction. Since my reading is squeezed into travlling, I take to reading stories rather than some serious stuff that I want to read with contemplation. But I am always interested in non-fiction barring self-help books, which I loathe.

]]> By: Poonam http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2109 Poonam Tue, 05 May 2009 06:40:33 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2109 Yes, I am aware of the CD. :) Unfortunately, when someone returned me the book, CD was missing. However,I must confess that I didn't fret much and soon forgot about it until now, since music is usually not my prime concern. But if you insist, it shouldn't be hard to find it. There's always the British Council library where the book (with CD) is omnipresent. Yes, I am aware of the CD. :) Unfortunately, when someone returned me the book, CD was missing. However,I must confess that I didn’t fret much and soon forgot about it until now, since music is usually not my prime concern. But if you insist, it shouldn’t be hard to find it. There’s always the British Council library where the book (with CD) is omnipresent.

]]> By: Shefaly http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2107 Shefaly Tue, 05 May 2009 06:23:28 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2009/05/02/an-equal-music-book-review/#comment-2107 Mahendra: I am not sure if I should mention the H-word again or not but Seth's native language is Hindi. In London recently he shared the story about how the publishers of the Hindi version of A Suitable Boy suggested the title "Ek Suyogya Var" while Nasreen Munni Kabir suggested "Koi Achchha Sa Ladka" which naturally was a much better title and was adopted. I asked a friend to bring me a copy if she could find one. Just the name makes me want to read the whole epic again! Mahendra:

I am not sure if I should mention the H-word again or not but Seth’s native language is Hindi. In London recently he shared the story about how the publishers of the Hindi version of A Suitable Boy suggested the title “Ek Suyogya Var” while Nasreen Munni Kabir suggested “Koi Achchha Sa Ladka” which naturally was a much better title and was adopted. I asked a friend to bring me a copy if she could find one. Just the name makes me want to read the whole epic again!

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