I suggest:
Karl Marx: Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. I don't share Marx's 'solution' to the problems he discussed, but I really like his analysis and the way he thought.
Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. This book gives some kind of cool feeling. Hard to explain.
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I love this Bhagavat Gita book. It covers entire management and have learnt a lot of life lessons from it. It is also recommended by many top persons and considered as one of the best as well.
Another book which I happened to read as was gifted to me was Born to Win - Author is Mr Pramod Batra. This is a self-help book it is short book and really upto point. With relevant examples and easily one can connect to the book.
Another book which I happened to read as was gifted to me was Born to Win - Author is Mr Pramod Batra. This is a self-help book it is short book and really upto point. With relevant examples and easily one can connect to the book.
Yes, the Bhagavad Gita really is pretty special - I listened to an audiobook version while walking outdoors. Even though I have no previous knowledge of hinduism, the content seems to transcend religions.
I love this Bhagavat Gita book. It covers entire management and have learnt a lot of life lessons from it. It is also recommended by many top persons and considered as one of the best as well.
Another book which I happened to read as was gifted to me was Born to Win - Author is Mr Pramod Batra. This is a self-help book it is short book and really upto point. With relevant examples and easily one can connect to the book.
Another book which I happened to read as was gifted to me was Born to Win - Author is Mr Pramod Batra. This is a self-help book it is short book and really upto point. With relevant examples and easily one can connect to the book.
My favorite novels:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Nabakov is Russian, but his command of the English language is better than most native speakers.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The African-American experience in the U.S. aggregated into the life of a single person.
Deliverance by James Dickey
Better than the movie.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A WWII American bomber pilot wants to go home but he can't. Funny and sad at the same time
Also, any short stories by Ray Bradbury, most notably The Martian Chronicles.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Nabakov is Russian, but his command of the English language is better than most native speakers.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The African-American experience in the U.S. aggregated into the life of a single person.
Deliverance by James Dickey
Better than the movie.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A WWII American bomber pilot wants to go home but he can't. Funny and sad at the same time
Also, any short stories by Ray Bradbury, most notably The Martian Chronicles.
I recommend One Hundred Years of Solitude, originally written in the Spanish language, the book tells the story of 7 generations of the Buendía family, the book is not easy to read as the narrator is all powerful and goes back on time and can tell what the characters will do in the future or did in the past, however it is a great book.
Just a few suggestions try to keep track of the characters as most of them share the same names and avoid reading the ending until you get to that part as you could spoil yourself of a great experience.
Just a few suggestions try to keep track of the characters as most of them share the same names and avoid reading the ending until you get to that part as you could spoil yourself of a great experience.
If you have children who are now boring with staying at home because of Covid-19 or having no plan for summer holidays, I would like to suggest you free books from source: https://monkeypen.com/pages/free-childrens-books . I hope this can help your kids
I want to read some good books about philosophy, literature, fiction/non fiction,
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
I'm in need of a new book with a message like this - my favourite kind of reading, really - so I've just ordered it based on nothing but your recommendation. Thanks for this, I'll let you know how I get on with it. I love following spontaneous serendipities like this
Everything in your life that's is coming you're attracting consciously/subconsciously. Wherever you're in your life right now are attracted to you by virtue of past images you are holding in your mind. Humen is a transmission tower, and they transmit the frequency of their desire by thoughts. By changing thoughts, someone can change anything in his life.
I learned that life is nothing but the mirror of our dominant thoughts.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, is my all-time favorite book and must-read for everyone. You will learn to set up the inner intention and to set up goals, affirmation, and visualization techniques, which can improve the quality of life.
I learned that life is nothing but the mirror of our dominant thoughts.
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, is my all-time favorite book and must-read for everyone. You will learn to set up the inner intention and to set up goals, affirmation, and visualization techniques, which can improve the quality of life.
Have you been suggested to read Why You Act The Way You Do? By Francis Tim Lahaye. He is an American writer who wrote more than 85 books
The book will help you understand people more and different altitudes and temperament. You can search on google easily for it.
Is a nice book, more of philosophy and psychology. It has really helped many people including me.
Happy reading.
The book will help you understand people more and different altitudes and temperament. You can search on google easily for it.
Is a nice book, more of philosophy and psychology. It has really helped many people including me.
Happy reading.
I can recommend the following book, it really makes you think about how much it would affect all of us if there really was a wide range cyberattack on our power grid.
What I really like about the book, its realism. Its not just plain non background facts, he got the knowledge and facts from intelligence and computer security officials.
Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg.
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials
Plot (wikipedia)
What I really like about the book, its realism. Its not just plain non background facts, he got the knowledge and facts from intelligence and computer security officials.
Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg.
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials
Plot (wikipedia)
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The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster.[2][3] The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc.[3][4] A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. While doing so he himself becomes a hunted person as officials find suspicious e-mails sent from his laptop and think that he is involved.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire and is written by Edward Gibbon
I'll second this one as well. Truly excellent.
OP - and anyone else - if you're not aware of the site, Project Gutenberg has Gibbon's book plus thousands of other classics available for free.
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press was a revelation and kick-started the modern age; it is fantastic that this valuable repository is named after him.
I am a book guy myself so I can't just recommend one, so I am going to recommend you one from each category.
- Philosophy - do not have much knowledge with these books but any Carl Jung is recommended.
- Literature - I am just assuming that you mean classic literature so I will recommend you The Pearl by John Steinbeck, this one is a one-sitter novel, this is a tragic story of people getting all the attention all of the sudden.
- Fiction - the Animal Farm by George Orwell, this one takes the cake for me when it comes to power struggle in our society.
- Non-Fiction - this one will raise some eyebrows so disclaimer that I am in no way supporting the content, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, this one is crazy but I am recommending you this because it is a free look into the minds of a leader that moved people through propaganda, most of the book is a sob story about his struggles but all of it is just a propaganda to drive Germans at that time that they are fighting the right fight.
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
The book is all about strategies that you can use in real life.
I would limit the book description to that.
It's one of the few must read books.
The book is all about strategies that you can use in real life.
I would limit the book description to that.
It's one of the few must read books.
suggest any one book
I'm going to break the rule and suggest one fiction book and one factual, sorry!
For fiction, À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust. For years I avoided it through sheer stubbornness, as it is at the top of so many 'best book ever' lists. However, I did eventually relent. I have to admit this is the best novel (actually a series of seven) that I've ever read. I'm sure you've heard of it, it's been translated into many languages, and is often called Remembrance of Things Past, or In Search of Lost Time in English. Difficult to describe what it's about, although the nature of memory is a huge part of it. Proust has a perhaps unparalleled way of being able to describe a scene but then just drop through that to reveal the underlying reality. Definitely worth a look if you are interested in literature or just what it is to be a human amongst other humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
My top recommendation for a factual book is Capital in the Twenty First Century, by Thomas Piketty. This is simply the best book if you want to understand the current economic status of the world, and how we got here. It is all about wealth and income inequality, and the methods by which these are created and changed. It has been lauded by economists and public figures around the world, and it's full of data rather than relying on uncorroborated theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century
These are both quite heavyweight suggestions - happy to suggest something lighter if you'd prefer
Also I would second @KonstantinosM on A Clockwork Orange - that's a great book.
In the spirit of staying at home (sad face), I would suggest anyone read the Buru Quartet from Pramoedya Ananta Toer, a notable author from Indonesia. Here's the first book of the quartet: https://www.goodreads.com/es/book/show/301304.This_Earth_of_Mankind
This book brings you back to 19th century in a colonized Java and it's kinda based on a real story. One thing to expect from almost all of Pram's writing is that the story will probably makes you cry.
I would've suggested his other work, Arus Balik, but I can't seem to find if this one's been translated to other languages or not.
This book brings you back to 19th century in a colonized Java and it's kinda based on a real story. One thing to expect from almost all of Pram's writing is that the story will probably makes you cry.
I would've suggested his other work, Arus Balik, but I can't seem to find if this one's been translated to other languages or not.
I want to read some good books about philosophy, literature, fiction/non fiction,
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
A Clockwork Orange
It's not a very easy book to read, because it throws a language that you will not initially understand, however once you get past that it's a page turner. I guess the main point of the book is that a man with free will that is purely evil and violent is better than one who is brainwashed into being good. The evil man has a chance to change and grow but the brainwashed good man has nothing.
It's not a glorification of violence, like what people took away from watching Kubrick's excellent but warped adaptation.
I really am not doing it any justice here.
I want to read some good books about philosophy, literature, fiction/non fiction,
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
science fiction, history, religion etc. Therefore I urge learned members of this forum to suggest any one book which they consider top of their list and please give a brief frame of reference about the book in few words,like what should I keep in mind while reading that particular book and any other tips.
Book that I want to suggest is,
The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark
I think this book is pure nectar with beautiful message about life.
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