Thanks again to Soumya for this nomination. Standard rules but I will nominate some people for this, they just might accept, it’s a nice one to get
The questions
1) Who is/are your favorite author(s)?
Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Hardy, P.G. Wodehouse, Sadat Hasan Manto, Isaac Asimov, Humphrey Hawksley, Arthur Conan Doyle, the rest are poets
2) Book adaptations to movies or tv series?
Neither
3) A hyped series that you just couldn’t get yourself to love?
Many. Twilight, Shiva, shades of Grey
4) A book or series that you regret not reading?
There’s time yet
5) A character you wish was real?
Hobbes and Holmes
6) Ebooks or real books?
Real books. It’s almost a sensuous experience holding one in your hand.
7) A book/series you regret reading?
The science of god, Ms Thapar’s Ancient India
8) A classic you love?
Jude the Obscure. Tess o’ the D’urbervilles
9) An all time favorite?
Too many to name
10) A book everyone should read?
Again, too many. Shadows of Our Ancestors, The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene, Jude, Tess, The Mysterious Island, What If?, Democracy Kills, Genome, Indian Summer, Thanda Gosht (short story), Endless Forms Most Beautiful….I’ll never stop, so I will.
Nominations. I won’t spam your blog asking you that you’ve been selected like some online version of Reader’s Digest sweepstakes, but since most of you do visit my blog regularly, I hope you will read this and I’d like to know your answers to these questions.
1. Sabiscuit
2. Kritika
3. Priyanka (sorrrryyyyy!)
4. Victo
5. Tessa
6. Amy
7. Abyssbrain
Camus, Bashevis Singer, Tolstoy, so many. I agree with a lot of your choices. Ever see the movie “Hi Fidelity”?. Those record store guys have top ten lists and rankings for all of life’s experiences.
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Maybe I’ll start with listing and ranking life experiences… 😀
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We share a common interest towards Sherlock Holmes 😀
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🙂
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I’ll respond to this one later.
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I hope you do, I’d like to read your list. 🙂
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Maybe I’ll be able to post it on Saturday since I already have a post planned for Thursday.
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Any day, I always check your posts anyway. 🙂
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Congratulations 🙂
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Thanks Kritika, and I will be waiting for your reply. 🙂
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I so enjoy reading this one, Dr. Hb! 🙂 I’m inspired… will have two posts coming up about books. 🙂
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I hope you do. I’ll be waiting! 🙂
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I won’t have a list like you did, but the post(s) will be book-related. 🙂
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I didn’t even bother to read 50 shades of grey.
Thanks for answering! 🙂
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Neither did I, I didn’t read the twilight series either.
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I knew I’d like your reading list. Thanks for taking up the challenge. 🙂
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🙂
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