Showing posts with label classic books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic books. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Top Autobiography and Memoir books

Traditionally, memoirs usually dealt with public matters, rather than personal, and many older memoirs contain little or no information about the writer, and are almost entirely concerned with other people. Modern expectations have changed this, even for heads of government. Like most autobiographies, memoirs are generally written from the first person point of view.



1. The Confessions (Augustine) - Free Download
2. The Complete Essays (Michel de Montaigne) - Free Download
3. Meditations on First Philosophy (Rene Descartes)
4. Walden (Henry David Thoreau) - Free Download

Monday, December 8, 2008

TOP 10 SF Books to read before you die

After reading Ender's Game and loving it, I decided to make my top 10 SF books to read before I die. So here is my top:

1 Frank Herbert - Dune [S1] (1965)
2 Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game [S1] (1985)
3 Isaac Asimov - Foundation [S1-3] (1951)
4 Douglas Adams - Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy [S1] (1979)
5 George Orwell - 1984 (1949)
6 Robert A Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
7 Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 (1954)
8 Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
9 Isaac Asimov [C] - I, Robot (1950)
10 William Gibson - Neuromancer (1984)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

5 Classic Novels

Why classic books? Because they have stood the test of time. The second reason is they give you different “lenses” to look through. Most of them are relevant to our time and it's most likely to be relevant even to the far future. If you have the time to read these classic novels you, you will find an ideal way to expand your horizons and catch up on classics. So, without further announcements here are top 5 classic novels along with the Amazon links. I have chosen the cheapest ones I could find on Amazon:



1. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)


2. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)


3. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)


4. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)


5. The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)


Fix yourself a drink, get comfortable and Start Reading!

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