Friday, May 21, 2010

Plunderings of a bibliomaniac

I had promised that plundering would begin soon when I wrote this. A discount voucher to the new Landmark store in Phoenix Mills and some accumulated credit card points precipitated today's events, which have left my excesses from 2005 a little behind. So here goes...

  1. Hand of God (the life of Diego Maradona by Jimmy Burns)
  2. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
  3. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  4. The Map that Changed the World by Simon Winchester*
  5. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniel Mueenuddin**
  6. An Utter and Incomplete History of Classical Music by Stephen Fry***
  7. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  8. Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis****
  9. Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin Uncensored)
  10. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  11. Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
  12. Red Man Walking by Frank Worrall#
  13. Inverting the Pyramid## by Jonathan Wilson
  14. Stephen Fry in America
  15. Sometimes I forgot to laugh by Peter Roebuck
  16. Arth (a movie by Mahesh Bhatt)
  17. Ankur (a movie by Shyam Benegal)
  18. Saaransh (a movie by Mahesh Bhatt)
  19. Utpal Dutt comedy movie collection### (4 movies by Basu Chatterjee)
Now for some serious pleasure. If only one had summer holidays....hum bhi agar bacche hote...

* about William Smith and the birth of Modern Geology
** my 2nd book by a Pakistani author
*** a book I had read before, but had not possessed
**** The Led Zeppelin saga
# about Roy Keane
## the history of football tactics
### includes Shaukeen, Pasand Apni Apni, Lakhon ki baat, Baton Baton mein

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2 Comments:

Blogger Scout said...

i wonder.. why is buying a book by a pakistani author remarkable :)

5/21/2010 10:57 AM  
Blogger D said...

nothing remarkable abt it. just a footnote. i have just 2 books by paki authors although i have read 3...

of course i could have equally well bought say, chimamanda's book and written, my 2nd book by a nigerian author....

5/21/2010 11:18 AM  

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