Got this book gifted to me by Mark Jareo when he was visiting. He was intrigued when he saw a Tolkien book on my desk and I told him that I read Eric Van Lustbader’s fantasy stuff Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time.

Mark introduced GRRM as one of the best fantasy writers around today. This was later supported by Mike when I talked to him a few months later. The book lay in my bag ofr a few days while I went on a reading spree and finished the 10 books that comprised the Wheel of time series at that time. When I turned my attention to this book, I was first turned off by the fact that it all sounded so ordinary. There were hints of fantastic things happening someplace, but the entire narrative centred around a household that although royal seemed to be very “ordinary”. I plodded on regardless and got engrossed in the story about the Stark family and their brood of Direwolves. GRRM’s uses first person story-telling technicques to give us an insight into all that goes on. I ended up buying the remaining two books that were available in India at that time and am eagerly waiting for “A Feast for Crows” to be available in bookshops in India. (Believe it or not! Books are much much cheaper in India!)

I have shied away from economics all of my life. I am not ashamed to say that I relaized that economics is not all Math and figures after reading this book. Something that had me go “hmmm” was the whole “incentive” idea. The fact that people behave the way they do because if the implicit incentives in behaving that way.

A good book on analyzing human behaviour using data. I should say that I agree with Maggie here that the common theme seemed to me the “Oh, you know what? You are wrong!” thing throughout the book. Especially the excerpts from the NY Times that glorify Levitt.

Just bought it and intend to read to get a clearer understadning of my work. Me coming from a non-technical educational background makes me want to learn more about the basics so that I do a good job!

Part of the large book titled Bullfinch’s mythology

Plan to read this to get a good grounding in the theory behind programming.

One of my all-time favorite authors and one of his best books.

another from my favorite

another from my favorite author

one of the robot series, one of my favorites

Its wonderful story about a modern Indian youth caught in the hinterland living out a life that he nevr thought he could. Very toungue-in-cheek look at the indian psyche.