Ponniyin Selvan Varalaatru Peravai

Hi Guys,
I’m new to this group
If any of you have historical novels other than PS, SS
and PK (As I have them already), Please send them to
me

Thanks in Advance
Jai

I go with SPS
Godfather…
PS…

ofcourse Venkat Robert frosts two roads and I am a living example of how taking the less treaded path makes a difference
Sri

Dear all ,bAfter a very long time want to share some book reviews and see what others had to say. During my 10 day whirlwind trip to India got to catch up on lot of reading, some interesting books

Indira Soundarrajan’s Kottaipurathu veedu and Vikrama Vikrama – very interesting fast paced novels. Kottaipurathu veedu is regular masala story but is well paced and interesting. Vikrama Vikrama fascinating story of reincarnation, somewhat cliched but difficult subject handled well.

English – People of the book by Geraldin Brooks, fascinating tale of an old jewish book’s travails through history. Must read for all history fiction lovers.

Some re reads -
Na Pa’s Kurinji Malar – again what an impressive tale and despite some typical stereotyped views which are considering the times it was written it is hugely inspiring, wonder anyone else has read it?

Sivasankari’s Nandu – wanted to throw the book away. Have vague memories of the story while i was in 6th or 7th grade of a suffering cancer patient and her travails, upon reading again not sure what the author’s motive was, it neither inspires nor is an honest story (full of cliches).

Waiting to hear other people’s book stories.

Malathi

Anyone read ‘A Toss of a Lemon’ by Padma Vishwanathan?
I’d love to know how accurate it seemed, from the view-point
of our more enlightened readers.
I found it very moving, but also very sad in its
depiction of a Brahmin widow’s extremely restricted life.
Kathie

Dear Rangarajan

It is written by Mohini (a) RA.KI. Rangarajan. Published by Vanathi. At present no stock. It’s under reprinting. It will be available for the CBF 2010.

Venkat sir,

The Lost Symbol was real let down. I pre ordered the book and it the plot was very week with glaring holes all through the book and half way through reading i guessed the identity of the villan. This one stands no where near Angels and Demons or The Davinci Code

— In [email protected], “sps10142004″ wrote:
>
> Excellent.
>
> I too recall Kancheepurathan ~ !~
>
> thanks dear Narasimhan and Sundar.
>
> regards / sps
>
> ===========
>
> — In [email protected], “SUNDARKRISHNAN” wrote:
> >
> > Dear Rangarajan
> >
> > It is written by Mohini (a) RA.KI. Rangarajan. Published by Vanathi. At present no stock. It’s under reprinting. It will be available for the CBF 2010.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> >
> > K. Sundar
> >
> > — In [email protected], p narasimhan wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all ,speaking of books I was able to obtain some Tamil books from the
> > > Milipitas Library near Sunnyvale.The Library has a section for
> > > international languages and 4 rows for tamil books.`Managed to pick up
> > > Su,Samudrams Sotru Pattalam (well written ,was he a well known writer of
> > > the 70s)also Kalki’s short stories –some of it lwere real gems but’
> > > ‘why did he ever write “Rangoon mappilai” and “Kailasam Iyer gabra”.Also
> > > picked up Ganga Ramamoorthy’s Uravugal Thodarkathai–it is a copy of
> > > Maharishis( late 60′s writer) story written in Ananda Vikatan or Kalki. Yes
> > > malathi–nandu was a real tearjerker . If iremembe r it was made into
> > > amovie and a very depressing one too.
> > > While on the subject of books can somebody remember a historical novel
> > > titled ‘Adimain Kadhal’(serialised in Kumudam in the late 60′s set in early
> > > 1900′s).The hero was referred as Kanchipurathan throughout the book.Has
> > > Sundar Krishnan heard of this book?–Regards,P Narasimhan.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Katherine Brobeck
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyone read ‘A Toss of a Lemon’ by Padma Vishwanathan?
> > > > I’d love to know how accurate it seemed, from the view-point
> > > > of our more enlightened readers.
> > > > I found it very moving, but also very sad in its
> > > > depiction of a Brahmin widow’s extremely restricted life.
> > > > Kathie
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Malathi M wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear all ,bAfter a very long time want to share some book reviews and
> > > > see what others had to say. During my 10 day whirlwind trip to India got to
> > > > catch up on lot of reading, some interesting books
> > > >
> > > > Indira Soundarrajan’s Kottaipurathu veedu and Vikrama Vikrama – very
> > > > interesting fast paced novels. Kottaipurathu veedu is regular masala story
> > > > but is well paced and interesting. Vikrama Vikrama fascinating story of
> > > > reincarnation, somewhat cliched but difficult subject handled well.
> > > >
> > > > English – People of the book by Geraldin Brooks, fascinating tale of an old
> > > > jewish book’s travails through history. Must read for all history fiction
> > > > lovers.
> > > >
> > > > Some re reads -
> > > > Na Pa’s Kurinji Malar – again what an impressive tale and despite some
> > > > typical stereotyped views which are considering the times it was written it
> > > > is hugely inspiring, wonder anyone else has read it?
> > > >
> > > > Sivasankari’s Nandu – wanted to throw the book away. Have vague memories of
> > > > the story while i was in 6th or 7th grade of a suffering cancer patient and
> > > > her travails, upon reading again not sure what the author’s motive was, it
> > > > neither inspires nor is an honest story (full of cliches).
> > > >
> > > > Waiting to hear other people’s book stories.
> > > >
> > > > Malathi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>kurinji malar is one of my favourites.quoting lines from various literary works in the beginning of every chapter is nice.