On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Andre Uratsuka Manoel <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Sriram Karra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > At 3.1m characters, some 560,000 words and 1,400 pages, it's tempting to > lie > > about having read War and Peace. After all, what are the chances the > target > > of your fib has ploughed through the Russian masterpiece themselves > > > > 4 Paulo Coelho books. > L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth and three or four books from his > Mission Earth series. > > But I read War and Peace. And liked it. Twice. > > Andre It's very funny that I never read Tamizh pulp fiction (I grew up in Kolkata but never read Bengali pulp fiction either...I did read a lot of excellent Bengali magazines like Sondesh which were very interesting and entertaining) ..but now that it has made it to the "respectable" list, I have borrowed the BLAFT anthology from a friend and am enjoying it very much! So...how would this be counted, I wonder! I read the *whole* of Gone With The Wind only about ten years ago.... earlier, the American conflict descriptions meant TPQ...Turn the Pages Quickly! Deepa.
