Book review: 59 seconds: Think a little change a lot!

I read thinking fast thinking slow, it was heavy and slow moving. This book uses a lot of the learning from the book and several others and winds it into practical wisdom that you can use

A book that could change a lot after you read it.

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Book: Read: Anything you want : Derek Sivers

A book of good influence, especially if you plan to start something on your own.
 

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Read: The Four Agreements

ok book.

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Book review: Secret of the Nagas

Contrary to what I read, this book does not get boring (which is usual of Part 2s - This is a sequel to the Immortals of Meluha). I found that he had taken it quite nicely to a closure. Overall a worthy read (especially for a person reading it a long time)

I am eager to complete the Shiva Trilogy with the third book by Amish Tripathi

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Book review: The immortals of Meluha

Immortals of Meluha is a nice historical concept book - Woven Indian history and fiction . Gripping and worth a read.
This is my second ebook. Have a strange feeling with better ink, lower backlight I will switch to digital books.

Could have built a more complex web of characters and story - rather shallow and unable to sustain the next book (like Asterix or Hobbit)

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Read: Angels and Demons: My review

The first book (or rather 2nd) by Dan Brown book Davinci Code was great. Angels and Demons was good to start with but became cliche and somewhere down the book , he did not know how to end the story.
Also, I feel that his SEO guru must have told him to start a controversy so that people will buy the book - he brings in vatican and exploits key people to get some publicity (but ahem.... it fizzles out). Acceptable except for the last few chapters.

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Read: Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely: Behavioral Economics

Nice book - I find that the experiments were interesting and a lot of predictable irrational human behavior is explained. However, the ending was rather abrupt and even the summary hurried and unlinked - I am left feeling a little directionless with all the facts and figures. Dan Ariely is a trained economist and the linking up economics and behaviour is coming up pretty well. I heard theres a book by Kahnemanthats similar too.

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Read: Colossal loss of Commonsense

Incidentally, this is the book I think DMK leadership should read too. Kind- of apt.

COLOSSAL LOSS OF COMMONSENSE: The inside story of the failure of Lehman brothers



A miracle that no one questioned the leadership about the family activities at the expense of the party

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Part 2 : Checklist manifesto If you do read it, watch these videos too

If you read the book Checklist manifesto, do see these 2 videos

HOW NOT TO USE A CHECKLIST -


HOW TO USE A CHECKLIST -





My review of the book: Part 1

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Read: Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Amazing book - definitely worth reading and making it part of your daily work. Its one of those thought changing books.I am still pondering over which of my problems to apply.

The book argues about the simplicity and effectiveness of a checklist - especially to specialist fields and intelligent men and women, who loathe a process!

The book argues about the simplicity and effectiveness of a checklist - especially to specialist fields and intelligent men and women, who loathe a process!

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Read: Clue of the silken ladder - Penny Parker Mysteries - Mildred A Wirt

Reading this for the first time - though I have read Nancy Drew earlier - which is also by the same author

I was so surprised that this book is of 1941 Vintage and still interesting. Its out of copyright and is available in Project Gutenberg for free

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Book: Mahabharata by Rajagopalachari

First time I seem to have enjoyed and read the Mahabharata by Rajagopalachari - what a story teller!!!

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Now reading: The tent by Margaret Atwood

Read: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

White Tiger: Aravind Adiga - Winner of Man Booker Prize 2008

Now reading: Fooled by randomness