tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post111777639858540858..comments2024-03-18T19:46:10.130+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Book tagJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-12244906601744176392007-05-23T13:47:00.000+05:302007-05-23T13:47:00.000+05:30Sorry Jai,Sincere apologies for the use of that wo...Sorry Jai,<BR/><BR/>Sincere apologies for the use of that word written quickly while working in office as I came across your post.Please do not take it personally ,just a difference of opinion since I am not one of those admirers of "Shame". I can understand your shock and please take it as an apology from my side.Shwet Awasthihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04707072898697709519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-38223314213975117392007-05-04T16:19:00.000+05:302007-05-04T16:19:00.000+05:30Shwet: just curious, do you refer to everyone you ...Shwet: just curious, do you refer to everyone you have a difference of opinion with as "mad"? Can't be many sane people left in your world then...Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-73646783297351693522007-05-04T16:09:00.000+05:302007-05-04T16:09:00.000+05:30Are you mad , how can a sensible man like you like...Are you mad , how can a sensible man like you like Salman Rushdie's Shame , which to me was pathetic and miles away from Midnight's Children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1135341519872669422005-12-23T18:08:00.000+05:302005-12-23T18:08:00.000+05:30I love P.G. Wodehouse and I bought 7 of them for R...I love P.G. Wodehouse and I bought 7 of them for Rs 350 at www.secondhandbooksindia.com Most of them currently not available at big bookshops . I guess I finished of the lot at this site .. but they keep adding more copies.. Yum!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118425644865387702005-06-10T23:17:00.000+05:302005-06-10T23:17:00.000+05:30Hi...how do I tag someone ? Just post a link on m...Hi...how do I tag someone ? Just post a link on my post and expect the person to read ? mail ? comment on their site ?Dipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05194061978226080268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118054340375918962005-06-06T16:09:00.000+05:302005-06-06T16:09:00.000+05:30and (with the danger that this might be self defea...and (with the danger that this might be self defeating), JRRT did not publish the Silmarillion because he could not sell it as an idea, especially once The Hobbit, and LOTR's first part, were out there.<BR/>Secondly, peerfectionist that he was when it came to linguistics and the accuracy of his creations, he was never fully satisfied with the consistency (or lack thereof) in what was eventually to be his Silmarillion content..https://www.blogger.com/profile/18121509578040313400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118054142526738862005-06-06T16:05:00.000+05:302005-06-06T16:05:00.000+05:30O JAPjiI am most happy for someone to appreciate t...O JAP<I>ji</I><BR/>I am most happy for someone to appreciate the Hobbit enough to say that the Silmarillion is nothing in front of it, but turgid? <I>turgid</I>? <BR/><BR/>The only thing excessive about the book is the grandeur of his creation. Which is why even if it cannot be considered a great <I>story</I> (for it is not one actually, but a collection of many), it is still part of a vast mythic creation that I, for one, cannot help but be in awe of.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I suppose, I can see how someone mught be bored (<I>oh, my word!</I>) by it-if not sufficiently sucked in by the allusions in the other books, notably LOTR- but I am afraid my loyalties still push me to <B>arch my eyebrows</B> in consternation when it is described as...(shudder shudder) <I>turgid</I>.<BR/><BR/>Yours, etc....https://www.blogger.com/profile/18121509578040313400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118053853370044512005-06-06T16:00:00.000+05:302005-06-06T16:00:00.000+05:30Your list is superb and quite classic. Am yet to m...Your list is superb and quite classic. Am yet to make one and seems like quite a daunting task. Have always hated picking favourites... :)<BR/><BR/>Enid blyton is a favourite of mine and even carolyn keen (tho don't know if i should admit this on a public space:))<BR/><BR/>Btw don't know how much of a music fan are you but have tagged you for a similar exercise on songs/music.Janakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06068622582534965333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118040118349604872005-06-06T12:11:00.000+05:302005-06-06T12:11:00.000+05:30Hail to thee noble JAP!Partly it's because I tend ...Hail to thee noble JAP!<BR/>Partly it's because I tend to have a fondness for the 'underdog books' - hence Silmarillion over Hobbit and LOTR, Shame over Midnight's Children etc. But also, I'm endlessly fascinated by the insights the Silmarillion provides into Tolkien's long, often tortured writing career: how, even while writing The Hobbit and LOTR as independent works, he managed to locate them in the same world as the mythical stories he had written decades earlier - which Christopher Tolkien would later collate and publish as The Silmarilion.<BR/><BR/>In a sense, I think of "The Silmarillion" not as the published work by that name but as the sum of Tolkien's mythical world - everything he ever wrote and imagined.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118039190331514112005-06-06T11:56:00.000+05:302005-06-06T11:56:00.000+05:30Jai, poor old Auntie Enid is oft-betrayed. We are ...Jai, poor old Auntie Enid is oft-betrayed. We are weaned on her work, starting from the Noddy series and ending with the Five Find-Outers, and then we sneer at her when we're Grown-Up. Kudos to you and Ani the Gamesmaster for paying tribute.<BR/><BR/>But HOW COULD YOU PREFER THE TURGID SILMARILLION TO THE HOBBIT? Sorry for shouting, but the latter is craft. The S is self-indulgent. Wasn't it published posthumously because JRRT didn't want to publish it himslef?<BR/><BR/>J.A.P.J. Alfred Prufrockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446127543417759542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1118033954721343872005-06-06T10:29:00.000+05:302005-06-06T10:29:00.000+05:30I've read Carpenter's Tokien biography, but no oth...I've read Carpenter's Tokien biography, but no other...? Also, The Letters of Tokien, too, make very interesting reading..https://www.blogger.com/profile/18121509578040313400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117912916165156312005-06-05T00:51:00.000+05:302005-06-05T00:51:00.000+05:30The Faraway Tree series was my favourite Enid Blyt...The Faraway Tree series was my favourite Enid Blyton series too. Not on <A HREF="http://mixedbag.blogspot.com/2005/06/i-have-been-tagged.html" REL="nofollow">my list</A>, though.Nikhil Pahwahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03693281110830585801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117872475236245672005-06-04T13:37:00.000+05:302005-06-04T13:37:00.000+05:30Books You Couldn't Finish Reading/Most Unreadable ...Books You Couldn't Finish Reading/Most Unreadable Thing You've Read:<BR/><A HREF="http://indianwriting.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Uma of Indianwriting</A> suggested <A HREF="http://indianwriting.blogspot.com/2005/06/book-tagged-in-bombay.html" REL="nofollow">"the one book you couldn't finish reading?/the most unreadable thing you've read?"</A> She had tagged <A HREF="http://locana.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">Anand of Locana</A> who added it to his meme.<BR/><A HREF="http://inkscrawl.blogspot.com/2005/06/books-you-couldnt-finish-reading.html" REL="nofollow">Here are mine.</A>mandar talvekarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060905096456474640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117870854702658012005-06-04T13:10:00.000+05:302005-06-04T13:10:00.000+05:30"I can't believe, this guy is a celebrated Op-Ed c..."I can't believe, this guy is a celebrated Op-Ed columnist for NYT on foreign affairs."<BR/><BR/>Suhail, why's that so hard to believe? I mean, look at the BUmbling SHmuck who's President of the US of A!Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117864383783689852005-06-04T11:23:00.000+05:302005-06-04T11:23:00.000+05:30Whaa !!... bachaaooo... get my earthship Hobbes. I...Whaa !!... bachaaooo... get my earthship Hobbes. I want to *en-rectangle* the perimeter of this flat FLAT world.<BR/><BR/>I can't believe, this guy is a celebrated Op-Ed columnist for NYT on foreign affairs.Suhailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07003909838593766176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117828199435854212005-06-04T01:19:00.000+05:302005-06-04T01:19:00.000+05:30Chaakyar: WOW! Can't tell you how far and wide I'v...Chaakyar: WOW! Can't tell you how far and wide I've searched for volumes 1 and 2. Can't believe I've actually come across someone who has one of them.<BR/>Where do you live? And is your house adequately protected against break-ins?<BR/><BR/>Papamali, thanks. But Suhail, dude, you really SHOULD read it, it's hilarious. In particular, I loved this bit near the end:<BR/><BR/>"The flattening of the world...has presented us with new opportunities, new challenges...particularly as Americans. It is imperative that we be the best global citizens that we can be - because in a flat world, if you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you."<BR/><BR/>Priceless, as good as any Bushism I've ever read.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117819388001082112005-06-03T22:53:00.000+05:302005-06-03T22:53:00.000+05:30I had no idea who was this Friedman, until I read ...I had no idea who was this Friedman, until I read this <A HREF="http://www.nypress.com/18/16/news&columns/taibbi.cfm" REL="nofollow">hilarious, scathing review</A> on his "World is Flat" by Matt Taibbi (another great find). And boye, what a review it is...I am now sure as Hell, I am not going to read that book.Suhailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07003909838593766176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117792873750804112005-06-03T15:31:00.000+05:302005-06-03T15:31:00.000+05:30Cult Movies 3! Damn. I've been searching for Vols ...Cult Movies 3! Damn. I've been searching for Vols 2 and 3 for quite a while now. Vol 1 (which I own) was quite an eye opener.<BR/><BR/>The Unconsoled is another favourite of mine. I starting reading it because I had enjoyed The Remains of the Day. This turned out to be amazingly different.<BR/><BR/>Nice post, by the way.Madhavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13055110355159071668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117791347762986962005-06-03T15:05:00.000+05:302005-06-03T15:05:00.000+05:30Hi Mandar,Thanks, and yes, isn't it good to see th...Hi Mandar,<BR/>Thanks, and yes, isn't it good to see the Faraway Tree on other lists - here's another one btw:<BR/>http://baghaescup.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>Vague: You have a point there about Silmarillion getting its first-read pleasure from the LOTR allusions. Don’t think I could have enjoyed it the same way as a self-contained story.<BR/>Do read some Tolkien biographies,if you haven’t already. It gives one fascinating insights into how in one sense The Silmarillion was really his life’s work - the Beren and Luthien story was the first major thing he wrote, during WWI, and he continued revising his notes right up to the time he died - nearly 60 years!Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117779957929227992005-06-03T11:55:00.000+05:302005-06-03T11:55:00.000+05:30Ah, Kamala Subramanium's story telling of the Maha...Ah, Kamala Subramanium's story telling of the Mahabharata will always hold a special place in my heart. I read it around when I was 10, as well. It was a 'summer vacation book', and I would read it every year! Fantastic stuff, draws you in, and aptly called 'sentimental'.<BR/><BR/>And I will some how always rate LOTR over The Silmarillion as well-maybe partly owing again to sentimentality, but also because I think Silmarillion derives a lot of its first-read pleasure from the discoveries of the truth behind allusions made in the Lord of the Rings and its appendices. The Silmarillion brings home how truly breathtaking is the scope of his creation, but as a story I do believe LOTR surpasses it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1117778398125474432005-06-03T11:29:00.000+05:302005-06-03T11:29:00.000+05:30hi,a wonderful list of books. I picked up Yazad's...hi,<BR/>a wonderful list of books. I picked up Yazad's invitation "All are welcome" he said and so I posted mine here: <A HREF="http://inkscrawl.blogspot.com/2005/06/tagging-books.html" REL="nofollow">Tagging books.</A><BR/>Great to see that you mentioned "The Enchanted Wood" and "The Faraway Tree." While I was composing my list, I debated quite a bit with myself on whether i should include "The Faraway Tree" in my list -- it being the first "book" that I read and is therefore special to me. And isn't it amazing how Enid Blyton is such a wonderful read even now when you are grown up and all? I remember a few months back one of my colleagues in office got this set of Secret seven, five find-outers and Famous Five -- and had a huge queue of people waiting to borrow the books.<BR/>Keep posting, needless to say -- I love your posts.mandar talvekarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17060905096456474640noreply@blogger.com