Reading Wishlist

• Winning by Jack Welch (link)


• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman (link)


• Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner (link)


• Six Sigma for Dummies (link)


• Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind(link)


• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (link)


• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog : A History of the Software Industry (History of Computing) by Martin Campbell-Kelly (link)


• My Years With General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan (link)


• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (link)


• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (link)


• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (link)


• Quicksilver : Volume One of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (link)


• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (link)


• Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham (link)

Recently Read

• Catch 22 by Joseph L. Heller (link)


• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (link)


• The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert Hagstrom (link)


• Who Moved My Cheese

Summaries

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D.Salinger, 1951
This first-person account is a portrayal of a very cynical, bitter and disillusioned young American man. Its a quick read describing around 3 days in the life of Holden Caulfield. While reading the book, I felt transported into his world and underwent the similar mental anguish. Its disturbing, at times tiring, and very involving.

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the period after the Great War (World War I) in Long Island and New York City, this simple story is very succinctly and intelligently told. Fitzgerald has deftly brought out the contradictions and phantoms of the lives of well-to-do Americans in that era. The appeal of this story about un-successful love is timeless.