Saturday, July 23, 2005

booksh

I bought

- Congo by Michael Crichton
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

for one buck each. That's right, ladies and germs,
one prancing, antler-shaking ,umm,
buckskin-jacketed buck each and I
wanted to tell someone.

I try on my roomie first.But by the time I get
past the part where I explain that Jurassic
Park is not just a movie but also a book, and that
its author, a rather splendid chap called Michael Crichton
had written other books, one of them being this one
called Congo ..

What ? Gongo ? what is that


I give up. I'd rather teach origami to my pet bamboo.

On a different note, my yahoo radio is playing
Dire Straits - Six blade knife
Waves of cold-warm/blue-green nostalgia break
on me and transport back to a small green room back
in college where the 'The DUHs' ( as our music troupe
named themselves ) used to practise.

12 Comments:

Blogger Mrs. Dalloway said...

Your roomie isnt that bad! Remember the photographs....? Ah....

9:17 AM, July 23, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

beginner's luck !!

9:39 AM, July 23, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmmm...another book by Michael Crichton,huh? reminds me of the time when we went to B'lore to meet Addy..(n it also made me remember ur dude classmate who adviced us on not really bother taking warmer clothes for the trip to B'lore in Dec!,and in ur exact words,the dude who is very much capable of making a trip to Antartica wearing just a Lungi!)n we bought Jurassic Park on MG Road for 40 bucks(something which only u had to spare, at that moment!)
those 3 days in B'lore were just great...things had changed a lot from those days for both of us..The Blore lifestyle had become all the more 'hep'..But somethings just dont change..n one of them is the roadside book sellers..u can still buy books for 40-50 bucks!!!
nice,isn't it?

~Deepu

6:44 PM, July 23, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

deepu : I had my eyes on this for a looong time. who was the dood da ? I just don't remember .. was it vam ? he's not the lungi type, tho. ( mebbe he's a closet lungi wearer :) )
I just hope bangy still has the climate we saw ..

9:07 PM, July 23, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

no da..it wasn't vam..it was the kandu EEE,a very silent guy,remember him? guess he was in Ruby was well..in paki-yeah's wing...the guy who bought a 2 litre Pepsi from samfox,when he got placed n made whomeever he met on the way back to Ruby,take a swig from it! thats what I remeber the best of him...

10:04 AM, July 24, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

dai, kandu ICE, dileep murugesan :)

10:07 AM, July 24, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

no wait, u mean vinod - he was the lower wing ...

10:09 AM, July 24, 2005  
Blogger Aslan said...

I got 'Lost World' from a bookstore in Trichy for Rs.40/- I guess M. Crichton books are very cheap.. cool, how's Congo man? Haven't read it. I found 'Prey' OK- started on State of Fear, but cudn't finish it :`-(

10:10 AM, July 24, 2005  
Blogger cactusjump said...

pattern recognition :) i trust uve read neuromancer? the DUHs - nice! didya all wear big moose masks?

2:15 AM, July 25, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

CJ : yup, did too. moose-masks ? pray what ARE they ? ( which does answer ur question, i believe )

5:50 AM, July 25, 2005  
Blogger yesbob said...

Kuts : you too :) ? I loved that Lost World - for a while, me and o.c were sure it was the best book in the world, period.
Congo ? haven't read it yet ... will keep u posted

7:48 AM, July 25, 2005  
Blogger cactusjump said...

i take it ur reading material never included comix!

2:02 PM, July 27, 2005  

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