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Abhinav Sarkar rated The Code Book: 4 stars
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published …
Abhinav Sarkar rated So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: 4 stars
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Trilogy of Five, #4)
Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. …
Abhinav Sarkar rated The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 5 stars
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
In the beginning the universe was created...this made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Life, the Universe and Everything: 5 stars
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the six-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy …
Abhinav Sarkar rated India after Gandhi: 4 stars
India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
Born in privation and civil war, divided by caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united …
Abhinav Sarkar rated The Mahabharata: 4 stars
Abhinav Sarkar rated Sphere: 4 stars
Sphere by Michael Crichton
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge spaceship is …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Speaker for the Dead: 3 stars
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to …
Abhinav Sarkar rated The Alchemist: 3 stars
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 4 stars
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #1)
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Freakonomics: 3 stars
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Godel, Escher, Bach: 5 stars
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring …
Brian Greene: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004)
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (2004) is the second book on theoretical physics, …
Abhinav Sarkar rated Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: 5 stars
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning …