{"id":694,"date":"2008-01-11T01:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/11\/books-gandhi-shashi-tharoor-bob-allen-and-a-lonely-planet"},"modified":"2008-01-11T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T06:19:16","slug":"books-gandhi-shashi-tharoor-bob-allen-and-a-lonely-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/11\/books-gandhi-shashi-tharoor-bob-allen-and-a-lonely-planet","title":{"rendered":"Books: Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Bob Allen, and a Lonely Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi<\/b> &#8211; I picked this up during my trip to India in early 2007, and finally got around to reading it. Highly interesting reading, his <i>experiments<\/i> and his teachings and thought process, plain simply rock. Documenting his strategies, etc. great reading.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Five-Dollar Smile: An Other Stories by Shashi Tharoor<\/b> &#8211; he&#8217;s a bit wordy in his fiction, and his plays aren&#8217;t fabulous (I think reading script like that is best left to Shakespearean works), but its a very compelling book with some of his earliest writings. Joining the UN at 22? Makes me feel old. I like the fact that each story has a note pre-pending it &#8211; its important to know what were thoughts in <i>those times<\/i>. I still prefer his non-fiction, so far.<\/li>\n<li><b>Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen&#8217;s Seven Principles of Wealth by Robert G. Allen<\/b> &#8211; interested in purchasing real estate and turning it around? Want to know more about good debt? Realising that you really don&#8217;t need the latest whizzbang gizmo that is a depreciating asset? Most interesting reading, especially if you&#8217;re into the real estate market or planning on getting into it. Read this on my Vietnam trip mostly.<\/li>\n<li><b>Lonely Planet Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos &amp; the Greater Mekong<\/b> &#8211; used this extensively to plan my trip to Hanoi. So much more to see, obviously. I also read the Cambodia section to see if it tallied with my previous trip (it did), and the Laos section, mainly because I had initially planned to go there, but forked the plans to go to Hanoi instead. No regrets, Laos can wait.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Books%3A%20Gandhi%2C%20Shashi%20Tharoor%2C%20Bob%20Allen%2C%20and%20a%20Lonely%20Planet&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F11%2Fbooks-gandhi-shashi-tharoor-bob-allen-and-a-lonely-planet&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Highly interesting reading, his experiments and his teachings and thought process, plain simply rock. Documenting his strategies, etc. great reading. 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