Post by Dr. Yatri Thor on Jan 27, 2015 4:23:56 GMT 5.5
After Mains I was taking some break....but to keep myself into reading mode, I read some interesting books.....
In this thread you can review some book you have recently read or recommend some great book....
Recently I finished this nice but interesting book on Philosophical Satire called 'Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar'
This book is great for funny and interesting quotes.....it discusses ethics, existentialism, philosophy etc in satirical way...some of the lines from the book
Mathematically there are 3 types of people in this world....those who can count, and those who cant!!
At a meeting of the college faculty, an angel suddenly appears and tells the head of the philosophy department “I will grant you whichever of three blessings you shooce: Wisdom, Beauty – or ten million dollars”.
Immediately, the professor chooses Wisdom.
There is a flash of lightning, and the professor appear transformed, but he just sits there, staring down at the table.
One of his colleagues whispers “Say something”
The professor says “I should have taken the money”
Moses, Jesus, and a bearded old man are playing golf. Moses
drives a long one, which lands on the fairway but rolls directly
toward the pond. Moses raises his club, parts the water, and the
ball rolls safely to the other side.
Jesus also hits a long one toward the same pond, but just as
it’s about to land in the center, it hovers above the surface. Jesus
casually walks out on the pond and chips it onto the green.
The bearded man’s drive hits a fence and bounces out onto
the street, where it caroms off an oncoming truck and back onto
the fairway. It’s headed directly for the pond, but it lands on a lily
pad, where a frog sees it and snatches it into his mouth. An eagle
swoops down, grabs the frog, and flies away. As the eagle and
frog pass over the green, the frog drops the ball, and it lands in
the cup for a hole-in-one.
Moses turns to Jesus and says, “I hate playing with your dad.”
A seeker has heard that the wisest guru in all of India lives
atop India’s highest mountain. So the seeker treks over hill and
Delhi until he reaches the fabled mountain. It’s incredibly steep,
and more than once he slips and falls. By the time he reaches
the top, he is full of cuts and bruises, but there is the guru, sitting
cross-legged in front of his cave.
“O, wise guru,” the seeker says, “I have come to you to ask
what the secret of life is.”
“Ah, yes, the secret of life,” the guru says. “The secret of life is
a teacup.”
“A teacup? I came all the way up here to find the meaning of
life, and you tell me it’s a teacup!”
The guru shrugs. “So maybe it isn’t a teacup.”
You haven’t lived until you think about death all the time.
“Do not do unto others as you would have others do unto
you; they may have different taste.”
I give it 8/10
A good read!! Recommended to all.
In this thread you can review some book you have recently read or recommend some great book....
Recently I finished this nice but interesting book on Philosophical Satire called 'Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar'
This book is great for funny and interesting quotes.....it discusses ethics, existentialism, philosophy etc in satirical way...some of the lines from the book
Mathematically there are 3 types of people in this world....those who can count, and those who cant!!
At a meeting of the college faculty, an angel suddenly appears and tells the head of the philosophy department “I will grant you whichever of three blessings you shooce: Wisdom, Beauty – or ten million dollars”.
Immediately, the professor chooses Wisdom.
There is a flash of lightning, and the professor appear transformed, but he just sits there, staring down at the table.
One of his colleagues whispers “Say something”
The professor says “I should have taken the money”
Moses, Jesus, and a bearded old man are playing golf. Moses
drives a long one, which lands on the fairway but rolls directly
toward the pond. Moses raises his club, parts the water, and the
ball rolls safely to the other side.
Jesus also hits a long one toward the same pond, but just as
it’s about to land in the center, it hovers above the surface. Jesus
casually walks out on the pond and chips it onto the green.
The bearded man’s drive hits a fence and bounces out onto
the street, where it caroms off an oncoming truck and back onto
the fairway. It’s headed directly for the pond, but it lands on a lily
pad, where a frog sees it and snatches it into his mouth. An eagle
swoops down, grabs the frog, and flies away. As the eagle and
frog pass over the green, the frog drops the ball, and it lands in
the cup for a hole-in-one.
Moses turns to Jesus and says, “I hate playing with your dad.”
A seeker has heard that the wisest guru in all of India lives
atop India’s highest mountain. So the seeker treks over hill and
Delhi until he reaches the fabled mountain. It’s incredibly steep,
and more than once he slips and falls. By the time he reaches
the top, he is full of cuts and bruises, but there is the guru, sitting
cross-legged in front of his cave.
“O, wise guru,” the seeker says, “I have come to you to ask
what the secret of life is.”
“Ah, yes, the secret of life,” the guru says. “The secret of life is
a teacup.”
“A teacup? I came all the way up here to find the meaning of
life, and you tell me it’s a teacup!”
The guru shrugs. “So maybe it isn’t a teacup.”
You haven’t lived until you think about death all the time.
“Do not do unto others as you would have others do unto
you; they may have different taste.”
I give it 8/10
A good read!! Recommended to all.
Looking forward to reading book reviews by bibliophiles like me 
Psychology is one of my favourite areas of interest. Though I have a book, namely 