Showing posts with label Autobiography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Autobiography. Show all posts

Saturday, November 6, 2010

"My Days - A Memoir" by RK Narayan - inspiring autobiography

Memory, it is sometimes dry and boring, but not this, this autobiography was a surprisingly well written, the story interesting and stimulating life extraordinary Narayan and accidents. A simple change says, but so beautiful that you feel really see through the eyes and you can hear the environment. RKNarayan is a very famous Indian author who wrote many short stories and novels. His younger brother is a famous designer.

The story is abouton various aspects of life - love, fight, love for pets, take a daughter who communicate with souls, soulmates, spiritual meetings, and the real beauty is that they are all written in a simplistic believe it all and perhaps also ask how you would react, or have heard if you were in a similar situation. I'm sure many of us that identifies with the daily events in the book.

The beauty of this work is a simple narrative of the author, who is as freefluent and easy to follow, you get completely immersed in the book and finds it difficult to put after starting to read the account to have. In one case, nature is so well described that, after another world of mystical beauty of this area.

Reading the book one feels ill and pulled like Narayan is trying, with the death of his wife to get ready. You feel sorry for a man devastated. Then he finally finds a way to communicate with his psychicthe soul of a woman who has always been close to him to help him, guide him to come and deal with loss and life after her. This bit was a bit 'hard to believe for me, but then there are strange things done in the world.

This autobiography really inspired me a lot and makes me want to read any other novels by this author inspired by various phases of his life. Some of them are -. "The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room", "English teacher" and "Man talkative"He has a very useful brief account of what happened in his personal life, when he announced it will be interesting to these novels, the traces or derivatives of these events would have an impact read in the novel, in which he wrote. Another of his famous novel "Guide" was filmed in the early 70's and was becoming a huge commercial success of the film, the popularity and critical acclaim in this period.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Autobiography Book Review - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's Hamburger

You were the man sitting in a restaurant, a Wendy's hamburger and enjoy your meal, wow, what a great hamburger joint, the food is good, crisp salads, people are polite and did not even really thought about cost so much? If so, are one of the 100s of millions of Americans who are Wendy's has successfully helped. Of course there is a man, a dedicated and fearless leader, it all started and was the driving force behind this success.

Perhaps you would like to know more about him and hisThe secret of success? If so, let me recommend a great autobiography to you from the man himself. The book is called:

"Well done" Autobiography of Dave Thomas (David A. Thomas), the founder of Wendy's hamburger chain, with the author, Ron Beyma. Zondervan Publishing Company Inc., Grand Rapids, MI. 1994th ISBN: 0-310-48000-0.

Mr. Dave Thomas is a class act, who has dedicated this book of loving wife and family, and gave all the proceeds of its foundation;The Dave Thomas Foundation. But this only helps to describe who he was and why his legacy lives on. He speaks of his faith, about discipline, hard work and integrity in the first part of the book.

In the second part of the book the reader about what it takes to take care of people, build a team and get to support your team as a family firm. In Part III, we learn about creativity, leadership and motivation, some of the key to its success. In the last chaptersdiscussion of responsibility, strength of character, courage and generosity. In fact, he was every bit a man who walked his talk. So please consider this.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Book Review - LK Advani autobiography "My Country, My Life"

Lal Krishna Advani is an important leader of the BJP. In fact, after Vajpayee is the best known face of the BJP Indian political horizon. Advani lasted eight decades of Indian politics. From this point of view alone, his autobiography "My Country, My Life 'a significant contribution.

The book is comprehensive, covering his life from his time Advani in Karachi before independence to 21 Century. This is a huge canvas and Advani spent much time on itthe facts as he sees them. Few Indian politicians of considerable stature wrote an autobiography, with the exception of Nehru. Advani must be completed for this step.

Advani book is interesting reading as it provides an overview of the thinking process of the Hindu social and party political options for the start of the political morality of the Jan Sangh LEDs. This party then transformed into the BJP. The first part of the book, especially, itsPeriod in Karachi and the impact of RSS on it makes interesting reading. He expressed his disappointment with the Congress Party for the perceived failure to prevent partition and commends the work of the RSS in the difficult days of 1947 when India flames with riots between Hindus and Muslims was. Advani also discussed the bomb plot of 1947 in Karachi, where some leaders have been involved Sindhi Hindu.

Advani to clarify its equation of Gandhi. He brings up the fact that heall due respect to the leader, but his analysis of Nehru and Indira Gandhi are revealing. Criticized them.

The book distributed over a thousand pages, had worked at least 200 pages and related content would not have lost. After reading his book one can appreciate the brand of nationalism Advani. His interpretation of the ruling Shah Bano and his Ram Rath Yatra and the Ram temple in Ayodhya, which led to the downfall of the government, VP Singh are interestingthey reflect the views of Advani and the BJP Hindu party which is (Bharat Janta Party).

Advani, however, throughout his long association with the RSS (GOM Swayam Sevak Sangh) and the Hindu revivalist BJP party and the former Jan Sangh should come as a secularist. Nowhere in the book Advani seems to be something other than a nationalist. Penning was when this book is a possibility that the Indian Prime Minister, which would be with some parts that were written in MayView. But this is not the merit of the book, not diminish. The reading gives you an overview in the mind of one of the great Hindu leader of the BJP today.

Advani was deputy prime minister in the BJP government led by Vajpayee. His friendship with Vajpayee will be clear where the mentor of Vajpayee and Advani was the follower. However, Advani fly over his role in the liberation of the wanted terrorist Masood Azar, after the abduction of Air Indialine of aircraft. Slides in Greater This would add value.

Moreover, no personal intimate details of personal life is Adjani. The autobiography is not the political will, but should be comprehensive, including personal life. This gap is not addressed in the book.

But the book is worth reading if only for the work of the Spirit of him who asked not to be the king. Advani defeat at the hustings by the substance of the book, not diminish.

MY INVENTIONS: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

MY INVENTIONS: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla








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Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. His discoveries gave mankind the television. And his dream of wireless communication came to pass in both the radio and eventually the cell phone. Yet his story remains widely unknown. History buffs, science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone who has ever dared to dream big will find the life of Nikola Tesla, written in his own words, engaging, informative, and humorous in its eccentricity.








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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla(Cosimo Classics edition) - N S - Laguna Hills, CA USA
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Tesla was a genuis. Tell him there is an energy shortage and he would show you the Universe. Why ? The Universe is Energy, there could or should never be an legitimate energy shortage, just another manipulated effort by Governments wanting to control their people. What else is new ?
If you want to know power, study Tesla, all of the answers are there.



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Sunday, September 5, 2010

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Suggested to all young men to enter the world - Nico -
I came across this book without prior intent to find it. Having read it, I believe it beneficial to recommend any young man at the end of his schooling, about to embark on life in the "real world," To read this publication.



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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Book)

Bill Bruford: The Autobiography (Book)








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Once called the “godfather of progressive drumming,” Bill Bruford has been at the top of his profession for four decades, playing with Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Earthworks, and many other bands. Bill Bruford is a first-person account of his life in progressive rock, art rock, and modern jazz. Honest, entertaining, and eloquent, it recounts his life on the road and in the studio, rubbing shoulders and creating music with the famous, the less famous, and the infamous. A rocker with the temperament of a classical musician, who became a jazz musician, he defies all the clichés and bad jokes about drummers. At polite dinner parties, Bruford is occasionally asked what he does. After replying that he’s a musician, the inevitable retort is “Yes, but what do you really do?” This funny, unusual, and unusually thoughtful memoir answers the question.



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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Review of Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

I checked the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin for my Newsletter Ambeck Edge in November 2004 and recommended it with reservations because it was so difficult to read. Four years later, in 2008, I read the autobiography and other writings (Penguin Classics) took place and it was easier to read the second time. Since then I have read and referred to various sections of the book. Some books are to be read several times to really understand it, and most of it, andThis is a book.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a great book to read, but very hard. It is written in Old English and not in a structured way you would expect. It took three attempts for me to finally read through it. To read this book and make the most of it, you must set aside at least two hours. This is not a book in a window of 15 minutes to read, and you have an open mind while reading They need it.

The effort is paid to read this bookit. Although the information was originally collected in this book in a manuscript in 1700, is timeless, and affirms that there are no new ideas. This is your feeling richer. There are many lessons can be learned from reading this book. It amazes me how the information is used to educate the masses.

Franklin wanted to introduce what he calls a public subscription library, but when he tried to get on subscriptions, objections and people were prepared to Participatebecause it was Franklin's Project. " He quickly learned that it is often more important to the control of a project for the good of humanity, if it were accepted.

In the book, talks about his 13 virtues that Franklin has sought to integrate into his life - temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility. He chose a virtue and focused for the whole week. BenjaminFranklin was morally perfect, but perfection is not recognizable. He acknowledged that it was not perfect is not possible, but he was glad I tried it, because a man is happiest and best was after the trial. Some of virtue can not make sense in today's world, but it's still worth thinking about. In May 2009, while I read the Dialogues of Confucius, Confucius says lessons to live, with whom Franklin reminded me of the 13 virtues.

Franklin was also an excellent manager of time,Accounting for every minute of the day and would never go to bed without checking his time. As I write this book another visit, I remember the famous phrase of Socrates "The unexamined life not worth living."

Benjamin Franklin, inventor, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, franchisor, Master of Strategic Alliances, fundraising and much more there, a new meaning of "handyman" and a workaholic.

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I recommend this book, although very difficult to read because it will inspire, motivate and teach you. There are a lotcontent inside big. With a little 'Benjamin Franklin in us, we achieve excellence. Take the time to do reviews for the book Dialogues of Confucius and read the Skinny on time management, then compare it with the review and determination of five gems of wisdom.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography

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"Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and herewith tender my history:

Ours is a noble old house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity. The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins. This was in the eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever since borne the maternal name (except when one of them now and then took a playful refuge in an alias to avert foolishness), instead of Higgins, is a mystery which none of us has ever felt much desire to stir. It is a kind of vague, pretty romance, and we leave it alone. All the old families do that way.

Arthour Twain was a man of considerable note-a solicitor on the highway in William Rufus' time. At about the age of thirty he went to one of those fine old English places of resort called Newgate, to see about something, and never returned again. While there he died suddenly.

Augustus Twain, seems to have made something of a stir about the year 1160. He was as full of fun as he could be, and used to take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night, and stick it through people as they went by, to see them jump. He was a born humorist. But he got to going too far with it; and the first time he was found stripping one of these parties, the authorities removed one end of him, and put it up on a nice high place on Temple Bar, where it could contemplate the people and have a good time. He never liked any situation so much or stuck to it so long.

Then for the next two hundred years the family tree shows a succession of soldiers-noble, high-spirited fellows, who always went into battle singing; right behind the army, and always went out a-whooping, right ahead of it.

This is a scathing rebuke to old dead Froissart's poor witticism that our family tree never had but one limb to it, and that that one stuck out at right angles, and bore fruit winter, and summer."










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Monday, August 16, 2010

Review of Autobiography of Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

Russell Brand is able to inspire the reader with his unique blend of moving stories of his youth, with the stupidity of his true character and his humorous anecdotes as well as all other comedians.

The nature of comedy now known about his life (or "series of embarrassments," as he says!) In a witty and imaginative, the amiable, so that the autobiography of one of the best I've read, is not completelyUN-put-downable!

Brand is able to tell the fascinating interpretations of her childhood in a way that you belly-laugh from beginning to end, not only has the page with interesting stories of drugs and ultimately self-indulgence also leads tied back to zoom us with their own language illustrious childhood adolescence, when it has received great acclaim for a book then would be able to name an adult praised autobiography"My Booky Wook" without an ounce of shame.

Brand has the ability to withhold mezmerised with the way it can be fun every situation: "The intention was to film with James for a week, but the reality is that after two days decided that he preferred to live homeless with me. "

His spirit makes it even more sensational dirty confessions during his life of drugs, alcohol and sex addiction ridiculous, is not a page in the whole"Booky Wook", you have the habit of giggling.

By a fire early age began to plunge into the world of drugs and alcohol, and was soon introduced by her father to prostitutes after a holiday in the Far East, briefly Describes have a dependency on all three of his autobiography, jaw-dropping development accounts of indiscretion, which, although still shocking in a way that one can not help but say a smile on your face.

Although it has moments-back antics childish and irresponsibleSelf-destruction, was in the fire situation, and always in search of fame, what is the success of his career so far, the story of his life up til now, all told in the most convincing, there's never a dull moment with this comic genius!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Two Story Song

Almost every self-help book you can buy the importance of a positive mental attitude is to live, if you want to achieve the ultimate success of stress.

Think of the grand-daddy of all, "The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale, still sells well today, although first published long ago in the fifties. The theme of this book was collected from a number of books and courses on self-improvement, and in fact is a prerequisite for success.

ThePower of the mind has long been considered an essential ingredient for making wish to acknowledge the reality. Remember the mantra of "What can ever understand the mind of man, and I believe, the mind can reach the people." And this is the order in which to believe in thinking: - - to achieve.

But how do you bring this concept into your everyday life?

You can read stories like "The Little Engine the show could", or biographies.

Read the story of Arnold Schwartz EggerBorn in Austria, introduced himself, won the bodybuilding world, and then he did. He came to America with nothing but success, although a lot. He spoke English (again!) And had no history or capacity to act (in the minds of some people still do not!). Despite what became one of the biggest Hollywood star, instantly recognizable voice and appearance. Then, as he almost everything he wanted, a successful career, wealth, achieved abeautiful wife and well connected, has made the job of governor of California. As he said in his inaugural speech: "I came to California with nothing, and California has given me everything." And who knows if the Constitution is amended to allow more foreign nationals, born in the oath of office, which would have bet against him, he will be president?

You can read books and biographies, but perhaps you yourself say you do not have time toOr, you never could. Arnie must have had some lucky breaks, we are told. This reminds me of the cricketer, who has always seen seemed to be lucky that most of them in the decisions that the referee went his way, that he was offered a catch, and seemed to always have the bat right at the moment right to produce. When asked about his apparent happiness comment he replied "Yes, it seems more hard work on my game and practice, luck seems to get."

This brings me to the infamous Mrs.Yebbut.You can find a relative of the majority of people who never seem to nothing. You will have a brilliant idea and full of enthusiasm, but soon Mrs.Yebbut comes to visit.

An example - a wonderful opportunity is in some investment property, lot, and a win-win situation.

Yebbut "What if property prices fall?"

Yebbut "And if the tenant defaults on their rent"

Well, think of the idea and the inevitable result. The enthusiasm islost, and the business goes to someone else. Naturally, property prices can not fall, and owners of rent insurance will take care of all deficits.

So again, how to get a positive mental attitude, and more importantly, how to hold it in my head all day?

Well, remember those songs you hear, then you can not prove that head? With this concept - is an easy way to stay positive all day if you choose the right song.

Most newcomers to internetjust a song - which means "I'm always Chasing Rainbows."

Remember the song "Some people sometimes have a winner. I never even useful"
Depressing is not it?

Now think of the song "Blue Skies". I bet, tune in your head is right now, if more than fifty - if you're not, you go get your songs!
Consider the text of the song - "I never saw the sun shining brilliantly ever seen things go so well," What's the difference!

So go, if you do not like myThe choice of song, think of your generation to another, I'm sure you get the idea.

How to get buzz and positive!

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