While the background events are grim indeed, this floridly dramatic and coincidental novel is quite superficial. It's a fun narrative despite, or ignoring, the content, as long as one reads it for the entertainment value of those coincidences and not for realism.
I found this book absolutely fascinating. Ram is arrested because he was able to answer all questions correct in a quiz show and therefore people think he cheated. Each chapter describes a situation from Ram's past that enabled him to answer one of the questions on the W3B quiz-show. The story jumps...
Really enjoyed this one. interesting premise, which allowed the author to reveal his story in a non-chronological way without it feeling too contrived. great pay-off at the end when many seemingly unrelated threads came together in a satisfying way.
A wonderful novel made into a great film. I'm glad I read this before the movie was made and the hype that followed. I would recommend reading the book if you haven't watched the film yet.
I found this novel, the inspiration for the movie Slumdog Millionaire, to be delightful and engrossing. It was far more realistic than the movie, though still rather like a fairy tale in some ways. It was disturbing in many places, and sometimes really sad, but also quite affirming and joyful in o...
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