The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
by:
Deborah Moggach (author)
Nina Wadia (narrator)
Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure and good weather, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find the palace is a shell of its former self and the staff...
show more
Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and filled with visions of a life of leisure and good weather, a group of very different people leave England to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find the palace is a shell of its former self and the staff more than a little eccentric. But, as they soon discover, life and love can begin again.
show less
Format: MP3 CD
ISBN:
9781471201196
ASIN: B007GZ047G
Publish date: 2012-03
Pages no: 9
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Humor,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
India,
Fiction
Boring as fuck. Racist as the Trump administration. Written in that weird style where they don't even use proper quotation marks for dialogue. I quit. DNF at page 40 with this gem: "...from Paki corner shops to the big companies they were over the place like a rash. Nobody could accuse him...
I generally get a sense of foreboding when I read on a book's cover, "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE", even more so when I have seen said movie. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" is a good example, in that it is a glorious 'feel good' film, with a host of wonderful actors, setting the bar high for the pr...
Better than the movie! At times I felt it was so different too. I love how it was interpreted, but I do love the flow of the story more when reading it. I actually had to forget what I had seen. The characters they chose for the film seemed quite different than the book. While some I could connect t...
This book was originally published with the title, 'These Foolish Things', which after having read the book, I think that would have been a more apropos title, albeit, not quite as exotic.The plot had promise, the gist being of a retirement home ('hotel') being set up in Bangalore, India for old fol...
It was okay. For me however, this is definitely the exception to the rule that the book is always better. I absolutely loved the movie.
Log in with Facebook 
