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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

by: Deborah Moggach (author)

2.67 30

When Ravi Kapoor, an over-worked London doctor, is driven beyond endurance by his obnoxious father-in-law, he asks his wife: 'Can't we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.' His prayer seems to have been answered when his entrepreneurial cousin, Sonny, sets up a retirement home,... show more

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Format: Paperback

Publisher: Random House

Pages no: 320

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Travel, Humor, European Literature, British Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, India, Fiction

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Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads rated it

6 years ago

http://livingangel84.booklikes.com Mallory Kellogg, Chubbygirlreads 1.5 The Worst Exotic Marigold Hotel

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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...

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Burfobookalicious rated it

6 years ago

http://Burfoa.booklikes.com Burfobookalicious 3.0 Modern charades....is it a book? Is it a film?

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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...

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Freda's Voice rated it

8 years ago

http://FredasVoice.booklikes.com Freda's Voice 4.5 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach

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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...

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Momster Bookworm rated it

11 years ago

http://momsterbookworm.booklikes.com Momster Bookworm 2.0 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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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...

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