Vikram Chandra
Birth date: January 01, 1961
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(my 3-volume-battered-copy of Donald E. Knuth's bible) A long time ago when I was doing Software Engineering professionally (I was a C/C++ black belt coder back in the good old days of obfuscated coding practices…) I always of very keen to put lots of style and readability into my code. Then I mov...
I'd seen this around a lot, liked the cover, knew nothing about it. Found it for extra cheap, took a look and... crime novel, Dickensian epic saga, AND the author lists some of his favorite Bollywood movies in the back? Yes!
WOW. What a book! It's over 900pp long! It's as overwhelming and complex and befuddling as Bharat itself is, for an uninitiated Murrikin tourist.It's also fabuolously, gorgeously wrought, and very much worthy of being a bestseller. It never will be, for several reasons.First: It has, and needs, a gl...
I wish I could write a review that did this book - my feelings for this book - any kind of justice. The pace in the stories is slow but it is right for the human characters and for discovering them. Each story is full of necessary detail, is of human scale, our messy, imperfect beautiful lives. Chan...
I really enjoyed most of the novel. And then the sewing up of loose edges and the overexplaining of every last detail ensued. Maybe I would have really loved it if it had been edited a little more. Maybe if it lost a few pounds and pages.
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