Tasks for Pancha Ganapati: Post about your 5 favourite books this year and why you appreciated them so much. Tasks for Festivus: [...] --OR-- Perform the Airing of Grievances: name 5 books you’ve read this year that have disappointed you - tell us in tongue-lashing detail why and how they failed t...
I have a suspicion bordering on phobia of pretty much every book being marketed as the greatest thing since sliced bread; and after this book won the Booker Prize, that suspicion / phobia certainly came into play big time here. So it was that it took me almost 10 years, and the discovery that there...
I have a suspicion bordering on phobia of pretty much every book being marketed as the greatest thing since sliced bread; and after this book won the Booker Prize, that suspicion / phobia certainly came into play big time here. So it was that it took me almost 10 years, and the discovery that there...
I love narratives that concentrate on few characters. The main reason is that this naturally allows for greater internal exploration (as did my favorite read of the year so far, The Sheltering Sky). Some books are about events and some books are about people. I tend to favor the latter, like this no...
It's difficult to overstate the relief I felt, reading this fable after spending Romanian winter with heady, badly printed encyclopedias. It feels as if I've known more than a few White Tigers in my life and would even consider myself a form of one. Not that I, a Westerner, or possibly even most Ind...
It's difficult to overstate the relief I felt, reading this fable after spending Romanian winter with heady, badly printed encyclopedias. It feels as if I've known more than a few White Tigers in my life and would even consider myself a form of one. Not that I, a Westerner, or possibly even most Ind...
One of the best books that I've read written in this century and a compelling and exciting first novel. It is a kind of post-post-colonial novel. It is a savage indictment of current India. It sees India as a corrupt inefficient and class based society. The colonial heritage being just one part ...
A fast paced read told over the course of seven days in email form by the narrator Balram/Ashok Sharma/White Tiger to Premier Jiabao in China.It's a savage story of an Indian servant who grows up in the 'darkness,' becomes a driver, and through a series of intentional events, breaks out of the coop ...
I will start this short review with two equally little confessions. First, I know next to nothing about India, and second, when I picked this book up I was under the very mistaken impression that it was an urban-fantasy book. Luckily my ignorance of the setting was not so great as to have kept me un...
Wow. I can't believe a murderer just won me over with his story?! I get that that is the trick the story plays on you, but.. it might have played me? I am glad of the insight into India's daily life, its incredible corruption and corruption as a practical concept that I got from this novel. All in a...
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