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Prompt 25: A book you were supposed to read in school but didn't
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By Ann · 67 posts · 992 views
last updated Jan 17, 2023 03:51PM
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I enjoyed this collection of stories a good deal, although I must say I enjoyed her novel "The Namesake" far more. Perhaps I felt more connected to the characters in the novel than in short story format. That said, I enjoyed the last story in the book, 'The Third and Final Continent' a great deal, and Lahiri's writing is so beautiful!!
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[Review from 2004.] This was definitely an enjoyable read (and I'm not usually a short story person), and I was impressed by the successful execution of first-person-plural in one of them, but (and this is a terrible thing to say), I kind of don't understand why it won the Pulitzer.
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This was a good book which I liked because it was short stories. I was able to put it down and pick it up much later without feeling that I had to start all over again. Some stories were definitely better than others but I find it to be a good read which goes pretty quickly.
This is a very interesting collections of short stories spanning the lives of very different Indians in the world and in very different cultural settings. The author is so talented at weaving stories that just make you wish there was more book behind them. Wonderful!
Mar 29, 2009
Hannah
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
grownups-fiction,
short-fiction
A wonderful collection, though I felt as if it lost steam towards the end with a couple of the stories. But I really loved Lahiri's language and character presentation.
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I didn't love this, and I'm disappointed because I did love The Namesake. Maybe I just don't like short stories.
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Oct 20, 2008
Leslie
marked it as to-read
Jun 25, 2016
Wendy
marked it as own-tbr
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review of another edition
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own-tbr-nook,
own-tbr-diverse
