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This book won the Booker Prize in 1997, so it was not surprising that it had something to do with the former British empire, this time set in Kerala, India. It circles around a set of fraternal twins and a tragedy that happened in their childhood.
The story is told in time circles, where the details are filled in gradually, but once I got into the pattern of it, that didn't bother me much. The characterizations remind me of Rushdie quite a bit, with a lot of really quirky and disturbing people w ...more
The story is told in time circles, where the details are filled in gradually, but once I got into the pattern of it, that didn't bother me much. The characterizations remind me of Rushdie quite a bit, with a lot of really quirky and disturbing people w ...more
I hated lots of things about this book. Here are some of them:
1. Bodily functions everywhere. AND I don't mean just ' cause it's India; this isn't a dirty slum shock value thing. Arundhati Roy seeks to impress by describing every bodily fluid she can think of, over and over, vividly...UGH. My nightmare.
2. Whether it's bodily fluids or something else, most of these sentences come from the I-swallowed-a-thesaurus school of description.
3. And if there's no thesaurus available to swallow, we'll ju ...more
1. Bodily functions everywhere. AND I don't mean just ' cause it's India; this isn't a dirty slum shock value thing. Arundhati Roy seeks to impress by describing every bodily fluid she can think of, over and over, vividly...UGH. My nightmare.
2. Whether it's bodily fluids or something else, most of these sentences come from the I-swallowed-a-thesaurus school of description.
3. And if there's no thesaurus available to swallow, we'll ju ...more
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