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Summary: It's not a book. It's an experience.
Review: I read this book during a flight delay; It was the first time that I didn't mind sitting for hours at the airport. I consumed this book like a delicious dessert; Towards the end I slowed down my reading even more hoping to prolong the experience. English is not my first language and I have no expectation of how the English language should be used. I only know that the author's play of words did not frustrated me. I liked the way that tragedy and joy were treated the equally and how nothing was spelled out in obvious terms. It was less of the plots or characters but rather the storytelling itself that cativated me. The only other books that I had ever enjoyed this much were written by Herman Hesse; Not to say that they are at all alike. It could have just been me and my mood at the time of reading. After all, this is just another book-shape hole in the universe.
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Summary: Praise and prose
Review: A wonderfully written book. Whilst it starts slowly the momentum builds to a terrible crescendo. Not many authors can pull off a tragedy but God of small things is one of those books that does.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I was swept off my feet by this book. The author has a real gift for language. The prose is so lyrical and imaginative. The description is amazing. It was her wonderful writing that really inspired me. The plot was good too, but it falls down a bit at the end. I was expecting something to happen, waiting for the final piece of the jigsaw to fall into place, but unfortunately it never did. Or maybe I just didn't want it to end, in hopes that this magical story would just go on forever.
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Summary: Lyric and Direct
Review: I did not want to read this book, but luckily, I was required to. Roy's prose was so lyrical that I had to keep reading until the story itself would not let me stop. In the beginning, the rain is not just coming down, it is "slanting silver ropes slammed into the loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire." Roy's observations of people are so on target, that the reader will understand and know the characters immediately. The twists and turns and how things turn out will leave you thinking about this book for a long time.
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Summary: stunning...
Review: A story which only notice things, not judge them. It reminds us, the small things, which could have changed our life, in their own special way.
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Summary: Like reading poetry!
Review: Rahel and Esthappen are dizygotic twins, born of two eggs but of one soul. In Kerala, India, the twins' mother Ammu is raising them with the help of the twins' grandmother Mammachi, their great-aunt Baby Kammachi, and their uncle Chako. At the beginning of the story, Chako's young daughter Sophie Mol was found dead. From her funeral, the story moves back and forth in time to reveal the circumstances of her death and how someone that the twins loved by day and Ammu loved by night tore the family apart. At first, this book is impossible to absorb. Don't despair. Persist! Push forward until the story grabs you! The author's writing might seem fragmented and annoying at first. Later, when you figure out the action, the writing becomes lyrical. It has a beautiful rhythm and sound to it. This book might not be for everyone, though. My husband never made it past the first page! He kept repeating "It was just the language. I couldn't get through it. I couldn't read it." If you're willing to make it into the second chapter, I think you'll gladly make it through the whole story.
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Summary: Rich Language and Unfolding Story
Review: This is a wonderfully crafted, stirring book. Arundhati Roy uses language so deftly and powerfully and so appropriately to the characters and story that she has created and is telling. It has caused me to rediscover and re-love words and language and expression, and see the wonderful potential that they have; how language can be used so uniquely, which is what she does here. As part of the enchantment of this novel, she uses metaphors and similes that initially slap you with their rawness and everydayness, but then refresh and enliven in their simplicity and colour. She has so skilfully woven chapters from different time periods to, ever so carefully, reveal her story with maximum power and impact, so that knowing what will become of the characters, we are even more moved by the specific event(s) that shaped and altered their lives as they are unfolded to us. One of the most engaging and rich books I have read.
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Summary: overwrought
Review: what an awfully tiresome book. what is there here that hasn't been said, much less tritely, before. it is made that much more maudlin by the cloying manner with which all and sundry behave towards each other. there was nary an original character or original thought. how novel to see another plucky protaganist who bears no responsibility for anything that goes wrong in her life; ah, the rare-explored mysteries of twin-hood; yet more about the oppressed indian woman (which, naturally, justifies the philandering mother). there are flashes of originality, of gothic arabasque, but as a whole, i cannot dis-recommend this book enough. about india, read vikram seth; about families, anita desai (or wallace stegner); funky prose, rushdie, maybe (or back to joyce?).
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Summary: Really wonderful!
Review: I'm a woman from Spain, and I found this book really wonderfull. I think it's the best one I have never read, with another one from Tom Spanbauer called "The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon". I read it twice, and the second one was so much increible than the first one. Congratulations, Arundathi!
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Summary: Simply impressive
Review: This book is amazing. It simply took my breath away. The plot is simple, but the story-telling skill is wonderful. The words and the description somehow have the compelling power to make me feel nostalgic and bittersweet.
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