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Summary: An awe-inspiring book which will leave you in agape!!
Review: Arundhati Roy explores the rich traditions/values of the Indian heritage through the eyes of Estha and Rahel...brother and sister. The stories take on a few tangents here and there, but overall this book dives into sexual abuse, relational, gender,political, caste and familial issues in India. She has laid everything in color and nothing is in black and white. Whatever Ms. Roy says is sharp and blunt, yet it is truth-seeking which makes this book far more appealing to the reader. The imageries of the stories are far more robust and when reading, the reader gets a picture and a vision of the scene..which is important to understand and comprehend any book such as this! I highly recommend this book...you will probably get finished in two to three days...that's how long it took me!!! =) Happy Reading!!
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: By far the most fluid, thick, and beautiful book I have ever read. It takes a chapter or two to understand what Roy is saying, but once you start to get it you never want to leave. It is the most joyous of sorrows, and the most georgous of filths. Not to be taken with a narrow mind, it is about the small things in life. The little beauties. If you get it, you will love it, and if you don't love it, then you don't get it.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: I read this book back in the summer of '97. Now, that was a pretty (bad) year. I was loosing my job and my girlfriend, my sister was loosing her mind and my other sister lost a child. All in all - 1997 simply (was bad).There was only one good thing about that summer: The God of Small Things. Every afternoon, I'd read another chapter of it in the park, then just sit contemplating it for an hour or so, surrounded by people more happy than myself. The God of Small Things. It is simply wonderful. Such a mysterious, yet mundane and thouroughly believable intrigue. What prose! What wit! What genious! The God of Small Things managed, by itself, to bring my life appreciation average for the year 1997 up "ok, after all". Well done! I love this book. And I even feel that it is a love requited. It loves me back, I think. Arundhati Roy has said she'll write no more novels after this. That's ok. The one she did write was so satisfying, so giving and so engrossing that she doesn't really need to serve up seconds. I'm well sated, and have no want for more. Thank you.
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Summary: mesmerizing, a book you'll like to read :-)
Review: This z my 1st time to read a book so inspiring and fascinating,at first i had a hard time puzzling the pieces and the names are really confusing.But, i like the book bec.it's very poetic,it's deep and it hides a certain mystery to it.
after reading it, i found myself going back to the 1st page again, bec. only then will the reader understand how these characters fit well together and how the events of the story really evolved. it's not a story about culture and myth, but Life itself... and how you make the most of it!
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Summary: hard to digest because you need to chew on it awhile
Review: It took me 2 weeks to get thru the first 20 pages of this book. But don't let that scare you - I just wasn't used to such vivid and powerful language in books. Once my brain was able to conceptualize the visions Roy was describing, I became hooked on description, and now many other writers just don't satisfy my need for color and light in writing. Roy's style, because I'm not necessarily so well-read, is fantastically unique and something I recommend to every person who asks for next book project. Read this book!
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Summary: Very good style
Review: A. Roy has for sure a very original style...Her novel is a like a puzzle, and we find different pieces of the story in every page ...
Very well written...
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Summary: Immensely overrated
Review: I will say one thing--Roy certainly has a knack for lovely description and painting a scene. I found this intriguing when I first started reading the book, but less than half-way through, I felt like I was completely bogged down with descriptions of irrelevant scenery. Not only that, but I felt that Roy had expended most of her energies painting scenery and little energy creating characters that I could identify with. Furthermore, Roy bombards the reader with pages and pages of summary and back story that would have been more effective if told in scene form. The story jumps around in time, making it confusing at times, but that wasn't a huge problem. Overall, I did not feel I really knew any of the characters well enough to connect with them, nor did I feel that there was any real driving force that moved the story forward. Roy touches on some interesting social and political issures, but I feel that these could have been incorporated into a better-told story with characters that weren't so flat.
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Summary: Read it!
Review: I loved this book. Really the type of book that changes you. The story and the characters and the prose become part of you. So finishing the book feels like a loss. Beautifully written. It is poetry. I found the book to be laugh out loud funny sometimes and also deeply, deeply sad. Read it!
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Summary: Form Follows Function
Review: It is no coincidence that the author is an architect. To fully appreciate how meticulous this story is, re-read the first chapter after you have finished the book. The story explores the meaning of lasting love, against the randomness of the hands we are dealt in life. It is a challenging read, but the payoff is worth the effort.
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Summary: Poetic
Review: Roy's critically acclaimed novel, The God of Small Things, is not an easy read about another culture. There are few surprises in the story of this novel. What there is, however, will force you to keep reading until you have absorbed every word of this lyrically-written novel. The book is the tale of two twins, Rahel and Esta. Rahel has returned to America to see her brother, who she has missed for years since he was sent to live with their father after the death of their cousin, Sophie Mol. Seeing India, and Esta again after so long, brings Rahel back to the weeks prior to her cousin's death. In recollecting these times, she begins to understand how the caste system has shaped her existance, and comes to an understanding of the 'love laws,' which dictate who we should love, and how much. This book is beautifully written and should be appreciated.
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