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Summary: Interesting, Most of the Time
Review: This is an outstanding maiden effort. I found the book a compelling and interesting read. The author does a good job characterising the people in the story, especially the twins Estha and Rahel. As a result, readers are actually able to really empathise for them. The author also does great in playing around with various words and expressions, and in slowly unfolding the mystery. Because the story moves from past to present, I got confused at some parts, but this adds to the suspense that is felt and maintained, especially towards the second half. All in all, this book does deserve the Booker Prize.
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Summary: tedious to read
Review: Well, there is nothing so great about it;even for one like me who is quite familiar with kerala.This is strictly the experience of certain people told in a unique native manner.But a Booker forthis?After all what does the book has to say?
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Summary: a good book on an important subject
Review: I found reading Roy sometimes dull, but mostly exciting, exhilarating and increasingly sadmaking as the destructive developments are related in a relentless, even laconic mixture of visual closeness and emotional distance. The book is a desperate roller-coaster ride to inevitable doom, and it is appropriately chosen to tackle the subject of caste racism that in itself is so very violent.
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Summary: It seems like a autobigraphy
Review: This autobiography is an very unusual story. The authors describtion of every small things like... In the beginning the discribsion of the season in Kottyam has drawn very successfully .. I appriciate it because its the debute novel of Arundhati roy and also, remember that her profession is not a writing. she's a architect and writing it in a very describing it like a very poetic mannar. another thing is that her using of local language is also a very unique kind of expression .Ya I didn't understand those exact meaning but I research for those words. It really expressed very beautifully.
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Summary: what comes from the heart is usually universal..
Review: my first thought upon reading the first few chapters was..how could she make up it all up? she had to have lived it herself...the novel is that powerful..the author writes unconventionally..but the ideas get conveyed nevertheless. its a story that leaves you satisfied with the finale..worth the time put in. when i finished reading it, i looked out the window and thought about the characters for a few minutes..they felt so real.. i gave it an 8..if i read it again in future, then maybe it deserves a 9..but that remains to be seen...right now i feel like i do after seeing a beautiful movie or listening to mahler's 5th..
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Summary: the eyes of a child
Review: Reading this book reminded me that as we grow older we do not always grow wiser. Our adult observations are filtered through the courtesies and proprieties that society works hard to make our norm. If we could stop, occasionally, and see the world around us through the eyes of a seven year old child, we might see truths that we forget to look for. Ms. Roy gave me back my seven year old eyes while I read this book. Her own lack of editing allowed me to turn my head one way and then another, trying to follow the illogical self-absorbed world of the grown-ups who make life wrenching decisions based on hurt that has piled up over time. Her book is a gift.
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Summary: Is it deserve booker prize
Review: The succsess of the book The god of small things was not by the quality of the book by the business tricks of the publisher . It is so rediculas that making derogatory comments about a well known personality.
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Summary: Delicious! Delicious!
Review: The God of Small Things is one of those extraordinary novels, written in a flash of divine brilliance portraying ordinary, everyday people like you and me. Deeply personal in nature, it exposes the ever so realistic emotions that each of us experience in our journey through life, as seen and described through the innocent eyes of a pair of (di-zygotic) twins. The detail in which Roy describes the South-Indian landscape of Ayemennem and the innocuous manner in which she gives an insight into the mentality of people like Mammachi, Chacko, Baby Kochamma and all the other characters, is startlingly realistic. Quite becomingly, it is the small things in the novel that leave deep impressions if not scars on the reader's mind. Whether it is Pappachi's moth, the OrangeDrink-LemonDrink man, or Sophie Mol the thimble-drinker and coffin-cartwheeler, they all come back to haunt the subconscious in the strangest of ways. I thought I knew what life was about before I read this novel.
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Summary: One of the finest fiction I have read in a long long time.
Review: As a Keralite having never lived there but visiting it on and off for several years, I was able to relate to the authors observations with nothing short of awe and amazement. True, the English language has been handled in an original and uninhibited style that is intself pathbreaking and full of intrigue. However, what is astonishing is the sheer visual delight that the words evoke, particularly for someone who can relate to the environment and the people. The way the characters blend in and out of the story with a sense of mystique is reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia d'Marquez and a 100 years of solitude. What Arundhati has been able to do is to bring a part of Kerala to life as nobody has ever done before. The story itself is a sad comment on the state of affairs in a world that has stood still inspite of the many changes that seem to occur on the surface. But laced through this tale of suffering is a remarkable ability to infuse a sense of humour that never really allows the reader to predict the authors next observation. This is a story that has been told in the raw , without any pretensions and with a level of sincerity that has left many readers like myself with a strong urge to say Bravo! Well done!
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Summary: A BOOK RESERVED FOR LITERARY BUFFS
Review: After reading this book, I know why it clinched the Booker Prize. Like last year's winner, Graham Swift's Last Orders, it is so literary. Nearly every paragraph contains a metaphor or a simile. It is good to have some of these sporadically placed throughout the book, but certainly not with the frequency seen in the book!. This book generated so much hype in the media but is a thorough disappointment for readers like myself. A tedious task to read.
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