Go ahead - spend some time on this amazing work

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Reviewed Inheritance of Loss, The - Kiran Desai

From the moment I began the first chapter until I reached the final page, this book never ceased to fascinate me. The book itself is full of contradictions, botread more...

Ms.Woolf would be proud of this effort !

5

Reviewed Hours, The - Michael Cunnigham

Michael Cunningham has written a beautiful modern version of Virginia Woolf’s classic ’’Mrs. Dalloway,’’ managing to capture the compleread more...

Mesmerizing !

5

Reviewed Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt

In Frank McCourt’s childhood memoir, Angela’s Ashes, the writing so clearly depicts his emotions from his past that is amazing what great detail is caread more...

The Spirit of Romanticism.....

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Reviewed Dream Of The Unified Field, The - Jorie Graham

Perhaps the most common indictment made about any of Graham’s works is that they are too philosophical and complex--so complex that they distance themselveread more...

THE HEAT OF THE ROMANCE...THE DUST OF ITS ASHES..

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Reviewed Heat And Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s powerful and beautifully written novel of an ’’outrageous’’ Anglo-Indian romance in 1920s Khatm and Satipur, Hearead more...

Sorry people .... poetic but an immature effort!

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Reviewed God Of Small Things, The - Arundhati Roy

I remember an unusually well-read American friend of mine telling me that this book has been a revealation to him about the qualities of indo-english writers anread more...

Anticipation was and wasn't rewarded

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Reviewed Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

The pivotal plot in ’’Amsterdam’’, not much critically examined by other reviewers here, is a story about two not really successful people aread more...

Marvellous stuff !!

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Reviewed English Patient, The - Michael Ondaatje

The cover copy of my version of ’’The English Patient’’ indicates that the book within is ’’A rare and spellbinding web of dreams.read more...

Every fan needs to have this !

5

Reviewed Rent - Jonathan Larson

This book can only be described as beautiful. It’s content, the pictures, everything is a true dedication to the work of Jonathan Larson. The book begins aread more...

A postmodern, postcritical reintegration of the s

5

Reviewed God : A Biography - Jack Miles

When I first heard about God: A Biography, I was put off by what I considered a ’’cutesy’’ title. Mentally, I catalogued the book with efforread more...

Seeds Appear Not to Be Sown in Naipaul's Misbegot

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Reviewed Half a Life - V S Naipaul

The title of V.S. Naipaul’s new novel refers to the beginning of the revolution by the guerilla fighters his main character, Wllie Chandran, meets in Indiaread more...

A mesmerizing, comic tale of post-colonial Mr Bis

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Reviewed House For Mr Biswas, A - V S Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas is an exotic novel. He writes about Indians in Trinidad; his acute observations and fantastic skill at capturing eacread more...

Its good , definitely not THE best !

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Reviewed Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat

Five reasons why Hari, Ryan and Alok’s lives are in a complete mess:

1. They’ve messed up their grades big time.
2. Alok and Ryan can’t stop bickerinread more...