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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
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reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
I read this humorous travel memoir shortly before I went to India in 2007. It's stuck with me all these years.
I couldn't get past the ignorance and disrespect towards India in the first half of this book. Although everyone has a right to their opinion and I do feel like the author had some development and growth, I still wish the country, its people, and its culture could have been approached with a bit more respect and admiration, especially at the beginning.
I wish I could give this book zero stars. What a condescending, racist piece of garbage. Why write about going to India if you didn't even like it? I saw this book sold in stores everywhere in India and I wish they would take it off the shelves. Sarah MacDonald is a peddler of lies about this truly phenomenal country. Please don't read it.
After reading the back of the book I thought this would be funnier and more about love than religion. It started out okay. The author had left her job in Australia and traveled to India to live with her boyfriend. It quickly became about her journey through all the different religions she found there. Some of it was interesting, but overall I found the book boring.
Didn't completely finish this one... its interesting in terms of her perspective and travels in india... but like many travel narratives ends up kinda self absorbed at the end, and the reflections kinda dwindle.....
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This is a great book if you're thinking about traveling to India. Sarah Macdonald doesn't pull any punches in describing the country - it's down and dirty and it takes her a long time to fall in love with it. Late in the story, when she welcomes some friends from home into her now-Indian life on their first trip through the subcontinent, she sees in them the horror that she first experienced herself. And thus realizes how far she has come. I couldn't promise that I'd love (or even like) India, but Sarah's journey is more than geographical - it turns her into the kind of person you'd have to be to survive, and take anything from, the Indian experience.
I enjoyed this book, but it didn't match what I thought it was going to be. The opening chapter, the cover, the blurb.....everything led me to believe it was going to be a humurous travel memoir. Although it had those elements at times, it was much more of an exploration of one woman's journey of self discovery as she became accustomed to living in a country as foreign as India. There was much discussion of her quest for faith and a fair bit of lengthy description.
absolutely hilarious. a must read for anyone who's been to the exotic subcontinental land of India! :)
At first I was absolutely appalled by the poverty described by Sarah on her return to India. As I started to settle, I very much enjoyed her explorations of the religions within the sub-continent, it added to my own knowledge and provided an opportunity for further reading.
I finished thinking our own spirituality is made up of our discoveries within our lifetime. The religion of our childhood should not be the religion of our adulthood. We have a responsibility to ponder and reflect. If it's about rejecting conventional religion. so be it. If its about taking bits of many, again so be it.
I finished thinking our own spirituality is made up of our discoveries within our lifetime. The religion of our childhood should not be the religion of our adulthood. We have a responsibility to ponder and reflect. If it's about rejecting conventional religion. so be it. If its about taking bits of many, again so be it.