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sweetpeamarie's review against another edition
4.0
Waugh's wit remains as fresh as ever. A fun, quick read!
felicitydisco's review
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Sometimes racist/xenophobic but mostly hilarious.
d_marie's review against another edition
4.0
Good book
I read the spin off series first but this is just as good. Minah hustles hard for her family, but no one really appreciates it imo. I'm not feeling Marco as a character and Amir gets on my nerves. How is he trying to make moves with his mama's money. Off to read book 2
I read the spin off series first but this is just as good. Minah hustles hard for her family, but no one really appreciates it imo. I'm not feeling Marco as a character and Amir gets on my nerves. How is he trying to make moves with his mama's money. Off to read book 2
_tom_'s review
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia
onlysomewhat's review
3.0
Your fave is problematic. I adore Waugh - biting and bitchy, smart, funny, with quippy, agile prose. Having previously read only his fiction, where that peevish, acid eye is turned (mainly) on his peers, (and, obviously, with the remove of almost a century), I'd found his works delicious, or sad, or funny, but always impressive. Here, he achieves equally prodigious heights of dizzying racism, snobbery, and sexism. Paroxysms of bigotry! Classism of the highest order! Aside from the general repugnancy of those ways of thinking (of course, he's not alone in works of earlier periods), also damning is that his smug, too too bored tone comes off in the most affected, banal way. He's been outdone by hipsters. Still, almost in spite of himself and his apparent effort to be blase in three continents, there are fascinating bits of travel detail.
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