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It's very reporter-y at times, but this is a fascinating memoir by an Australian journalist living in India.
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced
I loved this book. Her writing style and narrative voice drew me in because it is very stylised, almost every line is full of beautiful alliteration.
It's very honest and reads as a sort of diary from an Australian westerns perspective about her LIVING in India for many many years.
I thought that was really amazing, it's one thing to travel and another thing to live there, and she does everything to explore that, and try, despite her previous hate for the country. She grows to live it. It's full of a very self depreciating Aussie humor which you can tell was a part of her inner rants. It was very funny and a lot. I mostly read fantasy and it read as this fantastical real life novel with so many cultural and spiritual differences that makes it this whole other exciting world.
It's very honest and reads as a sort of diary from an Australian westerns perspective about her LIVING in India for many many years.
I thought that was really amazing, it's one thing to travel and another thing to live there, and she does everything to explore that, and try, despite her previous hate for the country. She grows to live it. It's full of a very self depreciating Aussie humor which you can tell was a part of her inner rants. It was very funny and a lot. I mostly read fantasy and it read as this fantastical real life novel with so many cultural and spiritual differences that makes it this whole other exciting world.
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
informative
fast-paced
Excellent book! 50% Indian culture / 50% religious trouts.
I learnt a lot from this book. I listened to the audiobook over several weeks on my walk to school and it was always stimulating, a great start to my day. I let all the particulars of the various religions wash over me but I feel wiser and less ignorant than I was before. Charming. Worth it.
If you are considering visiting India, this book will make you want to stay home. MacDonald's experience, though tinged with some admiration, dwells on the poverty, filth and stink of the country. No wonder many readers describe her as condescending. Though her description of the Jains (one of many, many belief systems she visits) is already filling in a few blanks in the book I'm currently reading, this is altogether too long, episodic and negative. More later after my trip!