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Vikas Swarup

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4.5 stars. I liked this better than the movie.

Not sure really about this. Slumdog Millionaire is an incredible film so this novel has a brilliant storyline thread however I did switch off with a few chapters when they strayed from the main character’s central story.

Loved this book. I listened to it after I had seen the movie. The book is better (of course) but the movie didn't ruin it at all.

LOVE the reader, very very good and engaging.
adventurous dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
inspiring slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

me cuesta reseñar y calificar este libro, porque incluso si lo disfruté, no puedo abstraerme totalmente de lo nefasto que es de a momentos. no la historia en sí, que a decir verdad me entretuvo bastante, sino más bien la bajada de línea poco sutil del autor. la homofobia y misoginia de swarup están muy presentes en la novela, con un poco de capacitismo espolvoreado también. además, después de leer opiniones de personas mucho más informadas que yo, me enteré de lo poco fiel que es el libro a la india de la realidad y cómo apela constantemente a una visión muy occidental. ew.

SIN EMBARGO, todo esto dicho (y contemplado si se fuera a hacer un análisis crítico), tengo que confesar que lo disfruté bastante. la trama es interesante y me gustó la estructura. leer cada capítulo era esperar alguna vuelta de tuerca sorprendente (valga el oximorón, si se quiere) o algún otro desenlace entretenido. en ningún momento me aburrió (bueno, casi, el capítulo del soldado fue medio zzz, pero no lo suficiente como para que quiera criticarlo).

es una novela que quiero leer desde que tuve que analizar un solo capítulo para una clase el año pasado y es muy satisfactorio finalmente haberlo hecho. no me arrepiento.

como libro que no aburre y tiene unas vueltas interesantes, lo recomiendo, pero solo si se tiene en mente que es inevitable comerse momentos de amargura por toda la homofobia y misoginia presentes. no tiene una redacción maravillosa, ni una trama que vuele la cabeza, pero logra su cometido y, sobre todo, entretiene mucho.
adventurous dark funny reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

So here's the book that inspired Slumdog Millionaire, and it's one of those cases where the movie is much better than the book. It's not as if this book is terrible. I read through it in just a few days and it was certainly entertaining. It's just so...cheesy. Swarup lays something on thick. Some theme, some irony, whathaveyou. And as if the thick spread isn't enough, he points it out to you. I rolled my eyes so many times at this, as it seemed to happen again and again. His twists and turns were too obvious- made even more obvious by him laboriously spelling it all out for us.
That being said, the idea is great. I really enjoyed the structure of the novel. The execution, however, felt immature.

Kiva rakenne, menevä juoni, inhottava ja vahingollinen homorepresentaatio.

Listened to this book. It held my attention, had realistic and depressing content, and created suspense despite knowing (partially) the ending of the story. Ultimately it’s a great underdog story.