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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
FINALLY! I have finished this beautifully written, yet painful to read novel. And not just painful because the characters have few redeeming qualities. Painful because I just slogged through it. Definitely not a page turner. I'm glad it's over.
I don't think I quite knew what "devastating" meant when applied to a book before I read this one.
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This author is able to write so beautifully, musically, with so much color and rich characters, and yet cover so many themes including Imperialism and the immigrant experience. I loved reading about village life in India as well as the experiences of the immigrant in gritty New York restaurants. It is sort of a tragic book, there's beauty and pain all the way through the last page.
I think this was another case of the audiobook being the wrong medium. Had a really hard time getting through this one, despite some nice writing.
While it is beautifully written Kiran Desai just never quite manages to make me care about the characters, they all seem rather repulsive in different ways and whereas I got the feeling I could be interested in their lives, it just doesn't happen in this book, which is a shame.
Read this book for its prose, it’s diction, and it’s attempt to elucidate the different types of Indians (in different “Indian” situations) although as for the latter, there are so many and so varied of us that sometimes the only thing common between two Indians is that they are Indians—and that’s usually enough. Sometimes the similes abd metaphors, even though exquisite and simply beautiful, seem so abundant that I had to take a break to get back in. It’s a book to be read slowly for sure without hoping for a story. I’m super impressed by Kiran Desai’s style of writing.
I was feeling bad about not being more into this book, but now I see two of my friends felt the same way. So be it.