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A review by ashleylm
A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
4.0
This was a long time ago, and we had to read it for class (Commonwealth Literature). I barely remember plot details, but this was certainly my favourite of the books we'd read (much preferred to Things Fall Apart) ... it seemed very accessible to me, and was a bit like a Barbara Pym or Jane Austin, a nice book with lots of dialogue in a constrained social setting that (for whatever reason) simply made sense to me.
Note: I have written a novel (not yet published), so now I will suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. In my subjective opinion, the stars suggest:
(5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = really enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = actually disappointing, and 1* = hated it. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
Note: I have written a novel (not yet published), so now I will suffer pangs of guilt every time I offer less than five stars. In my subjective opinion, the stars suggest:
(5* = one of my all-time favourites, 4* = really enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = actually disappointing, and 1* = hated it. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)