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A review by liralen
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald
3.0
The first time Macdonald went to India, she loathed it and vowed never to return. But return she did, this time in pursuit of her partner, and she had to change her tune or be miserable.
Macdonald is astoundingly negative for the first twenty pages of the book -- enough so that I was left reeling for the next hundred pages, even though she was making an effort to make it work. I read this article right before reading Holy Cow, and one of the things the article says about Holtorf is that 'Holtorf advises people not to moan about countries they visit. They cannot change them, so if they don’t like them, they should stay away.' Seems like that might've been a good lesson here. (Of course, perhaps one could say the same about books...)
It's too bad, because once Macdonald gives India a chance, she learns some interesting things about it; she experiences a lot and ends up writing about the various religions she learned about. I'm glad I stuck with it; I laughed out loud at the bit about the hand twist. So...bitter first taste, got better with chewing? Or something like that.
Macdonald is astoundingly negative for the first twenty pages of the book -- enough so that I was left reeling for the next hundred pages, even though she was making an effort to make it work. I read this article right before reading Holy Cow, and one of the things the article says about Holtorf is that 'Holtorf advises people not to moan about countries they visit. They cannot change them, so if they don’t like them, they should stay away.' Seems like that might've been a good lesson here. (Of course, perhaps one could say the same about books...)
It's too bad, because once Macdonald gives India a chance, she learns some interesting things about it; she experiences a lot and ends up writing about the various religions she learned about. I'm glad I stuck with it; I laughed out loud at the bit about the hand twist. So...bitter first taste, got better with chewing? Or something like that.