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kavity85 's review for:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by Arundhati Roy
Firstly, where is the story?
Secondly, if you want to rant, then call it that. Why call it fiction?
Thirdly, eloquence and all is fine, even not having a story is fine, but where is structure and continuity. I mean, 'beauty in meandering lines' is something I can acknowledge in a poem, but in a book? One can't just wake up, write some lines, shut the manuscript, wake up again, write some more lines, which may or may not be linked to the previous set (mostly not), shut the manuscript and so on. Or maybe one can. Doesn't mean the reader has to read it. I understand that the author feels strongly about a lot of causes - Muslims, caste system, Maoist struggle. Please write one book each on each of those (fiction), don't mash everything together and rant rant rant.
Fourthly, the beauty in a book (for me - I am no one to show off to a Booker prize winner) is in characterisation. The reader should feel one with the character, at least feel for the character. There is no depth, no depth at all.
Lastly, where is the story?
Secondly, if you want to rant, then call it that. Why call it fiction?
Thirdly, eloquence and all is fine, even not having a story is fine, but where is structure and continuity. I mean, 'beauty in meandering lines' is something I can acknowledge in a poem, but in a book? One can't just wake up, write some lines, shut the manuscript, wake up again, write some more lines, which may or may not be linked to the previous set (mostly not), shut the manuscript and so on. Or maybe one can. Doesn't mean the reader has to read it. I understand that the author feels strongly about a lot of causes - Muslims, caste system, Maoist struggle. Please write one book each on each of those (fiction), don't mash everything together and rant rant rant.
Fourthly, the beauty in a book (for me - I am no one to show off to a Booker prize winner) is in characterisation. The reader should feel one with the character, at least feel for the character. There is no depth, no depth at all.
Lastly, where is the story?