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A review by geertje
Dystopia Utopia Short Stories by Dave Golder, Jack London, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, Gerri Leen, Claude Lalumière, Robert W. Chambers, Jeff Parsons, M. Darusha Wehm, Edward Bellamy, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Konstantine Paradias, Kelsey Shannahan, Carolyn Charron, J.M. Templet, Voltaire, Nidhi Singh, Thomas More, Kim Antieau, Michelle Kaseler, Steve Carr, Mary Shelley, Megan Dorei, Rudyard Kipling, Jeremy Szal, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Andrew J. Wilson, Russ Thorne, William Morris, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
2.0
An English boy who grew up in India and is called Kim goes on an adventure whilst accompanying a priest who is trying to find a magical river.
MEH. This book really didn’t do much for me. I found it difficult to understand at times. I’m not sure whether it was because of the unfamiliar setting, or whether your average Brit just knows a lot more about India than I do, or whether Kipling just didn’t write this book in an easy to understand way, but either way, I just didn’t feel engrossed. I also feel that for a spy-novel the plot meandered too much. Maybe I’m missing something very important here, but I ultimately found this novel quite forgettable. I only persisted in reading because it is part of the ‘Matilda reading challenge’.
MEH. This book really didn’t do much for me. I found it difficult to understand at times. I’m not sure whether it was because of the unfamiliar setting, or whether your average Brit just knows a lot more about India than I do, or whether Kipling just didn’t write this book in an easy to understand way, but either way, I just didn’t feel engrossed. I also feel that for a spy-novel the plot meandered too much. Maybe I’m missing something very important here, but I ultimately found this novel quite forgettable. I only persisted in reading because it is part of the ‘Matilda reading challenge’.