Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Escape, Fiction, Indian Fiction, Indian Novel, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Manjula Padmanabhan, Novels on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two budding flowers and few drops of blood, the cover says it all. It took me a while to make the connection. Deep, I must add.
Actually the only new IWE book the Bangalore Airport had was this one. Only later did I hear that most critics had trashed this one and not without some reason.
Escape is [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Book review, Books, Indian authors, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels, Indian Writers, Indian Writing, Indian writing in English, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, Review, Siddharth Dhanvanth Shanghvi, The Last Song of Dusk, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If the ’Last Song of Dusk’ was bizarre, this one is bizarre too; less but bizarre all the same. Siddarth hid behind the facade of magic realism in his last book, this one however exposes him. ‘The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay’ is disappointing and does not stand up to all the hype created by the spin doctors. Even the [...]
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I was wading through Lament of Mohini by Shreekumar Varma and feeling any book would be a reprieve when I started on ‘In The Country of Deceit’. I have to admit that it started off well and then it just tapered off especially towards the end as though the author also lost interest and just was not sure [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Abha Dawesar, Babyji, Book review, Books, Indian authors, Indian Writers, Indian writing in English, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, You Are Here on September 4, 2008 | 40 Comments »
She was on ‘We the People’ a while ago, awkwardly warding questions about how much of her blog is fact and how much was fiction. Meenakshi also talked about how the popularity of her blog resulted in her being approached by publishers to write a book. Ever since I was intrigued about her book and was looking [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Books, Fiction, Indian writing in English, Indian authors, Book review, Indian Writing, Novels, Timeri N Murari, Indian Fiction, Indian Novels on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Timeri N Murari is a name that you will see tucked away among the likes of Rohinton Mistry, Anita Desai, Anita Nair, etc in the Indian Fiction section of libraries and book shops. I had never tried reading Murari before and if this book is any reflection of his skill I won’t be reading anymore.
The novel is based on the [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, tagged Anna K Chacko, Book review, Books, Chitra Divakaruni, Fiction, Hyderabad, Indian authors, Indian writing in English, Kerala, Malayalis, Mistress of Spices, Syrian Christians on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am thoroughly confused about this book, I searched the book for clues, I trawled the Internet and yet I am not sure - some say this book is a memoir, some say fictionalised autobiography and some others say it is a novel. And what exactly is a fictionalised autobiography? It can only be one of the two – fiction [...]
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Posted in Disappointing, Short Stories, tagged Book review, Books, Fiction, Indian authors, Indian Writers, Indian writing in English, Malayali, Short Stories, Under the Rain Tree, Vatsala Balachandran Warrier, Writing on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I should have judged the book by its cover this time. Sometimes my quest for checking out unheralded authors backfires, and how. This is another book that I regret having bought, not for the cost but the anticipation and effort. After having read short story collections by Kunal Basu, Shinie Antony, Vassanji and Rohinton Mistry, [...]
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After all the good ones, here’s one that really disappointed. At the outset let me say this that these are my views and they are unbiased. This was outright vanilla, no substance, depth and one felt empty after reading it. There was absolutely no take way and is a feeble attempt at writing.
Now let me get to my issues with the [...]
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