The God of Small Things.

[bright.ton42]

Has anyone else read this?      Booker Prize winner 1997.

I'm halfway through and i don't know if I love it or hate it.    

The prose is  exquisite  but i do find   it confusing.with all the characters and time changes.   

[imastawka]

I just read the synopsis.

Sorry, but I think I would hate it.

Is it slow going?

[tasfleur]

I am struggling to appreciate it also.  Many might not agree with me, but I think the standard of writing is quite lacking in maturity ..

[domino-710]

From here - an harrowing experience - ie reading - I would not cheerfully - undertake.

[bright.ton42]

Sawks I find it slow going as it's so confusing.  You're dealing with unfamiliar Indian names for a start and so many are thrown at you in the beginning it's confusing..... for me it was anyway.  Then there's the going back and forth from one time to another.  I think to read it best to have a pencil and paper and write down who everyone is. 

Tas I know what you mean.  I find myself thinking some of it is beautiful,  then getting  impatient with it. 

I haven't read many Booker prize winners but I just hated The Life of Pi, also The english Patient.  Loved The Remains of the Day, but that's all.

[icyfroth]

Yes, I read it, Bright.

It's amazing how it unravels. Unravels is a good word for the way the author tells the story, I think.

A bit of a culture shock, to be sure.

Well worth reading to the end, when it all becomes clear.

Beautifully written by Arundhati Roy. I love Indian authors

[bright.ton42]

Yes Icy I've finished it and it does fall into place at the end .  That last chapter is  heartbreakingly beautiful.

I still  wish the author had made it all a  little more clear during the book. 

I find myself thinking about it a lot and am going to re-read it when I've made a dent in all the To Read books on my list. 

I do agree with you about Indian writers, I love them too.  .

[kopenhagen5]

I haven't read many Booker prize winners but I just hated The Life of Pi, also The english Patient.  Loved The Remains of the Day, but that's all.

One of my faves and in the movie, two of my favorite actors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2un8xvArsU

[tasfleur]

"I still  wish the author had made it all a  little more clear during the book"

Couldn't agree more Bright.ton.  I might get back to it later.

If there is one thing I intensely dislike in literature, when it occurs, is page after page ad nauseam of long winded waffle which only has the purpose of lengthening the story/information and subsequently loses what it starts out to say as meaningful.

There are so many authors doing that, perhaps not intentionally, but there it is.  Perhaps it's a writer cultural thing; who knows where that will lead to given the evolution of  "tech-texting" ...

[lyhargr_0]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

I haven't read many Booker prize winners but I just hated The Life of Pi, also The english Patient.  Loved The Remains of the Day, but that's all.

One of my faves and in the movie, two of my favorite actors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2un8xvArsU

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Re watched it yesterday, brilliant film  imo