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A very disturbing read, but one I recommend highly to anyone who has ever wondered about their capacity for parenthood. Here's the dark side -- with absolutely nothing held back. Gripping, harrowing, and rings true right to the end. This is not a feel-good book, and it will leave you marked. Shriver has captured the minutiae and the bizarreness of family relationships with searing accuracy. A great one to chew over months later.
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Borderline bland and not a chalk to her short stories -- although Lahiri's eye for detail is as sharp as ever, the book otherwise failed to distinguish itself from the masses of other South Asian diaspora lit around. Sadly, yet another "life and times of an ABCD" ... I kept waiting for it to grab me and it never did.
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We Need To Talk About Kevin (UK Edition) by Lionel Shriver
joy bangla, January 30, 2007
A very disturbing read, but one I recommend highly to anyone who has ever wondered about their capacity for parenthood. Here's the dark side -- with absolutely nothing held back. Gripping, harrowing, and rings true right to the end. This is not a feel-good book, and it will leave you marked. Shriver has captured the minutiae and the bizarreness of family relationships with searing accuracy. A great one to chew over months later.(7 of 13 readers found this comment helpful)
The Namesake: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri
joy bangla, January 30, 2007
Borderline bland and not a chalk to her short stories -- although Lahiri's eye for detail is as sharp as ever, the book otherwise failed to distinguish itself from the masses of other South Asian diaspora lit around. Sadly, yet another "life and times of an ABCD" ... I kept waiting for it to grab me and it never did.(34 of 54 readers found this comment helpful)