false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177001054m/672204.jpg 210834 139 One of the particular pleasures of reading <I>Kim</I> is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: <blockquote> Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. </blockquote> From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'" <p> In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises <I>Kim</I> above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. <I>--Alix Wilber</I> 1512424 book 1900 Kim total:2264|5:540|4:743|3:660|2:248|1:73| 2264 8221 3538 242 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 5 7 false Mon Dec 01 21:11:01 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 00:49:22 -0800 2008 "The Game", the seventh entry in the Mary Russell series. Feel free to come and join in the discussion, even if you come across this after December has passed--the discussion will remain open indefinitely for new thoughts and comments. Click for more...more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 4 2 false Wed Apr 23 21:34:03 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 21:34:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 5 2 false Fri May 09 18:16:47 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 23:05:17 -0700 2008 Kim and Jonny Quest cartoons formed my idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up.]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 4 2 false Tue Sep 02 10:32:08 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 12:32:51 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 10:32:08 -0700 2008
This is one of those books at the center of the academic street fight known as postcolonial studies. On one hand, Rudyard Kipling was a great (and Nobel Prize-winning) writer; on the other han...more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 4 1 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 21:25:03 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 08 21:25:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 176458 0679443606 9780679443605 10 3 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172442612m/176458.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176458.Kim 5 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 12:33:59 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 15 09:37:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 10698 1593081928 9781593081928 47 13 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166272743m/10698.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10698.Kim 0 1 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 12 17:48:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 08:47:35 -0700 2007
I love the Jungle Books and some other Kipling short stories that I have read, so I am determined to get into this book. we shall see.

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Also true: Kipling was a raging racist and sexist. He is remembered for these characteristics almost as much as for the publication of The Jungle Book and Just So Stories.

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"And after?"
"Let the Gods order it. I have never pestered Them with prayers: I do not think they will pester me. Look You, I have noticed in my long life that those who eternally break in upon ...more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 4 0 false Fri Mar 13 17:20:11 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 17:20:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 1 0 false Fri Apr 24 02:51:36 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 03:00:33 -0700 2009
Yes, everyone knows the dirty techniques them Brits used to leave its colonies worse off than before..weaker and corrupted. The wars in the Middle East are the best example. Look at the way they left India when they le...more...]]> 210834 0140183523 9780140183528 1814 170 3.63 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172725862m/210834.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210834.Kim 4 1 false Sun Jul 06 08:11:33 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 08:12:24 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=672204