false \ 931213 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179557517m/931213.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179557517m/931213.jpg 88815 27 725380 book 2 4 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist total:4107|5:654|4:1587|3:1322|2:426|1:118| 4107 14554 5630 1065 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 3 12 false Fri Feb 01 05:47:08 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 05:47:49 -0800 2008
Lately, there has been a flowering of...more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 8 false Sat Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 22:37:51 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 22:43:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 7 false Fri Jul 13 04:29:14 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:28:32 -0800 2009
Because it’s short, yet evocative: a relief at a time when authors needlessly pile on the pages.

Because it’s hard enough to sustain a distinctive voice for a dramatic monologue in a poem (ask Robert Browning), leave alone an entire novel.
...more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 2 7 false Mon Apr 30 07:34:48 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:39:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 1 9 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 10:16:57 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 22:00:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 931213 0241143659 9780241143650 48 18 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179557517m/931213.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/931213.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 1 5 false Mon Jul 30 01:37:23 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 02:48:29 -0800 2009 What happened to the brilliant author of Moth Smoke?

This book with his narrator's monologue looks like an attempt to simplify both: literature and points of view.

Even irony seems put here and there without a logic.
And the effect of al...more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 3 7 false Tue Jun 17 11:34:34 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 12:32:38 -0700 2008
These are the most confuseing ideas for the ...more...]]> 950545 0156034026 9780156034029 180 41 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255638670m/950545.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/950545.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 2 5 false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 11:00:59 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 15:22:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2163164 0141029544 9780141029542 123 39 3.54 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2163164.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 2 3 false Fri Apr 10 17:06:50 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 19:41:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 3 3 true Mon Sep 15 22:35:01 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 23:43:55 -0700 2008
The structure of this is tale is Changez telling his personal story to a burly American visitor (probably a spook of some sort) to his country, in his function as a guide to Pakistan. The tone was very reminiscent of Rudyard Kipl...more...]]> 950545 0156034026 9780156034029 180 41 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255638670m/950545.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/950545.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 5 4 false Fri Sep 12 11:19:06 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 06:24:02 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 08:34:21 -0800 2008
I seldom pick up a book without first perusing the reviews of others to see if it will be worth my while and this book was no exception. So I will never know whether I’d have spotted the all...more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 3 3 false Fri Jul 18 14:51:50 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 14:52:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 3 true Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 00:43:35 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 10:42:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 3 false Thu Nov 08 06:33:24 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 08:14:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 3 3 false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 13:41:14 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 16:09:33 -0700 2008
First half of this book was excellent. The author starts with an interesting device, the narrator, a Pakistani educated in the US now living in Pakistan me...more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 2 false Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:45:01 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 11:20:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 2 false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 15:44:46 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 15:46:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 1 false Sat Dec 06 08:52:46 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 17:23:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 3 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 06 16:11:48 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 16:19:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 88815 0151013047 9780151013043 3654 939 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171138335m/88815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88815.The_Reluctant_Fundamentalist 4 2 false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 11:28:15 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 15:23:33 -0800 2009
Written in a one sided conversationalist tone, Hamid pulls us into the story of Changez and grabs our attention from the first sentence.
A 21 year old Princeton graduate, lands his first, major jo...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=931213