false <![CDATA[The God of Small Things]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166054170m/9777.jpg 9777 62 In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. <i>The God of Small Things</i> is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. <I>The God of Small Things</I> is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language. 810135 book 22 4 1997 The God of Small Things total:21552|5:7933|4:7121|3:4206|2:1556|1:700| 21552 84713 29276 2448 4 25 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 22:29:11 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 21:48:57 -0700 2008 The God of Small Things is like having your arms and legs tied to a slowly moving, possibly dying horse, and being dragged face-down through the jungle. I mean, like that, only nice. You can't stop seeing and smelling everything, and it's all so foreign and rich. Potent...more...]]> 1 19 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 18 16:45:35 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 22 10:23:26 -0800 2007
I'm not giving this book a one-star rating because of the quality of Roy's wr...more...]]> 5 13 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 17 00:47:38 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 17 01:03:56 -0800 2007
It's melancholy, not depressing, and it answers more questions about the characters than it first seemed to, although, I have to say, the c...more...]]> 1 8 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Apr 26 03:28:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 19 02:29:05 -0700 2009
The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997, and I'd heard very good things about it. And yet I really didn't like it. It's not a bad book - far from it. The characters she has created are really wonde...more...]]> 5 10 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 19:24:39 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 19:59:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 7 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Jul 28 11:40:31 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 11:46:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 11 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 14 04:13:48 -0700 2008 Tue May 19 04:10:13 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 10 11:42:06 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 10 11:52:55 -0700 2007 Arudhati Roi's writing in The God of Small Things is hyper-aware of that. Rhythmic structures dominate the novel at all levels, from the riffs and variations of "If he touched her he couldn't talk to her, if he lo...more...]]> 1 6 false false Mon Oct 29 21:45:27 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 21:49:42 -0700 2007 It makes virtually no sense, jumping from past to present tense so often and without warning that you have no idea whats going on. Out of nowhere the writer mentions filthy disturbing sexual things for no reason. I could not even fin...more...]]> 5 6 false false Wed Jun 03 15:43:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 21:10:25 -0700 2009
- All the bad guys are ugly and/or fat, while all the good guys are beautiful.
- Velutha has no personality. He is a s...more...]]> 3 4 false false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 02:28:13 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 09:14:03 -0800 2009
The story told about two-egg twins and their family caught up in a whirlwind of coincidences that all conspired to crea...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 11:26:07 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 20:45:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 07:11:16 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 09 07:25:20 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 11:08:01 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 10:57:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Fri Jun 22 06:51:28 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 07:14:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Mar 22 12:57:07 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 06:27:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Nov 15 17:22:23 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 15:10:07 -0800 2008 5 3 false false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 18:51:15 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 10:13:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 30 10:58:51 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 10:59:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 06:48:46 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 06:49:32 -0800 2008 The God of Small Things
1997, Flamingo
340 pages

Seldom while reading have I found my heart aching and my eyes watering when only at page 5.

The God of Small Things, set in India, is a story of a family torn apart by the wish to love, but more so, the des...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9777