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The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

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Jul 08, 2011 Katie rated it it was ok

I should have liked this book more. It has so many elements that I love: the language is poetic, the descriptions depict the characters and settings so clearly and with such dimension that they rise off the page to embody and enact the plot as I read.

And yet. Through no fault of the author's, I don't know that I enjoyed reading it--I'm not sure why. I found it sad, but that's not a fatal flaw for other books (I'm thinking of The Book Thief, here). I was frustrated that events you know of from r ...more

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Dec 13, 2020 Jillypenny rated it it was ok

A. I feel like I must be missing something because there’s a lot of great reviews for this book, but I did not care for it. I felt that the story jumped around too much. It seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary sexualization of the children in this book; “...when we came out of our mother’s lovely cunt...” “...the bumps that would soon turn into beautiful breasts...”. Why?

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