Things fall apart - Gehna, Smitha

[Ahtims]

I found it okay. But not planning on the 2nd book in the near future. Didn't find it that interesting.

[Ahtims]

Sheikh , don't spam. Repeated spamming is a ticket to removal from the group. :-)

[Sumeet]

Dear Mr. Sheikh Ahmed, please sell the services or product somewhere else. Don't violate the rule.

[Ahtims]

Sheikh wrote: "What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured..."

Our hearts feel saddened when we see spamming. We do believe it is spamming. -_-

[T.K.]

I actually saw this book as a play in Kenya years ago at an outdoor night stage. The Kenyan audience was laughing so hard we couldn't hear the actors.

We couldn't tell if it was because one of the actors was hamming it up so bad or the audience knew something about it all that we didn't know. Well, it was both, but we came expecting serious, intense intellectual experience, not ROTFLOL... which hadn't been invented yet.

We watched Samson and Delilah movie there too - projected on a sheet in a rented room. The audience jumped up on the benches yelling, making spear thrusts as Samson fought the lion "PIGA! PIGA! (hit him! hit him!")
It was great. Awesome audience participation. Best movie ever with that kind of audience. But also a reminder that what WE focus on in a movie or play isn't necessarily what OTHER people from different cultures and experiences focus on or think is important.

[T.K.]

Gehna wrote: "These men don't care about their wives but they do care about their daughters."

Dowry Dowry! The groom's family pays the dowry unlike in India where the bride's family pays.