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Aug 27, 2007 12:25PM

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If you hated that book, stay far, far away from The Inheritence of Loss. I finished it, but I had to stop reading for a while and I rarely take breaks from reading.



Thanks for the warning. I'll stay away from that. Tell me how you feel about "The English Patient". I had the same reaction to that book that Elaine Benes had to the movie.
I liked "The God of Small Things" - a lot, actually.
And the lines about walking on water/swimming on land will be forever stuck in my head.
And the lines about walking on water/swimming on land will be forever stuck in my head.


I didn't get the appeal of English Patient. But I have a really hard time with non chronological plot lines (except for Time Traveller's Wife, go fig). As much as I appreciate the author's effort, those stories try my patience. Although I don't deny Ondaatje has talent as an author, his focus seems to be more on the poetry of the sentence and less on the flow of the paragraph. I had to perform full-page sentence diagrams in order to figure what the object and subject were in some of those puppies!
It seems we may have similar taste. How did you feel about Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda or Virginia Woolf as a whole?
Did they make you do the Elaine Benes thumbs and kick dance as much as they made me?

Never read "Oscar and Lucinda", although it is now on my list of books I want to read someday. The only thing I ever read by Virginia Woolf was "Mrs. Dalloway" and I have to say that it's on my top ten list of books I loathe. It just seemed interminable. After that I had no desire to ever pick up Virginia again.

don't read oscar & lucinda...unless you want to poke your eyes out. I have no desire to read anything else by Carey or Woolf ever again.
