On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote: > I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds [...]
My list of abandoned books is rather long - often because I don't care for or disagree with what the author has to say anymore. Sometimes it's also because it's more of the same - I don't have the patience to plod through the painfully obvious. Occasionally there comes a book that I disagree with and would discard in a heart beat if it weren't the only comprehensive book on the subject - such as P T Srinivasa Iyengar's History of the Tamils (http://goo.gl/BKXI). I find his leaps of logic hard to digest - he's thin on facts and doesn't explain his assumptions. To make matters worse the typesetting is ancient, and copies are hard to find. I have since resorted to chewing on it in parts, too much of it at any one time would cause me too much pain. Cheeni
