On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, December 12, 2010, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> > wrote: > > following fish, by samanth subramanian > > I read the first two chapters of this yesterday. An excellent read. > Beautifully written (brought Wodehouse and Douglas Adams to mind) with > humor and candor.
I read through a chapter or two from the middle of the book and came to the same conclusion and bought a copy along with thaths. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Supriya Nair <[email protected]>wrote: > Pretty sure you're already down with Daniyal Mueenuddin and Gyan Prakash > and whoever else came out in the US simultaneously. > Heh, I hadn't caught up on this thread then, but I warned Thaths away from Daniyal Mueenuddin just yesterday. 'In other rooms' is interesting because it's not often one finds English writing that deals with the daily struggles of the underclass in Pakistan; Adiga's White Tiger is interesting in much the same way, and has better writing. I recall Mueenuddin's writing style as being somewhat awkward and cramped, like that of a first time author, which he is. Secondly the first few stories I read gave me the impression that the entire book was going to be narrated from the author's lotus eater lifestyle in the Pakistani upper class. I found that hypocritical and decided against reading the rest of the book. Cheeni
