Dee Brown Brown itibaren Nuney Green, Reading, Oxfordshire RG4, İngiltere
Bu kitap çok değerliydi ... Acı tatlı bir aşk hikayesi <3 Bu kitabı ABD'ye uçak yolculuğum için Brezilya'da satın aldım On saatlik yolculuktan sonra kitabın yarısını bitirdim. Bu kitap kesinlikle bir sayfa çevirici. Bu gerçekten hoşuma gitti! Filmi izlemek için sabırsızlanıyorum :)
10/10!
Bu kitap gerçekten Sedaris'in tarzının nasıl geliştiğini gösteriyor. İlk kitaplarından buna kadar, mükemmel bir astarı teslim eden saf komik adamdan, gerçekten bir cümleyi çeviren ve sizi yol boyunca güldüren dokunaklı hikaye anlatıcısına kadar ilerlemesini takip edebilirsiniz. Sedaris etrafındaki her şeyi acı bir şekilde gözlemliyor. Hiç kimse, kendisi de dahil olmak üzere ısırma mizahından kaçamaz. İlk başta kardeşleri hakkında okumayı kaçırdım, ama sonra Hugh ile ilişkisini paylaşma şeklini takdir etmeye başladım. Ve sigarayı bırakmak için ne eşsiz bir yol! Zihninin çalışma şeklini seviyorum.
Hilarious. Highly recommended for anyone who is an Anglophile or has dreams of academia.
You will laugh out loud more than once while reading this sardonic epistolary novel about contemporary India. The White Tiger is our main character and the letter writer who is writing a series of letters to the Chinese Premier on the occasion of a Chinese trade visit. He endeavors to explain the new economy and Indian entrepreneurialism with insouciant glee. It's his Horatio Alger story - but far different from any such story in America, as hard work is not rewarded. Corruption rules the economy in many ways and it's fitting, then, that his path to success took a detour into criminality. In essence, it's the main character's how to win friends and influence people - through corruption. This book has angered many in India for its unflattering picture of a country run by corruption and dependent on servitude. This makes it sound political and the corruption and poverty could make it sound grim, but it's not. There is such wit and humor and the main character has so much joy in life that the book is fun to read - and fascinating as well.
Here's the deal. Objectively I know this book isn't great. It has many shortcomings. Among them: It's pace is trudgey (for the first two thirds). One of the main characters is kind of one-dimensional. The excerpts that are supposed to be written by the characters lack any change of voice. There's more. But somehow (read: subjectively) I'm able to overlook the flaws and fall in love with Heim's sumptuous details. He has an uncanny knack for describing the life I knew growing up. I KNOW these characters. I know their fatal flaws. I've met them. I've been these people. I've seen these places. Driven those roads. I've done the things they do. I know where they're coming from. He is dead-on in his character development. There's nothing really revelatory here. But if you give in to the world he creates, there are rewards. Specifically the last hundred pages or so. Oh. And I learned the word locular.