Blabber Posts

I was finally able to finish Suitable Boy couple of days back. The library i rent books out of has a return policy of 2 weeks, else they start charging you a late fee of 2% of the price of the book per day. I am a slow reader....I knew i was racing against time when i took Suitable boy. I had outgrown historical fiction (after reading Shogun, Tai-Pan and Oh Jerusalem) and was curious about Indian writing in English.

I had only read R. K. Narayan and wanted to make a start somewhere. Suitable Boy was the book that first came to my mind though Rushdie's Midnight Children and Roy's God of Small things have gone on to win more accolades. I remember reading about the book when it was released in early 90s and it was one of the books shortlisted to win the Booker prize for that year.

Now that i am done with the book, i can say that i liked it in parts....too prosy......many characters......and the author Vikram Seth spawns many threads spoiling the direction of the story. He does a good job though of merging them to a predictable end.

I have picked up "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, 2002 Booker Prize Winner and if am not wrong i read that M. Night Shyamalan is planning to make a movie on the book.The story has been told in first person and i rarely read first person novels (Angela's Ashes was very good though!). The first 50 pages have been nothing but boring....The story has just started to pick up....lets see where it goes...Will keep you posted...:)