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title...The God of Small Things
author(s)...Arundhati Roy
average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...beautiful families fiction india literaryfiction loss novel saga twins
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shelved by...LittleLotte815      shelf...have read      rating...4
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updated...Nov 07, '08    spoilers...n/a

Beautifully written. An excellent read.
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shelved by...krin5292      shelf...have read      rating...3
tags...fiction

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updated...Jul 14, '08    spoilers...n/a

I wasn't sure what to think about this book when I finished. While it was beautifully written, the plot was sometimes hard to understand. Yet, weeks later as I think about it, I appreciate more the intricate story of the twins Rahel and Estha, and what happened when their cousin Sophie Mol visited one summer.
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shelved by...miserablizm      shelf...have read      rating...4
tags...fiction saga

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updated...Jun 27, '08    spoilers...none

Wowzers in my trousers, the writing style was fantastic. However, much of the four out of five is because of that; I was interested in the characters, particularly Estha, but I didn't really care for them much. This reminded me a lot of One Hundred Years of Solitude - somewhat cold, removed; a worthy observation of humanity but not entirely human itself.
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shelved by...MarianV      shelf...favourite      rating...5
tags...families india loss twins

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updated...Apr 15, '07    spoilers...n/a

This is a novel where I both laughed & cried. The plot is about loss, the loss of many things, but Ms. Roy has a sense of the ridiculous (for example she describes a Hindu religious ceremony that has been shortened in order to accommodate those people with short attention spans). She introduced me to a side of India I never knew & will never forget.
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