Comments on: Review: Unaccustomed Earth http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/ views-perceptions-reflections Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:41:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: shiwuz http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26446 shiwuz Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:16:08 +0000 http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-26446 Jhumpa Lahiri, i like her a lot... did you happen to read 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by her? another awesome book, not to mention 'The Namesake'... I will read this one now... Jhumpa Lahiri, i like her a lot… did you happen to read ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by her? another awesome book, not to mention ‘The Namesake’… I will read this one now…

]]> By: ish http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26155 ish Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:18:01 +0000 http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-26155 I haven't read anything by Jhumpa Lahiri yet so I wouldn't exactly be able to comment. But yea, I've been planning to read one of her books. It's either going to be The Namesake or The Interpreter of Maladies. I thought I was gonna read The Namesake earlier but since you seem to think the other one is better, I'll read that. But before that I need to finish A Thousand Splendid Suns. But yea, I can agree with what most people have been saying. Once an author comes up with something brilliant, the expectations rise and it's difficult to keep coming up with stuff as brilliant every time. It's happened with everyone. During the initial series of Potter books, everyone loved 'em but slowly as a wider number of people started reading them, they did start disagreeing and not liking it. I guess people make too many expectations. Same happened with a Thousand Splendid Suns I believe. Although I think it's nice till now, but I can't deny that it's all getting a little repetitive. I haven’t read anything by Jhumpa Lahiri yet so I wouldn’t exactly be able to comment. But yea, I’ve been planning to read one of her books. It’s either going to be The Namesake or The Interpreter of Maladies. I thought I was gonna read The Namesake earlier but since you seem to think the other one is better, I’ll read that. But before that I need to finish A Thousand Splendid Suns.

But yea, I can agree with what most people have been saying. Once an author comes up with something brilliant, the expectations rise and it’s difficult to keep coming up with stuff as brilliant every time. It’s happened with everyone. During the initial series of Potter books, everyone loved ‘em but slowly as a wider number of people started reading them, they did start disagreeing and not liking it. I guess people make too many expectations. Same happened with a Thousand Splendid Suns I believe. Although I think it’s nice till now, but I can’t deny that it’s all getting a little repetitive.

]]> By: Ruhi http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26147 Ruhi Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:10:08 +0000 http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-26147 @<a href="http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26137#comment-26137" rel="nofollow"> Shefaly</a>: Yes, I agree...she gets quite emotional and stuff. But it's all right for me...I don't take it seriously! I just read it and then forget it. :) @Poonam She has written a lot of political essays and has given some speeches too. They might not be too grounded in reality. But I find them to be entertaining nonetheless. And it's quite all right if you say that you didn't really like her style. Not many did. Most of the people I come across don't like her writing or her views. I, however, continue to be drawn to her! :) @ Shefaly:

Yes, I agree…she gets quite emotional and stuff. But it’s all right for me…I don’t take it seriously! I just read it and then forget it. :)

@Poonam

She has written a lot of political essays and has given some speeches too. They might not be too grounded in reality. But I find them to be entertaining nonetheless. And it’s quite all right if you say that you didn’t really like her style. Not many did. Most of the people I come across don’t like her writing or her views. I, however, continue to be drawn to her! :)

]]> By: Poonam Sharma http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26141 Poonam Sharma Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:09:00 +0000 http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-26141 @Ruhi: Missing just one word changed the meaning of what I wrote. I was referring to a author's second book. I meant to say Roy is more known for her activism than her any later work (that is After God of Small Things). As far as I know, there aren't any only essays. Personally, you might hate me for saying this, I disliked her God of Small Things. I thought it was too much ado about nothing. Some of her narrative made me wonder why it was there at all in the book? But have to give it to her that she has the mastery of the language but I doubt her as a great story-teller. @Ruhi: Missing just one word changed the meaning of what I wrote. I was referring to a author’s second book. I meant to say Roy is more known for her activism than her any later work (that is After God of Small Things). As far as I know, there aren’t any only essays.

Personally, you might hate me for saying this, I disliked her God of Small Things. I thought it was too much ado about nothing. Some of her narrative made me wonder why it was there at all in the book? But have to give it to her that she has the mastery of the language but I doubt her as a great story-teller.

]]> By: Shefaly http://ruhii.com/2008/04/25/review-unaccustomed-earth/#comment-26137 Shefaly Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:04:33 +0000 http://havetoremember.wordpress.com/?p=519#comment-26137 @ Ruhi: You say 'non fiction', I say 'polemic' (sung to the tune of Let's Call The Whole Thing Off) :-) I have read some of AR's essays. They are hard to read because the argument gets lost in emotion and become polemical. May be it is my heightened sensitivity to social policy related writing - since I read social policy stuff for fun and for work, and tend to compare the quality of the argument across a broad range of writing in similar fields - but I find it very hard to read her writings. Good for her if she is writing another work of fiction! @ Ruhi: You say ‘non fiction’, I say ‘polemic’ (sung to the tune of Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off) :-) I have read some of AR’s essays. They are hard to read because the argument gets lost in emotion and become polemical. May be it is my heightened sensitivity to social policy related writing - since I read social policy stuff for fun and for work, and tend to compare the quality of the argument across a broad range of writing in similar fields - but I find it very hard to read her writings. Good for her if she is writing another work of fiction!

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