The God of Small Things
By Arundhati Roy
As the world sinks into pathology, as my kids drift further from me, as I creak towards 53 years—pot-bellied, lonely, strange, starved for affection, grieving lost family life, I ask, Why read novels?
I read The God of all Small Things because, according to a Korean woman who seemed intelligent and who used it to teach her CUNY students, it is a Good Book.
I have developed an allergy to Good Books.
Roy is an annoyingly precious [...]
Posted in Books/Films/Media on April 22nd, 2006 | 
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Finished Pride and Prejudice for the 2nd time.
Again a chore.
Most of it I wasn’t into. I was barely into the last twenty pages. The problems of two, young people in love—one filthy rich, the other comparatively well-off—misunderstanding each other, seems painfully trivial.
My real problem with the book, however, is two-fold:
First, Darcy, the hero, is an insufferable phony.
Second, I cannot believe that chicks fall for him.
Darcy is a jerk. Three reasons why:
Posted in Books/Films/Media on April 17th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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