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Friday, May 9, 2008

Inheritance of "Tatti"

I read Kiran Desai's "Inheritance of Loss". All i wanted to do after reading the book was to flush it down the toilet. The woman seems to have a knack for describing toilets and has emphasised on the many ways of doing tatti! The book has no story. Its filled with characters, all of whom are pretentious. None of the characters in her book have a spine. Mind you this is a book that's supposed to take you through a cultural journey.What i despised most was the fact that she described all her characters as weak. She hasn't given justifications of their behaviour.She goes on to be descriptive in certain parts of the book,to maybe shock the readers into reading further. When i was nearing the end of the book i had lost all expectations( to say the least). When i actually was done reading the last page, all i could say was,"what a waste of time and energy gone in writing this SHIT!" I was forewarned about the book. Yet i HAD to read it to know how bad it was. I guess the only good thing thing that did come out of reading her book was, i found something that i could write about.

4 What say you?:

Shaama said...

something u could write about, and probably win a booker for it too :P

|Ashwini Shenoy| |Advocatus Diaboli| |Rusty Writing| said...

Weallly? [:D]

Anonymous said...

There has to be some unhealthy obsession to win the booker.Indian writing in English needs either dirt of the Tatti kind or india bashing to get the PRIZe,

Kaveri Thimmaiah said...

lol.... and this is the book you gave me for my birthday :)*sigh*