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.

Rather underwhelming so far. It reads like something out of a how-to kit. Write your own postcolonial feminist child-narrator novel without any original thought at all! The world will go CRAZY for it. Apparently.

—alright, I’ve finished it now, and while it gets a lot better and is worth reading, it’s DRASTICALLY overwritten. Four adjectives are not four times as good as one, REALLY.

I don’t really understand what the hype was all about. The book was a bore!

This book is like cow dung! Cow dung, decorated with soft icing and fresh fuits. I was lured into cutting it and ended up with fresh hot dung on my face.
This one book violently snatched away my childhood from me. After finishing it I cried for about ten minutes and now I look at this book with fear. I will never open it again. Yet I’m thankful I read it once.
Th most powerful book I have read. Comparable to 100 Yeras of Solitude but notches down when it comes to creativity.
Story spins around a twin brother and sister (monozygotic), result of a gone-bad marriage. War of the sexes and war of the classes forms the main theme. Time lines get mixed up so well that the reader floats through a half-dream detached from reality. And then in a violent climax, the reader is thrown on to the hard rocks of reality.
Roy’s power with words might keep the light readers away but is a bliss for those who like verbal imageries. It’s so complete that you won’t need a script done, if you are making a movie with this novel.

will finish over Spring break

first novel I read and which impressed me very much!!

I’m bored with it already

I’m bored with it already

stunning. like a secret.

I had to return this to the library before I got past page forty. I am going to pick it up again when I don’t have to go out of town.