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hello, I am interested in discussing this novel. has anyone else read it? here is my review of the novel. ***minor SPOILERS ALERT*** TALKING IT OVER was a really fast and entertaining read. Stuart, a rich, seemingly boring and straight laced banker marries the soft-spoken and adorable Gillian...

Anyone like the work of this cartoonist/illustrator writer? I have been buying volumes of THE COMPLETE CRUMB. His early comics were hilarious, playful and slapsticky with a lot of social commentary. His later work had more of the social commentary and some of it is really dark. Especially his...

I dont simply mean favorite books. I mean the books whose characters and settings and dialogs are like friends of yours. You identify so much with the feelings of the characters and the situations they find themselves in, you feel like you are reading about characters who could be your friends...

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Hi Anu, I think Naipaul felt that Indians are generally a lazy people who are not interested in their country and would not conduct any kind of social inquiry.He said that most Indians do not have a clue why their country is the way it is. He also said that Indian intellectuals borrow ideas from...

Mr.Biswas was a tragic character. Naipaul felt that Hindus believed the whole word was magic and entered a world of imagination instead of facing up to reality and taking care of problems. I found the parts where Biswas compared himself to the characters (Samuel Smiles ) in his favorite novels...

Hello Anu, I have not read any Tagore. I read most of SWAMI AND FRIENDS but could not finish it. What do you think about Naipaul's controversial opinions on Indian writers in English? He said they did not know much except their friends and workplace. I have not read much of Indian writing in...

Any fans of this great but somewhat unknown American writer? He writes the most melancholic crime fiction - especially the ones featuring the character Hoke Moseley. MIAMI BLUES is a police procedural with existential elements. The Hoke Moseley character always cuts a sorry figure. The villains...

I found this forum today morning and decided to join. I am in India and like to read American fiction. Glad to be here and the Authors section looks good. Hope to discuss writers and books regularly.

He is an excellent author. No question about it. But a lot of his writing is dry, almost as if he is deliberately trying to make the reader work hard. Charles Bukowski said this about Mailer: "Somebody puts a book by Norman Mailer on me. Christians and Cannibals. God, he just writes on and on...

Any fans of this great controversial man? I finished A HOUSE FOR MR.BISWAS today. As an Indian I could identify with a lot of the characters and their circumstances in the novel. It is easy to dismiss Naipaul as a vicious man who was looking down upon his own culture. In doing so, Naipaul...

Hey Stewart, what did you think THE DRIVERS SEAT was about? Why was Liz acting so weird? Was she just an unremarkable person who was desperate to draw attention to herself? If so, what was Spark trying to tell us? Would love to know your opinions.

Saliot, even I feel that Celine could have been a humanitarian and is wrongly called a misanthrope. There is a bit about the smile of a child which the main character sees on one of his patients in JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT. Here it is: “I've never been able to forget the infinite little...

Does anybody know if Houellebecq was ever inspired or talked by/about V.S.Naipaul? I feel there are some parallels between their work.

PLATFORM is my favorite novel by him. His novels are pretty horrifying but I admire his honesty. He said in an interview that he wanted to say that some people could not find a girlfriend or get laid simply because they were ugly. I know lots of characters like the ones in Houellebecq novels.