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Pipe Cabarcas pipecabarcas1 — For a book with such an interesting premise (expats in Buenos Aires), this one was interminably boring. I think a lot of it had to do with the author's disaffected, Hemingway-esque writing style. (An expat writer who idolizes Hemingway...how novel.) There was also the inexplicable way she shifted between first and third person for her two main characters, and the way boring digressions on, say, plant species or water treatment practices would suddenly crop up in the narrative. (I guess these had some metaphorical point, but they were so painful to read that I didn't care.) Even the descriptions of Buenos Aires were so vague that they would only really resonate with someone who's been there before. There were a few passages describing loneliness as a condition of the expat life that were nice, but otherwise I wish I'd given this one a pass.

Oscar Cañizares montondeideas — I was 230 pages in and still not able to care about what was going on in the book. "That's not like me," I thought as I was reading a passage about how India's lower class get into the country. "I usually only do that with books that win the Man Booker prize." So I checked the front cover and there was the circle informing me of Desai's newest accolade. Yeesh. If you've been wanting to pick this book up, don't. I can give you at least three better books dealing with Indian/Pakistani immigrants finding their place in America. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy or Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry. Read Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai for the gay take on this same idea.

Cristian Baldiviezo _ristian_aldi — Intrigue, revenge, Kashmir, and love. And then of course Rushdie has such a way with words. Didn't lose me with histrionics like Midnight's Children. Some terribly good storytelling.