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Sacred Games
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Jan 17, 2009
bookshelves: id-constructs-race-gender, class-relations, fiction, global, g_pakistan, historical, horror-suspense-mystery-thriller, islam, language, novel, obama-term-1, pol-historical, politics-learning, pol-paradigm-shift-pssbl, pov-content_indian-am, religion-morality, thtr-art-film-music-etc, war-mltry-conflt-occ, g_cities, human-damage-healing-fict, struggles-of-use, synthesis, human-poison-aired-out-fict, events-based-urgency, cultural-texts-or-involving-them, fin-econ, form_complexia, g_colonialism, g_imperialism, g_india-and, glimpses-considerable, indexia, meaning-life-etc, on-writing, philosophy, pol-luminescent, pov-content_global-of-location, psyche-of, sobriety-spirituality, to-re-read-soon, unplsnt-b-good, women, workplace, currently-reading
Seems like potentially the perfect antidote to my current conundrum of hard-to-read Great Literature ala my daughter's class, and tedious Mom-sourced current novels..
And starts out engagingly interestingly!
I've wanted to get around to this for so long, am very excited!
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Finished 2/26/10: This book deserves a really excellent review. Unfortunately, my time is overcommitted right now especially, and am going through a transition as well. Plus, I just want to re-read it instead of writing anything about it right now!
So, rather than doing any misc paragraphs right now, I think I'll start something in Word and see if it becomes anything good enough to include.
Until then, I'll just list some of my favorite aspects of this:
Multiple points of view
Day-to-day life details
Intimacy details
Self-identity construction
insets in which a character's life is explored fully, fascinating
lots of political content
feels true
India
If anyone (in the US) is thinking about 'living simply', this book is a great starting point. Middle-class in India can entail a very, very modest lifestyle by US standards. And a couple times in the book, a character feels bad about the luxury around them. Only, they're talking about a towel, or a mattress. This book is great for really getting a serious glimpse at how others - others who are just as real, just as whole, just as smart, just as good, etc.. etc.. - live with much, much less. My extensive clutter looks very different to me now.
And starts out engagingly interestingly!
I've wanted to get around to this for so long, am very excited!
----
Finished 2/26/10: This book deserves a really excellent review. Unfortunately, my time is overcommitted right now especially, and am going through a transition as well. Plus, I just want to re-read it instead of writing anything about it right now!
So, rather than doing any misc paragraphs right now, I think I'll start something in Word and see if it becomes anything good enough to include.
Until then, I'll just list some of my favorite aspects of this:
Multiple points of view
Day-to-day life details
Intimacy details
Self-identity construction
insets in which a character's life is explored fully, fascinating
lots of political content
feels true
India
If anyone (in the US) is thinking about 'living simply', this book is a great starting point. Middle-class in India can entail a very, very modest lifestyle by US standards. And a couple times in the book, a character feels bad about the luxury around them. Only, they're talking about a towel, or a mattress. This book is great for really getting a serious glimpse at how others - others who are just as real, just as whole, just as smart, just as good, etc.. etc.. - live with much, much less. My extensive clutter looks very different to me now.
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Reading Progress
January 17, 2009
– Shelved
February 3, 2010
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10.92%
"reads fast and is so interesting.. both the main action line and the internal, interpersonal goings-on. The later more, even."
page
100
February 8, 2010
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Started Reading
February 21, 2010
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65.72%
"Very awesome - really enjoying it. I don't enjoy all the content, but I love the detail about India, about the characters, and about life."
page
602
February 26, 2010
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Finished Reading
March 2, 2010
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2.73%
"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't."
page
25
