Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 4/5/2009, 23:59:43, in reply to "Re: A Suitable Boy"
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I'm halfway through with A Suitable Boy, and now I have a problem: I want to read our May book by Hermann Hesse, but it's rather long and I don't want to interrupt ASB. I will lose tracks of names and many of the numerous subplots, so I think I'll defer The Glass Bead Game until I finish ASB, which won't be soon. I just wanted you to know that I will read Hesse and discuss it with you, but only after I'm done with the Indian novel, which I am enjoying very much so far.
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: I'm a bit over 400 pages in, and I'm enjoying it quite a
: bit. I don't think that I'm far enough to really
: offer an opinion, although I do rather hope that Maan
: grows up and makes a "Prince Hal" type
: transformation.
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: Even at my advanced age, I, like Lata, was a little
: put off by Kabir's practicality and lack of romantic
: abandon. Haresh is, I find, a generally likable
: character, but I don't have much impression of him as
: a potential mate for Lata. And while I understand
: your attraction to the glamorous haughty type, Steven,
: Meenakshi's heartless insensitivity with the medals
: has biased me against the Chatterjis. (Although as a
: family, they're starting to grow on me.)
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