I just finished this book and I feel like I should be weeping but I instead feel kind of numb. Without giving away spoilers to other people watching this, it's sort of like the book has imprinted the confused and lost desensitisation that the character who you mentioned had taken their own life felt during the chapters surrounding it. Everything about the book is so harrowing and it is just a bombardment of pain and sorrow that by the end, you're just accustomed to it and accept it. I don't know if that's what Mistry had in mind when he wrote it or if it's what you felt when you finished it but it's certainly what I feel right now at two o'clock in the morning with this mammoth of a book sat next to me with nothing left to give.
Hi Brendan, that's exactly what I felt. After so much pain you feel accustomed it, that you become desensitized. They went through all kind of pains known to a human, and at the end of the book, you don't know what other pain can still exist that they cannot handle. When things are at their worst, you don't think it can get worse, it just keep getting worse... It's a feeling that you will keep having for the coming weeks Brendan, it won't go away for some time. You will keep thinking about their sorrow for a while. I even went for further research on this topic of Emergency and what Mistry relates are real events even though the characters are fiction. It troubles me sometimes to think that such a situation existed.
I read his book A fine balance..really find it a very timely novel. I always watch your videos. Really important. I am having trouble finding the other two books of Mr. Rohinton Mistry. Those two books are Such a long journey,Family matters..If you can find a copy of one of these two books, let me receive it.I will give you the address....
This guy gives a good review of novel.Im half way through book. Novel is dense, difficult read. I just happened to know a little bit of India and its billions of people. So for me it makes sense to read and enjoy book. But I would not recommend novel to general public. One aspect of novel is to make reader live the life of abject poverty and degradation. I don’t think the general public needs to do this. Novel would have been better if it had more respect for the general reader. India is already known to have vicious , ugly poverty and unjust cast system and crazy politics. One doesn’t need to read this novel to have all this rubbed into one’s face.
Ça fait écho avec l’actualité et les conditions désastreuses de prise en charge du COVID en Inde. Une belle leçon de vie en tout cas.
I just finished this book and I feel like I should be weeping but I instead feel kind of numb. Without giving away spoilers to other people watching this, it's sort of like the book has imprinted the confused and lost desensitisation that the character who you mentioned had taken their own life felt during the chapters surrounding it. Everything about the book is so harrowing and it is just a bombardment of pain and sorrow that by the end, you're just accustomed to it and accept it. I don't know if that's what Mistry had in mind when he wrote it or if it's what you felt when you finished it but it's certainly what I feel right now at two o'clock in the morning with this mammoth of a book sat next to me with nothing left to give.
Hi Brendan, that's exactly what I felt. After so much pain you feel accustomed it, that you become desensitized. They went through all kind of pains known to a human, and at the end of the book, you don't know what other pain can still exist that they cannot handle. When things are at their worst, you don't think it can get worse, it just keep getting worse... It's a feeling that you will keep having for the coming weeks Brendan, it won't go away for some time. You will keep thinking about their sorrow for a while. I even went for further research on this topic of Emergency and what Mistry relates are real events even though the characters are fiction. It troubles me sometimes to think that such a situation existed.
I've read this amazing book. I don't understand why such a good author doesn't write anymore?
True. I guess after such a master piece it's difficult to do better :)
I read his book A fine balance..really find it a very timely novel. I always watch your videos. Really important. I am having trouble finding the other two books of Mr. Rohinton Mistry. Those two books are Such a long journey,Family matters..If you can find a copy of one of these two books, let me receive it.I will give you the address....
Brilliant book. Probably helps if you've been to India.
Indeed Simon, one of my favourite. To travel to India is a unique experience, I had great memories and some life experience.
This is one of my absolute favorite books, thank you for the lovely video.
Thank you very much for your comment Maria. It is a fabulous book that will remain in your mind for a while.
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This guy gives a good review of novel.Im half way through book. Novel is dense, difficult read. I just happened to know a little bit of India and its billions of people. So for me it makes sense to read and enjoy book. But I would not recommend novel to general public. One aspect of novel is to make reader live the life of abject poverty and degradation. I don’t think the general public needs to do this. Novel would have been better if it had more respect for the general reader. India is already known to have vicious , ugly poverty and unjust cast system and crazy politics. One doesn’t need to read this novel to have all this rubbed into one’s face.
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Choukran Khalti. Ramadan mubarak.
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your introduction to the book, emergency, and social situation is incorrect.
Hi, which part do you think is incorrect?