The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This Book took me a lot of time to complete. Now the question is why?
1. This is kind of an Anti India novel. The author tried to show the darker side of India but what really comes out to be like a NRI complaining against a country as it is not like its western counterparts. At some point of time it will annoy you the amount of negativity shown for India.
2. The pace of the story is really slow. Nothing much happens and the book continues with regular activity covering pages.
3. You come to know that there is a murder coming down the line in the story but after some time it is difficult to keep patience of when and why things turns so bad.
These reasons kept me stop reading a couple of times. I gave this book a 3* as it had some good points like
1 . The story telling by the point of view of an illiterate is very accurate. This is how an illiterate will see the world and will think about it.
2. Now this is a very important point why I like the book. At first i thought that the cause because of which a faithful servant murders his master is not enough, But then, that is what happens in real life. Money can drive anyone crazy , can make a faithful servant to betray his master to this highest level making him kill the person who he was so loyal to.
I would have loved this book if it had a little less pages to read and the bashing India could have been a little less.
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