On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Supriya Nair wrote, [on 6/15/2010 3:09 PM]: > > > Does Udhay's Harry Potter dismissal equate 'tough' with 'boring'? That > > will inflate everyone's bounce lists. > > Fair question. I guess that "boring" is a subset of "tough to finish", > the overarching criterion being "I don't care what happens to these > people anymore". > > Udhay > > Agree with Venky Hariharan; though I did not abandon reading God of Small Things; finished it only to feel a depression set in; reading The Kite Runner was depressing too, but in a different way. A non-fiction book I took real long time to finish was Ramchandra Guha - India After Gandhi; the last hundred pages were really slow. - Anil KUMAR
