On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Anil Kumar <anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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
The Kite Runner was a very moving book. I'd rate it next to "Cry, the beloved country." I should search for that book and read it again. Venky
