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...readers with a short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...readers fascinated with the South Asian culture, this read is vastly more enjoyable than the standard history text. Chaudhuri demystifies Indian exoticisms, transporting us into his rag-tag world where everything revolves around the late afternoon nap. This novel's evocative imagery is on par with Indian director Saityjit Rays' films in de-cloaking the mysterious world of the subcontinent...
...certainly amusing at times. Typically, he manages to find "carroty orange baby penises" in an airplane meal. Yet his obsession with breasts and genitalia often seems out of place, almost like a forced concession to the Freudian tradition and by no means necessitated by the logic of the text...
...able to pout, worry, complain and tease her way through a fun, albeit uninspired, batch of letters. Insofar as one can act while sitting in a chair and reading from a book, Channing captured the air of a young Moscow actress, reading with feeling and apathy, as the text required...
...much as a great number of people, abortion opponents included, disliked the website and the posters, did they actually warrant criminal prosecution? The court and even the plaintiffs admitted that "no statement contained in the text...is expressly threatening." So why were the defendants found guilty? The court believed that threats could be inferred from their actions because of the backdrop of anti-abortion violence in the country. The list, they argued, could easily be construed as a "hit list," providing information for anyone who wants to kill an abortionist. Perhaps it does, but so do the Boston yellow pages...