On Jul 30, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Maybe I'm out with a group of friends and acquaintances at a
> restaurant. Over a shared dish of Ethiopian lamb, everyone's getting
> to know everyone. Someone sitting across from me mentions Pacifica
> radio fundraiser tonic and concerned author Arundhati Roy. 'Did you
> read The God of Small Things?'
>
> No.
>
> 'Well, you should, it's beautifully written; very lush and sensual.'
>
> Lush and sensual, sometimes served with a side helping of 'exotic'. I
> imagine dream catchers dangling from rear view mirrors, the (almost
> literally) liberal use of the word karma and a general sort of
> mush-headeness.
I read the first 10 pages of that damned thing and couldn't go on. The overwriting!!