Tuesday, January 7, 2020

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

So here is one of the longest novels I've been through. It took like 44 hours which I guess is slow given there are 1300+ pages, and 600K words.

Unfortunately or otherwise the whole narrative doesn't go very well which may be due to the length of the book. There is one main plot of Lata's marriage, and there are a lot of sub, and sub-sub plots too. Some of them complement, and gel well while other looks more like random musings.

But definitely there could have been some editing, and this could have cut down by at least 200 pages if not more.

I wouldn’t really recommend it. But I'd just point out that I picked up in peer pressure. There were a lot of people in my circle were talking about it (some of them have just read the summary) but I went to go ahead with it, and yes, I did regret.

Finally, this will be a mini series on TV and I think that would do more justice to it.

It has drama, emotion, comedy, tragedy, poetry and what not (it got some sex too). It would have better been a TV series or a movie rather than a book.

Peace