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Pros & Cons

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Pros

It captures something ineffable about ex-pat life at the same time as being really fun over the top adventure story. It remains a favourite even though it has been a few years since i first brought it home with me.

Cons

Two of the main characters - the khan - and the ghastly love interest karla are both utterly horrible, amoral and with as far as i could see, no redeeming characteristics. The prose style is overblown like a mills&boon romance (especially when kar... Read More

If this were a film the main character would be laughed at uncontrollably for being unbelievable.

The 'is it semi-autobiographical? It isn't bad story, but at some point i started feeling as the writer wanted to write about everything and nothing. There seems to be an interesting true-life story underneath all this, but it's irretreviably hidden u... Read More

I hated the cod philosophy and pervading drugginess of it all. The style is really sloppy (the type you'd learn if you enrolled in a really cheap creative writing course and then attended all the lessons while *). It reads like a disneyfied version of... Read More

Other characters are so one dimensional they don't even reach the status of cliche. Fight scenes are tedious because he describes the opponents every move in such a pedestrian manner you know the hero will survive.

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Highlights

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Quality

Whether you read it or listen to it you will not be disappointed

This book is very well written and so descriptive i was transported to bombay and travelled the journey with the author

But left with the desire to return to india

Competitiveness

Took me a couple of mths but what an insight into bombay its people and perhaps their ways of life

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This product had a total of 12,243 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 5 2022.