The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Read in the lag time after registering for the Boston OBCZ at the Boston hostel.
As a writer, I think this may have worked better in the third person. The whole narrator having a meal w/the mysterious American was a device and not a great one--very tired --101 Arabian nights removed cliche. Sometimes up in the air endings can work but I found this one very disingenuous so much so -- that I'm using the $5 word.
As a reader, I think this author was being intentionally provocative with bating and never gave me proper bonding/reason to like his narrator and no solid reason for his provoking.
It was sad his employer left him at the airport, but my relatives had to surrender their radio during WWII and they were citizens.
Found his whole narrative sort of like when Madonna did her whole sex book phase--yes I think he used way too many pop culture referecnes and also pretty much dismissed the working/middle and lower American classes.
While I understand the generalization of the ugly American especially post 9/11 time period. Many lawbreakers were prosecuted for harassing Muslims and Asians and now post Bush Admin. the measures of the Admin. are being reworked. Also anyone who blows a multinational account for a value company like McKinsey (thinly veiled) surfing the web while overseas instead of doing your well paid job -- can expect to be escorted out of their office--no matter what your religion. Would go on but to rant would only give this book some sort of authenticy or credence where it deserves none. It would be great propaganda for the tea party folks in wiping the poem off the Statute of Liberty & closing our borders, etc. Will be released at next Boston meetup. If no takers/will be brought back to Hostel Book shelf.
As a writer, I think this may have worked better in the third person. The whole narrator having a meal w/the mysterious American was a device and not a great one--very tired --101 Arabian nights removed cliche. Sometimes up in the air endings can work but I found this one very disingenuous so much so -- that I'm using the $5 word.
As a reader, I think this author was being intentionally provocative with bating and never gave me proper bonding/reason to like his narrator and no solid reason for his provoking.
It was sad his employer left him at the airport, but my relatives had to surrender their radio during WWII and they were citizens.
Found his whole narrative sort of like when Madonna did her whole sex book phase--yes I think he used way too many pop culture referecnes and also pretty much dismissed the working/middle and lower American classes.
While I understand the generalization of the ugly American especially post 9/11 time period. Many lawbreakers were prosecuted for harassing Muslims and Asians and now post Bush Admin. the measures of the Admin. are being reworked. Also anyone who blows a multinational account for a value company like McKinsey (thinly veiled) surfing the web while overseas instead of doing your well paid job -- can expect to be escorted out of their office--no matter what your religion. Would go on but to rant would only give this book some sort of authenticy or credence where it deserves none. It would be great propaganda for the tea party folks in wiping the poem off the Statute of Liberty & closing our borders, etc. Will be released at next Boston meetup. If no takers/will be brought back to Hostel Book shelf.
thank you for registering this book for me! i left it at the Boston hostel in September. i'm glad to see that someone has made use of it.
To be released at the Boston Bookcrossing Dec. 2009 meetup, if no takers, return to the OBCZ at the Boston Hostel.
Released at the reg. Boston Meetup, Jan. 2010.
Picked this up at Cambridge Book Crossers meet-up and will release it at one in March. I was not as surprised/shocked or convinced as I expected to be. I liked the narrative structure that shifts between present day and recollections of the past. I thought it could be richer.
Picked it up at the Bookcrossing meeting. Looks interesting. Will go on Mt. TBR for the time being.
