The Reluctant Fundamentalist

by Mohsin Hamid | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780151013043 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingghirwing of Honolulu, Hawaii USA on 12/26/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by wingghirwing from Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Saturday, December 26, 2009
For release

Journal Entry 2 by aetm from Viborg, Viborg Amt Denmark on Wednesday, January 6, 2010
This was in the huge envelope that arrived yesterday with another book that was also on my wishlist, a gorgeous Hawaii calendar for 2010 and other goodies. Thank you ghir for the wondeful rabck! :)
I've been fascinated by this book for a long time, hard to resist finishing the two other books I'm reading now before diving into this one...

Journal Entry 3 by aetm from Viborg, Viborg Amt Denmark on Thursday, January 14, 2010
This was a faster read than I expected.
Changez starts to tell his story to a lone American traveler in a cafe in Lahore, Pakistan, and the story unravels...
He was one of the best in his class in Princeton, got hired by a top financial company in New York, met Erica, a girl who gave him the dream of rising to the elite of Manhattan... but something changed after 9/11, and brought Changez back to Lahore.
I guess I roughly knew the base story (this much of it) and expected something... more or different? I don't know precisely. External action perhaps? Most of the changes that changed Changez come in the end from inside, even if there are external factors before them. Perhaps more of description and external actions? Something more from Erica? Or perhaps just having been a bit more exotic?
Then again, with the selected format, Changez remembering his story, the story will always be by his eyes, and the changes in society or other people are seen by his eyes. The ending works - but I would have liked to see it end differently. (Then again, I say that of so many classics too, like War and Peace, that one should have so had had a different ending)
I enjoyed the book. It has all ingredients a good story needs, and it's written in an enjoyable way.
And it leaves thoughts and memories linger, like a good wine... Changez' story, the past ten years in general, things in my own past when living in some other country far far away, with the sense of belonging and yet not belonging.

Journal Entry 4 by aetm at Triumph Cafe OBCZ -3808 Spicewood Springs Rd in Austin, Texas USA on Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (4/13/2010 UTC) at Triumph Cafe OBCZ -3808 Spicewood Springs Rd in Austin, Texas USA

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Safe journey little book - I hope you'll make many new friends on your travels!

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Journal Entry 5 by sarradee from Mansfield, Texas USA on Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Picked up at the Austin meetup after a recommendation from aetm.

Released 13 yrs ago (5/11/2010 UTC) at Triumph Cafe OBCZ -3808 Spicewood Springs Rd in Austin, Texas USA

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Bringing to the Austin Meetup, will leave on the shelf if not chosen.

Journal Entry 7 by sarradee from Mansfield, Texas USA on Tuesday, May 11, 2010
This book was excellent until the ending which I found way to open-ended and unsatisfying. Otherwise though the conversational tone that the author took to tell his story was perfect.

Journal Entry 8 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Austin, Texas USA on Wednesday, May 26, 2010
"To see ourselves as others see us." Perhaps that should read '... as other see the U.S.' The book was well written and very much caught the tensions in the minds of foreigners who are torn between admiration, envy, and resentment of the United States. The moral of the story? It is not so much a matter of "they hate our values" as that they hate us for loudly proclaiming our values, then behaving in a way opposite to our values. Torturing and murdering prisoners in U.S. custody has an indelible effect on the uncommitted. Unless we mean to become a military empire like the Soviet Union was, it behooves us to be careful with what we do and what we say. We will never be able to kill enemies faster than we can make them. Theodore Roosevelt put it best: "Speak softly, and carry a big stick."

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