Comments on: Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

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The Autobiography of a Half-Baked Indian | Pechorin’s Journal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:04:01 +0000

[...] Tiger over at The Asylum, here. Trevor of themookseandthegripes wrote a much more positive one here. Both, as ever, are worth reading. There’s also an interesting interview with Adiga at the [...]

By: dreamy

dreamy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:13:21 +0000

hi trevor, i just finished reading this and i liked it. i don’t read from a literary standpoint but a personal one. i grew up in a culture where we had servants (although we disguisingly called them helpers). i used to often think about how our helpers thought and felt about being second-class citizens. i often wished i could do something about it but it was just the way things were.

while reading this book there was a lot of clicking going on in my head. ha ha.

By: [164] The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook

[164] The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:16:51 +0000

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By: Trevor Berrett

Trevor Berrett — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:11:41 +0000

I’m glad you’re enjoying it, sharat. I’d love to hear your final thoughts on the book.

By: sharat

sharat — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:12:06 +0000

the book THE WHITE TIGER written by Aravind Adiga is very good.The contents are also intresting and reading is going on continiously without any hurdles.

By: Trevor Berrett

Trevor Berrett — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:46:32 +0000

Apparently this book won by the narrowest of margins over Barry's The Secret Scripture. See this.

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booklit » Blog Archive » The Man Booker Prize 2008 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:02:14 +0000

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By: Trevor Berrett

Trevor Berrett — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:10:10 +0000

Unfortunately, this positive review might have tainted other readers too – like redhead rambles, who recently posted a review and didn’t find much to like here either.

I am anxious to see if your take on the book changes, John. Perhaps you are approaching it with a more balanced perspective than I did, since I thought it looked awful. I am positive that some of my pleasure with the book was due to the fact that it wasn’t as bad as I thougt it was going to be, though I did think it was better than many. I’m trying to remember if the last half was much different in terms of development than the first half. You’ll have to remind me!

At least the opposite phenomenon is also true: I have your negative review to thank for helping me set up low expectations for Netherland, which is still my favorite longlisted title this year ;) .

By: John Self

John Self — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:35 +0000

I’m approaching halfway through The White Tiger, Trevor, and I must admit I’m feeling a little underwhelmed. I wonder if this is partly a function of high expectations – from your and Stewart’s positive responses to it – as your pleasure was partly a function of your low expectations? Mainly I’m finding that the many characters have very little to distinguish them. Take away the “said Ram” or “said the Mongoose” and I wouldn’t have anything to distinguish who was speaking, either in style or content. But we shall see if my view changes with progress.