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Life is a journey; one cannot plan or reserve tickets. Droplets is a short memoir of persistence and perseverance, derived from the culture shock of moving from the southern part of India to Canada. Ajay Nair shares how he survived a strict parental upbringing, why he hated books so much, and his struggles with running out of money, living in a railway station, and travelling without food. No library descriptions found. |
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The first thing Mr. Nair says is how much he hated to read. It shows. His grasp of the English language in written form is, to be kind, weak. Maybe it's a better book in his mother tongue.
I couldn't get through it. It made me feel the way I did as a child when I had misbehaved and my father sat me down and told me how much worse his life had been at my age and how he would never have dreamed of doing what I did out of fear of the consequences or, having done it, then reaped those dire consequences he was sparing me from. I don't like that feeling.
The stories may be good. I don't know. I couldn't get past the stilted English and the feeling I was being lectured to. Maybe I'll try reading random bits here and there. Maybe not.
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As I came back to edit a typo, it made me think that perhaps what this book needs most is a good editor. ( )