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... books from places other than the UK and USA, apart from that I have no fixed plan or idea! Currently Reading India - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

I am in India with The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

Just finished The White Tiger. The book is written as a letter to a Chinese diplomat, a device that allows the writer to not only tell his story but also explain Indian society and how it works. It's a fascinating look at the have-nots in India or anywhere and what keeps them there. Another ...

56 the white tiger aravind adiga kidzdoc in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : brenzi's 75 book challenge just for fun (Dec 5, 2009, 9:52am)

Outstanding review of The White Tiger, brenzi! That reminds me; I have his next book, Between the Assassinations, lying around here somewhere...

Bonnie- It looks like another solid review of White Tiger. I've had it buried in my tbr for months. Time for an excavation!

Nice review, brenzi. I had read White Tiger after I had been to India for the 2nd time, and I enjoyed the book a great deal because not only was he humorous, he could so easily have been one of the many thousands that I saw in the slums who did not have his temerity to refuse to accept his born ...

Finished my review of #53 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga From my review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga tells the story of one’s man’s life dealing with the injustice of the caste system in India and of how he escaped and became an entrepreneurial success. This is not an ...

#53 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga From my review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga tells the story of one’s man’s life dealing with the injustice of the caste system in India and of how he escaped and became an entrepreneurial success. This is not an uplifting story. I was not left ...

Started reading The White Tiger yesterday, so well written and interesting.

Today (Nov 30th), I'm reading Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, and my list of pending (need to send) Bookmooches :)

... faces! A friend just handed off a copy of Half Broke Horses and I plan on starting it in a couple of days. I also have The White Tiger sitting in my tbr and I meant to get to it six months ago. Looking forward to your reviews!

Finished Wolf Hall and The White Tiger the 2009 and 2008 Man Booker Prize Winners respectively and hope to get the reviews written soon.

... So we had my daughter and her significant other and my sister's family and it was great fun. I finished Wolf Hall and The White Tiger over the past couple of days. I'm hoping o write my WH review later today. I've still got it in my mind because there was so much to think about. TS ...

... Nabokov. From the voluminous library of nzurisana, I've chosen The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. I would recommend The White Tiger, a Booker prize winner.

Finished White Tiger even before my plane took off, but luckily I had to get rid of some currency at the airport and got Julie & Julia to read.

#16, White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Another one for my winners category. The story of an Indian man and how he is making it in India. Good writing, disturbing story. Four stars.

... detailled and insightfull. Anyway, I understand why this book won the Booker prize, and I gave it five stars. #75 was White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. The Booker prize winner from last year, about a man (the white tiger) in India telling the story of his youth, his servant life and how ...

... Wolf Hall last night while almost falling asleep, but I didn't want it in my carry-on luggage today. I am reading White Tiger now (I am on a Booker roll ;)).

31. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (321 pp.) The White Tiger is told by Balram Halwai and recounts the cutthroat nature of life in India. Halwai tells of life in the Darkness, of his education - and being forced to leave school to start work, of his father's undignified death, and of his ...

... listed in the Sony store, but not Amazon. Likewise with The White Guard. This is not true for all books. For example, The White Tiger is there. ETA: Actually The White Tiger link took me to Audible instead of Amazon. Thanks, k4k

... "colours" category, like i did with Giraffe in the 999 challenge animal theme. But you already read Purple Hibiscus and The white tiger (which isn't that good), you already selected yellow so Half of a yellow sun is no option neither, Nino Filasto's Night of the black roses is ...

... and Wolk Hall is fat enough to stop me in my tracks every time I pass a copy. I'm sure it'll end up here eventually. And White Tiger is absolutely fantastic!

... hours on planes and trains to read, but not much time in between. I am taking Wolf Hall with me (I'm on page 204 now) and White Tiger as my backup book.

... Book of the Assembly Hall (2nd Parva of the Bharata) 4. Early India: From the Origins to 1300 by Romila Thapar 5. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 7. 8. 9. Ideas: This is going to include a bunch of books of the Mahabharata, ...

... book shopping and giving and getting: - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (for my reading classic resolution) - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Booker Prize 2008) - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (many times recommended to me, and I have already finished it, and ...

... has separated himself from the Covenant has cut himself off from the vine of Israel. I shall glean the vineyard." Man in White; a novel by Johnny Cash

... you more. I've never studied the context, but I've always thought that it must have been really innovative in its day. White Tiger wasn't a real pleasant story, but I kinda liked it. 'Reminded me of Crime and Punishment meets Vendor of Sweets.

... I went back to them later, really enjoyed them, and they are now two of my favorites. I HATED The Shipping News, White Tiger and The Unconsoled, but finished them all, complaining every step of the way. The Shipping News won a Pulitzer, White Tiger won the Man Booker and The Unconso ...

I've only read The White Tiger, Chicago, A Plague of Doves, Netherland, Lush Life, Indignation, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Of these, I consider Netherland and Lush Life worthy of a prize, and possibly A Plague of Doves although I thought the last part of it did not match ...

... but it is a bit of a 'forgettable' kind of book if you know what I mean. Certainly it's not really in the same league as The White Tiger or A Fine Balance. But I'd still recommend it as a good story!

34. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Bookbugg~ I liked The White Tiger, I thought it was a good book...although not really sure it deserved the Man Booker Prize. I will check out A Fine Balance too, thanks for the suggestion! I also want to read Q and A by Vikas Swarup ( ...

Thanks for the advice re The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas I will definitely give it a go! How did you like The White Tiger? I read it for a book club recently. While I thought it was enjoyable, I didn't think it merited the Booker Prize.... If you enjoyed the Indian theme, I am currently ...

31. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 32. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.

37. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

118. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. This satire on India and the haves and have nots is insightful and entertaining at the same time. Balram is a successful entrepreneur who tells the story of his early life in a series of letters to the premier of China. His description of his job as a ...

118. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. This satire on India and the haves and have nots is insightful and entertaining at the same time. Balram is a successful entrepreneur who tells the story of his early life in a series of letters to the premier of China. His description of his job as a ...

... (Yomiuri 1996) 8) Then We Came To An End - Joshua Ferris (New York Times Best Books of the Year 2007) 9) White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (Booker Prize 2008) (Started 19-11-2009 - Finished 19-11-2009 #16) 10) Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (Booker Prize 2009) (Started 1 ...

Not sure if it's been mentioned as yet, but I'd recommend this years booker prize, White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, a dog-eat-dog take on modern India.

... (trans); the unbearable lightness of being (trans); disgrace; auschwitz (miklos nyiszli); night (wiesel); the white tiger; house of sand and fog, fasting, feasting; a couple of ed mcbain crime novels that i can't remember the names of now (ironic considering they were ...

#39 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga was a good read, interseting. This is a bookclub book.

Book 21 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - started to read this at the beginning of the year and had difficulty getting into it and then had to return it to the library. Found it on the ...

... Schlink 3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 4. Everyman by Philip Roth 5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 6. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 8. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 9. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 10 Sa ...

Still slowly reading The Secret Life of Trees In the meantime I've finished A Handmaid's Tale and read The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks and American Gods by Neil Gaiman. So far that makes 20: Fiction 1) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 2) ...

#38 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith was a great read about a family in Brooklyn from 1902-1919. #39 The White Tigerby Aravind Adiga is the first book for bookclub. The book list for the bookclub is The White Tiger Girl in a Blue Dress Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie So ...

... border="0" alt="Photobucket"> Group 10: Asia 4/10 1. Sacred Games read 2. Inheritance read 3. The White Tiger 4. Sea of Poppies 5. The Siege of Krishnapur 6. Behind the veil in Arabia 7. River Town read 8. Tale of a certain Orient read

... Kite Runner, a bit too predictable for me, but I know a lot more about Afghanistan after reading it. Same with The White Tiger - it wasn't my favourite book, but it taught me a lot about India's class system. Anil's Ghost is breathtaking, and Ondaatje is a very atmospheric writer; ...

... Brooks New Zealand: Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini India: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga Sri Lanka: Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

... loved the writing and the story more than most of the new books I read this year.) Other standouts for me: The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga The Book Thief - Markus Zusak A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones Black Swan Green - David Mitc ...

... Stone Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

... Case of Exploding Mangoes, Sea of Poppies and (awaiting howls of protest) The Enchantress of Florence far better than The White Tiger. And I still can't believe that The Spare Room by Helen Garner wasn't at least selected for the longlist (and that Child 44 was). This year I'm ...

>171 I didn't think much of The White Tiger either - mistaking cleverness for literature, IM(not very)HO. But then I also loved The Secret Scripture so still kind of think Barry Woz Robbed.

... (message #6 of this thread). I've only read books on the longlist for the past three years, but I didn't feel that The White Tiger was the best of the listed books last year, and I still haven't read The Gathering, the 2007 winner. Even though Brooklyn is second on my list, I ...

BTW, I completely agree with the assessments of The White Tiger. It was a unique and pleasurable but not particularly memorable read.

... and with a better attitude. She seemed to feel it was her punishment or ill fate . . . I know what you mean about The White Tiger. I also enjoyed it, but when I finished, I just went on to something else.

... here - maybe it should win the Booker, if only because it seems to be a book we can all debate. I read last year's winner, The White Tiger, and while I enjoyed it, I'm not sure if it really made me think. Brooklyn, and all the discussion we are having about it, is making me consider how I ...

Oh, I loved The Bone People--though it was dark wasn't it? Loved The White Tiger too.

43. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. To steal Stephen King's quote from the cover of Edgar Sawtelle, I flat-out loved it. Usually I steer well clear of Booker prize winners, on the basis that I'll be too dim to understand them properly (this may stem from The Bone People many years ago) but ...

... Eugenides 2. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 5. Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann 6. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 7. Atonement by Ian McEwan 8. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ...

... they were written. I thought that was pretty neat, they certainly felt inspired! I saw on your thread that you're reading The White Tiger now, that was another one of my favourites this year, hope you enjoy it! >114 Glad I could be of service, Belva :) And thanks for thumbs-up! I hear you ...

... by Hillary Jordan. I loved the writing, but can't really comment on the story without giving things away. I started The White Tiger on the bus this morning - amazingly it was just sitting on the shelf at the library even though the last time I looked at the catalogue it had numerous ...

... of the Oscar book. I didn't have a thread last year but wrote reviews on the book pages. I also agree with Richard on White Tiger . I have the Part-Time Indian book to read, and I wish I could have done the Pillars of Earth read, but I didn't have the time, and I couldn't find the book ...

... in the TBR pile to re-read after hearing a radio programme about the trial of Socrates. My review of Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger: In a series of emails to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, Munna, aka Balram Halwai, tells the story of he got out of the Indian village of Laxmangarh ...

>32 About The White Tiger, (spoilers ahead for those of you reading this who have not read the book yet!!) my interpretation of Balram's actions were that he was somewhat trapped by his poor upbringing and so he did what he felt he had to do, the only way he knew how. That doesn't make it ...

... is a laugh-out-loud, literally, novel. The narrator's voice was distinct and well developed. I wonder if Beatty enjoyed The White Tiger if he has read it. I think I took a lot from this book. Namely, a man's mind is different from a woman's. While Ferguson, my have been a hilarious extreme. B ...

I take down Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, bringing the TBR pile down to 68. This was a 2008 Christmas present from my brother and his wife. My review of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror: Barbara W. Tuchman tells the story of Europe in the 14th century through the figure ...

38. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga Not as good as The White Tiger but still a worthy read.

... C.J. Box 45. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, Joseph J. Ellis (Kindle) 44.The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Kindle) 43. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 42. 1776, David McCullough 41. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Chi ...

... a sense of the Mughal and Indian royal courts. For modern Indian reading, there are tons of books such as Maximum City, The White Tiger, The God of Small Things, etc. I think to really get all the cultural references for temples and mythology and the like, it would also be good to get a ...

... by the courage and fineness of the human spirit. de gustibus... and all that. I've been a bit put off by White Tiger, but I expect to get to it when it's less expensive. I also have Sacred Games on Mt. Bookpile. I've dipped into it and find the vocabulary challenging, but ...

I just finished The White Tiger and can't stop thinking about it. It was simply incredible!

I didn't read much during the first quarter... But for the second quarter, the best were: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga... I haven't enjoyed a novel this much in a very, very, very long time. The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele... I was moved by the sheer honesty and transparancy of ...

I thought that Booker award-winner, The White Tiger was excellent. It was kinda like Crime and Punishment meets The Vendor of Sweets.

I was rather disappointed by The White Tiger - it wasn't bad, but it didn't seem worthy of winning a major award to me.

21 : The White tiger by Aravind Adiga. A bit weird for me that this book won the Booker prize, but that's the case for book prizes in my country too, it's rather rare that the overall most appreciated book wins. Only good for one category : debut novels.

36. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Great book, definitely something I would highly recommend.

Since you aren't positive it was a giraffe, any chance it was The White Tiger? That's both recent enough and high-profile enough (it won the Booker Prize) to make an NPR mention likely. I checked Nancy Pearl's summer ...

... in preps for our upcoming trip there. I've added a review to The Byzantines as well. I also recently finished White Tiger, which is a sort of Indian beach read version of Crime and Punishment. Not bad, but not overwhelmingly memorable either.

... on how woefully behind I am in my thread--I have 9 books (including The Hero's Walk) to talk about that I've read since The White Tiger. I should nudge my kids to read Sherlock Holmes, since timing does seem to be such a big factor. 209 > The Good Mayor wasn't me, Amanda--I haven't read ...

... P. Young 17. 1984 by George Orwell 18. The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 19. Critical by Tom Daschle 20. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 21. A Bold Fresh Piece Of Humanity by Bill O'Reilly 22. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate reading by Sara Nelson ...

45.Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Read June) 46. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 47. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin 48.Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold 49.The Woman in White by Wilki Collins (Re ...

... ers Priestess of the White, Trudi Canavan The Pillars of the World, Anne Bishop The Magicians Guild, Trudi Canavan The White Tiger,Aravind Adiga O Fado da Sombra, Filipe Faria

#67 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - 4 Did I enjoy reading it? Not really. The character was unlikeable. But was it powerful and good? Yes. His rage came through clearly and how unfair his life and others like him had it. The corruption of most of the society came through clearly. I'm glad I ...

... was too detailed and very didactic. I couldn't for the life of me keep track of all the names. I'm right now reading White Tiger (not sure how I feel about this one yet) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (likeable easy read so far).

***AVOID WHITE TIGER BY THAT INDIAN CHAPPIE!!*** And wait just a consarned minnit here, you double-X-chromosome-bearing meanies! What about faggot-to-hag empowerment, huh?!? HUH?! *grumbles* get no respect around here, see if i ever post in EITHER of their threads again, rotten mean ...

Finished The White Tiger! It was a great novel, though the ending could have been richer. I'm going to try and finish O Fado da Sombra, I'm not getting into it, but I'm going to keep at it for the sake of knowing what happens.

... 01. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (12/23/08) 02. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lin See (12/24/08) 03. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (12/26/08) 04. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (12/30/08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. ...

... them all! I don't "star" books (I'm too indecisive), but here--in the order read--are some favorites of 2009 so far: The White Tiger Special Topics in Calamity Physics A re-read Housekeeping vs. Dirt A Complicated Kindness Property The Cellist of Sarajevo Ex-Libris: Conf ...

... to read, we actually have to physically trade Kindles to accomplish that. (One of the many reasons I haven't gotten to White Tiger yet is that its sitting on the bf's Kindle and we're both in the middle of other books and don't want to give up our Kindles right now.) Also, I have lost a ...

... lists: First Quarter: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif Second Quarter: The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Music ...

Today's San Francisco Chronicle includes a review of Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga, whose novel The White Tiger won the Booker Prize last year: 'Between the Assassinations,' by Aravi ...

... speaking authors...) We are just starting to introduce the pocket paperback format. I'm tantalizingly close to finishing The White Tiger I'm really loving it, it really surpasses my expectations. Perhaps I'll join the masses and read The Woman in White?

... coupon from Borders to purchase Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga, who won last year's Booker Prize for The White Tiger. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is being sold at 30% discount, so I bought that, along with the latest edition of Access Paris, a travel ...

... the new book by Aravind Adiga, was also displayed prominently among the new hardcover fiction offerings. His novel The White Tiger won the Booker Prize last year. And, yes, I bought both novels.

... Mehta. Oh, forget that; I see that it is already in your library. I liked Animal's People by Indra Sinha and The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, along with Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, a historical novel that takes place during the Opium Wars. Sacred Games by Vikram Cha ...

... but better late than never, eh? So far this month, June, I have read the following: The Gathering by Anne Enright White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Fallen Skies by Phillipa Gregory The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz.

... reading year! Fortunately, I'm having the opposite year, gem after gem and I sure hope that doesn't change. Also I have White Tiger buried in my tbr, I need to move it up a few slots!

As I was catching up with your thread I saw you had reviewed White Tiger a while back. I read it last year and have to say it was one of my favourite books in 2008. You did a great job with your review. While reading it the novel all came back to me very vividly. If only they were all that ...

The White Tiger ~ Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga This was just OK for me. Again, many, many reviews on LT, so I'm not going to rehash it. But why was it all letters to the Chinese premier? Am I missing something obvious?

... it could have. I enjoyed reading it but, if the author has written any other books, I probably won’t be reading them. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga. Why: Booker Prize 2008, heard good things. Booker seems to like class inequity themes and boy did it find a doozy in this one. The ...

... of Hope ~ Barack Obama I did a Bad Thing ~ Linda Green Angel on Square Rage of Angels ~ Sidney Sheldon White Tiger ~ Aravind Adiga

... Sea of Poppies my sort of book. It's the first in a trilogy and I'll look out for the others. The 2008 Booker Winner,White Tiger, got me in and I had to find out what was going to happen next. I found it fairly engaging. Reading Mistress of the Art of Death with the JolieLouise in What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home- June 2009 (Jun 8, 2009, 4:42pm)

From Barnes and Noble on Friday: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Robert - my husband read Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal and loved it. He read passages to me that he thought were funny. We decided ...

... God, Zora Neale Hurston. 11. Touch Me, I'm Sick: The 52 Creepiest Love Songs You've Ever Heard, Tom Reynolds. 12. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga. 13. La's Orchestra Saves The World, Alexander McCall Smith. 14. P is for Peril, Sue Grafton. 15. Obscure Destinies, Willa Cather. ...

... story, diverse and interesting characters, a melting pot of languages, great backdrop. Highly entertaining. Now on to The White Tiger which I thought was a bit comic at first now I'm tending towards feeling luke warm about it. I loved the first of the Tomorrow series but I couldnt ...

... of not finishing books that I do not enjoy. Life is too short. 8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? The White Tiger and The Prisoner's Wife 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Maybe James Baldwin's The Price of the Ticket ...

... Pausch 5. The Power of Creative Intelligence by Tony Buzan 6. Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup 7. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 8. Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto Now I'm reading Catcher in the Rye and The Last of the Angels. Other than above I have read 13 ...

Still working on The White Tiger and O Fado da Sombra, I did a lot of shifts this week so my reading has fallen behind. 102: enaid > I'm so sorry about your little friend and I hope you continue to find solace in reading, as indeed we do all.

... there! I'm going through and trying to catch up a bit, so sorry how far back I'm referring... I really liked your review of The White Tiger. It looks like an interesting book and is now on my TBR list!

I just left India with my friend the murderer in White Tiger and now I am in Romania with a new nonfiction book called: Bread, Salt and Plum Brandy by an American who served there as a Peace Corps volunteer.

... in Indian culture. Certainly brings more to the table than any review I've offered... This review of Booker winner The White Tiger - http://www.librarything.com/review/45625970

I agree with your comments about Balram in The White Tiger. I think he was somewhat trapped by his poor upbringing and did what he felt he had to do the only way he knew how. That doesn't make it right, of course, but I think Balram felt that his actions were justified. (mild spoiler) ...

6. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga There is a simplistic perfection surrounding Adiga's first novel. (Note: emphasis on perfection, not on simplistic.) I reckon this is technically an epistolary novel. Yet, the narrative moves seamlessly and avoids the choppiness and discontinuity ...

... Erotica 4. Interpreter of Maladies - Fiction: Short Stories 5. Touched With Fire - Nonfiction: Psychology 6. The White Tiger - Fiction: Novel 7. Can You Hear Me Now - Nonfiction: African American: Quotations 8. The Prisoner's Wife - Nonfiction: African American: Memoir 9. R ...

I've been in a kind of a fantasy sprint, so I decided that I should read The White Tiger and so I began, so far is wonderful. Its so weird after all the fairies and wizards and all to read about computers, entrepreneurs and outsourcing! (Of course I'm still reading O Fado da Sombra, I have a ...

So far behind here... so apologies this is out of immediate context. Loved your review of The White Tiger - exactly expressed what I have previously completely failed to articulate about why I didn't really enjoy this book. The Booker win was especially galling considering the other books on the ...

Maybe The White Tiger and The Prisoner's Wife... neither were published this year. I haven't caught up to 2009 publications...

... on my thread! I felt the same way about The Remains of the Day, most of the story is in what is not said. The reason that The White Tiger made me think of this book was that the main character becomes a servant to a wealthy family, but the character turns out to be a kind of anti-Stevens. Hope ...

... in my hand before I got that far, aggh. By the way, I find all your reviews very interesting. I think I will be adding The White Tiger to my TBR list. I loved your opening, "if you relocated The Remains of the Day to India and then had the story reinterpreted by John Irving, the result ...

... All done school now so I can look forward to a summer of reading :) Speaking of, here's my latest review: 13. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga As I was reading this, it occured to me that if you relocated The Remains of the Day to India and then had the story ...

Sheesh, all I wanted to do is say I agree with your views on The White Tiger ... took me a while to get through all 1,000,000 posts on this and your previous thread!

#274: I personally think that's terrific, and am delighted to be a part of the process--which I've done myself and know to be valuable to clarify matters in my own mind. #275: I am flabbergasted that I don't immediately recognize this piece by name. I've only been out of the Seattle area for 5 ...

#271. When all was said and done and read, The White Tiger bothered me a lot. India is hardly alone when it comes to class distinctions (castes), oppression of the poor, and political and police corruption—our neighbor Mexico is a good example. What bothered me was Balram as protagonist, ...

Work has really interfered with my reading schedule this week, so I finally finished white tiger and am on to Til We Have Faces, which I am loving, and The Plague of Doves, which is also great.

The White Tiger Aravind Adiga This is not a novel; it is a diatribe against corruption In India and the oppression of the rich by the poor and by the poor themselves that is thinly disguised as a novel. The is no plot--there is just Adiga’s agenda. So, we learn that Indian ...

Despite my day-job getting in the way of my reading this week, I was able to finish: 26. White Tiger Overall, I enjoyed the story, but it won't make the "must-read" list. It was cute and funny, and the story was interesting, but it wasn't compelling or overwhelming. Good light read.

Unfortunately, no, I haven't yet read White Tiger; I'm a high school teacher gasping through the last few weeks of the year and putting off most of my personal reading. I also liked Maximum City. I've only been to Bombay once, but the book captured a lot of how the city felt to me for the ...

... catch up on all of the posts I've missed or write any new reviews but I did want to stop in and say hello, and mention that The White Tiger is fantastic! It's the only one of the three books that I brought with me that I was able to finish and I loved it. I'm planning to get a review up soon.

All of a sudden, work has become busy and it is really interfering with my reading of White Tiger, but I hope to finish it this week.

01. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (12/23/08) 02. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lin See (12/24/08) 03. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (12/26/08) 04. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (12/30/08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. T ...

... so I downloaded: Anna Karenina The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Treasure Island I also bought the following: The White Tiger Housekeeping Expensive People

I started and finished The Shipping News today. I was underwhlemed to say the least. I also started White Tiger today, and I love it so far. I really need to start The Plague of Doves as well.

Book #29 The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga I was given this book by a coworker. At first I had a hard time getting into it but in the end I enjoyed. Parts of it reminded me a lot of Q&A aka Slumdog Millionaire. They both portrayed similar images of India and some of the ...

... resist trolling the tables for others. Came home with: The Last Olympian The Clearing Olive Kitteridge The White Tiger

... O'Flynn's writing reminds me of Ali Smith (if you haven't read Hotel World yet, it is well worth your time). The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga deserved the attention it's received, John Banville's dark mystery novels set in 1950s Dublin and written under the name Benjamin ...

... 15) 3. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 4. Everyman by Philip Roth 5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 6. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 7. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 8. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 9. Coming Up for Air by George Orwell

... - Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies (320 pages) - Douglas Coupland: Generation X (192 pages) - Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger (288 pages) - Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (192 pages) - Alice Hoffman: Practical Magic (288 pages) - Philip Roth: Everyman (192 pages) - D ...

The White Tiger is also on my TBR list, so depending on your review, I'll either move it higher up the pile or leave it to work its way up naturally.

Good luck on your trip, The White Tiger has been hovering around my TBR list so I'll be anxiously awaiting your return to read your thoughts on it!

... :( But I will be taking several books with me so hopefully I'll have new reviews to add when I get back! On deck are: 1) The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga 2) Tribute, Nora Roberts (not my usual thing but a well-meaning friend got it for me as a gift so I'm giving it a shot) 3) and a ...

OK finished the non 1001 book White Tiger which was very good. I read the The Yellow Wallpaper online at work while waiting for my PC to complete a task. Interesting enough, I would have liked to see it progress more. Now I've just started I, Robot which I expect to enjoy having read ...

>141 Interesting. I got several chapters into The White Tiger a few months ago and just couldn't find the will to carry on so I put it to one side intending to come back later -- maybe I'll just send it straight to the book sale! I thought it was me, but maybe it isn't...

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga This book being one of those intensely love it/hate it ones, and having raised quite a controversy when it won the Booker, I made an effort to reserve my judgment until the very last page. It never redeemed itself, though. A plot out of a cheap thriller, ...

... back after I finish uni- but I still have one more year. I'd work here again in a heartbeat. I loved it so much! 17) White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 304 pages Enjoyable. I would definitely recommend. 17/75 3598 pages

... it. Working Class literature with a selfish lead character is a rare beast on this list. Now reading a non 1001 title White Tiger Next up for the 1001 slogfest will be I, Robot as I fancy a venture into sci-fi.

>50: completely concur with your opinion of The White Tiger. Good, but nothing really special or extraordinary, and I found the sort of half-hearted "redemption" towards the end thoroughly unconvincing. In a way it would have been a much more interesting book if he'd remained totally unrepentant.

I've just left a charming, witty, murderous entrepreneur in Bangalore India in The White Tiger and I'm preparing to make a brief stopover in Geoffrey Wyss' Tiny Clubs before traveling on to China to join Wild Swans.

... try again? I know there are a lot of mixed feelings about that book, but some love it. Sorry to hear so much dissent on The White Tiger. It's been in my tbr, for quite awhile.I picked it up after hearing so many favorable reviews. Go figure, huh?

... involved. I really liked The Shack once I got past the gooey-ness at the start. I also was not a fan of White Tiger.

... And the movie, available from Netflix, is pretty good too. #107, LouisBranning, I'm with you on being underwhelmed by The White Tiger. I just finished The Drinker by Hans Fallada, one of the grimmest books I've read in a long time. I've started two books, and am not sure which ...

... the Siege of Chicago, both equally wonderful, again. Unfortunately I was one of the few who wasn't so charmed by Adiga's The White Tiger, but well understand your comparison to Bellow's Augie.

... also Dirty Little Angels which I promised to review and I'm sort of percolating that review, but I'm currently reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga for a real time book discussion this week and I am reminded by Aravind's hero Balram Halwai of Saul Bellow's Augie March, the tough ...

... That's the problem sometimes with being a long-time reader, isn't it? Somebody who hasn't read A Fine Balance can read White Tiger and appreciate it for what it is. But anybody who has read both can't help but compare. I've had that problem several times since joining LT. Some reviewers ...

Thumbs up for The White Tiger. Absolutely fascinating.

My book club read White Tiger and the majority (including myself) liked it. This is probably the first Indian book I have read so I can't compare it to anything else. What I liked is the main character. He was complex and I liked his style of humor. I did not know the author had another book. Will ...

... awkward by some set of standards I haven't learned yet. My basic question is has anyone yet read Aravind Adiga's White Tiger? Thumbs up or down? My primary interest is Indian fiction, especially fiction set in Bombay. (I published a novel in 2007 set in Bombay, and I have visited ...

#4 MissTeacher I am also in New Orleans with Dirty Little Angels and headed toward India in The White Tiger. Would like to know your comments on "Angels" when you're finished.

I definitely agree with you about the merits of The White Tiger vis a vis A Fine Balance. Even Mistry's later books are not better than A Fine Balance.

... target="_blank"> The White Tiger - review From my review: Balram Halwai lives in "the jungle" that ...

... is the book that has just been filmed as Slumdog Millionaire. I haven't seen the film yet but the book was terrific. The White Tiger - a fitting follow-up to Q & A as it is another story about a boy/young man growing up in India and his own efforts to beat the system. A surprisingly ...

... to Write, Writer's Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty. This will keep me until April when I must read The White Tiger for a book discussion.

... book about the creative brain. Looking forward to making another trip to India soon to join Balram Halwai in Bangalore in The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

... has me in its grip!) Dirty Little Angelsby C. Tusa(I made him a promise!) Writing Personal Essays by Sheila Bender The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (for a book club discussion) A Chain of Voices by Andre Brink (he's a favorite!) Writers Dreaming by Naomi Apel Wow! March turned ...

I couldn't agree more! The White Tiger was excellent! It's Crime and Punishment meets The Vendor of Sweets. As one of the characters says, "Wot a fok-ing johke". Master and Margarita is another personal favorite. As I just said in another post, who would have thought Stalinism ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2008, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga was my latest novel. Reading this novel soon after seeing the Oscar-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire, was quite interesting. This novel is about the struggles of the class of people who live in "the Darkness" in ...

#27 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - *****

... faster than the speed of light--I had barely touched the one-click order on my keyboard and the UPS man was at my door!) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It's for an April book discussion.

This isn't like any others in your first message caity, but I recently finished the often disturbing and sometimes funny The White Tiger. It recently won the Booker Prize. It was a real modern cultural eye-opener for me.

... "The Jewel in the Crown" (which is the title of just one of the books). The books are also quite good. I'll be reading The White Tiger soon and The Siege of Krishnapur sometime this year. I s'pose I should add A Suitable Boy to my TBR; I do like literature about India.

... have it sent back to the US from here--things have gotten easier in the past few years. It'll be a while before I get to The White Tiger. Sacred Games is a big book, I'm trying to get through Welles' diary volume I before Saturday when Stasia and I start our US Civil War/Tennessee section ...

... Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Will be interested to hear what you think of The White Tiger -- I had very mixed feelings about it. I missed that you were reading or had read Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra. For a look at contemporary Mumbai ...

... in that trilogy--The Troubles and The Singapore Grip are also superb. Continuing on my India focus, I also have The White Tiger sitting on a shelf, waiting, waiting, waiting.....

I picked up The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga with very little enthusiasm (I am the person who has not yet read The Life of Pi, after all) and while it looked dauntingly worthy (it won the Booker), it had received some so-so reviews here. I was surprised to find it a fun, quick read, a ...

I am listening to The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and loving it. I am reading some selections from Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe for an LT Group Read.

I began the White Tiger by Aravind Adiga this morning. I've heard mixed things about it--some so-so reviews here, but it won the freeking Booker. I like it so far, and it's a quick read so far...

... recc! I just finished Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. What a masterful use of language! I continue listening to The White Tiger with complete horror and glee, and I am about to start reading Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Should be a pleasant evening!

... for any serious student. I should read it again too! I just finished the dark, sometimes funny, Booker Prize winning The White Tiger.

I am in some fantasy land with Pale Fire and in Bangalore, India with The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

I finished King Solomon's Mines today, having really enjoyed it! I just started listening to The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, and I must say that although I am barely into it I am already laughing out loud. I am really glad it is an audiobook, because the narrator is wonderful. I ...

The White Tiger can be considered humorous at times. If you take Crime and Punishment and squeeze it into The Vendor of Sweets you kind of get the tone of this book.

The White Tiger can be considered humorous at times. If you take Crime and Punishment and squeeze it into The Vendor of Sweets you kind of get the tone of this book.

I just finished The White Tiger and loved it. So, from Ikernagh's library I've chosen another Indian Booker Prize winner. It's The God of Small Things

... enjoying your reviews and I love seeing how your pace changes with each book. I'm a bit of a statistics nerd :) I bought The White Tiger over the holidays and have been planning to read it very soon. Your post about it is a good reminder to keep my expectations in check when I do.

... into another doorstopper, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. For yet another April book club I will be reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

... eigner Runaway First Into Nagasaki Iraq through a Bullet Hole Case of Exploding Mangoes Where Am I Wearing? The White Tiger Something Like an Autobiography The Housekeeper and the Professor Edited to add to list of books.

... Cristo was also good. I didn't have to be constantly aware that I was reading such a big book! I am planning to begin The White Tiger next, just for a change of pace. Someone here recommended it.

... livejournal.com/95014.html">review 21. So Big - review 20. The White Tiger - review 19. The Brontes Went to Woolworths - Sandydog1 in Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 4 (Mar 2, 2009, 6:51pm)

Nothing! I just finished John Lee's reading of The White Tiger. Excellent! Funny sometimes, disturbing often, but excellent.

I just finished The White Tiger, a sometimes funny and often disturbing story of an Indian servant turned entrepeneur. It won the Booker in 2008. Wow, Stephanie Meyers and Vladimir Nabakov all in the same thread. A diverse crowd, these LTers....

8. The White Tiger Speaking of audio, I just finished listening to John Lee's reading of this sometimes funny, unsentimental, stark, disturbing Booker prize winner about an entrepeneurial Indian servant. Highly recommeded. Think Crime and Punishment meets The Vendor of Sweets.

... The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson and The girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson a close third The white tiger by Aravind Adiga

... from My Father Barack Obama 6. The Slap Christos Tsiolkas 7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society 8. The White Tiger 9. The Girl Who Played with Fire 10. Tea Time for the Traditionally Built While there are no Nobel prize winners in the Independent list, at least ...

18. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga India, contemporary fiction, ambition 320p One man's breakthrough from the drudgery of servant life in India to that of an entrepreneur via cunning, the need for survival, ambition and ultimately murder. A sharp contrast in detail of the lives of the rich ...

>22, 'Sounds like you should have quoted directly from The White Tiger, "Whot a F_______ joohk".

Thanks for the warning JIK, I was just going to pick up Nature Girl from the library. I chose The White Tiger instead and so far it is excellent.

... entails firing up an eight-year old computer and we were only in there for few minutes, I asked her if she had a copy of White Tiger. Blank look. I mentioned that it had just won the Booker prize. She looked it up on her computer and said she did not have it. Because of budget cuts, she ...

I just started The White Tiger. I'm sure it will turn out to be very different than anything I've written. Other than reading The vendor of sweets, and the Bhagavad Gita, I'm not too familiar with India or Indian lit.

I just started The White Tiger. I'm sure it will turn out to be very different than anything I've written. Other than reading The vendor of sweets, and the Bhagavad Gita, I'm not too familiar with India or Indian lit.

... be easier to find next time. It looks like you've had some interesting reads so far this year. I've added Runemarks and The White Tiger to the TBR pile.

The White Tiger just dropped through the door - been waiting ages for the p/b. And what an amazing cover! (the black one with the tiger and the rooster). I love it already!

... treat. The spectacle of the slums and modern India enhances my reading by giving me more hooks for visualizing stories like The White Tiger and so many others. Movies do play an important role for us readers, I think. They strengthen my connection to a setting that I've never experienced ...

... What does this have to do with books? Well,seeing the slums as well as the 'new' India makes the visualizing of books like the White Tiger so much richer. It's difficult to 'see' something that you have not context with. Movies can add a lot to the enjoyment of books. I think novels should ...

... list), When the Emperor Was Divine, The English Patient, On Chesil Beach, The Accidental, Mister Pip, Sorry, The White Tiger. I read a lot of Stephen King years back and enjoyed most of those as well. I also read a lot of classics--books that have EARNED their hype!

... besides the Commonwealth. So pleased to see Chris Cleave nominated. I've read The Other Hand, The Northern Clemency, The White Tiger and A Case of Exploding Mangoes; I have a signed copy of Deaf Sentence that I still haven't read, and I really really want to read Jhumpa Lahiri's book ...

... of books I haven't heard of (most of them), but I'm surprised they list Aravind Adiga as Australia since, when I read The White Tiger, I assumed he was from India.

... read The Enchantress of Florence and A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which were both longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize. The White Tiger, which won the Booker, The Spare Room, and The Boat. I have Unaccustomed Earth, The Northern Clemency, and Breath, but haven't gotten to them yet.

... Tower by Louis Bayard Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build… by Greg Mortenson The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga The Associate by John Grisham and.....because at age 59 there is still a little boy left in me, I bought The Grav ...

... Airforce pilot who's at the center of this story, as well as the dark comedic tone of the book, reminds me somewhat of White Tiger.

... thanks for the good JE! You said what I wished I could express. :) Now I've got to try and explain my impressions of The White Tiger in a JE... Maybe it's the lurgi/lack of sleep, but I'm having difficulties being able to talk about books lately. Maybe it's also because they're ...

... how much sleep I got last night and how late the buses are running, etc. (I made a staggering 60 pages this morning with The White Tiger, 2008's Booker Prize winner.)

... into the pool) was that the author's first book (I Hate Myself And Want to Die) was much more fun. Have now started The White Tiger, which will be going on to goodthinkingmax next (fleebo does have a backlog of Booker/Miles Franklin books at the moment). Great read so far.

... to read The Kingdom on the Waves. I didn't like the first book but have been told the second volume is better. Also have The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga waiting on the side.

... I am in love with the male reader . . . that Scottish accent had me at hello. It's John Lee, the same wonderful reader of The White Tiger. He's truly a master of accents!

4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I liked The White Tiger a lot but I wasn't as blown away as I thought I might be from all the blurbs on the cover. Man, they got some effusive blurbs for the cover. 38 days, 4 books, 1805 pages pace = 38.4 books / year or 17338 pages / year

... and the handmade books one, and...). It doesn't count if I buy a book for someone else. ;) And I do have your copy of The White Tiger. It'll be started next (yay!) after I finish either The Memory Room (which isn't a long book, but is a large - and beautiful - hardback edition) or Their ...

... of other Thomas Mann books when I was doing German Literature at uni. Remember none of it! I think Fleebo may have The White Tiger. She gave me the gentlest push about it, and said that she was ready to donate her copy (subtext: because I'd been so slack). Um, WB, if you're talking ...

Welcome Dubai. White Tiger seems to be very popular this year. I agree with you as concerns Booker Prize books as I have come to wonder who picks them. A vast majority of the time I have hated them.

... Room and her initial reaction was "not *another* book!!". I seem to have forgotten to tell her she's next in line for The White Tiger too... If she does decide to take it, I should be able to pass it on this Tuesday (no postage that way, because it's a very large hardback!).

1) White Tiger by Aravind Adiga : 4/5 I came at this book from a slightly different angle to most readers, as, living in Dubai, I don't have a driver, but I do have an Indian maid. No,I don't know where her family live and I don't keep her under the thumb with threats to their safety! How ...

... last 9 yrs. Should be able to manage 75 books in a year, so here goes :) Think I need to keep a record here...... 1) The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga : 4/5 2) Dear Fatty by Dawn French : 3.5/5 3) A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka : 4/5 4) Runemar ...

... to Tamil e. Fiction 1. Just After Sunset 2. Financial Expert 3. Madras on rainy days 4. The White Tiger 5. The end of the affair 6. The Catcher in the Rye 7. A Tiger for Malgudi 8. Love in the time of Cholera 9. Parrot's Theore ...

... Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn 205pp. Recommended by so many here on LT I just has to see for myself. **** 16. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 276pp. Loved the book, hated the narrator. **** 17. Wesley the Owl by Stacey O’Brien 240pp. Another one I heard about ...

... had it for nearly a year now and the length has put me off even starting it. Did you enjoy it? I agree with you about White Tiger. I read it this month and thought it was rather disappointing. Every time I thought it was about to get exciting, it fizzled out again.

... the whole back and forth of it all (which is why I didn't like the back-and-forth-less excuse for an epistolatary novel The White Tiger, I suppose.) Full of excruciating sentimentalism revealing a real psychological depth, replete with literature and with nods to my beloved Gogol, it offers ...

32. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (288) 33. The Now Habit - Neil Fiore (224)

2008 Booker shortlist/longlist challenge The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (livrecache) - Winner (Read June) The Secret Scripture- Sebastien Barry (dr Chris) Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh (star-light) (Read June) The Clothes on their backs - Linda Grant (tqd) Read Feb. The Northern Cle ...

... ay) 45.Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Read June) 46. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Read June) 47. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (Read June) 48.Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold (Read June) 49.The ...

The White Tiger sounds great - thanks for your comments!

What did you think of White Tiger? I read it last weekend and wasn't that impressed by it.

but so far I've read: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya and I am currently working on Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Wondering why Gough Whitlam : a moment in history and The White Tiger both offer each other as potential work combinations. There are editions of each with very close ISBNs, 184354721X and ISBN 1843547201, but the similarity ends there.

Hi, Leuntje! I was interested in the book The White Tiger so I clicked on it and checked out the "Will You Like It?" feature and it says that I will. (I don't know how it knows.) Anyway, I think that I will check it out. --BJ

5. The white tiger - Aravind Adiga Really loved this book! A poor Indian man has to work hard to make a living. In the end he'll be a rich man, but he has to do something terrible before he'll reaches the top.

I just scored a bunch of my wish list: Lost Horizon, Skin Hunger, The Sparrow, and The White Tiger. I started reading Lost Horizon right away and I am enchanted with the skilled writing. I am so glad I am a reader!

... space for Anna Karenina too! Oh well, send it along, I have been looking forward to Diary of a Nobody for a while. (And The White Tiger arrived yesterday, and I'm doing some creative accounting so I'll be reading that next, along with The Memory Room because both are promised to fleebo ...

I'm in India with The white tiger - Adiga.

... Sun 4) the Black Powder war 5) salmon Fishing in the Yemen Paul Torday 31/3/9 6) Empire of Ivory Naomi Novik 7) the white Tiger 8) The Rose labyrinth titania hardie July 2009 9) Colour byVictoria Finlay

... Adichie 2)Unless carol shields 3) God's Own Country Ross Raisin 14/4/9 4) The gargoyle Andrew Davidson 25/4/9 5) the white tiger aravind adiga June 2009 6) how the dead live will self aug 2009 7) the buddha of suburbia Aug 2009 8) The Secret scripture Sebastian Barry Sept 2009 ...

... of Afghanistan in the last forty years. Next a trip of India, in particular Delhi and Bangalorein White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. The book was about the new economy in India, the traditional caste system and the differences between the rural and urban lifestyles. Some ...

... target="_blank">The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The latest Booker Prize Winner. Unfortunately yet more evidence to support Alcottacre's theory (message 21) that the judging panels are ...

... 4 of the 60 or so books I read each year). Based on your comments, I'm going to add Blood of Flowers, and eliminate White Tiger (which I was somewhat uncertain about, anyway), from my list of possibles. Thanks!

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Category: Themed Titles - Animals My first really disappointing read of the year. This won the Booker Prize in 2008, but I really don't see what was so special about it. It is the rise of a servant in India from lowly beginnings to a successful ...

I've noticed that several folks are reading the Booker-winner The White Tiger , which I only finished myself last month, but Adiga's book just didn't work for me at all, in fact, I think it's the poorest Booker pick since Vernon God Little.

Modern Prize Winners (& some nominees ...) 1. white tiger - aravind adiga 2. the curious incident of the dog at night time - mark haddon 3. the demolished man - alfred bester 4. white teeth - zadie smith 5. the suspicions of mr whicher kate summerscale 6. the ...

I've just read White Tiger and thought it was excellent. I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Really looking forward to read one since it won the Bookers.

... I read overmuch. My library can always be trusted for ratings (I'm avoiding a star littered challenge this year) but as for The White Tiger specifically: I thought it was just on the good side of average with more promise than delivery. You could do worse if you're looking for new fiction.

RECOMMENDS 1. Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 01/06/09 2. Stephenie Meyer - Twilight 11/07/09 3. Stephenie Meyer - New Moon 15/07/09 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga My wife rented this book and I thought I’d give it a read before returning it. It was perfect for the airplane... didn’t have to think to hard, easy read. Though all the reviews for this 2008 Man Booker Prize winner seemed to include words like ‘humo ...

... Finished 1-29 (could also be Historical Fiction) The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, Finished 3-15 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Finished 3-25 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, Finished 5-23 (could also be Historical Fiction) The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David W ...

Kim, Midnights' Children and now just finished The White Tiger I really need to change sub continents, I think :-)

I've just finished reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It isn't a long book, which is quite welcome after reading Midnight's Children but it is a funny book. What is surprising about the book, and especially so being the Booker 2008 winner, is how simple an idea it was: then yet again ...

Well I just finished reading Midnight's Children} by Salman Rushdie last night and am now making my way through The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

... tattoo by Stieg Larsson 16. Town by James Roy 17. The girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson 18. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 19. Diary of a Wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney March 20. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett 21. The invention of Hugo Cabret by B ...

EX: WORLD TOUR* 1. INIDIA - The White Tiger {1/1} 2. GERMANY - The Reader {1/4} 3. CZECH REPUBLIC - The Unbearable Lightness of Being {1/17} 4. SPAIN - Three Exemplary Novels {1/19} 5. NETHERLANDS - In the Dutch Mountains {2/18} 6. CHINA - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seam ...

Sure there is! If you do a search for The White Tiger and then click on 'Conversations' on that page, it will bring up all the conversations on LT concerning that book. You can read them all or just look for the ones in the 75 Books Challenge for 2009.

Welcome to both LT and this group! The White Tiger has been highly recommended by several people in the group. Glad to see another person who appreciates it.

... the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer 45. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 46. Watchmen by Alan Moore 47. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 48. Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong 49. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman 50. World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler Feedback ...

#10 Likewise. Except that I can't read your review of The White Tiger yet - I want to try it myself.

... Steve Carroll To be read: * The Zookeeper's War by Steven Conte * The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser * White Tiger by Aravind Adiga * Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell * Pere Gonot by Honore de Balzac ( Group Read - Literature) Wish List: * The Road by C ...

Hope you like The White Tiger, Whisper1!

This is the second time in a few days that I've read a post re. The White Tiger. Cariola read this recently and I added it to my tbr pile. I'll take two posts in a few days as a sign to read it soon. Thanks for the review.

Book #4: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I bought this book solely because it won the Booker Prize this year - I don't really read enough contemporary literature (I just finished my English degree, so it was Classics overload for awhile!) and I really want to get into it, so ...

In the last few days I finished The Road and The White Tiger - both wonderful reads! 4 read, 77 to go - and since I go back to school tomorrow, I am guessing my reading rate will slow quite a bit :(

>15 I heartily concur about both "Slumdog Millionaire" and A Fine Balance which I "discovered" before Oprah. :-) The White Tiger is #5 on my TBR list for 2009. I am limiting myself to adding one book per day to this list.

#37 I've started the blind assassin countless times but never seem to get very far! I've just finished White Tiger which I thought I should read as it won the Booker. Surprisingly, I enjoy it immensely, much more so than most Booker winners. Aside from that, I'm reading lots of Susanna Gr ...

... your Booker Prize winners and would second Bonniebooks' recommendation of Life of Pi and God of Small Things. I have White Tiger to read soon, but it is in hardback so I will probably have to read it at home over a weekend as it is too heavy to carry about with me. I've just started Mi ...

001. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 01/01/09 002. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 01/02/09 003. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 01/03/09 004. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 01/04/09 005. Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 01/05/09 FILM: Veronika Voss (1982); Gonzo ...

So as part of my 999 Challenge I have a category for Booker Prize winners. Right now I am reading The White Tiger, but other than that, I don't have any books planned for this category. Anyone have any recommendations? I've read The English Patient and Disgrace already. Thanks!

I'm currently reading The White Tiger too, and am absolutely loving it! The narrator slips from serious to satirical so skillfully.

I loved The White Tiger. Have you read A Fine Balance? It's outstanding, and is a book that will stay with me forever. Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra, is an all-encompassing saga of life in present day Mumbai. It's a thriller in which the fate of the world depends on a lowly policeman, ...

>1. Loved your review on The White Tiger I have it on order from the library, hope I like it. Like you I feel I SHOULD read it since it is on so many "best of" lists for 2008.

7. Sociology/Culture 1) Collapse READ 2) Presentation of Self in Everyday Life READ 3) The White Tiger READ 4) Outliers READ 5) Columbine by Dave Cullen READ 6) Causing a Scene by Charlie Todd READ 7) Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz READ ...

I am currently on book #4 for my 999 Challenge - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. So far, I am really liking it - Adiga's prose is easy to read and I love the way the story goes from serious to satirical in an instant. This book is for my "Booker Prize" winners category, and I would love any ...

I have heard such great things about The White Tiger - glad you liked it!

I already had The White Tiger on Continent TBR, but I will be bumping it up. It sounds great! Now, I just have to locate a copy - my local library failing me once again.

... into life in modern-day India, his story is sad, funny, witty, shocking--you name it. All told in a fascinating voice. The White Tiger won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. ...

... gut 5. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink - FINISHED January 17/09 6. TBA 7. TBA 8. TBA 9. TBA Booker Prize Winners 1. White Tiger – Aravind Adiga - FINISHED January 5/09 2. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood 3. TBA 4. TBA 5. TBA 6. TBA 7. TBA 8. TBA 9. TBA Contemporary Fi ...

001. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 01/01/09 002. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 01/02/09

I too was annoyed with The White Tiger. While I felt it gave me insight into an area of India (Delhi) I was less familiar with from reading other Indian authors, and I found it compelling and darkly humorous, it was just a little too unrelievedly depressing, and the many of the characters seemed ...

... 1929 group soon. Otherwise, I've read an awful biography of Roger Federer, and the latest Booker Prize winner, The White Tiger - I had read most of, but not all of the latter, and started from scratch again yesterday. It didn't appeal to me greatly, and my reasons are lindsacl in 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : citizenkelly's aide memoir (Jan 2, 2009, 6:20am)

Happy New Year citizenkelly! Nice review -- I'm planning to read The White Tiger this year myself. Oh, and I've starred your thread so I can stalk you.

... target="_blank"> 1. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008) 321 pages. kurohyou in 999 Challenge : Kuroh's 999 Challenge (Dec 29, 2008, 2:13pm)

... have discussions about one book-- book for this year!) 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Junot Diaz 3. The White Tiger—Avarind Adiga 4. Never Let Me Go—Kazou Ishiguru 5. The Road—Cormac McCarthy 6. The Year of Magical Thinking—Joan Didion 7 ...

... by Lawrence Durrell (Cyprus) (Completed 24 April) 2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan) (TBR) 3. The White Tiger by Aravid Adiga (India) (TBR) 4. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (Japan) (TBR) 5. Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith (Bot ...

I've just ordered white tiger Hopefully will finish off Notes from the Underground either tonight or tomorrow and can start and finish Kim by Hogmanay.

Yes, I took The White Tiger with me and I bought Between the Assassinations while I was there but haven't read it yet. It was definately worth it, it was the most current book that I read and it had a nice sense of humor even though it dealt with some dark topics.

3. White Tiger is ferociously good! What does it say about MY character that I like Balram better than I liked Lilly (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan)? After all, Lilly only admitted to being rigid while Balram is a murderer! What does it say about me when I can thoroughly enjoy a book ...

... is going to stay with me also, I feel so lucky to live where I do. Some people have so much to endure. I should check out The White Tiger and Holy Cow. Thanks for the recommendation.

>3 TT The White Tiger was a great read. I liked the flippant voice, the vibrant characters, the pace, the humour. I enjoy learning about a country through books. A Fine Balance will stay with me forever. Holy Cow shows another face of India.

>1 loosha, I heard Aravind Adiga on the radio yesterday talking about his book The White Tiger. It sounded interesting. What were your impressions? I am currently reading Shantaram which is set in Bombay and describes the underclasses and the slums in which they live. Adiga's book sounds as ...

Okay, I'm going to give it a try. I've read about 72 books in 2008, but the year's not done yet! I just finished the White Tiger and started the Flying Troutmans today. This place will be filled with family and friends for the next week, so I think my first book for 2009 will be the Gargoyle ...

Just finished The White Tiger, really good read. Will start the Flying Troutmans later today.

... get the ball rolling with this new Book Club i will give my thoughts on the question. My favourite book of the year was The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. I thought that the narrative was thrilling and original - it was a voice i hadn't heard in novels before. It for me is an important ...

... C.J. Box 45. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, Joseph J. Ellis (Kindle) 44.The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Kindle) 43. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 42. 1776, David McCullough 41. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Chi ...

... like I'm pressuring myself to complete one book so I can start the next one. It's kind of like eating too fast. Just now, The White Tiger is beckonning from the side table .

Sinterklaas (Dutch version of Santa Claus) brought me: White tiger - Aravind Adiga Het recht op terugkeer - Leon de Winter

... overtones, and a mixture of martial arts, and Japanese history and culture. Love the recurring characters. Next was White Tiger by Aravind Adiga It was OK. Well written, funny in a black way, but noy great. It is about a poor man and how his struggle for a decent life against the rich ...

... already I am mourning the loss of the beautiful buildings. I hope to finish this book before I leave. I plan on taking The White Tiger with me to read while I am there. Unfortunately, the rest of the great suggestions will have to wait until I return but that is OK - it will just ...

What did you finally settle on, k4k? I'm reading the Man-Booker prize winner, THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga. Very good!

... Book of the Assembly Hall (2nd Parva of the Bharata) 4. Early India: From the Origins to 1300 by Romila Thapar 5. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 6. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 7. 8. 9. Ideas: This is going to include a bunch of books of the Mahabharata, ...

I finished The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga It was OK, but as I said earlier, not anything major in terms of reading experience or prize-worthiness. It was well written, had humor, but was a pretty typical book about being poor in a third world country and dealing with the well-off and ...

I am reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. So far its OK, well written, occasionally funny and mildly interesting, but nothing earth shattering to see why it is prize-worthy.

I'm listening to a discussion of The White Tiger on the radio as I type this. Sounds interesting, but not necessarily my cup of tea.

... highly of that Carroll novel. He never came close to topping that one (his debut). I'm about 2/3 of the way through THE WHITE TIGER, this year's Booker winner. It's a fine read but winner of best best English language novel in ye Commonwealth? I dunno about that...

I've heard a lot of good things about The White Tiger. While I like a handful of Tom Perrotta novels, I really didn't care for The Abstinence Teacher. I wouldn't say I hated it, but there are just so many other good books to read. It was boring and easily forgettable.

I've only read The White Tiger here. I wouldn't de-nudge it, but I wouldn't really recommend it either. It's a book I feel very ambivalent towards - the narrative voice is very well characterised, but the biting anger in the book was a lot to take. It's certainly not a light read, although the ...

... wrote it is David Oliver Relin. Not sure what to read next, maybe Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey ? Fowl Weather, White Tiger , Out of the Sun ??? ARRRGH I can't decide what I am in the mood for.

I second that- haven't read any of the books but The White Tiger looks interesting. The reviews have been good.

Read The White Tiger. That way you can tell me if I should move it up in my TBR pile! ;)

I haven't read any of them either, but I bought The White Tiger last week; couldn't get into it, but I put it down to not being in the mood for it and plan to try again soon. If this were my pile I'd read the Tim Winton; I've yet to read anything of his that I don't like.

... because there are a couple of books I know very little about. P.S. Will shrink this when Photobucket is in the mood. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Kingdom of Ashes by Robert Edric Secrets of the Sea by Nicholas Shakespeare Breath by Tim Winton Carpentaria by Alexis Wrigh ...

... yann martel (man booker prize 2002) (21 june-25 june) 4 the sea john banville (man booker prize 2005) (7 june-8 june) 5 the white tiger aravind adiga (man booker prize 2008) (5 december-8 december) 6 gilead marilynne robinson (pulitzer prize 2005) (24 january-25 january ) 7 amsterdam ...

I liked the Sari Shop. It has similar themes to The White Tiger - the difference between the haves and have-nots.

#99 The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry Sebastian Barry was robbed. Seriously. This book was way better than The White Tiger. Booker committee, why? I mean, I know that last year's selection was also a sad Irish book about death and dying and families and the sea, but still. That's ...

... - Luigi Pirandello 7. Ik ben niet bang - Niccolò Ammaniti 8. Veranderend licht - Jens Christian Grøndahl 9. De witte tijger - Aravind Adiga

My pleasure, deebee! It was rebeccaNYC's thread, but I now realise I didn't say anything about the style. The White Tiger is not a lyrical sort of read; I remember A Fine Balance as being one of those books that just sweeps you along with the prose even as you can't quite come to terms with ...

... wanted to thank you for a post you made somewhere responding to my question about a comparison between A Fine Balance and The White Tiger. i agree one needs surplus positivity to read this.

... (1955) - ? Luigi Pirandello (1934) - Dagboek van Serafino Gubbio, cameraman Booker Prize Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger (2008) Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang (2001) Prix Goncourt Jonathan Littell - De welwillenden (2006) Premio Strega Paolo ...

... set earlier in time, is less concerned with the explosion of capitalism (shopping, driving, the internet etc. etc.) than The White Tiger. I thought Mistry's was by far the better book - very gloomy, but somehow I felt like he allowed the characters to keep some sort of spiritual dignity ...

#96 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga This year's Booker prize winner. It's good, I liked it but certainly not enough to ever read again.

... And from what i know and have experienced of the said culture/society, it is a quite accurate depiction. i've not read The White Tiger yet, but was wondering how both novels differ in terms of approach and style.

... from the reader's to get a sense of what is accurate and what isn't. I've read a fair amount of fiction from India and The White Tiger intrigued me because it portrayed locations and class relationships that hadn't been explored in other books I've read. And I do agree with you that it was ...

rebeccanyc, I madly decided to Booker read this year.... didn't quite make it through the whole longlist though. I thought The White Tiger was very bleak. There's an interesting piece on The White Tiger in the LRB this week, about how ...

I've left contemporary Delhi and Bangalore with The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and am now in post-World War I Paris at The Count d'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet (although the ball hasn't started yet).

... by Paolo Giordano (finished on 13 june) 5. Een demon in Brussel by Kamiel Vanhole (finished on 14 june) 6. The white tiger by Aravind Adiga (finished on 18 july) 7. De hekkenbouwers by Magnus Mills (finished on 25 july) 8. Marcel by Erwin Mortier (finished on 14 ...

#53 rebeccanyc: Sounds like something I would like to read, so on to Continent TBR The White Tiger goes. Hopefully, I will have better luck with it than some of the other Booker winners which, for me, have turned out to be unreadable. Thanks for the recommendation!

49. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga There is a white tiger born once every generation and Balram Halwai—servant, chauffeur, and entrepreneur—believes he is it. Through a series of seven letters to the Premier of China in anticipation of the Premier's visit to India, Balram describes the ...

I just finished The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, this year's Booker award winner. I found it compelling, darkly humorous, but very dark overall, and a view into a side of India I haven't read much about.

... and starring a character, Rebus, I kept reading about. This, the first book in the Rebus series, didn't disappoint. 47. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga The Booker winner this year. The ending reminded me of "Silence of the Lambs," with the evil-but-likable Hannibal Lecter getting ...

Still working my way through Ulysses, and started The White Tiger for my commute-read (much, much shorter!) I like The White Tiger so far, but I think that A Fraction of the Whole was much better.

... war through the Vietnam war with Baker Towers, also by Jennifer Haigh, and now I'm in contemporary Bangalore with The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.

... to see her getting so much better from book to book -- so I'm really looking forward to the next one. Now I've started The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It's been on my TBR pile for a while and I figured I should read it since it just won the Booker.

... on Your Knees by Anne Marie MacDonald (Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Giller Prize shortlist) 2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (winner--Booker Prize 2008) 3. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2001) 4.

... mail today: The Painted Drum and Mosquito. I had two in hand today at Barnes and Noble - The Baron in the Trees and White Tiger - but left them behind. I may be back for them later. The truth is that I have gotten really tight since realizing how much cheaper everything is used on Amazo ...

... and magical realism. It will probably be either great, or really, really bad. Then browsing in a different area I found The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga. I think it just won the Man Booker prize, and it looks interesting so I thought I would give it a try. The story of a complicated ...

... book pile. When we were down in Regina, I found her two of Jasper Fforde's novels at the central library and she's also got WHITE TIGER, this year's Booker winner, on her nightstand...

The 2008 Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It's a darkly comical book about an Indian taxi driver who decides to write to the Premier of China and educate him on Indian culture before the Premier's arrival for a state visit. It's quite a ...

So FlossieT, are you saying that The White Tiger is really depressing? I read A Fine Balance about four years ago and I still haven't recovered. I don't think I can stand being scarred like that again.

... (a different type of creature in each title) 1. The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker 2. White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga 3. Giraffe by J M Ledgard 4. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre ...

... Presently reading The Sea of Poppies which is good. It was a shortlist finalist for the booker but did not win. The White Tiger was, of course, announced as the winner yesterday. However I did BUY two Canadian books today - Joseph Boyden and Marina Endicott's Giller nominated ...

... It, Robert Zimmerman. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster. And since The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga just won the Booker I picked up a copy. I won't finish all of them this week but I'm working on them at a decent pace.

... a novel is bad because I didn't "like" or "identify with" the characters. It's true I didn't, but I don't think this makes The White Tiger a bad book. As I said earlier on this thread, I don't think it's especially "literary" either. It's practically the only book on the shortlist where there ...

I was looking at a website today, and the bookmakers had The White Tiger as the longshot. Cool, I've already read it.

And the Man Booker Prize for 2008 goes to... Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger

... excommunicate me if she heard me saying it) John Berger didn't make the cut. I really disliked The Northern Clemency, The White Tiger and Sea of Poppies - although all for different reasons, and in the case of at the very least the second of those three titles, not because I'm convinced ...

... Indian, his wife and his cousin, to take in hard-up English pensioners. It was interesting to have read this after The White Tiger as they share a location. It's not that this novel was idealistic about Bangalore - it still mentioned the poverty, the dirt, the effects of economic ...

... young Bond books. He tried Alex Rider a few months back and wasn't keen, but it might just have been a timing thing. 66. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga If I thought this was bleak after 50 pages, I didn't know how lucky I was.... very, very dark. This has similarities with Rohinton Mistry' ...

... about how a particular piece of "technology" worked and the answer was, "That's never explained". Have now started The White Tiger, which is promising - but I don't think it will be exactly what you would call an enjoyable read. Clever, but bleak. (But that's only just over 50 pages in).

Hi alaskabookworm - haven't posted on your thread before - I have The White Tiger in my TBR pile (and next up once I've ploughed through all the library books I ambitiously borrowed for summer reading). Sounds like it's not going to be a light read... Goodnight Moon is not really so big in ...

72. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. This is a really hard book to rate. Really, it wasn't "fun" to read, but it's message was timely and penetrating and provocative. I just found out today it is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. I guess I have to rate it two ways: reading ...

To reproduce the shortlist here: Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs ...

... I don't think it's a truly extraordinary, stand-out book, which I did for both of the first two. I have copies of both The White Tiger and Girl in a Blue Dress but the likelihood of my managing to read them by tomorrow is, ahem, minimal.

... Scripture 3. The Enchantress of Florence 4. Netherland 5. The Lost Dog 6. A Case of Exploding Mangoes 7. The White Tiger 8. From A to X 9. A Fraction of the Whole 10. Child 44 I'll start The Clothes on Their Backs shortly. I'm saving The Northern Clemency for ...

#115 Judylou, How did you like The White Tiger? It's on my TBR pile.

I'm about to start The White Tiger, and The Northern Clemency has FINALLY come into the library (although I can't pick it up until Friday...). So looks like I will possibly manage 6 before the shortlist announcement. Unless I don't sleep at all at the weekend of course. Likely to remain ...

... persisting with Booker longlist reading even though I have only managed 4 and the shortlist announcement is on Tuesday... The White Tiger is up next.

98. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Balram Halwai was born in "the darkness" - the son of a rickshaw puller, but determined to escape his class's limits. He becomes a driver and moves to the city. He is fortunate in many ways, but is still a servant and still wants something better. The ...

Just finished The White Tiger and will go on to another Booker Prize longlist The Clothes on their Backs. Also I'm savouring The Three Incestuous Sisters and listening to Two Caravans which is very funny so far.

I finished reading The White Tiger and will soon start on The Clothes on their Backs. Again, I have to say that The White Tiger was good but not great.

Now reading The White Tiger.

... bought The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, another of the 2008 Booker Prize longlisted books. #202 - I read The White Tiger and enjoyed it. He writes well, and the view of the underside of current Indian society is enlightening.

Bookmooched: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. It sounds very good, anyone have any thoughts on it??

... So far I've also finished The Enchantress of Florence, my favorite so far, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, The Lost Dog, The White Tiger, and Netherland. I'll start A Fraction of the Whole tonight.

... is announced in mid-October. On Sunday I finished Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, and early this morning I completed The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, which were both excellent. I started reading A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif, which has made me laugh out loud a ...

I've read Netherland, and it's one of my favorite books of the year so far. I just bought The White Tiger because it was prominently displayed in one of my favorite book stores. I am embarrassed to say that I not only haven't read any of the others but haven't even heard of many of them.

The 2008 longlist was just announced as: Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture J ...

... my mailbox: 1. Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago 2. Born Yesterday: The News as Novel by Gordon Burn 3. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga I will be attending a lecture by Salman Rushdie this evening, which will include a copy of his latest novel, The Enchantress of ...

... by David Mitchell - Alex Award(May 2008) 3. In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje - Trillium (August 2008) 4. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - Booker (October 2008) 5. Strandernas svall by Eyvind Johnson - Nobel (November 2008) VIII Books in a Series 1. The No.1 Ladie ...