Slam

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Blind Faith

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

I’ve just finished reading ‘the reluctant fundamentalist’ and must type a review whilst it is still fresh in my mind.

The cover states that its been nominated for a ‘booker prize’. I do not know what a ‘booker prize’ is, but sense that it would do well to award this book the title, rather than muck about ‘deciding’ on who else should be awarded the merit.

‘The reluctant fundatmentalist’ is an astounding read. The first I have ever experienced – I hope it is the only one like it in the world and it becomes internationally recognised for conversational viewpoint. Argh. I’m spoiling the surpirse!

The title is the conversation of one man – not so much written from the first perspective (which indeed that is true) but more than that, it is written with no other characters or conversations other than that from within the memory of our teller.

All the conversation is directed towards one man, that never speaks throughout the entire book, and we only recieve splashes of description from other people about the scenery.

The story – if I had to plot its shape on a piece of paper – would resemble a steady inclination rising from left to right, building and building, and not indicating at all where it is leading – we can guess, as I did, but I failed to see how it would end. But end it did, and the story finally revealed within the last few pages, and the tale is literally wrapped up only in the final sentences.

This is a rare read. I can see why it was ‘nominated’ – and I can also see why it deserves to win. I don’t know if it has already, but if not, then I am certainly interested to know who on earth can better a plot like this one.

This book has restored my faith in simple ideas told really well, are better than all the complex plots you can think of. I say to anyone that is wrestling with a complex script or novel, to read this and you’ll instantly understand where you’re going wrong.

A short read, double line spacing and only 200 pages – this is worth your hard earned cash and is memorable and re-readable. 

Bad Luck And Trouble
This is a book for people that want to look like they love reading whilst at the check out in Tescos. Its a big hard back, and has ‘idiot’ written all over it. Even the story is ridiculous. The subject is like a bad Da Vinci code combined with a bad Die Hard movie, I was nearly ill several times whilst reading it. I’m still reading it…. and will probably finish it, because I want people to know publically that I can read at least one ‘big’ book. Can’t wait til its over tho. This has ‘good formating’ by default because its a hard back. Hardbacks are always easy on the eyes.