Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | The Glass Palace |
| author | Amitav Ghosh |
| ISBN-10 | 0-006-51409-X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-006-51409-1 |
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| date | 2013-Oct-24 |
At the start of the book, Rajkumar Raha is eleven years old. An Indian boy who came to Mandalay by chance, rather than on purpose. From here, the book follows Rajkumar throughout his whole life, and further.
The Glass Palace is part fictious biography, part history book. It lets the characters explain their thoughts, their feelings, their reasoning; it picks up and mixes in historical events (which I did not check and therefor can not confirm) and gives faces to those events. In some parts it is very detailed and in other places it easily skips over many years.
This is an unusual book. Neither is it thrilling and making you want to read "just one more chapter before going to bed", nor is it boaring or uninteresting so you would put it away for good. It is somewhere in between: keeping you coming back to read a bit more, so long, you will have read the whole book in the end.
