I bought Imaginary Men for some light reading for my trip to Vegas. Oh now you are laughing at me and saying "Book to Vegas... haha." Whatever. So I bought this book for my trip to Vegas in case I did not want to go clubbing and wanted to stay in and read. I was looking for a light (read trashy) book. After some preliminary Amazon.com book searches, I came across this one. The synopsis read like a frothy romantic comedy so I figured let me give it a shot (after all I did enjoy the movie "The Wedding Date", oh stop judging!)
All I have to say for this book... UGH UGH.. who in their right minds is giving this book 5 stars.
In a nutshell, the book is about 30 something Indian American Lina Ray who makes up a fiance at her sister's Indian wedding to get an Indian Aunt off her back. She subconsciously (or not) models the fake man after this guy, Raja, she had run into at the wedding. What follows is the story, no... soap opera of her lies and the real Raja coming to her in San Francisco. Blah di blah di blah. I think everyone and their mother can guess what happens.
Now one would say, "hey what did you expect? War and Peace? The synopsis should have told you what to expect" Yeah Yeah, but what I am taking offense to is, the whole exoticization of INDIA. Its like the hot commodity that everyone is cashing in on. This story could have been set in San Francisco and have had nothing to do with India and it would not have pissed me off as it did. Its the new model for success for writing, take some soap operaesque story, set it in India, throw some saris, bindis and arranged marriage and voila you get people calling this borefest "Bridget Jones meets Monsoon Wedding"!! UGHHHH!!
7 comments:
deliciously disgusting innit ! a lot of people me whitewashed. thats not really true. I just hate what people make of india and indian outlook to things are.
so i dont enjoy bollywood that much. doesnt make me any less indian than vajpaee! and indian authors just maximizes misery ( god of small things and can you hear the mockingbird sing or call or something).
OMG I am glad I am not the only one hating on God of Small Things! I did not like that book too. Its because of that book, that I am wary of Booker Winners now :(
you can say that again. the language was good. but christ! btw. we had a serious group going on in gvit back in the day. a band of people who hated that book when everyone was praising it to high heaven
Ah, I know how that was.. Men only Book Club :D ... God Forbid if a girl was to talk to you boys!
lol not completly true. sumana, ritu, gigi and a bunch of the other girls were part of it too!! c'mon agreed women have smaller brains and all that.. we arent all mcps :P
Oooh you did not just say that.. It was the damn mallu connection.. Sumana was mallu by extension :D
what you want me to lie now? wtf man! that goes against everything indian!
hehe
well the guys were lead, mahesh and me the rest were just twits
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