tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post113980954728531514..comments2024-03-18T19:46:10.130+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Upamanyu Chatterjee’s Weight Loss: a personal takeJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-82488288612029658252010-12-08T20:57:34.399+05:302010-12-08T20:57:34.399+05:30After your review I will sure read this bookAfter your review I will sure read this bookWinstrolhttp://rxheads.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-27233903633307630222010-05-31T23:17:58.237+05:302010-05-31T23:17:58.237+05:30Have to say, I was profoundly ambivalent about Eng...Have to say, I was profoundly ambivalent about English, August - and Rana Dasgupta's outlook review of the new book brought up many of the things i found 'problematic' about Eng Aug. I think you're right about UC's superbly irreverent humour (and its rarity in IWE) - but am somehow convinced i won't like the book. it's probably the fact that UC comes across as completely identified with his protagonist, and the protagonist is usually someone alarmingly pompous, self-obsessed, with zero interest in getting rid of his class/gender type blinkers.F. Belthttp://www.askrootz.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-77633942156949913112009-12-20T02:03:25.470+05:302009-12-20T02:03:25.470+05:30clomid in malesclomid in malesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-82076509107406319872009-09-24T04:28:27.906+05:302009-09-24T04:28:27.906+05:30Interesting article!
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I also , otherwise too, think Upamanyu Chatterjee’s is highly overrated. He is not even average, leave aside brilliant. I had taken a lifetime to complete the LAST BURDEN, similar time frame for ENGLISH AUGUST. I don’t know what the hullabaloo with him is about. I don't think I will even try to finish this one....Ditihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14915892356206892687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-46612798585149142552009-02-13T21:58:00.000+05:302009-02-13T21:58:00.000+05:30I read Weight Loss a couple of weeks back. The fet...I read <I>Weight Loss</I> a couple of weeks back. The fetishism gets tiring after a while and the florid nature of some of the sex scenes made me feel more austere than I have in quite a while.<BR/>The climax too runs along a path which left me mystified. Try as I might, I am unable to see a larger motif, until unless of course somebody wants to pull that old card, "absence of a thematics as a theme". At times when I read the book in public I was hoping my face did not convey the perversity that Mr. Chatterjee had placed in my mind. When I read I generally end up with a mental movie of direct to dvd type production values. In case of <I>Weight Loss</I> I wish the theater of my mind had at its disposal a censor of some sort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-26269888953739808582008-11-27T11:38:00.000+05:302008-11-27T11:38:00.000+05:30In my opinion best option to lose weight quickly i...In my opinion best option to lose weight quickly is <A HREF="http://weight-loss.realhealthproducts.org/ca_hoodia-gordonii-plus-review/" REL="nofollow">Hoodia</A>CINDYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09719870008622993622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-4735534494627385532008-08-26T12:22:00.000+05:302008-08-26T12:22:00.000+05:30Very insightful and practical approach to reviewin...Very insightful and practical approach to reviewing the product..<BR/><BR/>I've read some of Chatterjee's work but was disappointed..<BR/><BR/>hopefully this is good..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-506708982966290862007-06-21T15:45:00.000+05:302007-06-21T15:45:00.000+05:30man ... same here, stuck in the middle ... and can...man ... same here, stuck in the middle ... and cannot get myself to finish off the book... ... and an excellent review. I like upamanyu's books.. he is a talented writer, with excellent sense of humor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1166421980142594842006-12-18T11:36:00.000+05:302006-12-18T11:36:00.000+05:30One 'more' redundant comment about how one agrees ...One 'more' redundant comment about how one agrees completely with this blog. Actually its more about identification with that feeling of enjoying a book to the hilt, one that has been uniformaly panned by critics/admirers alike. Also in agreement, Upamanyu Chatterjee's is extremely interesting Indian writing. He's rude, sarcastic even cruel. At the end of the day even fatous and pigheaded and thats delightful in an Indian author because hes not petty. Hes magnanamous. He's worth the read- everytime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1144735874299785902006-04-11T11:41:00.000+05:302006-04-11T11:41:00.000+05:30I have read your review on "Upamanyu Chatterjee’s ...I have read your review on "Upamanyu Chatterjee’s Weight Loss" and it looks fine to me and greatly impressed by your review. If you are looking for some more <A HREF="http://fast-weightloss.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">weight loss</A> information then you can get more information from here.Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384181233690742612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1141202093346140652006-03-01T14:04:00.000+05:302006-03-01T14:04:00.000+05:30I bought and read all 3 of Chatterjee's previous b...I bought and read all 3 of Chatterjee's previous books...laughed myself silly over English August, waded through the laborious prose of The Last Burden and didn't like Mammaries at all. I can't wait to add Weight Loss to my collection. This guy and Amitav Ghosh have been my fave Indian writers for years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1139941943685663612006-02-15T00:02:00.000+05:302006-02-15T00:02:00.000+05:30I somehow love reading your reviews, which makes m...I somehow love reading your reviews, which makes me invariably go and buy the books you recommend, and then I end up not liking them in the end, and yet I come back on your blog to read another review and on to another liking!<BR/><BR/>It is a disturbing cycle!Dr. Gonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593056958061152496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1139855267474403062006-02-13T23:57:00.000+05:302006-02-13T23:57:00.000+05:30I didn't like English, August much, but I might pi...I didn't like English, August much, but I might pick up this one. Deviant sex, you see. *looks off into the distance dreamily*<BR/><BR/>I have read many excellent reviews of mediocre to awful books and movies, so I don't judge books by the quality of the review, but by the content. (And that was a rider for ...) This was an excellent review, by the way. A very good read.Aditya Bidikarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17799184995636004373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1139829958026879212006-02-13T16:55:00.000+05:302006-02-13T16:55:00.000+05:30Anirudh: I suspect the official review will "borro...Anirudh: I suspect the official review will "borrow" a lot from this one! <BR/><BR/>Neha: thanks for the kind words but I must warn you against trusting my word on this one. My response to this book was a very particular one and I don't know how many other people will be affected in the same way.Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1139825114243953762006-02-13T15:35:00.000+05:302006-02-13T15:35:00.000+05:30A half-way decent book brings out a half-way decen...A half-way decent book brings out a half-way decent review.<BR/><BR/>However you review was far better than the half-way mark! :) Will pick this one up soon enough. I am still reeling from the aftereffects of books recently read.<BR/><BR/>Sexuality in literature somehow is appreciated only if done "tastefully". Even deviation must be captured as though one is smoking rose petals. When it's otherwise. The real world is hardly seamless. It is jerky, random, rapid, parallel and patchy. (There. That's a lot of adjectives!)<BR/><BR/>I trust your review. :)neha vishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16549996517146151040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-1139822270076271352006-02-13T14:47:00.000+05:302006-02-13T14:47:00.000+05:30I enjoyed reading this review a lot. Especially li...I enjoyed reading this review a lot. Especially liked the line: <I>If one of the chief purposes of fiction is to provide us a window into another way of living or thinking, Weight Loss does succeed in doing that to an extent.</I><BR/><BR/>I've only read Chatterjee's most famous work, English August which was also both humorous and disturbing and this one seems interesting enough to try. <BR/><BR/>And now that I've read this review, I would also like to read the official one just to see the difference in the two. Could you please put up the link as a reply to this comment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com