And I'm really touched that my one woman dislike of Ondaatje has been enough to earn him a place next to Rushdie as controversial! I actually don't like Rushdie all that much either but that's because i keep trying to read him and stalling - my sister raves about him, and I picked up her copy of the one about the Indian pop star thinking, "how inaccessible can this be any way" and got hugely frustrated all over again about his prose all over again.
Errm, I have to admit that I have read more Kipling than any of the S Asian authors you name. I now feel ashamed. I grew up reading Desai though....
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Date: 2004-04-04 10:45 pm (UTC)And I'm really touched that my one woman dislike of Ondaatje has been enough to earn him a place next to Rushdie as controversial! I actually don't like Rushdie all that much either but that's because i keep trying to read him and stalling - my sister raves about him, and I picked up her copy of the one about the Indian pop star thinking, "how inaccessible can this be any way" and got hugely frustrated all over again about his prose all over again.
Errm, I have to admit that I have read more Kipling than any of the S Asian authors you name. I now feel ashamed. I grew up reading Desai though....