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I'm a little surprised by many of the tepid reviews here. I was truly impressed with Aravind Adiga's ability to write a literate, plot-driven tragicomedy that manages to ask some big questions. The novel is funny, literate, bitter, and profound, and it deserves our attention and respect.The plot is pretty straightforward. Occupants of a cooperative apartment building are offered a small fortune by a developer so he can tear their building down and build a new luxury apartment tower. However, the...
The first thing, the inevitable thing, is the comparison to The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga's first book that won the Man Booker Prize. (Side note: I have no idea about the awards most books win and don't really use those as a reason for reading - or not reading - a book.)I thought The White Tiger packed a punch, it was in your face, fast-paced... None of these characteristics are present in this book. This book has more of a slow, trickling effect. It kind of creeps up on you and then leaves you...
Somehow I feel something about his nation of birth has rubbed him (Arvind Adiga) very wronglyI see only a pessimistic view of most things and the same views get translated into words in his storiesI pretty much did not like "White Tiger" and really honestly wondered how it deserved the Booker Prize, but this one is also nothing great to write aboutThe plot looked interesting from the back-page hence I went on to read it. The start of the story is also intersting, the description of the mohalla,
A ruthless property developer offers an attractive buyout to the people living in a crumbling 50 years old apartment building located in a prime land in Mumbai where he plans to build a high rise to make a killing. All the families in the building accept the offer except Yogesh Murthi, a retired teacher known as Masterji, who wants to live there with the memories of his deceased wife. The story goes on to tell what happened to Masterji and the building.In this well written story Adiga explores t...
Spoiler Alert!Worth a read. The story is no suspense and all it takes for you to guess it is just to take a look at the contents page!It is brilliantly written in parts but it has many flaws.1. It is not as good as the white tiger2. It is damn depressing at times3. The book unnecessarily flows for more than 400 pages when there are no surprising events. The writing ain't good enough to arrest your attention either!4. Logical flaws. When masterji actually refuses only because of the Pintos, when
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."- George OrwellAfter reading the author's Booker Prize winner "The White Tiger", I had a lot of expectations from this one which, unfortunately, it failed to stand up to.
Adiga wrote a fine novel that depicts human depravity, greed, hope and kindness at its max. It's a simple read about the complicated lives of middle class families, trying to make ends meet in a city like Mumbai. The story is fair and simple. A society in a section of Mumbai becomes prime to the eyes of a real estate wealthy builder Dharmen Shah, who decides to demolish the society and build his luxurious housing project, he offers the residents of the society an offer they cannot reject. All th...
As somebody who is living in India, I have experienced the massive real estate growth that has taken place in India in the last few years. Buying a home was a middle class aspiration for a long time and one which people strove for in their life.Slowly but surely, this dream is getting out of reach for a majority of Indian people. Property prices have sky-rocketed in cities leaving ordinary middle class aspirants reeling. Just a cursory look at how the business is conducted in India shows how uno...
This is the worst book I read in 2015! I really like to give books a go before I will trash them or stop reading them but and I gave this book all the chances but each time I kept hating it. It's very rare that I'll pick up a book and not understand the storyline but this book consistently had me scratching my head and wondering what the heck I'd just read.There are too many characters in this book and none of them are easy to keep a track on as the author likes to chop and change so randomly I
I really enjoy Aravind Adiga’s writing. He knows how to convey subtle yet poignant humor, and large messages through deceptively simple stories – particularly relating to greed and corruption.This book lost me a little bit because there were so many characters. I kept getting Mrs. Rego and Mrs. Puri confused, ditto for Mr. Ajwani and Mr. Kudwa, and the various children were all a bit of a mish-mash. The central conflict of the novel struck me as a bit unnecessary. Masterji, an elderly resident o...
Adiga's constellation of Vishram Society inhabitants are well furnished with religious backgrounds, family histories, personalities and motives, but efforts to foresee the twists in the tale are foiled by human unpredictability. Heroes and villains reveal unexpected facets throughout; the murderer finds a conscience; the friend tears up the token and changes sides; the loving mother goes absolutely all the way for her disabled son...On reflection, I've come back to thinking how it's structures t...
A couple years ago author AravindAdiga had a big critical and commercial hit with the Man Booker winning The White Tiger. It was a funny, gritty, grisly, wonderful, contemporary Horatio Alger/ Kind Hearts and Coronets story set in India. Adiga’s new novel, Last Man In Tower, can be described with all the same adjectives (and then some) except this time he’s not creating his version of a dark rags to riches story but the classic Kaufman and Hart play, You Can’t Take It With You.The tower itself i...
