132,815
edits
Changes
From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to searchNewest General Fiction Reviews (view source)
Revision as of 14:42, 2 April 2013
, 14:42, 2 April 2013no edit summary
==General fiction==
__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->
{{newreview
|author=Mohsin Hamid
|title=How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Inside Mohsin Hamid's ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' is a bitter-sweet love story disguised as a self help book. It's a well structured concept and works nicely. Each chapter is presented in the format of those common to the self help genre, with advice like 'Move to the City', 'Get an Education' etc., although the chapter entitled 'Be Prepared to Use Violence' is a notable omission from most business tomes and self help books. After some general chatty comments in the self help book style, the attention turns to two people who are named only 'the boy' and 'the pretty girl', charting their rise and fall from rural poverty in an unnamed Asian country (although it certainly feels like Pakistan) to business success and wealth in the city. The two are not a couple, but their lives cross at frequent times and he, in particular, remains infatuated with his childhood acquaintance.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144663</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Edward Kelsey Moore
|summary=Harriet Lane's debut novel, ''Alys, Always'' garnered a raft of favourable coverage from the professional reviewers when it was first published in hardback. Concerning, as it does, a young woman who works as a sub-editor in a publishing company and a Booker winning novelist, there is always the chance that this was due to the reviewers merely recognizing the world that is portrayed. This view is unfounded though - it is a superbly drawn, frequently very funny, and often psychologically chilling story of ambition and class differences. It thoroughly deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780220014</amazonuk>
}}
