Another favorite. I absolutely love this film. Everything in this – comedic timing to dialogue to performance – is spot on!

I think I’ve finally decided that I do have an answer to “What is your favorite movie?”
It’s this one. :D
I LOVE this film. And every time I watch it, there’s a new level of detail that I notice that just cracks me up!
:D George C. Scott, Peter Sellers (all three of him) and Slim Pickens are so good in this!
Truly a classic.

It was fun, well done and beautifully shot. It was funny and moving and even after reading the books and knowing what was coming, it managed to suck us in.

The star cast only helped and I, who usually can’t stand Jim Carrey’s ham-handedness, thought he was amazing. I also recommend you stick around for the end credits because the shadow puppetry is gorgeous :)

because it’s wow! and his copy and his narrator are both stellar. I inhaled this one … can’t wait to read his next one. I anticipate that one will be grittier but this one was a jewel – giving us Mumbai in the 50’s along with the story of a true crime that has reverberated through India’s 60+ years of independence.

The eternity part (:)) is ok, but the parts when she tries to apply her psychotherapy and the learnings from her psychotropic sessions to the class, caste and social mores here in India are much more interesting. I liked her sense of humor, I admired her candor. The book could have been tighter, but … it was still worthwhile.

I couldn’t wait to read this – but it was actually pretty mediocre. Only a few funny parts, not enough suspense, hackneyed insights, even the cameos by the familiars in “A year in the merde” were not funny. What a waste :(

cos it’s very good. i love the use of mixed media in her illustrations and there’s something of all of us in her tender, fierce protagonist. totally worth buying and keeping, and guarding from friends who borrow but don’t return stuff.

call me persnickety but i’d gotten pissed off around page 25 when I found two typos. Where is her editor???
one is ‘titbit’ instead of ‘tidbit’ (URGH)
and this one is a biggie. King Babur’s son is repeatedly called HumUYAn instead of HumAyun. AARGH. it’s enough to make me tear my hair out.
But I’m still slogging through it. The recipes are fun ;)

it’s weird—every book of Shamsie I read resonates with some aspect of my life. No, I wasn’t in college when I read Kartography, but I could relate like it was my life right then. Now, as I read this—no, no famous mother who disappeared, no double set of parents in my life—but I’m the same age as the protagonist and yeah, all daughter’s have problems stepping out of their mother’s shadows, no?
Loved it.

about a third in and I’m liking it SO much better than “the unbearable lightness of being” ... Whew!