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Title: Less than Mediocre
Review: I won't bore you with a lot of fancy talk and misspelled words about topics I know little or nothing about, but I will say this: The Namesake is a major disappointment, mainly because it's really a short story painfully dragged out for 300 pages and because there are so many missed opportunities in the narrative (e.g., Gogol's trip to India, a section which receives only a few pages of weak exposition). I'd like to say, also, that the number of five-star reviews of The Namesake on this site is bewildering. It's as if Ms. Lahiri's brilliant collection of short stories (and they are just that, brilliant) has somehow awed readers into thinking she can do no wrong. I can only hope that Ms. Lahiri very quickly puts her less than mediocre first novel behind her and goes back to what she writes best, short fiction.
