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Title: Slim work, slim ideas
Review: V S Naipaul usually sketches on a vast canvass with a range of ideas that usually outnumber the pages in the book; However, this time, he seems to be obsessed with just a few themes, the curse of birth, caste system, inter-racial sex, unsuccessful writers, land rovers, and escapism. Again and again, he comes back to the same familiar themes, as though the slim book was written over a long time in a state of constipation for ideas; So that each time a theme came up it took so long that it was forgotten that it had already found its place in the book in a similar setting. It appears that the author wrote the book in a few spaced-out sittings and was involved in some other projects in between. I was looking forward to a satisfying read and had to actually push myself to finish this book.
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