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| Original Title: | These Foolish Things |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | India |
| Literary Awards: | Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Nominee for Comic Fiction (2004) |
Deborah Moggach
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.47 | 10696 Users | 1571 Reviews
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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0812982428 (ISBN13: 9780812982428)Now a major motion picture starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Nighy, and Dev Patel
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.
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| Title | : | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel |
| Author | : | Deborah Moggach |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Media Tie-In |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2012 by Random House (first published March 15th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. India. Contemporary. Fiction. Humor |
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Ratings: 3.47 From 10696 Users | 1571 ReviewsComment On Of Books The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
This book caused me actual, literal pain.The jacket describes it as the story of Dr. Ravi Kapoor, a Brit whose desire to oust his lecherous, disgusting father-in-law from his home leads to his concocting the idea of setting up a retirement home for expats in India. A "brilliant comedy of manners" is supposed to ensue.Well, it never comes. Dr. Kapoor appears only to bookend the story. The rest of it follows the lives of a bunch of racist old white people, doggedly thinking their dreadful racist
This book disappointed me.It was first published (in 2004) with the title Those Foolish Things. It was later renamed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel following the release in 2011 of the film with that name, which is based on it.I read the book because I had seen the film and enjoyed it, and also because unlike the film, which is mostly set in a small town in Rajasthan, the novel is set mostly in Bangalore, a city that I know quite well.Had I not seen the film first, I might have abandoned the
This was a quick and engaging read, in a captivating setting, but it really seemed like it contained far too many missed opportunities to Say Something. I have a sneaking suspicion I'll like the movie better than the novel, which almost never happens. The book includes a number of closely intertwined story lines about a number of Britishers seeking to spend their final days in a relatively shoddy retirement home in Bangalore, India. There are also some stories revolving around family members and
An ok light read... and I do enjoy when seniors are included in a novel as individual and vibrant. I did anticipate a funnier, wittier book. But .. the movie was great. Better than the book. (I don't think I've ever said that before. Will I be kicked-off Goodreads?)
Better than the movie!At times I felt it was so different too. I love how it was interpreted, but I do love the flowof the story more when reading it.I actually had to forget what I had seen. The characters they chose for the film seemedquite different than the book. While some I could connect the dots, others it was hard, so I just let it go and read. I'm glad I did too. I found the book so much more rich in Indian culture. It made me want to go and stay at the Marigold Hotel myself, or even
I was disappointed with this book. The premise was great, however the story failed to progress and the writing was very uneven, some of it being beautiful, while much of it was needlessly vulgar and tawdry.Ravi, a competent, sensitive doctor, is slowly being ground down by the decaying British NHS and his father-in-law Norman, a dirty old man 'straight out of Benny Hill' who comes to stay with them after being thrown out of a nursing home for sexually assaulting a nurse, bringing his disgusting
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