The Inheritance Of Loss - anyone read it?

[MrsMuddle]

I'm about to go to bed and finish it now. I've been reading really slowly for the past couple of days to make it last longer, but I can't put off completing it any longer.

I think I'll feel a bit bereft tomorrow. I've enjoyed it SO much. Does anyone else feel the same?

No, sorry hated it - started it and have given up. Have also decided not to buy any more of that "type " of fiction - also bored with Half of a Yellow Sun which is sort of in the same genre. I found it pointless and the writing uninspiring. Sorry !!! ........have just finished A thousand splendid suns by the Kite Runner Man and couldn't put it down...have also enjoyed Time Travellers Wife, Lionel Schriver books etc if that gives you a slight taste of what I usually read. Can't bear chick lit or stories of women who go to the country with their children to escape the city and fall in love with the floppy haired landscape gardener and give up City banker husband for a more simple life..............
Over and out

I thought that Inheritance of Loss was over rated. It was an incredibly "slow" book and, although that can be fine, the language really wasn't anything special. Did not enjoy it at all.

Well I was about to start reading it, in hardcover, and now don't fancy it. Quite glad actually as I was dreading lugging it around in my bag.....

Just finished the Friday Night Knitting Project which I very much enjoyed.

Herbgarden, I also loved a thousand splendid suns and Lionel Shriver's books, but I hated Time Traveller's Wife with a passion.

I loved the Inheritance of Loss. For me the characters were vivid and had great depth and I thought the writing was beautifully crafted. Definately a book I would like to read again (a rarity). It reminded me of The God of Small Things. I also disliked Half of a Yellow Son and felt myself not really caring what happened to the characters - a disapointment since I loved C N Adichie's first novel The Purple Hibiscus. Thought a Thousand Splendid Suns gave interesting insight into the situation in Afganistan and the lives of wemon in that society but felt the characterization was a bit superficial. I did enjoy the Time-Travellers Wife though - as a light page-turner.

Mmm, saffycat I'm not sure I found the Time Travellers Wife a "light page turner" - I sometimes found myself re-reading to work out what was going on !!! You are clearly much quicker off the mark than me