{"id":4700,"date":"2007-09-03T21:38:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T02:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4700"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T23:51:14","slug":"maximum_tardine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/03\/maximum_tardine\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximum Tardiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the post, for which five of you have been patiently waiting<\/a>. Finally, you get to dissect Maximum City<\/a>, the first work chosen for the brown book club which I am horrible at coordinating.<\/p>\n\n

If it’s any consolation, I have cringed and felt guilty that my<\/em> work + ankle have delayed our<\/em> exploration of MC, especially after reading two-months worth of comments and emails which asked about the fate of our summer nerdery. I know several of you couldn’t wait for this discussion which is so<\/em> late, it is later than IST-late, and that is late<\/strong> my friends, yindeed.<\/p>\n\n

Well, since I couldn’t get the job done, I got creative (read: desperate). I outsourced it to Uberdesi<\/a> blogger Karthik. \ud83d\ude09 Here are his thoughts on MC; I look forward to reading yours in the comment thread below.<\/p>\n\n

After weeks of procrastination and a few days of grim determination, I can finally, happily strike Maximum City off my list of books to read. I had borrowed a friend’s copy, and I left their house wondering why they were so enthusiastic about handing it to me, since they were supposed to be reading it for SM, too. Now, I know.<\/blockquote>\n\n
After putting myself through that, I was ready to express my thoughts, and so like many of you, I emailed ANNA about when we were going to start discussing the book. She said that if I wanted to “get the party started”, I was welcome to do so, since she still hadn’t been able to finish it herself. I know she’s busy, but that itself is telling, people.<\/blockquote>\n\n
One question kept popping up in my head. Why did he pick these people to write about? The answer was buried in the final chapter of the book; I wish Sukethu had chosen to add this to the introduction.<\/blockquote>\n\n
At times, Sukethu goes into details that in my opinion are not needed, and some are very violent. There is also a very haphazard way in which the book is written. I find this maddening, people come and go and scenes change quickly. Before you comprehend certain pieces of information, you are presented with new ones. Everything is a mishmash of thoughts and ideas.<\/blockquote>\n\n
There was also a lot of unnecessary repetition, reminding me over and over again of my old grandfather, who is like Mehta- also fond of telling us the same thing, repeatedly.<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This book is a representation of a Mumbai\/Bombay that an outsider will never see or experience. I can’t make up my mind if this is a collection of stories for a bollywood movie or leftovers from a script he was writing. Personally, I always knew this “other world” existed. I have heard it discussed at dinner parties and over lunch hours. But that’s just it, unless someone in Bombay spends a considerable amount of time in some capacity to “bump” into the people who star in Maximum City, this book is as relevant as fiction.<\/blockquote>\n\n

If you want to know what Karthik REALLY thinks, he’s got more over at UberDesi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

As for me, I’m lovingly getting ready to re-read (for the fourth time!) A Suitable Boy<\/a>, since that’s the tome we are doing next. ASB is what I should have started with, since the posts wouldn’t have been such a challenge for me to pull out of ye olde rondure…well, that and though many of you may not be aware of it, it was the inspiration for a Sepia book club in the<\/a> first place<\/a>.\nBut we’ll get suitable later– now, I want to know what I missed out on, by NOT doing my homework (that is so after-school special, y’all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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