Mammaries of welfare state- Upamanyu Chatterjee

divey

Most of us at one time or other, have come in contact with this giant behemoth we call government....A sequel to highly praised and successful ;English August, Mammaries of welfare state is all about the welfare state sadly.
Its full of labyrynthine description of welfare state and how it works and leaves very little to imaginagtion. This is where i believe that it has lost its plot. While we all want to hear about August (the protagonist) and his tirades and witty and humourous remarks about things, all we get is a  long and rather boring monologue about various characters and government machinery. I really wish that more space was to be given to August and less to the unnecessary government or welfare state as it is called in the book.

For me the first book still and would always remain the best of two and somewhere it looks like since the author is a civil servant he is using his knowhow of jargon and nitty gritty of internal mechanisation of how things work (or dont) in the government to digress us from the story as he doesn't have any story to tell. I simply skimmed through some pages just to get to the main point

I would give it 3 stars out of 5 just for August and few humourous sentences towards the end....

Interested readers can access the book here

https://www.craxme.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2381

Thanks!!!

Ananya10

Thanku..m so excited to read..but this newbie title is so irritating at times web u come across such tempting book titles

divey

Ananya10 24-8-2018 01:15 PM
Thanku..m so excited to read..but this newbie title is so irritating at times web u come across such ...

It is rightly said that dont judge a book by its cover

divey

Ananya10 24-8-2018 01:15 PM
Thanku..m so excited to read..but this newbie title is so irritating at times web u come across such ...

I would suggest you to rad authors other novel English August first, as it is much better than this one

Ananya10

divey 24-8-2018 04:13 PM
I would suggest you to rad authors other novel English August first, as it is much better than thi ...

So which authors would you suggest, to start with?

divey

What genre are u looking for?

LoneFighter

English August is much better than this. I just got hooked to EA. Sorry for being blunt, but Mammaries of welfare state bored me..

divey

LoneFighter 27-8-2018 02:29 PM
English August is much better than this. I just got hooked to EA. Sorry for being blunt, but Mammari ...

it is boring yes, I am not offended in any way, even u skimmed a lot while reading this book just to get over a lot of detailing and unnecessary stuff