Xiaoqun Fang từ Ligota Zamecka, Poland

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11/22/2024

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2019-06-08 18:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Diệp Tử

Dear Vikram, It's been a while since we last spoke. I hope you've been well. I am sorry I only gave your book 3 stars. Seriously though, wtf were you thinking? Do you remember my telling you not to name it Sacred Games? At least you didn't name it Almanac of the Living and the Dead (I think that was the title you originally suggested); we all agreed that that was too similar to Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead - although, now that I actual read your book, I can see where you were going. I think I still have your NYT Book Review article - the one where it was announced that you received a million dollar advance - stuffed in a drawer somewhere. Tell me again why any of this made sense? My respect for you is undiminished, but my understanding of your goals as a writer are thoroughly muddled now. I mean... you wrote a 900 page Indian cop thriller with an online Hindi concordance (which no, I did not visit). You are a strange man, if it's not too much for me to say so. If I do ever see you again, I will buy you a Diet Coke and I'm sure that I'll act incredibly and awkwardly apologetic, and it will be because I will be thinking about Sacred Games and how much I didn't really like it, and how that makes me feel guilty and sad. P.S. I hope it was an editor who forced you to put "To win is to lose everything, and the game always wins" on the back of the HC edition, because as a writing professor I'm sure you realized that sentences like that DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING and DEMEAN YOU AS A WRITER. Smarmy faux-koans are pretty much the worst thing you can put on the back of a book. To write a giant book about cops is to commit a crime of taste, and certain crimes pay you a million dollars.

Người đọc Xiaoqun Fang từ Ligota Zamecka, Poland

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.