| 1. |  | Magic Seeds from Vintage Price: $4.17 Customer Review:  I am a great Naipaul fan and have read all his books at least once. And that is probably the problem I have with Magic Seeds--it doesn't have anything new in it that you can't find in Guerrillas or Bend In The River. I think this book about Maoist guerrillas in India was a let's make some... |
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| 2. |  | A Bend in the River from Vintage Price: $8.66 Customer Review:  Amazing Amazing Amazing. I picked up this book on a hunch and was completely awed by how well written it is. Naipaul's talent lies in being able to create a story that would be considered completely mundane were it not told well. |
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| 3. |  | A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (Vintage International) from Vintage Price: $9.07 Customer Review: This small book contains some information about the struggling beginnings of the author as a BBC part-timer and a book reviewer, and also about the writers - as a writer or as a person (A. Powell) - who had a certain influence on his writing career. V.S. Naipaul wants to show us the real... |
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| 4. |  | Half a Life: A Novel from Vintage Price: $1.49 Customer Review: This is another typical naipaullian work, full of stereotypes. Associating so called "lower castes" with lack of beauty...what a joke. Only an english major can come with such simple way of looking at the world. There is a lot of inequality in the world, but beauty and brain were not unequally... |
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| 5. |  | The Writer and the World: Essays from Vintage Price: $4.69 Customer Review: In these sarcastic and sometimes cynical texts, V.S. Naipaul brushes a bleak picture of the state of the world, based mostly on his travels in the Third World (India, Africa, South- and Central America). Written mostly in the 1970s, a big part of his analyses are still very actual today:... |
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| 6. |  | The Middle Passage from Vintage Price: $7.20 Customer Review: Anything by VSN has been a pleasure to read. First ever book I read of his was in 1968 An Area of Darkness. And since then I have read his all books. His Autobiography by Patrick French is worth reading. Dr PSNagi |
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| 7. |  | Guerrillas from Picador USA Price: $6.48 Customer Review: Rich with sullen anger and irony, in Naipaul's novel, a Caribbean island's fragile racial balance unravels when a slumming ex-journalist from London opts to relieve her boredom by making an ill-considered sexual conquest. The result is deadly and the desolate corrupt underbelly of the island's... |
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| 8. | [no image] | Finding the Center from Vintage Price: $49.20 Customer Review:  It is a rear book of two essays that dealt with the author's own personal experiences in two entirely different worlds. Prolouge to an Autobiography, the first one was more personal than the second one and it was related to his background in Trinidad and Indian ancestry. I enjoyed reading it mainly... |
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| 10. |  | A House for Mr. Biswas from Vintage Price: $4.10 Customer Review: Basically a third person journal, very well written, with incredible prose, of the life of a "regular" man in 40's Trinidad. But the book becomes tedious as we hear the everyday, every month, every year progression of a unlikeable man with a family of few redeeming qualities. He is rarely happy with... |
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