tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7919775782642545848.post2358352356059734887..comments2023-12-27T05:26:17.056-08:00Comments on Anthony Panegyres on writing and reading: Reading and Writing Review 2016Anthony Panegyreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02779674503088900337noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7919775782642545848.post-91764960542213659352017-01-05T14:26:43.732-08:002017-01-05T14:26:43.732-08:00Thanks, Mitch. TKAM did deserve its accolades. I w...Thanks, Mitch. TKAM did deserve its accolades. I was pleasantly surprised by it. <br /><br />And what a time to read The White Tiger (or tragic time). Like your comments on poverty. You've nailed it - either way it's horrific exploitation. And The White Tiger successfully conveys what we both most likely think of it all. <br /><br />Hope you have a fab 2017! <br />Anthony Panegyreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02779674503088900337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7919775782642545848.post-10150586847734993192017-01-03T00:46:35.222-08:002017-01-03T00:46:35.222-08:00Interesting stuff as always Anthony. I honestly do...Interesting stuff as always Anthony. I honestly don't remember much of To Kill a Mockingbird in retrospect, but I do remember being deeply moved by it and thinking it was absolutely a classic 10/10 novel which deserved all its accolades.<br /><br />The White Tiger, too, I think is a brilliant novel which I also happened to read at exactly the right time in my life, i.e. right after I'd gone backpacking in Asia and come face to face with actual poverty for the first time. It's not that the book itself made me question the general ideas of fairness and hard work and whatever other claptrap society puts outs, but rather one which articulated and crystallised those feelings that I was already having. To this day I still haven't been able to get a solid answer on whether my own first world comfort is the result of merely historical exploitation, or rather contemporary exploitation in a zero-sum game in which the 99% of the third world are the losers. A very deserving Booker winner, I think.<br /><br />On that cheery note, all the best for 2017!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com