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Old 03-14-2014, 02:35 PM   #57
Gregg Bell
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Originally Posted by ccowie View Post
Can't agree. Difficult at times to read, but A Fine Balance was just that: a fine balance of how harsh and difficult the state of emergency was in 1975 India and the beauty of friendship and love that can emerge under any circumstances.
ccowie, I can agree with your take on the book up to about the three-quarter mark in the novel, when it went into overkill, free-falling, endless suffering, misery and abject gloom. In that last quarter of the book there is no balance. It is utter, unabahsed, unending negativity. And anything without balance ultimately becomes bad. As they say, if you have characters endlessly in firefights after a while it just doesn't work.
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