![]() This will hurt the religious sentiments of many people and has the propensity to cause a lot of controversies. How the author portrayed Rama's character will make many readers angry. I can say that the author didn't show this maturity in many parts of this book. One small mistake can destroy the whole book sometimes. When you are writing a book from the perspective of a negative character from an epic, you should be very careful to handle the character in a mature way. But this one totally went wrong, and some mistakes in the story make this book lackluster. This might be an epic retelling, and I appreciate the author's right to add additional subplots and alter the storyline of the actual book. All excitement was gone as I read about 200 pages of this book. I picked up the book to read as soon as I purchased it. When I came to know that a young law student from the Midwest is the person behind this retelling, I became more curious to read it. The hype and publicity given for this book were also very high. Some of my favorite authors loved this book and congratulated the author for the progressive way she wrote it. Vasudevan Nair and The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni are a few among my favorites. ![]() I am also very fond of reading epic retellings. I am a person who loves to read and reread epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana, and also books like Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. This was one of the books that I was most excited to read this year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We have ‘The Drover’s Wife’ by Henry Lawson and ‘The Chosen Vessel’ by Barbara Baynton depicting the terrors of women alone in the late nineteenth-century bush. We have books about prisons and prisoners, including a whole literature on convict women, those poor souls maligned as ‘damned whores’ by Lieutenant Ralph Clark of the First Fleet. ![]() There is nothing like it in our literary past. It is not a place, or a literature, that we have encountered before. The women in Charlotte Wood’s powerful and distinctive novel are prisoners in an imaginative landscape that we know only as a remote location somewhere in inland Australia. ![]() Can this be happening? In twenty-first-century Australia? This is the world into which you step when you open The Natural Way of Things. IT IS ALMOST impossible to believe: ten young women, all of them aged under twenty-five, held captive because of their past sexual transgressions. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book itself is great and I would highly recommend it, just not this version of it. Other than these issues, this is the book it claims to be and you can read it. They are somewhat essential to the experience of reading the book so just for that, I recommend finding a different version. The illustrations that are supposed to be included in the book are not here. ![]() – There are no page numbers -All of the text in the book is center aligned which is kind of awkward to look at or read and can cause some confusion as to where paragraphs begin and end. Despite the name of the book being \’The Mysterious Affair At Styles\’ the word \’the\’ is, for some reason, left out. The binding misspelled Agatha Christie\’s name and shows \’Agatha Christe\’ as well as the title of the book as \’Mysterious affair at styles\’ Capitalizing only the word \’mysterious\’ with the rest of the words uncapitalized. First of all the cover art looks as though they took a jpg version of the original cover art and expanded it and it looks very shoddy and pixelated. Other versions may not have the same issues. ![]() I bought the paperback version and there are a number of issues with it. Just a word of warning to read the reviews before purchasing this. ![]() |