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[kaoticwords]

"...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen.. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic."
-ARUNDHATI ROY, The God of Small Things-

It's been an awesome weekend of doing nothing but reading books for the mere pleasure of reading <3 And while getting on with The Shadow of the Wind, which is one the best stories I've read in the last years, I reread bits of The God of Small Things. I didn't remember all the marks I put on it the first time I read it, but all of them are wonderful. This is one of those books you can swallow bit by bit and be delighted by all those minimal details that constitutes the entire story.

I love the former quote but even awesome quotes can be wrong sometimes: some Great Stories surprise us now and again and they are even greater for that.

Comments

[valshamerlyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love The Shadow of the Wind. It was such a rich world.

I haven't read The God of Small Things. I take it it's worth a look?

[kaoticwords.livejournal.com]

It's worth much more than a look *_* I really liked it: the writing style of Arundhati Roy is gorgeous! It's almost like watch the world with child's eyes. And the story is the result of many stories, all mix together and all around the main characters -the twins Estha and Rahel. It's like sharing their life in India. I think you would like it ;)

I'm glad everybody tells me the same about The Shadow of the Wind: I was afraid of the end not being as awesome as the rest of the book (that's what happened with the last books I read...). But I'm enjoying it immensely. ♥