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To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (4189)	5/2/1999 9:12:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

I'm thinking to myself "Nice going, Rush-boy. You sure know how to keep a girl inter-ested." Satish: This cracks me up,didn't know English girls (literary critics at that) have a sense of humor. Thanks for the review. Alison Roberts .....Wednesday: Plan to read Rushdie, but find myself in a bar in Islington. Thursday: Another 30 pages in bed and start to get annoyed by Rushdie's arch style. I want to know what happens next (an undoubted bonus in a novel), but am trapped by the literariness of the prose. Rushdie never lets up - there's not a moment at which he allows you to forget that you're engaged in appreciation of his own art...... =============== Zoe Williams Columnist My wrist hurts; The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a heavy book. Monday: Sex, beauty, death and tequila. Twenty pages in and I'm thinking to myself "Nice going, Rush-boy. You sure know how to keep a girl inter-ested." Then I chance upon the phrase, "I have chosen to tell our story, hers, mine and Ormus Cama's, all of it, every last detail", and I'm paralysed by a sense of acquiescent dread (anyone who's ever been educated beyond their interest - I'm avoiding the word "intelligence" there - will recognise this feeling well) and have to go for a little lie down.... Tuesday: Charge through chapters two to six like a librarian on heat. This is because I'm skipping boring bits (identifying them by keywords like Agamemnon, Idomeneus and 1942) and cutting straight to more sex (not much, yet), more beauty (still tons), more death (a fair amount) and more tequila (none - that must have been a oneoff)....

To: Satish C. Shah who wrote (4189)	5/2/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

'An Equal Music'-Vikram Seth, Review by Githa Hariharn,India Today. Hi Satish: Now here is another book and another review. AN EQUAL MUSIC Melody of an Unequal Duet A lovely tale of music but not quite a musical story of love. Even so the sheer beauty of Seth's prose overwhelms the novel's split personality. By Githa Hariharn AN EQUAL MUSIC BY VIKRAM SETH VIKING PAGES: 381 PRICE: Rs 500 An Equal Music begins with Vikram Seth at his best: the dedication poem speaks of love with grace and simplicity. Somehow the love story that unfolds in the following 380 pages never quite reaches this moment of perfect pitch and clarity. Luckily, the novel does not limit itself to the affair between Michael, the intense violinist, and Julia, the beautiful pianist.There are other couples on its spacious stage -- Michael and his violin, Julia and her music -- and their travails are by far more absorbing.........' india-today.com