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Saurabh Bhattacharya is 95% done with The Poisonwood Bible

— Oct 26, 2025 02:54AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is on page 250 of 709 of House of Leaves

Intriguing, clever, a bit on the nose with literary form shenanigans, but there is a genuinely touching voice hidden deep within. Like the house, I persevere with this tome to hear that voice which comes through in the occasional footnote or a random throwaway line…

— Jul 16, 2024 04:55AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 79% done with Matter (Culture, #8)

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Saurabh Bhattacharya is 50% done with Dombey and Son

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Saurabh Bhattacharya is 50% done with East of Eden

— May 31, 2023 02:40AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is starting Babu Bangladesh!

160 pages in and I give up. The complex history of modern Bangladesh provides a lot of quality grist for this narrative mill but the execution is so tiresome! Labored magic realism is neither magical nor realistic. A pity, because somewhere in the monotonous prose lies a clever and empathetic sprite waiting to be brought to life.

— Dec 23, 2022 04:09AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 40% done with The Books of Jacob

I am going to shelve this one for now. It is a really intriguing book and has made me gain a lot of knowledge around Judaism but it demands an immense amount of focus. I hate doing this to a book but I will return to it soon…

— Mar 27, 2022 12:05AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 30% done with The Books of Jacob

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Saurabh Bhattacharya is 85% done with Kim

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Saurabh Bhattacharya is 80% done with Utopia Avenue

— Jul 05, 2021 05:38AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 90% done with David Copperfield

— Jan 13, 2021 04:24AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 50% done with Ducks, Newburyport

— Sep 29, 2020 02:36PM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 58% done with The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

— Aug 29, 2020 03:43AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 70% done with কোথায় পাবো তারে

— Apr 22, 2020 05:59PM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 25% done with Ducks, Newburyport

The style sucks you in... but it needs intense dedication..

— Apr 13, 2020 05:09AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 60% done with কোথায় পাবো তারে

A beautiful engagement with the Deha Tattwa philosophy of the Baul community of Bengal

— Oct 10, 2019 01:40PM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is starting The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi

— Oct 10, 2019 01:39PM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is 30% done with The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 2

— Aug 07, 2019 03:56AM Add a comment

Saurabh Bhattacharya is on page 560 of 896 of Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Okay, need some help here. I love Neal Stephenson and I have read almost all his books. I know his way of writing can be borderline tedious (remember Seveneves and Anathem?) but I still love his big ideas. This book, Fall, is, however, getting to be a... very.... trying experience. Anyone has any ideas that could help me finish this rapidly-declining-in-style and substance tome?

— Jul 16, 2019 07:33AM Add a comment