It's a good story and it completely keeps your interest, so it's good for vacation reading, and at the same time there are these wonderful little interludes throughout that are just thoroughly satisfying.

I admit that I was somewhat predisposed to like it because Vikram Chandra (1) is a hottie and (2) graduated from the same college that I did, two years after me, so I've kind of wondered periodically whether we ever ran into each other on campus and maybe I *should* start attending those reunions, heh heh heh.

No but really, I thought it was terrific. I'd also read a review of it in the New Yorker that was somewhat disparaging, and with which I completely disagree.


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It is painful in the extreme to live with questions rather than with answers, but that is the only honorable intellectual course. (c) Norman Mailer