MicroPakistan

Mohsin Hamid has produced a dull novel that is bereft of any creativity or literary value. I would like to be fair to him and his labour but there is not much to celebrate in his latest novel Reluctant Fundamentalist. Reading, like any other important activity, is sacred and I take it very seriously. Firstly, I think the title of Mr. Hamid’s novel tells you all without even reading 170 pages of it. So the publishers have done an abominable job with respect to naming the novel because it leaves little or even nothing for imagination. Readers who like good literature will see through this cheap technique. Even before flipping a page of this novel one is thinking about the eventual fate of the reluctant fundamentalist. Continue reading ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist should be read reluctantly’