Ruskin Bond is one of my favourite authors who write for children. His books generally top their respective genre and are among the best of their class.
We were told to borrow a book from the school library for our upcoming Summer Vacation. I had already spent twenty minutes in the library and there still lay three books I was still examining, so I could choose one from them. Oh! Even after a thorough scan of the library, I wasn't able to pick one.
Interestingly, all three were written by Bond: Potpourri, The Laughter Omnibus and errr... Crazy Times With Uncle Ken. It was quite a game of gambling to be choosing from three so seemingly great books. After asking many people and observing a majority of my opinion, I settled with the book titled 'Potpourri'.
Individually, the stories were interesting with distinctive proceeding patterns in the middle, surprise elements, dark, but there was great detail in every aspect of what was described. They were great stories, typical Ruskin Bond stories. But there was a great problem: my satisfaction.
The stories consisted of very little humour, were very quiet and soft and seemed stationary. Every story was similar, and thus there was no compelling mood to be reading all of them. Not much variation in genre, because there truly wasn't any fun-filled and bright stories in the book. Totally, the collection was dull.
I'd say that it consists of typical Ruskin Bond, but a really uneven, bad mix of taste, and so it isn't at all entitled to be called a true Potpourri.
Thank You!
We were told to borrow a book from the school library for our upcoming Summer Vacation. I had already spent twenty minutes in the library and there still lay three books I was still examining, so I could choose one from them. Oh! Even after a thorough scan of the library, I wasn't able to pick one.
Interestingly, all three were written by Bond: Potpourri, The Laughter Omnibus and errr... Crazy Times With Uncle Ken. It was quite a game of gambling to be choosing from three so seemingly great books. After asking many people and observing a majority of my opinion, I settled with the book titled 'Potpourri'.
Individually, the stories were interesting with distinctive proceeding patterns in the middle, surprise elements, dark, but there was great detail in every aspect of what was described. They were great stories, typical Ruskin Bond stories. But there was a great problem: my satisfaction.
The stories consisted of very little humour, were very quiet and soft and seemed stationary. Every story was similar, and thus there was no compelling mood to be reading all of them. Not much variation in genre, because there truly wasn't any fun-filled and bright stories in the book. Totally, the collection was dull.
I'd say that it consists of typical Ruskin Bond, but a really uneven, bad mix of taste, and so it isn't at all entitled to be called a true Potpourri.
Thank You!
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