LOVE this book!

From the first paragraph read I was absolutely hooked! The story follows the struggle to survive in India and the driver sub-culture. This is not a fairytale, it tells the reader about the fixed class system and the hard struggle to get out of the "darkness". This is one of the best books I have ever listened to, I wished my long journey to work was longer! The book would make the most amazing film.

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A gripping tale

This is a step outside of my usual genre's and I loved it. Each time I stopped listening I looked forward to the opportunity to hear more. An interesting insight into the other side of the new India. I thought the readers accent also added to the effect of putting me in Balarams shoes.

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Tiger, tiger burning bright in the darkness

Approached initially on the terms that Aravind Adiga set out himself ? it is important that writers like me try to highlight the brutal injustices of society (Indian). That's what I'm trying to do ? it is not an attack on the country, it's about the greater process of self-examination - this is an entrepreneurial endeavour that undoubtedly pays dividends for the body of post-post colonial fiction.
Having spent time in New Delhi amongst the self-proclaimed entrepreneurs and, co-incidentally the seemingly much more resourceful drivers of the blacked out 4 x 4?s, White Tiger reflects a jarring but accurate picture of a society in emergence ? having moved on from emergency.
We know from the works of Satyajit Ray that there is great dignity in poverty, but Adiga?s work hammers away at the notion that spirituality in this great country has been outsourced. Underneath it all, of course, is a great sensitivity on which this important mission is based an on which the self-important narration of the detail drawn central character sits.
However, in India, the neon strip does not yet outshine the candle light when it comes to artistic intention....we have an important new voice to continue the sub-continental dialogue and a clear expectation of more great things to come.

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Fresh, disturbing, very engaging

A very different way to talk about the desperate inequality of India. Unsettling, engaging, it pulls you into another world

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An Indian Driver's Tale

Excellent!! I used every excuse to catch up & keep listening.And the narrator,Bindya Solanki,was outstanding.I had read this book,but lstening was so much better than reading.Try it,you won't be disappointed.

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Totally Enjoyable

Humorous and dark. This story is gripping and entertaining and the style of the book is perfectly suited to the audio format. I whole-heartedly recommend it.

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Just wonderful.

This book is just wonderful. I was transported to a modern and fascinating, if often brutal and ruthless India. I loved the main character in all his guises, and I was rooting for him throughout the book, even though at times I did cringe, I did understand where he was coming from. The narrator delivers the story with perfect pitch and tone and a voice totally suited to the character. I could not stop listening till I had heard the whole story. I lost a weekend in blissful tense, often harrowing drama which brought an all too realistic view of India which I had previously romanticised from lovely holiday experinces. I love the place, but I have a whole new understanding now. A fantastic book. Buy it!!!!

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Expected more

I had high hopes for this book. I love India and have travelled there a lot, I also love to read about it. My brother recommended this book so I was keen to try it. After the first 2 chapters I wasn't sure but thought I would stick with it, However, I was ultimately a bit disappointed. The reader didn't really help to enthuse me. Didn't like the main character too much and the pace was slow. The story had potential but didn't really do it for me. It was just ok.

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India is our future if we do not adopt population

A sarcastic look at India’s ways and politics with a bit too much reality for it to be really funny.

The poor or the darkness are described without any modesty; if this was a picture it would be a fool frontal medical with nothing left to the imagination, the politics are all we suspect and much more of a corruption that is endemic and has fully metastasized throughout a society, the overpopulation permits the creation of inequities where slaves and servants are differentiated only by a name or a cast, a place where change is swallowed by past practices and mutated into horrible monstrosities.

Balram Halwai the narrator and the main character of the story describes a world that is fascinating and repugnant a world where survival is achievement, he also is the White Tiger a genetic rare anomaly that escapes its destiny by canning and brute force; he knows his world and wants to be king of this jungle at any cost for a minute for a second for just to try.

A very good book with some devastating insights and revelations of an all too real society.

The reader was excellent and made the book come alive.

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What a great book!

A most unusual and compelling story which paints a disturbing and moving portrait of India. The narration is superb and gives the listener a memorable experience. Highly recommended

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