The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul
Read June 2008
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, White Bear Lake branch
Essay written Wednesday, June 2nd, 2008
I checked this book out and a few others at the same time at the beginning of June knowing full well that I was going to have to be finished with them by 6:59 PM local time on June 20th, the Summer Solstice. See, I had decided that I was going to give up fiction for the season, and I had a stack of fiction I needed to burn through in three frenzied weeks of June.
The Mystic Masseur was the first of those books that I knew I was going to be in a hurry to read. I gave myself five days and met that goal. It was a pleasant, light, quick read. Funny at times, confusing at others. Maybe if I knew more about Trinidad and Hindu culture I would have enjoyed it more.
The author won a Nobel Prize though, so you can hardly go wrong there. I think the only Nobel Prize winning author I've read that I didn't like was Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country, which bored me. Perhaps I wasn't ready for Kawabata yet at that point in my life and I should try him again.
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