Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure

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Laerke

It is a really good book, I read it in India - I could hardly put it down!

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anandi

I read it and found it very interesting and funny. brought back a lot of good memories.

ruins_explorer

When I started this book, I decided I wasn't ready to visit India...I was totally freaked out just reading about some of her experiences. Fortunately, she starts to enjoy it more and the book became really fascinating.

Casey

I enjoyed her description of her inner monologues while staying at the Ashram. I think my attempt at meditation would be similar.

skell

I read it on the way to India last year. Loved it!

john.sw

Am I the only person that found the book a complete bore?

The author came across to me as a moaning, whinging, self-centred, bigot.

I have also heard her on the radio and went to switch it off when my wife told me "she's the author of Holy Cow".

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jens

I read it after coming back from India last year in a slew of driving off post-travel-blues reading. It was pretty funny and spot on about some things.

crvlvr

The book has a few like warm reviews on amazon including -- "Not that good!", "Stunningly juvenile", "Trash-- but really *FUN* trash", "This book was Tedious", & "Holy cow! This book really bites"

May be you guys were not the target audience? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0767915747/ref=cm_rev_next/104-0651188-7434365?%5Fencoding=UTF8&custo mer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=507846&s=book s&customer-reviews.start=11

machadinha

Oww pahleez, we deserve a little better don't you think... I don't know the book but it had struck me that naming a book on India Holy Cow doesn't reflect very positively on one's qualities of imagination (nor does Baba for your hippie fellow's book there for that matter). May just have been the editor's call though, who's to say.

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mira4bai4

Both my wife and I enjoyed reading it.

Tashi

Awesome book, now start reading 'Shantaram'.

imhere0905

I enjoyed it, her husband has also written a book called Lost in Transmission (Jonathon Harley) which I've just finished and I quite enjoyed it as well, it's about his job as a foreign correspondent based in New Delhi but also his travels in Pakistan, Afganistan and Nepal.

aessedai

I am leaving for india in 5 weeks - i finished Holy Cow a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed it and got through it quickly until towards the end, when i kinda got a bit bored...didn't quite finish it which is very unlike me!

Tashi, i am just about to start shantaram - what do u think of it??

also been reading william dalrymple's city of the djinns about delhi. good book but slow moving and perhaps a little outdated...

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover"...Mark Twain

Casey

I don't think that anyone would argue that this book is a great piece of literature, or even a well-researched book on India. It is one persons experience. If you could relate to some of it, you probably enjoyed it to some degree. As opposed to Rushdi, who is considered a very serious writer (whose novels I adore or make me cringe), whose last novel Fury contains transparent parallels to his life (read wife), who he obviously worships to an unhealthy extent. This was supposed to be "good literature" and to me comes across as completely infantile, yet Holy Cow just was what it was intended to be, a quick light read.