A review by pxr014
The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair

3.0

This was a pretty decent book. I am disappointed, though, because the premise of the novel is so great, and the author obviously put a lot of research into it. The writing, though, was really awful. The author tried to be too descriptive and poetic, leading to sentences that had too many modifying clauses (to the point where I had to read some of them over and over again to understand what he was saying) and weird, long-winded digressions that did nothing for the story. The characters were all really amazingly fleshed out, though. Not a bad read, but I'm a little sad, since it had the potential to be so much better.