The God of Small Things

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1. PrincessEeMar 2026
   I gave OpenClaw access to all my ChatGPT, Google and Instagram history via context-use: - It books weekly restaurants for me using my years of Instagram stories - last night I went to Osteria Vibrato which was discovered and booked by my agent - Sends me 3 interesting discoveries every day based on what I am doing on GPT/Instagram/Google search. It recommended I read The God of Small Things in Kerala by finding my upcoming trip. Loved the book. - We curate my memory together, each day it sends me a memory diff by looking at my data which I manually edit and approve.

   Disclaimer: I am part of the team working on context-use

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2. matthew_stoneJan 2025
   Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of:

   The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

   The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

   Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

   Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is another recent literary favorite

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3. jimmyedDec 2022
   The God Of Small Things

   Winner of the booker prize, a delightful tale set in Kerala, a province of India where our ancestors first landed on the subcontinent.

   Very well written, and invokes powerful imaginery of Kerela's environ and social setting.

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4. wryoakSep 2020
   Dude go to half priced books or your local secondhand bookstore and just clean house. Classics in particular are a dime a dozen. Here's a list of "classics" to give you some ideas:

   * A Hundred Years of Solitude

   * Crime and Punishment

   * East of Eden

   * Moby Dick

   * Shakespeare's collected works

   * Bible, Koran, etc - keep as many sacred tomes as you can

   * Plato's Republic, maybe some other philosophy classics like Thus Spoke Zarathustra

   * Midnight's Children (how old does it have to be to be a classic?)

   * Paradise Lost, Iliad, Odyssey

   * The God of Small Things

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5. christudorApr 2018
   This is something I’ve been interested in for ages. I recently went to India and the first thing I Googled was “best books set in India” (answers: Shantaram, A Fine Balance, Midnight’s Children, God of Small Things). So definitely something I would use.

   Some comments from me:

   1. Needs to be much bigger. You currently have four books recommended for London, both fiction and non-fiction. But there are hundreds and hundreds of books set in London, which leads me on to ...

   2. Needs to be curated. When I was searching for the best books set in India, I was looking for the most popular, critically-acclaimed, ‘important’ books, not just any old book set in India. Some sense of priority would be useful.

   3. Needs to include more than just cities. Could you also include regions and countries, too? If you’re travelling in the Deep South, for example, you’ll want to be recommended things like Faulkner, Steinbeck, etc. even though these books aren’t always set in specific cities. (I think Faulkner set lots of his books in a fictional county somewhere in the Deep South).

   4. UX. I don’t need photos of cities on the buttons. If this is a site that might be used by people on holiday = people with really slow internet, you might want to think about getting rid of needless graphics, or offering a low-bandwidth version. Again, to return to the India example, the Internet here (and lots of other places I’ve been) is woeful. Some services (e.g. Reddit, WhatsApp) do really well in those circumstances, others (e.g. Twitter) not so much.

   Great idea, however. Looking forward to see how it grows!

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6. timellis-smithFeb 2018
   Fiction

   War and Peace

   Crime and Punishment

   Count of Monte Christo

   1984

   God of Small Things

   Paradise lost

   Divine comedy

   Non fiction

   Selfish gene

   Meditations

   Madness explained (the best book I've encountered for explaining how the mind works)

   The Red Queen

   Tao te Ching

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