The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico IyerMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I've been looking forward to the latest Pico Iyer, and I fear great expectations led to greater disappointment.
It lacks focus. It read more like disparate chapters of exotic locations, with quotations of other, better known authors when they in turn visited the likes of Varanasi and Kashmir.
All in all, extremely missable and nowhere near the quality of his other works.
If "the half known life is where so many of our possibilities lie," then the reality of this book is merely half of what the imagined possibility was, to me.
And this is what drives us readers on to the next book, ever onwards. The possibility of transcendence is something we eternally strive for, glimpses of which were present in this book, half-formed.
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