The Rainbow Man and Other Stories (Book) - 9/17/2004 4:43:18 PM
I had pleasure to read "The Rainbow Man" recently and highly recommend this collection without reservation. David Gardiner is a gifted writer with a storytellers heart! His stories will shock you, other times make you laugh, always make you think but most of all they will take you out of your head for awhile and throughly entertain you! In short the "The Rainbow Man" is a fantastic read I'm sure you will enjoy!
The Rainbow Man and Other Stories (Book) - 9/14/2004 5:11:02 PM
"The Rainbow Man" was given to me by the author, so I was not really expecting much. I guess I started reading it out of politeness more than anything else. I was surprised to find this book very well written. Most of the stories quickly capture the attention and, like all good short stories, have endings that usually come as a surprise. An enjoyable read that I would recommend to anyone.
SIRAT (Book) - 7/21/2001 5:58:08 PM
Read the reviews on Amazon and was surprised I hadn't heard of the book before. Read the book itself and was very impressed. Its strength is that it's so down-to-earth and believable. Really convinces you that this could happen. And the ending is a real stunner. I would recommend it very highly.
The Summer of Dust (Short Story) - 8/25/2016 6:27:17 AM
What a wonderful story! Sad and enlightening at the same time. And beautifully written with great detail and sensitivity. Although fiction, reads like autobiography.
I didn't encounter Indians until my graduate studies in engineering when I was thrust into a department with 23 Indian and Pakistani students and only two Americans at the University of Wisconsin studying for master's and doctor's degrees. That's where I learned a bit about the very different cultural subcultures of the Indian subcontinent. One summer, I roomed with a fellow from Bombay. We became fast friends, still today. One time many years later, his wife told me, "Ron, you need to marry an Asian woman."
Fascinated with Indian culture, I shared a consulting firm with an Indian fellow and befriended two Indian young people, both beautiful and very intelligent with high IQs who were married: Danny and Bina. Theirs was not an arranged marriage. Danny was like me, interested in continual learning and research, while Bina used her MBA to join Microsoft and climb the corporate ladder. As a result, they divorced. I kept in touch with both of them long-distance in Atlanta from Houston. One day after my divorce, Bina's mother, a Bombay travel agent, appeared at my door. I didn't know it at the time, because, I guess I was naïve, but I think she was sizing me up as a potential second husband for her daughter. All I knew was that Bina was a poor housekeeper from their apartments filled with roaches.
When I visited Bina with my girlfriend and we had lunch, she turned on me over something I said (or who I was with) and refused to talk to me over the phone after that. Soon married an American fellow. I lost track of Danny. The last time I visited him, he was studying for his doctorate and living with a daughter of a missionary. Happily so.
Your story also reminded me of student housing and landlords needing help keeping up their ramshackle rentals. I was fortunate to travel to Pakistan and Bangladesh and stay in the "rich" homes of families of students that I knew. Couldn't arrange to get to India, although I would have liked to. Still love Indian food.
Ron
Blind Date (Short Story) - 6/14/2002 4:13:53 PM
great writing, wonderfully sad
Blind Date (Short Story) - 12/9/2001 11:43:09 PM
Very well written. I could put myself in the scene and watch from afar.
