Review: Entertaining
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2011
"Camel on an Ashtray" is a glimpse into the life of Sonell. He stumbles with his friends through London and Bombay as he tries to make sense of his British, Indian, and Iranian influences and how they can make him a unique writer. The sweetness of his extended family gives him a good foundation for his journey and his friends mean to support him, but somehow little writing actually gets done.For me, this was an interesting peek into another world, Mayfair clubs and Bombay hotels being equally exotic.  Sonell's character remins me a little of Anthony Patch from Fitzgerald's "The Beautiful and the Damned". (Why are talented would be writers so often derailed by friends and booze?)