Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Why I like Chetan's work ?

If you have read Chetan Bhagat's books, then you will agree with me that they are mindless fun which you can enjoy while on the move or in a single night when you have got nothing else to kill time.
Some readers may disagree with me and say that it is too early or he is not yet an author to be discussed about, however my point is that this man knows the pulse of youth of the nation and to connect with it. To write about IIT's in his debut making book and that too which is not about "Make it to IIT stuff" needs some effort. For the uninitiated, I am talking about the recent bestseller "Five Point Someone". This book was abouth three losers or rather three batchmates in IIT, Delhi who were not exactly the stereotypes IIT nerds and who manage to screw their carrers while in IIT(Well it all ends well in the end).
To me it was a good enough read, I mean it was not a great literary effort by Chetan, but still it had all the ingredients of a bestseller with which everyone of the readers could identify himself atleast once. Either ways I had not read something like this from anglo Indian writers who pride themselves in getting their books panned by the masses everytime, infact by a recent survey 90 % of them are bought by the pseudo-readers only to decorate their shelves.

Meanwhile chetan has come up with another book on the youth called " One night@call center". It is expected to be more on the same lines of it's predecessor. I am actually halfway through it, will comment on it once finished.

So if you are still waiting for someone to gift you these books, go and grab it on your own. After all it doesn't cost even one hundred Indian bucks !!!

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