Monday 9 February 2015

And We Remained...My personal P-O-V

This is a story about a gang of friends, spoken mostly through Sahir's voice...Your run-of-the-mill story about college life that every person can relate to...Studies, masti, love lost (more than found)...These guys seem like one unlucky lot! :P



The story does not have any surprising twists and turns...it captures the reader's attention with its banality... The writer gives us a joy ride through his life at ECVU followed by the ups and down of the career path of him and his friends... I was impressed by the 'Stream of Consciousness' use there...My second 'Eye of the Storm'.
A person who has been through engineering life (graduation, for all that matter) can find a Sahir, Sandeep, Gopal, Anand or David in himself...
We can also see so many bygone Wardha's walking about around us...
Being a girl myself, I still ask this question...Why are girls so damn complex?
The author's guts to pen down his life story (as can be inferred, although not proven) is remarkable. Not many possess the quality to point their own mistakes...The story of Sahir's life seems an transparent open book...
Floored by the simplicity.

Sunday 25 January 2015

A review of The Winner's Curse...Dee Walker

I have never read many political thrillers, and never one by an Indian writer. But I must say, this was a great experience...
At the end of the book you will be left thinking one thing...who was the bad guy? This book is the perfect example of present day goodness (With ample amount of maliciousness hidden behind sugarcoated words)...
It depicts the duplicity of the world we live in today...Even the hero of the book is not your run-of-the-mill hero we are so used to encounter in movies or in books...
On a different note, this book, being a political thriller, has really left me thrilled. The mention of technology was quite impressive. 
You will be left stumped by the things that are (or can be) possible with technology... The author has gone into quite a lot of detail to make every part of the book extremely realistic...
Difficult to imagine the level of research that went behind the creation of this book... Looking forward to a sequel, if any. :)