For all the people who don't know about Chetan Bhagat; he is an Indian author and has four best selling novels until this today. All his books are made into bollywood movies.
I was never into reading novels until one day I got this book "Five point someone" from one of my friends. The book was already famous by that time and I still did not read it. So after I got it, I started reading, only to avoid telling people, I did not read that book yet. Right from page number 1, the book was interesting. The main character of the book is the story narrator and the story is about his college experience. IIT is one of India's most reputed engineering school and he gets admitted for the undergraduate degree. He describes his friends, his girlfriend and his trouble getting the degree. Until the last page, the book kept me grasped. After five point someone, I felt the fun in reading books and then I went on to read novels by many other authors.
After an year or so I again lost interest in books and went back to my favorite pass time "watching movies". And soon, another book came out by Chetan Bhagat and it was called "One night at the call center". As soon as I heard about this book, I told my dad in India to get me a copy. He did by paying double the price since it was out of stock wherever it was sold. He sent it to my through one of my friends. I read it within 2 days. It started slow and after roughly 50 pages the book started getting interesting. It was filled with subtle humor as the first one. One thing that seperates Chetan's books from others is that his readers keep laughing while reading his books. He maintains that quality of fun and joy in his stories. "One night at the call center" may not be as good as "Five point someone" but it is a good book.
"Three mistakes of my life, the third book by Chetan Bhagat. I was talking to my friend on phone and he told me that he was reading this book. I asked who the author was and when he replied me I was surprised to know when this book came out. I told him to complete reading the book soon and send it to me. He gave the book soon to my dad who sent it to me through another of my friend who came to United States. "Three mistakes..." was a bore to start. It started very slow and took a lot of time to interest the reader. I took more than a week to complete this book. Only the last fifty odd pages were interesting. The book was about three most talked about things in India; Cricket, religious politics and unaccepted love. I felt Chetan has lost his miraculous touch where he could keep his reader in his magical spell and captivate him until the end of the book.
I have this habbit of collecting the electronic versions of all good novels and browse a number of websites, forums to update my collection. Last week I saw this post "Chetan Bhagat's new book 2 state". I was aghast ". When did this guy release another book? I went into his personal website and read the synopsis. Even though I was not impressed by his latest offering "Three mistakes of my life", I got "2 state" immediately and began reading it. He cracked the jack pot this time. Chetan was good with this one. This is about his life at IIM Ahmedabad. IIM is India's famous Business school. He describes his love towards a South Indian girl and how he gets married to her. Entire book was fun. I was all laughs again, forgot the rest of the world while reading and completed this big book within 2 days. I became a true aficionado of Chetan with this book. My advice to people who are not into reading novels is to read "Five point someone" and "2 state" as they are not novels but books filled with infinite humor
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