Don’t get confused, I am not going to confess about my mistakes in past. It’s is just the name of the book, I finished yesterday. “The three mistakes of my life” is the 3rd book of IIT-IIMian author Chetan Bhagat. But if anyone will ask me about the book, I will simply suggest a big NO. It will be nothing but sheer waste of time to read this.
Though Mr. Bhagat is claiming this as a true story, once you read it, you will find out how fictitious it is. In this book, the author has put everything, which sells it India…CRICKET… POLITICS… RELIGION… LOVE… EMOTIONS… all the horrible things of that time frame like Earthquake in Gujrat, Twin tower collapse… everything you can imagine. This book is no better than a low budget, loose script Bollywood flick.
Some things which look good to me in the book are:
1) The AIS (Austrailan Institute of Sports) funda of distributing scholarships to make great sportsman.
2) Some Australian lingo like MOZZIE, SIPHON the PYTHON, NCR (i.e. number of cans required) and some more...
3) The stages in love: WE-JUST-LOOK, WE-JUST-WALK, HOLD-HAND and …
4) Ish’s passion for cricket and for Ali…
And that’s all; everything other than this is just rubbish. The only other thing which is good that it doesn’t make you bankrupt, it’s available only for 95 bucks. But my advice is to add 50 more and go for a good movie rather than reading this pile of around 300 pages (including prologue and epilogue).
That’s all from me, not it’s your choice to go for it or not.
“The 3 mistakes of my life”
Posted by Akash
in Saturday, June 28, 2008
under:
Books
A nice review I found after writing this post is available at http://www.enidhi.net/2008/05/3-mistakes-of-my-life-chetan-bhagat.html
Please see at the title "The 3 mistakes of Chetan Bhagat-in this book", which describes the lack of research while composing the story.
like the guy who wrote the review (that you mentioned in your comment) says, you need to put aside your thinking cap and treat it like a Bollywood movie. that's the only way u can appreciate Chetan Bhagat's writing after five point someone. he doesn't really give you what you might be looking for in a book, but he does entertain you at some level. anyway, tera review padhne ke baad main to ye kitaab nahin padhne waali
tum apni mistakes likhte to woh bus3 thodi hoti ...woh to infinite hongi na :)..jise likhne me shayyad janmo lag jayein aapko ....
will surely follow ur advice.......