I'd been meaning to read this book for a while now. However, what it basically does is shares a diary of an ordinary person from North India. Lots and lots of cliche things happening in this book. Deals with attachment issues of not just the character playing lead role in the book but even the writer faces attachment issues as there are many places where the writer leaves dialogs and situations, unexplained, where he assumes its just so obvious what comes next that he would not NEED to put it in words and thus -
leaves a reader confused about what happened next. ITs a BIG drawback on the authors part to be frank to leave the reader unattended and floating in the air of possibilities of what really happened.
Escapism in the writers writing style is clear, where he slides through many circumstances without giving a detailed account. The purpose behind writing this book is more egoistic than anything else. The purpose needed to be enriched and made deep before starting off writing this novel.
Let me ask this question to the writer - Do you think you created a happy ending for the book? Do you think you resolved all the issues you brought up or created causes for in the book?
My guess is, you think its a happy ending. A 'perfect ending' .... but the fact is its a 'imperfect ending' to the book.
A lot of places one finds some fresh seeds being sown in the plot but they are then forgotten as if the writer is throwing ideas, sowing them and then walking away or on in your words to another direction, as though pulled by bliss of the next moment forgetting the baby you had just sown moments back.
The reader sees this and finds it irritating to read the novel in some places when they clearly see the
" WRITER does not value his own words."
The only reason I completed this book is because am aware that when I begin reading a book and finish it come what may. Does the author really think people are going to continue reading the novel after receiving such jerk offs in regular intervals. They may continue once at most thrice but then many people will give a poor rating and move on leaving the book half read - MY POINT IS - there needs to be a turning point in the story to drive the reader to explore further. Like previously said -the purpose needs to be enriched.
By the way, I just played a song on Youtube recently which goes well with the moral of this book.
Check it out here : Ruk Jaana Nahi Tu Kahi Haar Ke
Btw, there's one more thing in the book that catches the eye - the target audience the author has kept are just Indians. Clearly so, because, when you open the book to read there are so many Hindi conjunctions and expressions and dialogs which no foreign reader will be able to understand and yes, its a big assumption to think they'd atleast know that the language except English used here is Hindi because those who are unable to identify what a language written is saying also do not know the name of the language which is saying it.
I wish the author all the best with the book.
I've been very generous with this book by putting it for display in a 'Little Free Library' my Cooperative Housing Society created outside on my suggestion. Books get exchanged from this library frequently.
