I too had a Love Story

"This Post may contain spoilers. So if you haven't read it yet, i advise you from reading this "

Finally, after a long wait, I read "I too had a Love Story" by Ravinder Singh. To think that I passed on buying this book thrice and had read it so late irks me now. On the top of the book is a simple review by N.R. Narayana Murthy which says "Simple, honest and touching" and I couldn’t agree more. It’s not one of those great epic novels that will get make everyone stand up and clap. It’s a simple book with simple characters and a simple story that everyone can relate with. And then a true story, a string of events which happened in the life of the author. In an age where the term "True Love" is very loosely used, such that many dont believe in it anymore, this story will give everyone a belief that it really does exist.

The story is about Ravin(Shona) in Bhubaneswar and Khushi(Shonimoni) in Faridabad. Both working in the IT industry and trying to grow in their field. The story goes on about how they meet via Shaadi.com and fell in love with each other in due time. A modern love story in which, love starts from a website and multiplies via mobile calls, SMS’s and chats and finally the meet. To add it is the romance, the humor, the descriptions, the feelings. Not to forget, the final chapter. Everything adds up to make this a wonderful (in want for a better word) experience (not able to call it a book anymore). The events here can be summed up in the following line:

"Not everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. Some are born, just to experience the abbreviation of it."

While asking me to read it my friend said that in the end I would feel sad for Ravin, I will feel sad for Khushi. And I did. The fact that I put myself in the characters shoes didn’t help. I didn’t know what was happening around, didn’t know what to do, was lost and didn’t know how time went. And the rest of the day the the events just kept flashing in front of me. Before I slept that day I did say a small prayer for Ravin(der).

The back cover of the book has the following line
"Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. Some stay incomplete. Yet they are beautiful in their own way."

Ravin, I understand it would have been very difficult for you to pen it all down. May your story live long.

To everyone who has ever loved someone, and then to those who have loved and lost, I would suggest you to read this. You will laugh, you will feel attached, you will build palaces in the sky, you will love every moment, you will feel sad and then, maybe, you will cry.

P.S: If anyone from Bollywood is trying to make a movie out of it, I have a humble request to you. PLEASE DON'T.

Chetan Bhagat books

Once i was browsing through some book in a book store i came upon one book written by a certain Chetan Bhagat. I didn't know who the author was but i certainly knew about the book as i had read its review somewhere as it had become a bestseller. The book was " one night at the call center". that day i didn't buy the book but i wanted to get that book. then i came to know that he had written another book.
Recently i brought both the books and reading through the books i felt that it was an all to similar story all of us had to tell. i started off by reading "Five Point Someone" which is a story about 3 students from the IIT who have toiled to get into IIT and how they screw their lives in the college.This is the same story most of the college students have to tell and i realized how much truth was there in the book. The book is a must read for all college students and tell us what not to do in colleges. Its upto you to apply it in your lives or not.
The second book was the book was the book i said i saw in the book store."One Night At the Call Center " is a book of 6 people who are working in a call center and how they get a call from god one night. The book is very well written and tells the difficulties faced by people in the outside world and how they should overcome it.
Though both the books are fictional i found them too true to be that.The book are a must read and will be in some of the best books i have read.

Harry Poter and The Deathly Hallows

The wait is almost over for all the harry potter fanatics. The most awaited book-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-in recent memory will hit the book stores in a few hours time. The fans will line up in large numbers to get the final installment of favorite book in their hands and read thorough it and put an end a period of intense discussions, Rumors etc.All wait for the final confrontation between Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, the Chosen One, the “symbol of hope” for both the Wizard and Muggle worlds, and Lord Voldemort, He Who Must Not Be Named, the nefarious leader of the Death Eaters and would-be ruler of all. Good versus Evil. Love versus Hate.

The first installment of the book written by J.K.Rowling was published in 1997. From then on Harry Potter mania has gripped this world like no other book in history ever has.With each installment, the “Potter” series has grown increasingly dark, and this volume wil be no exception.Many of the readers,including myself, have grown up reading and waiting for the next installment of the book to hit the bookstores.

I first read the book when i was in 10th. and from the first book onwards i'm hooked on to it. and i have lost the count of the number of times i have reread each book from cover to cover. and like all other HP fans i'm eagerly waiting for the books to hit the stores but i'm not sure if 'll go and buy it outright as this is where the price factor comes in.Maybe 'll borrow it from a friend( well i have booked the book from at least 5 people after making them promise that i'll be first to get the book after they finish reading it once :-) ]

Well finally the book is coming out we'll get to know what happens to Harry. What is going to happen to Voldemort-the villain of the book? who lives and who dies? what will be the life of those who live after that? and many more.

The wait is finally OVER.

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Books and Me!!!!

Well in my earlier post i have posted that 'm a voracious reader of books. well ya its true. i have been reading books ever since i remember.Even when i was in school i used to read my english text book well before the teacher has taken it in class. I used to finish off the text book in the holidays itself.
I first started off by reading comics like Champak, Tinkle etc. These were my first books and i still have them. I have not given it out or something like that. the oldest Champak comic book i have dates back to 1993. So most probably i must have started reading these books then. First and all i used to read only the picture stories and all. Later on i started to read the short stories in them. I always used to like Tinkle those days as they had fully illustrated stories only. Once somebody, i dont exactly remember, brought me a huge bundle of books, the ones of Phantom, Mandrake and all. I gave them for book binding as they were in almost in taters. and after binding i got a set of 5 books in which each book was atleast 2 inches thick. So you can Imagine how huge the bundle initially was.

Slowly i graduated to other books other than Champak, tinkle and those kind of books. While i was looking for something in my fathers cupboard i found some old paperbacks. I started reading them and like them. Then my father started bringing me some paperbacks. When i was in 4th or 5th, PaiCo, which is a leading book selling shop in Kerala brought out a series of classics in illustrated format. This was my first encounter with classics. and when i started reading them i didnt know that these were classics. These included books like Gone with the wind, Tom swayer, Oliver Twist, Most classics of Shakesphere, Robinson Crusoe , Dracula etc. I enjoyed reading these books very much. There were 30 books in the series before they discontinued it. In between this i got 2 huge book. One of which contained all the stories in Arabian Nights and the other one which had all the Shakespearen classics.

Well that time i was in Mumbai and whenever i got a chance i used to buy lots of books. Once when i came back to Kochi for a holiday one of my mom's cousin introduced me to a library. That was my first time in a Library. and i used to take books from his account and that was the first time i read fiction books.This was also the time i started reading books like Hardy Boys, Enid Blyton etc.

In 10th i had the taste of Harry Potter. From then on i have read all the 6 books(till now) a number of times. I have read it so many times that i have lost count.Then after 10th i took my my membership in a library and from then on i regularly used to take books from there and read. Even now i try to read at least one book per week even when exams are on. I cannot say that i read daily books because once i start a book i cannot rest until i end the book.

My favorite book till now are da Vinci code and most of the books of Dan Brown, HP series, J.R.R Tolkien's modern day epic The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Firm by John Grisham, Timeline by Michale Crichton, The godfather by Mario Puzo, The Bourne Series by Robert Ludlum and there are many more.

My favorite author's are Dan Brown and J.K. Rowling. Nowadays i read lot of books written by of John Grisham an Robert Ludlum.