perfect prose doesn’t a perfect novel make!

Seriously …. nice shirt.

I think I’ll go buy Chetan’s new book now. I’m definitely watching the movie when it hits the big screen in the States!

He does do a good in getting the conversational English right. What he needs to do is to polish up the rest of the prose. I really do think Chetan Bhagat is capable of devlivering better. And in the future, he probably will.

That stench you smell is from the prose. If you don’t smell it, your literary judgment probably froze at an age where you thought Readers Digest was lit. But Readers Digest was far better written than this crap. Sadly, you won’t recognize that for the putdown that it is.

Oh wait, you read this book and thought it was good? No wonder you’re wearing a brown bag over your head.

It seems to be a bit of a stretch to have “God” endorse the sort of plan that Shyam comes up with. What is worse : it is made amply clear that the religion being referred to is Hinduism, and that it is a Hindu God herself who has endorsed the entire course of action. Now, I think a lot of people would find the plan utterly deceitful : the plan is to call up customers in America and tell them that their systems are messed up because they all have a certain “bug”, the one referred to earlier. It is premised on what is quite casually referred to as an American “culture of fear”, and the idea is to prey on such fear. It really annoys me that religion, of all things, should be used to validate deceit, extortion and patently loathsome behavior.

btw, i have a friend in random house uk, and they are raving fans of bhagat. they paid close $400k for intl rights for this one. were they stupid?

or maybe ..the entire world is stupid..apart from u bloggers of course..

grow up. why didn’t u stop reading it?

RAJAT:

if people felt superior to others from the same ethnic group they wouldn’t be on sites like this one. just cos someone’s brown doesn’t mean their crapalicious writing should be supported or appreciated.

i’m not knocking it cos i haven’t read it, but would just like to let you know that there is a middle ground between blindly accepting culture-lovers and pretentious people who hate other FOBs:

it’s called thinking for yourself.

Nobody’s jealous of a turd.

Fame and the smell of more dough is a heady combination. Rupa must have told him, “You’re famous. Write something, anything that we can publish and make a quick buck.” After all “Everything’s about the money, Honey.”

so he wrote or rather hastily scribbled a bunch of absolute crap called one night at the call center. it sucked but people bought the book because it had Mr. bhagat written all over it. People hoped that it would read as well as five point someone, but were very disappointed, myself included.

Some of you guys behave as if you are a superior race because you moved to the US. You somehow know better english. Trust me, the “desis” I know speak way better English than some of the British and the Americans that I know. Say it like it is. You guys are jealous of his success. I mean, how can some stupid desi who barely speaks english write a book and be published when you, the superior human being did not? Well, he made the effort to write and spent agonizingly long hours writing something that appealed to the people. write something and hope to get published one day if youre half as good as his first book was. Stop putting up sassy comments here and junking someone’s work just because he’s successful.