First few experimental clicks using my D3100. :-)

Well the thing about experimenting in reading is that sometimes you come across a book that seems, well a little, sort of interesting.

One such experiment I did was on my usual trip to a nearby landmark store. I found a book titled "Nothing for you my dear Still I love you...." authored by Arpit Dugar.

To admit it the title do sound a little interesting (Alright alright, I was on a guilt trip for reading and loving just the foreign authors). I was in a confusion to whether go for a Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes or this one. After thrice picking up and putting down the Michael Crichton book I finally decided to show a little more patriotism.

Let me warn you that sometimes your experiment goes awfully wrong. Most certainly this experiment went horribly wrong.

Well to start with the positive things the title is good and catchy, so are the graphics along with the teaser description on the back and …… well that’s about it as far as the positives go.

Now getting to my favorite part; the negatives, well to start off with, this is the most badly edited book I have ever read. I mean come on there are spelling mistakes, grammatical mistakes. I mean its one thing that an author himself makes some mistakes while writing, everybody does. But, it’s a completely another thing (and very annoying) when you buy a published book and find that the book have spelling mistakes in the biography of the author itself let alone in the storyline. I doubt whether there was even a proof reading done for the book. Another of my theories say that possibly it might have happened that the author is a son of one of the investors of the publishing house or something and the publishers got so bored after reading the first few pages of the manuscript that they decided to send it directly to the press rather than wasting their valuable time (which they might use on editing and proof reading actual novels) on this nothing of a manuscript. The author have also decided to spend more money and resources on the illustration rather than the content.

Well if we discuss the content of the book the less said is better. The author seems to be suffering from a low self esteem, attention seeking. As a child he must have been truly deprived of the love and attention of his parents. He just sets himself as the central character of the plot with the best of the things happening to him. I am fine with setting yourself as the protagonist of your novel, but I am not ok if you do not give attention to the other characters of the plot (fictional or inspired). It seems like Mr. Avinash Jain is the center of universe and life is all about him. Talking about the plot, the plot seems more like a typical Indian road full of "plot" holes which if you come across are best left alone or they can be fatal. The narration is so shocking that at one point of time I was made to think that either the author thinks the reader is stupid or mebbe actually the reader is stupid(stupid enough to pick this book over MC's). The favorite line of the author is "tears rolling down their(his, her, mine, whatever) cheeks". This line is exploited to such level by the author that when I actually counted the frequency of this line in a particular chapter it appeared at least 5 times(and the chapter wasn't even long enough, just a few pages). The narration is so bad that after few paragraphs author have to remind himself and the reader that he is narrating to a third person. Definitely and most certainly most putdownable book I have read.

Clearly the author is trying to be the next Chetan Bhagat. He might even succeed one day, but isn't writing about expressing yourself rather than copying someone's style.

Well my advice to people experimenting is that don't go by the looks of it, "Dikhawe pe matt jaao apni akal ladao" and stay clear of a book having spelling mistakes in the Author's bio. :-D

P.S.:
Neither am I against experimenting nor have all my experiments gone bad. The proof is "The locked room (Sjöwall and Wahlöö)" which was an awesome and funny read. Anyways happy experimenting guys. :-)
I have not yet completed the book. I think completing this book should be put forward as a part of military training exercise. :-D

Aequitas et Veritas!!!!!

Boondock saints rock!!!!!!!!!!!

I am in a mood for oldies today. Listening to oldies after a long long time. :-) Feels like coming home. :)
I have already loaded my I-pod with all the kishoreda songs. :) Listening to all the oldies I was wondering they had song for every situation and emotion that can ever occur in our life. I can't think of any emotion for which there aint a hindi film song. :)

List of few of my favorite Kishore songs:

Aate jaate khubsoorat
Achha to hum chalte hai
Aise na mujhe tum dekho
badi sooni sooni hai
Chalte Chalte
Chingari koi bhadke
Choo karr mere mann ko
Dekha na haye re socha na
Dheere se jaana
Dil aisa kisi ne mera toda
dilbar mere
Diye jalte hain
Ek ajnabi haseena se
Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi si
Gaadi bula rahi hai
Gata rahe mrea dil
Ghungru ki tarah
Ina meena dika
Jai jai shiv shankar
Jeevan ke safar mein rahi
Khilte hai gul yahaan
koi hota jisko apna
Mana janab ne pukara nahin
Manjilen apni jagah hai
Mera jeevan kora kagaz
Mere dil mein aaj kya hai
mere mehboob qayamat hogi
Mere naina saawan bhaadhon
Mere saamne waali khidki mein
Mere sapnon ki rani
O hansini meri hansini
O Majhi re
O mere dil ke chain
Raat kali ek khwaab mein aayi
roop tera mastana
Ruk jaana nahin
saala main to saab ban gaya
Sama hai suhana
Simti si sharmai si
Tera mujhse hai pehle ka naata
Tere bina zindagi se
tere mere milan ki yeh raina
Tum aa gaye ho nur
Tum bin jaaon kahaan
Wada karo
Who shaam kuch ajeeb thi
Yeh jeevan hai
zaroorat hai zaroorat hai
Zindagi ek safar hai suhaana
Zindagi ke safar mein
Zindagi pyaar ka geet hai

list is simply endless...... my fingers are hurting typing so many song names. :-P

P.S.:It feels good to write full words on LJ. No restrictions of 140 words of twitter. No offense to the twitters. I also tweet from time to time, but the character restriction is buzz-kill sometimes. ;-)