Apart from noisy, irritating, loud songs and unhygeneic people, there happen to be some genre of books too which I don't like.
Making to the top of the list is high-brow, oh-I-am-so-arty Philosophy. I know, I will be recieving tremendous amount of flak for saying this, but I can't for the world enjoy Paulo Coelho titles or Deepak Chopra for that matter. Most of their books are fragmented, disjointed and mostly don't make any sense to me atleast. (My uncle LOVES them. We are always at loggerheads.) I tried reading 'God of Small Things' once. That book went down in my personal history for being the only one I never finished. ( You see I have an OCD of finishing whatever book I started.) and I confess, I didn't understand a thing of whatever length I read. Call me immature, tasteless or plain stupid, but a good book is that which gives pleasure to the reader. Best book is that which can be read again and again. I don't like it when some people turn up their dainty noses at my Harry Potters and advice me to read 'The Zahir' (PauloCoelho). Just like beauty, the judgement whether a book is good or bad, lies in the mind of the reader. So, arty-people-who-read-tasteful-books-and-advice-me, thanks, but no thanks.
Just next in the never-again category is, sorry folks, Chetan Bhagat.
You see, there is good english, bad english, atrocious english and and then there is Chetan Bhagat.
Among much protests and pressure from my peer group ,one day I finally broke down and read 'One Night at The Call Center'. Dear readers, I am very sorry to offend you ('coz I know how it feels when someone criticizes a national phenomenon),but the book was to say the least, horrendous. Perhaps I can understand why everyone loved the book. It's written in everyday english (which is actually Hinglish). The words, phrases and expressions we use in our day-to-day life were reproduced quiet faithfully in the book., which made it very easy to relate to. Not that I don't appreciate the benefits of understanding the written content, but to me atleast, story about a bunch of oh-we-are-so-cool-but-miserable youngsters who get a call from God (???) , written in bad english didn't appeal at all. (To put it in the politest of terms). Even after observing my less-than-entusiastic reaction to the book, my friends thrusted Five Point Someone towards me, daring me to refuse. Ah!
The third on my list are Tragedies.
You see having read a healthy dose of fairytails, I love happy-endings (who doesn't? Ok. I take that back)
That is the only reason I avoided Russian authors like a plague, and for that matter even Tagore. I have an irritating habit of empathising too much with the character. So, if anything bad happens to them, I mop around for days which really bugs mom. I even cried hysterically when Sirius, Dumbledore and Dobby died. One of the books which is excellently written but I dislike is Anna Karenina. Why does she has to die at the end? Why couldn't her husband be like Vronsky? . A beautiful woman dies for no reason at all. Ugh! I absolutely hate tragedies
If only books had a Dislike Button.
Making to the top of the list is high-brow, oh-I-am-so-arty Philosophy. I know, I will be recieving tremendous amount of flak for saying this, but I can't for the world enjoy Paulo Coelho titles or Deepak Chopra for that matter. Most of their books are fragmented, disjointed and mostly don't make any sense to me atleast. (My uncle LOVES them. We are always at loggerheads.) I tried reading 'God of Small Things' once. That book went down in my personal history for being the only one I never finished. ( You see I have an OCD of finishing whatever book I started.) and I confess, I didn't understand a thing of whatever length I read. Call me immature, tasteless or plain stupid, but a good book is that which gives pleasure to the reader. Best book is that which can be read again and again. I don't like it when some people turn up their dainty noses at my Harry Potters and advice me to read 'The Zahir' (PauloCoelho). Just like beauty, the judgement whether a book is good or bad, lies in the mind of the reader. So, arty-people-who-read-tasteful-books-and-advice-me, thanks, but no thanks.
Just next in the never-again category is, sorry folks, Chetan Bhagat.
You see, there is good english, bad english, atrocious english and and then there is Chetan Bhagat.
Among much protests and pressure from my peer group ,one day I finally broke down and read 'One Night at The Call Center'. Dear readers, I am very sorry to offend you ('coz I know how it feels when someone criticizes a national phenomenon),but the book was to say the least, horrendous. Perhaps I can understand why everyone loved the book. It's written in everyday english (which is actually Hinglish). The words, phrases and expressions we use in our day-to-day life were reproduced quiet faithfully in the book., which made it very easy to relate to. Not that I don't appreciate the benefits of understanding the written content, but to me atleast, story about a bunch of oh-we-are-so-cool-but-miserable youngsters who get a call from God (???) , written in bad english didn't appeal at all. (To put it in the politest of terms). Even after observing my less-than-entusiastic reaction to the book, my friends thrusted Five Point Someone towards me, daring me to refuse. Ah!
The third on my list are Tragedies.
You see having read a healthy dose of fairytails, I love happy-endings (who doesn't? Ok. I take that back)
That is the only reason I avoided Russian authors like a plague, and for that matter even Tagore. I have an irritating habit of empathising too much with the character. So, if anything bad happens to them, I mop around for days which really bugs mom. I even cried hysterically when Sirius, Dumbledore and Dobby died. One of the books which is excellently written but I dislike is Anna Karenina. Why does she has to die at the end? Why couldn't her husband be like Vronsky? . A beautiful woman dies for no reason at all. Ugh! I absolutely hate tragedies
If only books had a Dislike Button.
Hey shreya. Try reading plato's "the republic". King of all philosophical titles.
ReplyDeleteR u trying to encourage or discourage? :P
ReplyDelete+1 on "chetan cant do anythng better than probably writing petty notes on fb and sparing the population specially from his latest, revolution 2020"
ReplyDeletebut u should have tried coelho's 11 minutes.
Have read it. It was Ok at the best. But that's my opinion. :)
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