Thursday, February 7, 2008

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - my take

Please don’t write something that you don’t believe at all. Still if you try to do that deliberately, then probably you will end up writing a crap like ‘The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari’.

Though the novel-name was a complete no-no for me, I thought of giving it a read only when I came to know that the author is an Indian. But honestly, I shouldn’t have tried it out. Only a person who has absolutely no vision can sketch a character like ‘Julian’. And the fact that he goes ‘somewhere in the Himalayas’ in India and returns back looking ‘half his age’ and that his seventeen year old colleague couldn’t even recognize him was a total shock! Give me a break! This guy has surpassed even the master mind of Ekta Kapoor in imagining things!

Well, after that I didn’t have courage left to proceed with the story, though I turned some more only to find some more shocks. Every page of it was like an episode of any cheesy daily soap – full of surprises at each beginning and ending of it and actually anything and everything was happening there.

The description of the mystery land ‘India’ was even more pathetic. Even the most biased portals of ‘Incredible India’ would be ashamed of those descriptions. And the language? Even more painful. Full of lingos and jargons, the novel looks more like a fictitious report on some nonexistent world.

This is one of the worst novels I have read in the recent times.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agree with u 100% that the author lacks creativity, flow of thought and written expression is a literary disaster. But then, Truth is Stranger than Fiction..... it is BASED ON A TRUE STORY...Julian did exist...he did VANISH MYSTERIOUSLY ‘somewhere in the Himalayas’....and when he came back, he couldn't be recognized.
Some facts were deliberately distorted, though.....I'll give u the true story sometime in my blog

Doell said...

really? then I would really like to know about that....

Anonymous said...

'Julian Mantle' s REAL STORY has been recounted in my blog post dated Feb 11.
'Julian' was part of the team that scaled Nanda Devi to place the plutonium-powered device.
After the avalanche, he did become deeply religious. Check out:
http://intelligenceinputs.blogspot.com
http://futureweapons.blogdrive.com
BTW, A.R. Rahman was born Dileep Kumar...is he really Rahman ;-)
Keep reading my blogs...ciao

Devid said...

I like monk tv show.The Story of the Show is really interesting.I like monk in this show.He is immensely funny.I had missed some of the episodes of this Show.But i had no source to watch monk episodes.My Brother give me a good source to watch the show.

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Anonymous said...

this is one of the most shitty reviews i've read. Yes, he does reinforce the cliche' of India as a spiritual heaven. Yes, it is too incredible julian comes back half his age. But HELLO! this is not a fiction novel, it is a SELF HELP book. In your stupid fucking ignorance, your missing all the important lessons that the author is trying to convey to us, about life and what is important. Obviously you don't have a fucking clue what you're doing, dumb bitch

Anonymous said...

very well said my friend.i don't understand why people are buying this book,fist i thought it was a real story but after few chepters i totaly get that that guy is full of crap.i mean how can you expect people to learn something through an imagenary story.people,who think that nothing is possible and need inspiration.

Anonymous said...

very well said my friend.i don't understand why people are buying this book,fist i thought it was a real story but after few chepters i totaly get that that guy is full of crap.i mean how can you expect people to learn something through an imagenary story.people,who think that nothing is possible and need inspiration.

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Anonymous said...

This book was actually really helpful on a lot of people's lives. Yeah he wasn't very creative but it's a self help book. It's an insight to what finding your spiritually can do for you and how it can impact your life. People like you who have nothing better to do than sit in front of a screen and criticize someone's hard work that's lead them to success are pathetic. This book helps people and your negative and shitty judgement is not needed.

Anonymous said...

The bible and other religious texts are full of "imagenary" stories, yet people learn something from them everyday. They are meant to inspire and help you become a better person. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's full of crap.

Anonymous said...

Story about the selfish giant was one Oscar Wilde wrote for his children!!!