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Is this about The Comical Saga ? We had our fair share of trouble when the author/his friends tried to promote this book desperately under several pseudonyms on the group. Really drove us crazy over a short period of time. But that was enough to put us off it.
Yes that's the name of the monstrosity! I mean did you read that sample chapter? Words just thrown about with careless abandon. Also, I think that grammar must be a very rare and precious thing on the planet from which this author came from (I cannot believe someone like this lives on planet earth!); because he uses it extremely rarely and makes do without it on most occasions. A monument to incompetence, a love letter to overconfidence; this piece of garbage is the literary equivalent of films by Ed Wood - so impossibly bad that it's good!
Can't believe it :OA book to delete from my TBR! Usually we are used to add them!
nope, as I said I was put off by his over zealous promotions
@Aditya - Well in a sense it's good that you didn't else you too would have been scarred forever! Lol!@Dely - Believe me, this book deserves to be in just one TBR - Total Bullcrap Regurgitated.
I only stumbled on to this book because I received a recommendation from the author himself in my inbox. Man, words can't describe how much I regret opening that message!
The horror! The horror!
Without much fanfare, I present to you - Read blog entry titled Pooja Kapoor, it's a sample chapter from the book.
After you read this, read my review below and please god please tell me that you agree! I can't breathe anymore...
Review:
Just read a sample chapter from a book by one of India's new generation of Chetan Bhagat inspired authors. (Not that i have anything against Chetan Bhagat per se, at least he has an idea of what he's trying to accomplish).
Gentlemen, friends, innocent bystanders: let me put it very mildly - literature as an art is dead. Oh I think that came out all wrong, perhaps too strong; allow me to rephrase - literature as we knew it has been annihilated, decimated and asphyxiated. I mean there's bad writing and then there's shitty writing and then there's this guy! God must really exist because if this abomination can find a publisher then hell, anything's possible!He is to writing what Rakhi Sawant is to acting. Enough said. Period.
But no, I am not finished; not yet. I am afraid of nightmares where alphabets and words will accuse me of being an accessory to their murder by reading this pile of shit, their memories will haunt me forever. My mind is still traumatised by the inhuman violation this beast forced on me. One fleeting glimpse of this literary 'tour de force' (sarcasm, for those Sheldons out there that didn't get it) was enough to make me want to punch someone in the neck. This is not a fluke folks, it takes a special kind of talent to be this incompetent. No no no, it must be intentional I think, a farce; no one can possibly ravage the English language with such mindless brutality. I m still convalescing from the wounds received during this unfortunate encounter and I think I need to do my bit for society - buy every single copy of this book and tear them cover to cover, page by page even if it takes me my whole life. Yes, that's my mission and a noble one at that.
No other fellow traveler in the forest of books shall ever have to encounter this vicious monster again, lurking behind the garb of an innocent book cover. The darkness will end one day and i will be there to see it. Amen.