Friday, March 12, 2010

What Nobody Ever Told You

Finally I finished a novel after really long time. Ignoring the fact that it was 160 pages only, the name goes ‘What nobody ever told you’ by GaneshKumar. I never heard about it neither was it in news or popular in my friends, I just went to landmark was attracted by the title and something of it being a Second Edition print compelled me to buy it. I had recently finished all my exams and was reading ‘Devil wears parada’ I had plans to go home so I decided to read this new small novel on the way after my current book. I actually didn’t finish my current book moreover I just kept it at home and came. I got a magazine also in train ‘Frozen Thoughts’ (which I am dying to read since I heard about it). I read nothing in train not a single page or an article also. Anyways finally I was back in Chennai and as my project was over I had optimum free time. Tried to sleep a lot but can’t sleep so much. Tried to watch movies but multiplexes here are over booked and laptop is really boring. Was already bored of shopping so tried to summa roam around but too sunny for it. Finally settled for novel and as recently I m not reading novels at my regular pace I started with the smallest I had. This novel is not a story book neither is it a moral book it doesn’t promise to change your thinking it won’t guide you to a positive approach- It is a book to tell you people think differently. It has 12 small chapters each related to our everyday things like credit cards girlfriends chain forwards cricket smoking-attractive na.You will learn nothing from it but you might start seeing things differently. Frankly people I m very pessimistic person but somewhere in my head something was triggered after I finished the book I realized everything everyone around is not negative, not everything happens for my discomfort. I kept cribbing cause someone sometime told God didn’t give you this cause he reserved something better than this for you and I haven’t got anything better till now, but truly the not so better things according to me are best things in someone else’s eyes –this I realized only after reading this book. Funny part is nowhere in the book it says this I just realized it feels like the mind window opened- thinking out of the box. My suggestion would be read it once may be you actually like one of the Kuttappan’s strange ideas.

I want to quote something from the book here (not word by word but the gist) –

Past cannot be changed: Is it

A particular day I have great day in office I get incentive news and all. You ask me how was your day, my reply - Thank god I joined this company such an awesome company I m having great time.

Another day I had horrible time in office my boss doesn’t approve my leave. You ask me how was your day, my reply – Why the hell I joined this company so far from my house can’t even go home.

So can you change your past?????

You think about that I am going to read Frozen thoughts

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks shreya for reading my book. Hope you will spread the word.

Ganesh B