Chetan Bhagat is back with his third book, ‘The 3 mistakes of my life’. Well! I personally do not believe in reading fictions but when it is by Chetan, the IIT, IIM guy, I too don’t want to give it a miss. His first book, Five Point Someone, is the best fiction I have read ever. Trust me, even if you belong to non fiction and biographies gang like me , break your rules and standard once to spare four hours for , ‘Five Point Someone’ and who knows you may never turn back to non fictions.

It is not that I had never read non fictions. I too had my share of non – fictions and romantic love stories during my plus two and college days but by the time I had read some 15-20 novels of the very beloved and most wanted author, Mr. Seldon (Sidney), it was sounding a bit monotonous. When you read SS, one thing which is common to his novel is that the protagonist is always female and the theme is almost same in all his books except a few like ‘Tell me your dreams’ which talks about double personality. These are my personal views and I hope Late Mr. Seldon takes it in the right spirit.

Coming back to Chetan, one fine evening I was completely bugged up with studies as exams were knocking at the door and looking for a break of an hour. I borrowed this book from one of my hostel mates which had become famous by then and Started going through the back cover and preface of it. The preface was so mesmerizing that I could not resist myself from reading the book and it took me little less than four hours to reach the last page. It was a great reading but by the time I had read the book, I realized the cost of doing right thing at the wrong time. Some silly things done at the wrong time make the mischief more interesting but thankfully I was able to manage with studies even though I spent four hours for something which was not meant at that time. ‘Five Point Someone’ is all about college life of an IITian, of how he makes his college days full of fun and ends up landing in the five pointers gang which is considered to be under performing group. Since, the book is about an IITian, this makes it more interesting because I have a special fascination for this talent group. But make sure that you don’t take any inspiration from this book as it is a fiction and not a reality and I keep saying this to my little IITian brother – “Hey! I don’t want to see you in Chetan’s Five Pointers gang.”

His first book was so interesting and captivating that I was dying to read the second book even though my exams were just a week away. But this time, I did not wanted to take any chances and bought his second book, ‘One Night @ the Call Centre’ only after exams. My expectations were very high and but obvious I was expecting it to be better than 5.Someone but frankly speaking his first book remains a benchmark till date.

Although I have completely given up reading non fictions but I don’t want to deprive myself of the pleasure of reading Chetan’s non fiction. His third book, ‘The 3 mistakes of my life’ will be released on May 8th in Mumbai and I am anxiously waiting to enjoy the pleasure. I am pretty sure that this one will definitely live up to the expectations.

Happy selling to Chetan and happy reading to readers!!

(The views expressed are personal.)

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