Thursday, February 18, 2010

Book Review: Oh Shit.. Not Again!

I love reading books but this is the first time I am reviewing a book. And what a start!
'Oh shit Not Again' is a book not to be missed! And yeah, I seriously mean it.

OSNA is a debut book by Mandar Kokate. The cover says "Mandar kokate is Civil engineer and has graduated from Pravara Rural engineering college, Loni. He is also a diploma holder from Sou. Venutai Chavan poly.Pune. He has done his schooling from Seth Dagduram Katariya High school, Pune. Now he is a full time writer"
As you must have guessed, it is another book from the many wannabe Chetan Bhagats. But in this case, the author really missed the mark, by a wide wide margin! Mandar tries hard to be an author, often by using unnecessarily big words. I often wondered if he was really preparing hard for GRE vocab while writing the book! The writing is crass, with no sentence logic. He starts describing the uninteresting plot in the most mundane way. The jokes (which seemed to be the highlight of the book from the back cover) have been killed by the insipid writing.

Sample these:
Five table are aligned, and mounted with steel glasses. They are to be knocked down with these five artificial balls.
Artificial balls ??? Now I know only 1 type of 'natural' balls !! lol :D :D

All five aunties were forcing the curved white fruit into their mouth.
ughhhh!!!!

"What if someone impedes me from taking them? "
"I was going to come in quest of you! "
Now who talks like this?

the dusty room was transformed into a beautiful leaving.
beautiful leaving?

A fan was running at a high speed, dispersing the large volume of carbon dioxide that was emerging out of the lungs resting behind the fat tummies of the policemen.
How imaginative !!!

Each time she bowed down to pick up an onion, an extremely beautiful, abyssal, thin valley sandwiched between her soft mountains pleased my eyes.
Crass!

Mandar tries hard to spice up the story by filling it with sexual innuendoes. Big boobs aunties, sexy gals, lecherous uncles, horny guys, you find them all. At times, it felt that I was going through some cheap erotic novel. The publication thought it wise not to edit the book in any way. It is full of spelling and grammatical mistakes (yeah!)
Have you ever heard the usage of "teeths"?? lol

To conclude, this is the worst fiction I have read. Think of this book as the "Shaitani Dracula" of the literary world. (If you are wondering what that is, youtube it!)
I suggest you read the book atleast once. Do not buy the book, convince your friend to buy it ;)
And then see the fireworks when he reads it.

P.S - A post after a really really long time.
P.S - I am seriously considering writing a book. If Mandar Kokate can do it, so can I !

4 comments:

CalmRc said...

i actually can't believe that u read dat book ..... i left it aftr reading 30-odd pages ..

CalmRc said...

i actually can't believe that u read dat book ..... i left it aftr reading 30-odd pages ..

diptrix said...

This book seems like a B grade Hindi movie. " Katil Jawani " type.

Rajarshi said...

@ Rishabh
When u get past those 30 pages, you can't leave it... seriously

@ Diptarka
Absolutely it does!!