Title: I never thought I could fall in Love
Author: Chanchaldeep Singh Sandhu
Publisher:Penguin(India)
Publisher:Penguin(India)
Price: INR 99
I picked up Chanchaldeep
Singh Sandhu’s ‘I never thought I could fall in Love’ published by
Penguin(India) expecting it to be a fun,breezy read.The front cover looked
somewhat attractive(yes,I do have a fetish for lean,waxed female legs)and a
witty desi campus novel was what I was looking for after a long,tiring day of
work.A good 140 minutes and 156 odd pages later, I realized what I had laid
hands on was nothing but a worthless addition to the list of wannabe ‘national
best sellers’ from yet another MBA graduate.
For those of you who still
wish to know what the book is all about,here is the plot(?) summary.
Ronnie(Romil Khanna) is
the campus playboy who can bed any hot chick in the campus if he wishes.A
couple of ‘sex scenes’ later he finds his true love(Monica) and desperately
wants her to reciprocate his feelings.Half a dozen supposedly funny sequences
occur in between(I din’t find any of them remotely funny)and all zz well in the
end.
With a predictable story
line,un inspiring characters and a bland narrative(often marred by grammatical
errors and dumb one-liners)the book has nothing going it’s way.Even the sex
scenes in the book look forced and have been written in an un imaginative and
boring manner.I was often wondering why Penguin decided to publish this book at
all.I seriously hope that the author doesn’t come up with more similar stuff in
the near future. No one expects literary stuff from a book titled ‘I never
thought I could fall in love’.But when it fails to deliver what it had offered,what will you do?
Bottom Line/Final
Verdict: 1/5 (Trash).Re-read Bhagat’s
‘Five Point Someone’ instead!
Ps- This is not the kind
of book which is worthy of a review. I bought this book misled by the couple of
‘positive reviews’ for this book in the internet.I don’t want you people to make
the same mistake I made.
-reviewed by nikhimenon
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