I hate books… the good ones.

I hate books! Specifically, I hate good books.

I hate the way some authors who write amazing tales give their novels Girl amazing story-lines and then just leave out the epilogue! What did I do that made you curse me to carry on with the burden of the characters? How do I know what happened to them? How do I stop looking for them in crowded streets? How do I stop wondering if that lonely lady at the coffee shop is the one from your story? How do I stop wondering when it rains if his old house still leaks?

I want to get out of your novel Siddharth Sanghvi. Help!

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15 responses to “I hate books… the good ones.”

Shruthi Ranganath Iyer

May 12, 2015 at 4:21 pm

He is that good eh? I had not heard of him till this. Ecopy of physical book? Share?

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1. Jithin V Mohan
  
  May 12, 2015 at 6:43 pm
  
  Oh! He is he is!
  I don’t have an e-copy. But trust me, this is a book you would want to read at a lonely cafe in Gokarna with some warm coffee and some cheese sandwich or something while watching it rain.
  
  He hasn’t ~~written much~~ published much. He wrote two novels that won a dozen or so international awards and then he decided not to write. But if you read his novels you can see lot of parallels with many of his own characters.
  
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  1. Shruthi Ranganath Iyer
    
    May 12, 2015 at 11:27 pm
    
    Damn. We must write more. Period. Oh
    
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  2. Shruthi Ranganath Iyer
    
    May 12, 2015 at 11:28 pm
    
    Ah okay. So I’m going figure out this one. I saw he is from Mumbai and all. I’ll put this in my list of 50 books to read this year!
    
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    1. Jithin V Mohan
      
      May 13, 2015 at 12:42 pm
      
      Put it somewhere on top I beg.
      
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      1. Shruthi Ranganath Iyer
        
        May 14, 2015 at 2:46 am
        
        Done! 🙂
        
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Shruthi Ranganath Iyer

May 12, 2015 at 4:22 pm

Also, welcome back after 9 months. Be my accountability buddy to blog 🙂

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1. Jithin V Mohan
  
  May 12, 2015 at 6:45 pm
  
  BTW, this is just cross-posting old posts from Infyblogs
  
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vidyaaranikkal

May 12, 2015 at 4:24 pm

Siddharth Sanghvi – I have heard you talk about his works. Ordering ‘the last song of the dusk’ soon.
BTW, Have you read ‘Fault in our stars’?

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1. Jithin V Mohan
  
  May 12, 2015 at 6:43 pm
  
  No I haven’t. I’ve seen that pic you shared in our Biblioholics Anonymous group though.
  
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  1. vidyaaranikkal
    
    May 12, 2015 at 10:34 pm
    
    In this novel, protagonists go in search of a novelist to find about the ‘life-after-novel’ of characters in his book (now, that’s not much of a spoiler, let me say).
    And yeah, that is the problem with pain, it demands to be felt.
    
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2. Shruthi Ranganath Iyer
  
  May 12, 2015 at 11:29 pm
  
  Isnt FIOS like a teenage romance thing?
  
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  1. vidyaaranikkal
    
    May 14, 2015 at 9:22 am
    
    Shruthi, it is! I remembered it because in that story, protagonists go in search of an author to know what happened to characters after his novel.
    
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Hrishi | Stultus

May 12, 2015 at 4:36 pm

Oh, even I want help to get out of that book

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1. Jithin V Mohan
  
  May 12, 2015 at 6:44 pm
  
  Help me if you get out first.
  
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