Apr 01, 2005 01:44 AM
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(Updated May 06, 2006 02:08 AM)
Hi Friends,
Let me tell you about this book ''Sons of Fortune'' from one of my All Time favorite Author Jeffrey Archer.
I beg to differ from my friends who say that this is a typical bollywood story.
I would request you not to believe on the back page of the book and think that it is a typical Bollywood Story. Bollywood writers can never even dream of coming close to this one. The way Jeff has started, defined, detailed and closed the things.
Even if our Bollywood big shots think and try making a movie on this one - they will fail drastically.
Let me not waste anymore time singing praises about this one.
Lets come straight to the point.
Story starts with the birth of Twins in a Insurance Sales Man's Family and Unfortunate death of a baby of a Millionaire on the same day in the same hospital. Since the millionaires wife already had some mis carriages in the past and this being her last chance to give birth to her baby the nanny changes the dead baby with one of the twins. Nobody discovers the fact and they take it like the second baby didn’t survived.
Story goes on they grow up in their respective families with the usual ups and downs in school, college and professions. From the very start of their schooling days Jeff starts telling the readers that they have the qualities of being leaders so there is no point guessing..... They’ve gotta be the leaders someday.
They don’t meet, till almost the end of the story....
One of them helps the other in some situations.
They do keep a close track of activities of each other’s lives but never meet.
They do fell in love with the same girl (Without meeting each other - Yet)
The best part is when one of them has to defend the other for a crime he never committed, and here starts the bonding between them (its almost at the end).
But let me tell you - its a gripping, captivating and sometimes a bit confusing story, as every chapter is divided in short sections of both the guys, I did got confused sometimes about the identities - who we are talking of right now and than I have to go back to previous two pages and read again.
Its a damn good story, I can assure you that you cannot keep the book back into the rack until you finish it.
Hope you like it too.
Happy Reading.
