Mar 22, 2003 11:50 AM
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(Updated Mar 22, 2003 11:50 AM)
Head: Crap…absolute waste of my cells, time and energy!!
Heart:What the hell are you talking of?
Head: Archer’s latest “Sons of Fortune”. What else can actually be given that demented level at present?
Heart:Oh come on, it can’t be that bad.
Head: Actually you are right (for a change). Its not that bad. Its worse.!!
Heart:Now, now. I am sure you are being too hard on the poor guy.
Head: Poor!!!yup poor by imagination, creation and a few brain cells!! Had I been given the rights, I would have had him hanged for writing such crap instead of just giving him 3 year sentence!
Heart:Look, why don’t we start with the conventional way of narration and then decide his fate?
Head: Fair enough! Two brothers- Nat and Fletcher…non-identical twins separated at birth and meet when young.
Heart:Sounds familiar.
Head: Has to. After all it’s the same cock and bull story about kumbh ka mela in our hindi masala stories.
Just when you think, there’s a remote chance of it turning into a novel, Nat comes running to donate pints of blood to his oh-I-am-dying brother!! A perfect hindi film flick. Suneel darshan, sanjay leela, david dhawan, are you all listening? This Archer guy can be a tough competition!
Heart:Hey hey, just a sec, Archer’s my fav. He might have dealt with a gheesa peeta story but I am sure the characterization was perfect.
Head: Characterizations? If that’s what you chose to say it! I shall call it a pure attempt of murder!.. Anyone who reads the book are bound to get tempted by suicide.
Heart:Oye peabrain, you forget he has got an amazing style of writing. Look we had Kane and Abel, Not a penny less.. and so many to count.
Head: I agree with you (for a record note down the time and date). But this time what Archer thought to be a propitious philtre turned out to be a putrid pustule in the literature world.
Heart:Now this is the heights! You have no right to criticize any one that badly.
Head: Oh yeah? Get out of Ram and Rome for once you sickling. A bibliomaniac has every right to state his point.
Heart:You are impossible.
Head: Infact I am much sensible than you.
Heart:Lets not get into our old never ending discussion to who is right
Head: Ok. Lets not get into it. For this time I am dead sure I am right
Heart:No comments.
Head: I would award anyone who has any!
Heart:Oh get lost.
Head: I actually got lost after reading sons of fortune. If you wanna travel into the lost world, go ahead and read it guys. But here’s a warning guys.. any knife, ceiling fan, fork, drug, sedative, et al should not be kept near you while you are in the brave act of reading it least you get tempted to commit suicide!!
