Jun 22, 2013 10:10 PM
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I just fail to understand the hype and hoopla hovering around the so called archetypal creation of excellence, the Shiva Trilogy, I agree Amish has the potential to create an aura of arcane mesmerism with his verbose style and captivating novelty. But there ends the story.
Why do we read a book of fiction? Entertainment? Time pass? Or just for enrichment of your literary satiation? And when one just flips the pages, just for the heck of it, paying no interest in its contents and coverage, rather mechanically, then it implies that the book failed to carry the reader into the pages, where the soul of the book converses directly with him.
Doing something differently, standing apart in the crowd, making oneself loud and clear, oft attracts many a man. Why? Inherent craving for novelty. Yes, here the work is obviously archetypal, or sui generis, carving out a niche of its own in todays flamboyant fiction, but lacks in charisma the world best sellers owe us. Iam sceptical when I feel this novelty alone will not be sufficient to moisten the parched throats of our intelligenstia, with the manna of uninhibited entertainment? Sorry. , it was rather a prosaic, drab and uneventful narration of an adapted epic retold with a tinge of modernism, which pops out with all gaiety ( pun intended) when the characters speak about antoxidants and free radicals astounding an average reader who is infact flabbergasted finding a tribal equipped to launch the Agni missile from a wirelessly operated electronic gizmo Wrapped around his wrist!
Not to elaborate much, the book(s) do not promise you the sky when you shell out your hard earned fiver. Finally, what makes a book a success is not its quality alone, but how the media responds in the first instance, and then , if lady luck smiles, ahoy! It assumes an insidious entourage looping the sweet note again and again!
