Old wine in a new bottle.

Lately I have been going on this reading spree with the ample time that I have while resting at home. It's amazing how all this reading has really helped improved my reading speed which was pretty impressive to begin with! I've finished 7 books within this month itself...And it's only the 18th today!

I was lucky and smart enough to 'invest' in books in advance. I spent a bomb on just book shopping sprees.

I decided I'll buy books by Indian authors for three reasons. They're cheaper than the International ones (sometimes I do look for quantity rather than quality), they're good timepass (read light reading) and lastly coz I feel like I'm helping out folks who had the courage to follow their passion and dreams. At least they put themselves out there and did what they liked.

Of course this new obsession of mine has it's downsides. Like, all of them have THE SAME STORY LINE!!! Seriously folks, we know about Engineering college life thanks to Chetan Bhagat. Yes, he beat you all to it! Not once but bloody three or four times!! All of them that I've read, 'Just like the movies, Of course I love you....till I meet somebody else, All the small things (or something like that)' and God only can remember the rest coz I've chucked them deeeeeeeeeeep into the depths of my bookshelf. I can only read these books once and not again because not only have I predicted what will happen within the first 5 mins of reading it (MUST start skimming through these books beforehand at the store itself...but then defeats the purpose of helping them make a career out of writing! Damn it! Confused!!) there's also nothing interesting in their style of writing that sets one book apart from the rest. Although I must say 'Of course I love you' made me chuckle more than the other books...But the book did nothing to me to write raves about!

I wish one of these fresh out of college students wrote about something APART from how their characters were kaamchors when it came to studying, cheated, lied, were obsessed with sex, flirted, dumped girls, hang out spots, had loser/druggie friends, found a girlfriend who they had to fight a la filmy style to be with and lastly they had no aim in life only to have had things workout for them in the end.

Let's just hope their second books are something other than this done to death plot!!!