I immediately rushed to the railway station at Margoa and got into the train at the blow of the whistle . When I got to my seat I found 3 girls already sitting in my row of seats. I pulled out my ticket and said '59 is my seat number' the girl in blue tops immediately moved a bit and offered some space beside her. I immediately pulled out "the dork" out of my bag.
The first one hour was a breeze, I had completed about 100 pages. The Dufrense, Vergese a.k.a Einstein, Gowri, Vineet, Jenson, Tony got into me totally. Here a few aspects/parts of the book which I found intrestin:
1. The style of writing was simple and lucid.The monologues which the protagonist "Einstein" has with himself is crafted in a very subtle way . Not to mention the conversations he has with his own diary and bid's it good nights' and goodbyes' at the end of everyday.
2. The author has ensured that the indian flavor is maintained through out the book. A few of the instances which I really enjoyed were when Einstein describes Gowri to beautiful the Nandita Das way and by display of varied emotions by Vergese when a short skirted woman sits beside his desk at office and how he stocks the redbull cans in his bag assuming that it was office which was going to be billed for this.
3. The protagonist is quite 'quick witted'. The part where Einstein walks to the interviewer / Partner of Dufrense and places his hand to see whether he is alive made me fall of the chair. I was also laughing my ass off when Einstein convinces the CEO of the company, for which Dufrense was the consultant, to build a memoir for "Hip-Hopper" made fully of ball-bearings to cover up his goof up on EOQ based ordering . The rating system he uses to rate various things also brought smile to my face
4.The Author has ensured that he has made conscious use of the cuss words and does not ovedoze the reader. This is a welcome change from the style adopted by latest gen of Indian authors, especially a few female authors, who use too many cuzz words which leaves the reader with a sour taste.
5. The book flows like a river, it does not get struck over a single particular plot or character. Its just like a rajini movie from begininng to the end errr may be till last 10 pages or so. Yes the last interview soon was drab and too irritating. I felt that Einstein was acting too weird and stupid there. The interview scene could have been crafted in a much better way and for a person like Einstein, the interview was a let down. The Interviewer from CNBC was also as dull as Sagrika Ghose in her questions.
In short the book was a very light, feel good book. I wouldn't call it paisa vasool because i completed it in flat 2.5 hours and I paid Rs. 200 , so the per page per second cost works out to .... err you can do the math! And this book also had an opportunity cost - by the time I finished the book the girl with the blue top( who was sitting next to me) had gone to sleep at the upper berth, fully covered in a Kashmiri Shawl.
I have been following Sidin on twitter for quite sometime and has always been wanting to lay my hands on this "Dork" for a while. But what better time than to read it on a train journey from Goa to Bangalore with rains singing a lullaby !
