Book Review: The 3 mistakes of my life – Chetan Bhagat

Why [is this post written] ?

1. After so many comments here, I had to read this book and I did !
2. Now, I’m going try and review this book
3. I’ll look forward you your views as this is the first time I’m going to try and review a book.

Who [are the main leads] ?

1. Govind, Ishaan and Omi – three best friends
2. Ali – born with a gift, Vidya – a heroin..
3. Bitto Mama – the villon

Where [is the story based..locations] ?

1. Ahmedabad – Gujarat
2. Australia
3. Mumbai, London et. al

What [does the story revolve around] ?

1. 3 best Friends start a business – a Cricket shop..yeah, they are die heart cricket fans
2. A boy called Ali who is a born genius in Cricket..change their life
3. Political rivalry, Earth Quake, WTO, Godhra riots …and ya, a love story too … all packed in one!

When [does the story take U-Turns] ?

1. Earth Quake
2. a love story..not really a U-turn but no story ends without a romantic angle !
3. Godhra riots

How [is the book] ?

1. A film story .. written solely for mad indian crowd .. I mean it !
2. Full of all masala [Read: Drama, Action, Thrill, Romance et. al] that you find in a block buster Bollywood movie .. and I’ll not be surprised if a movie gets released based on this book !
3. Lastly, narration is packed with twists and turns .. You won’t leave the book until you finish reading it !

Oops..looks like even I ended up writing all in 3 points

The 3 mistakes of my life – Chetan Bhagat

While surfing today, I happen to visit Chetan Bhagat’s Website. Yeah, you guessed it right, he is the famous author of two bestsellers “Five point someone – What not to do at IIT!” and “One night @ call Center – The story of the night there was a phone call..from God“.

I have read them both, in fact these were the first two books I read and Five point someone is one of my favourite books!

His third book, titled, ” The 3 Mistakes of my Life – A story of three boys who start a business in Ahmedabad” is out. As I visited his new website, I also read the excerpt of this book. And the interesting part was at the end when it says,

“Want to know what happens next? Get a secret, bonus excerpt, just invite 3 people you are close to in your life to visit this site.”

Just out of curiosity, I did fill that up and got an email with the link to the bonus excerpt which said

“Bonus Excerpt of “The 3 mistakes of my life”

P.S.: Do not refresh this page or close this window. You have to read this bonus excerpt in one session within half an hour.”

I must say, cool way to market and get more people on the site to visit and read

Interestingly, even Chetan Bhagat has started blogging and no points for guessing, just like Amitabh Bachchan’s blog, his blog is also done using wordpress! Looks like every body is getting hooked on to blogging and wordpress!

I am definitely going to read this book soon, have you read it?

Update : I’v finished reading this book and have posted the review of this book here..

iRead on Orkut!

Facebook already had it, now Orkut adds it too!

I am talking about iRead, an application which was available on Facebook is now going to be offered on Orkut as well. You can read the official announcement here: orkut Blog: App Highlight: iRead

But the question is was it needed on Orkut? according to me, the answer is yes.

Orkut and Facebook both are the most popular social networks. Many do like all the various Apps on Facebook while others like me find it really crowded by all the apps.

But application like iRead is much needed for a social network. And looking at Orkut which is not really cluttered with lots of Apps [hope it remains so always ], iRead is a much needed and most welcome application!

What do u think?

PS: have you tried Shelfari [social network of books readers!] ?