Guy Down The Street

When someone in your close friends/acquaintances circle writes a book, there is a desire to read it that comes from beyond just politeness and desire to further know the person. It somehow also comes from how the common circumstances have shaped the person.

When I first heard about Above Average, from my good friend Vaibhav Sinha, he made it quite a point not to build the hype up. That was a pretty good thing, because the book would otherwise fall a bit short. When I read the book, my main concern was whether Amitabha Bagchi has exhausted all the experiences of the 6 years of early adulthood in writing the book. It is not entirely clear to me whether the book is fiction or if it is non-fiction. Certainly, the author has made some attempts to change the names of the characters etc, but for anyone who knows the relevant people, the mapping jumps out. For example, Darrell appears to be Paul Benjamin. I can think of a few other mappings too, but am holding back on disclosing that.

Every single person can write at least one book – the story of their life. Question is, can they write another? If they can, they become writers; if not, that is fine too.

Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at 10:55 pm in literature, review   |  RSS feed |  Respond  |  Trackback URL