Few Good Books Read

It is rightly said that in Books One Finds a House of Gold

• One night at Call Centre - ByChetan Bhagat (*****)
  It is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat and first published in 2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees working in Connexions call center in the Delhi suburb of Gurgaon in Haryana. It is filled with a lot of drama with unpleasant things happening to all of the leading characters. The story takes a dramatic and decisive turn when they get a phone call from God.
  
• Five Point Someone - By Chetan Bhagat (*****)
  The novel is set in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in the period 1991 to 1995. It is about the adventures of three mechanical engineering students (and friends), Hari Kumar (the narrator), Ryan Oberoi, and Alok Gupta, who fail to cope with the cruel grading system of the IITs and come to be known as five pointers due to their perennially low 5.something GPA's.The book is narrated in the first person by Hari, with some small passages by his friends Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by Hari's girlfriend Neha Cherian. It deals with the lives of the three friends whose elation on making it to one of the best engineering colleges in India is quickly deflated by the rigor and monotony of academic work. Most of the book deals with the numerous attempts by the trio to cope with and/or beat the system as well as Hari's fling with Neha who just happens to be the daughter of Prof. Cherian, the sadistic head of the Mechanical Engineering Department.
  
• Men are From Mars and Women are From Venus - By John Gray
  Book offering many suggestions for improving husband-wife relationships by understanding the communication style and emotional needs of the opposite sex. An example of the theories it offers is that women complain about problems because they want their problems to be acknowledged, while men complain about problems because they are asking for solutions. Other concepts in the book are the difference between women and men's point systems and how they react under stress.
  
• Rich Dad versus Poor Dad - By Robert Kiyosaki
  Related to Financial Education - Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert T. Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective from two very different influences—his two fathers. One father (Robert's real father) was a highly educated man but fiscally poor. The other father was the father of Robert's best friend—that Dad was an eighth-grade dropout who became a self-made multimillionaire.

• You Can win - By Shiv Khera (*******)
  SHIV Khera's You can win is a step-by-step tool for `top achievers'. The secret is out on the cover page of the book: ``Winners don't do different things. They do things differently.'' Here are more tips from Khera:
  
  * We are born with five senses. Successful people have a sixth sense -- common sense.
  
  * Sympathy is, ``I understand how you feel.'' Empathy is, ``I feel how you feel.''
  
• Love Story - By Eric Seagal
  Jenny's character wins your heart as she unsuccessfully tries to thaw the relations between Oliver and his father, how she spurs Oliver on (in law school studies, his hockey games) and so many more moments. Oliver himself is so endearing and likeable that you can't stop laughing when he actually convinces Jenny to name their would-be son, Bozo
  
• Anything for u Ma’am - By Tushar Raheja (*****)
  About a 4th year B Tech student of IIT Delhi. The book is sub titled:"An IITians Love story" and that's all that occupies our hero Tejas Narula for 274 pages. How to somehow bunk the annual Industrial Tour and sneak off to meet his lady love in Chennai.
  
• Please Mom ! It's my life - By Dr. Jaideep Singh Chadha
  A Book For Teenagers Who Think They Know Everything. For some inexplicable reason, puberty and adolescence produces a streak in children which automatically closes their eyes and ears to what their parents want them to see and hear. However, these two organs open wide when their friends say something. It is really funny.