the roaring lion from colombia, gabriel garcia marquez started off with lamenting about one hundred years of solitude but then dragged to kidnappings and nostalgia.
mj hypnotised with thriller but then dozed off being invincible.
maradona showed the world what soccer was in '86 but the world also saw him caught in his own debauchery in '98.
what is it with sudden sparks of creativity?
why is it that they are not able to sustain the energy?
five point someone was an okay read even for a non-academic guy like me. enlightened by the flush of youth with dil chahtha hai, the book was more like a screen-story than an actual novel. the i saw him fall down the path...
i just finished reading his latest novel '2 states' and i regret it. the 'supposed' novel is a mix of ddlj and ek duuje ke liye. a punjabi boy with a tamilian girl with 2 sets of impossible families. just when he feels there needs to be an entertainment quotient, he puts in a pinch of sex.
in all his books, it seems his heroes are the irresistable mephistopheles', who fall into the most cranky situations and come out victorious. phew!!!
let me see how far this guy is going to go, digging into is own history for plots...
