Read For Free Im Not Twenty Four...Ive Been Nineteen For Five Years... Narrated By Sachin Garg Issued As Hardbound

i first stated with this book i dint like it much I had different thoughts about this book in mind I cannot say it was a very good story but i must say writer made every effort to make it interestingI must say first half was very horrifying when she was working in safety department and i was almost into the thoughts about should i read this book or not i never imagined so much violence but after that story took a new turn It dint go the way i predicted It was easy going novel but I felt some thing was missing in the ending Can you imagine a point in your life where you're finishing in top grade B school but you are placed in accident casualties department in a steel plant somewhere in remote Toranganallu instead of itz corporate for you are mistaken as a guy for your unisexual name Can you imagine your very first work is to inform someone's mother that her son who is justhas expired in heart attack Can you imagine the turmoil in you when your only best friendcrush in your office falls into the furnace of boiling steel adding to the carbon content of steel in furnace while your duty is to weep inside and inform his death to his family Can you imagine a point where you are falling in love with someone who is a mere wanderer changes his countryidentitylife style everydays and disappears If not travel with Soumiya Mallaya Shubro to Toranganallu Lala Steel plant and just live these moments Gripping Explains life as it is meant to be in every paragraph Well Luking at the title don't expect a triangular luv story or a yash chopra romantic tale as i did This book is seriously different Seriously a page turner Watta Book I realized that i was in pageonly when my landline bell rang I was so tangled into the story line There was no logic flaws the story was so believable Here you've got no particular protagonist for all the three are given eual importance no twistturns no trace of romance but still you want to finish it no matter what work you've left behindSoumiya A girl by looks man by thoughts In many a pages I found myself in her You hav to be matured to know how intense she is But too much drama in justifying Shubro's character This guy is that wanderer who never lives in a country for thandays but falls for Sowmiya by destiny P Practical sensible appreciable work from Sachin for he portrays human emotions as they're meant to be PS A must read for bookworms If this is not a national best seller it means that whole nation has gone nuts SaumyaA unisexual nameThis is the basis of Sachin Gargs “I am not twenty four Ive been nineteen for six years”I really loved the plot I was able to relate to the dilemma of the protagonist After all my name is also unisexual Satya I have seen surprised faces when they come to know that Satya is a girl And not a boySaumya is a MBA fresher who is placed in a dream job She feels excited and shops relentlessly As soon as she lands on her first job she and her colleagues as well realizes that the profile is designed to suit a man Her job drains her emotionallyShe decides to uit the job Yet she feels bad to admit her failure The dilemma of her mindset is beautifully captured by the authorThe story takes a U turn on the introduction of Shubro He is portrayed as a hippie who is least bothered about life and relationships He sleeps with beautiful ladies Stays at exotic places But only for a tenure ofdaysSaumya gets swayed off her feet by his looks And hey Mere looks This aspect takes her from a twenty four years old lady to a nineteen years old girlThe story moves rather slowly You start understanding characters You realize that Saumya represents todays breed of girls a girl by looks but a man by thoughts And Shubro comes out as a playboy interested in doing social workTowards the end all the characters become stark white all the grey patches in Shubros character is erased And all ends wellBut waitI loved the book as it took off I wanted to read about how Saumya would handle the difficult situations I wanted to know how she would face difficulties and come out successfully I wanted her to be the Gen Next kind of a girl But she was as confused as any other girl would be She was scared Yet she was determined though she was unsure of what the determination was about I loved Saumya in shortHowever as the story progressed the focus shifted from Saumya to Shubro The author was struggling to justify Shubro More drama was added in the name of flashback In short I loved the book because a male author has beautifully captured a females mindset and has done a commendable job His narrative is crisp and grippingI hated because I did not understand why all the people we meet should be very good They can be bad also right The justification of Shubros character was too much of drama The story moved away from the plot towards end Saumya became yet another girl who is ready to sacrifice her goals and ambitions for the man of her dreams On the other hand the man just follows his dreams The book could have been better By Sachin Garg Grade BA much talked about bestseller or a famous writers work often forms the starting point of reading fiction for many I am no exception But as you go along as a reader you realize that a likable book need not be a bestseller always And vice versaTrue to that my criterion to choose books changed at certain point of time and I started exploring wider ranges of books Keeping consistent with that I decided to read new Indian authors And Sachin and Durjoy Datta are some of the most famous new Indian writersMore than anything the title lured me and the rest is as belowIm not twenty four Ive been nineteen for five years is a National Bestseller which has received wide spread acclaim because of its uniue distinction that author Sachin Garg has written it from a girls perspective And also for the originality of the story set in a uniue back drop of a village in the middle of nowhereThe book explores what all Saumya goes through when she is thrown from a college in Delhi to a remote village in Northern KarnatakaSaumya is a regular Delhi girl but because her name Saumya is a unisexual name her company messes up her papers and she ends up finding herself in a small villageHere Saumya meets a very interesting spectrum of people like Mallapa the son of the soil who seems to know way too much for his own goodAnd Shubhro who is intrigue personified to say the leastSo how will Saumya struggle through all the changes and challenges rolled into a very small duration Will it be virgin beaches exotic dancers or colourful festivals waiting for her Or will it be blood violent bosses cut limbs and riotsAs you can see the author was cleared the air of any big expectationimpression that one might get after reading the title I personally found it wise and smart to set right expectations about the book As forewarned by the author I was able to feel that the story and the events that unfold are not something that you come across in day to day life Yeah in a way the plot and theories of the book are larger than life kindSaumya Kapoor loves her shopping malls coffee shops and short skirts Until life throws her into a small village in northern Karnataka When a regular job turns into a nightmare Saumya could hardly have imagined she meets violent bosses riots and machines which cut limbs of people Now she has to decide Should she stay or should she runShe is a girl who is always mistaken to be a guy which would give her enough problems in the subseuent events due to her unisexual name She is a MBA graduate who is in her final years attending campus interview She gets a job in Lala steel along with Amit who applies buckets of oil on his head and can never be a good company even in the most unfriendly land After bidding adieu to the academic life that she was never particularly interested in she spends her days blissfully with her friend Vartika shopping in all possible malls in DelhiNaturally you can imaging the shock she must have got when she read her offer letter It says she has been assigned to a location in far off northern Karnataka village called TornagalluShe lands in Tornagallu with her classmate Amit leaving back her close friends the city and the serenity of home There

she meets Malappa a local who joins the company along with her and Amit She is deployed to the safety department where she has to see through the cruelest of accidentsincidents that happen Again the evident misinterpretation as a result of her unisexual name takes the honors in messing up things for herShe meets Shubro who lives on beer and weed and has a Move on Theory that beckons him to not stay for thandays in the same place She you guessed it falls for him And as if that was not enough later in the story Malappa is killed brutally as a result of a tussle with his boss Fed up Saumya resigns her job and starts her notice period ofdays In the meantime Shubro enters her life and decides to stay in Tornagallu for the next ninety days What happens in those three months and who really is Shubro forms the rest of the storyThe author deserves appreciation for the plot and the setting The style of writing is commendable given the fact that the story is written in a girls viewpoint by a guy The effort taken to portray the girls perspective of world is uite visible Saumyas character is well made maybe even a little over the top which was fun to read really Her craze for stilettos and her constant concern with maintaining a good figure are well captured Asish Roa comes across as a boss that one can get only in dreamsBefore I started the novel my expectations were sky high The plot lived to it The writing didntin places The author gave a lot of things but not what I wanted the most I was interested in seeing how Saumya transforms and how a hero is made out of her but in the end someone totally unexpected hogs the limelight To each his own I supposeIt is understandable that the story is larger than life kind but yet how Malappa dies was bit over the top even for fiction Also the theories associated with Shubro made me feel like I was reading science fictionThe third thing I didnt like was the editing Why do authors so often undermine a good editors importance It makes or breaks a book for me Please Mr Sachin handle this cautiously or you may lose out on a lot of readers Even the page uality was mediocreOverall I am not Twenty Four is worth giving a try for some light entertainment It may not leave some lasting impact but has its own charmed by VishnuOriginally reviewed at wwwthe vaultcocc.