Book Review - Your’s sarcastically

In a long train journey I did for 28 hrs from Friday evening to Saturday night - Reading ‘Yours Sarcastically’ is one of the activity I did to keep myself occupied besides from enjoying weather, greenery and streams on hills passing by... etc

Yours Sarcastically caught my eye first when I was looking into the books on wheeler's cart at Varanasi station. I remember I read about this book somewhere sometime back and few things came to my mind was it was written by a IIM B graduate about his experience from B school to his first job and finding the girl for him, Immediately I took the book into hands, quickly flipped through pages and read the lines written on the back cover of the book.

It is quite impressive. Hmm... I actually felt very impressive with the content on back cover. As a result I immediately bought the book and started reading once I got into the train. In one hour I completed about 50 pages and already started feeling bored of it. Believe me, the most pathetic thing was trying to read a boring book to avoid looking at other person facing you who hates you to the core and pretends to love you.

Back Cover: is a 'not-so-diplomatic' take on the life of a 20-something person in contemporary India. It is his saucy journey from post graduate education to his experiences in selling mustard hair oil, his marketing stints and his rich experience during his international management consulting experience along the Indo-Nepal border. Some of his professional experiences include: interviewing 60 size zero south Bombay women, negotiating with the right hand man of an underworld don, managing drunken brand managers at corporate off-sites, the extensive preparation done by salespeople for 'surprise' visits by their bosses and the hiring of cheerleaders by a premier consulting firm to turn around their client's fortunes. In his free time, he likes to write movie scripts for C grade movies, transform behenjis to blockbuster babes, visit top brothels in Mumbai and indulge in politics and backbiting.

About the book: On an outline it gives an overview of hero’s life from B school to sustaining himself in the career and finding his girl. The way it is portrayed - I completely got bored as I felt as if I am reading his diary. Basically, book(hero's life) is divided into 3 parts. First two parts talk about his B school life with completely touching the essence on expectations of a guy entering the B school to the final days of recruiting process. The third part is on his early career and getting out of the trauma he had been facing with the rejection on his proposal and managing a horrendous first boss. Finally ends happily by finding his girl who heiress to 1400 crores :)

My opinion: Content in the book is good. Author had shared many of his best experiences which give us an insight into the life's of a B school graduate and his early career. He indeed got good opportunities in his work place, but the way it is portrayed is a bit boring. It lacked the enthusiasm. I had to forcibly complete it due to the above mentioned reason. There is lot and lot of space for improvement. If you have been a part of engineering or B school hostels,  you might easily relate to characters. The narration gets bit twardy at times which made me jump over pages.