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Five Point Someone
by Chetan Bhagat
Description:
Five Point Someone Is A Story About Three Friends In IIT Who Are Unable To Cope. The Book Starts With A Disclaimer, “This Is Not A Book To Teach You How To Get Into IIT Or Even How To Live In College. In Fact, It Describes How Screwed Up Things Can Get If You Don’t Think Straight.” Three Hostelmates – Alok, Hari And Ryan Get Off To A Bad Start In IIT – They Screw Up The First Class Quiz. And While They Try To Make Amends, Things Only Get Worse. It Takes Them A While To Realize: If You Try And Screw With The IIT System, It Comes Back To Double Screw You. Before They Know It, They Are At The Lowest Echelons Of IIT Society. They Have A Five-Point-Something GPA Out Of Ten, Ranking Near The End Of Their Class. This GPA Is A Tattoo That Will Remain With Them, And Come In The Way Of Anything Else That Matters – Their Friendship, Their Future, Their Love Life. While The World Expects Iitians To Conquer The World, These Guys Are Struggling To Survive. Will They Make It? Do Under Performers Have A Right To Live? Can They Show That They Are Not Just A Five-Point-Somebody But A Five-Point-Someone?
About The Author
Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker, known for his English-language dramedy novels about young urban middle-class Indians.
A noted public intellectual, Bhagat also writes for columns about youth, career development and current affairs for The Times of India (in English) and Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi).
Bhagat’s novels have sold over seven million copies. In 2008, The New York Times cited Bhagat as “the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history”.
Bhagat’s screenwriting efforts have included the dramedies Kai Po Che! (2013), 2 States (2014) and the action-superhero movie Kick (2015). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 59th Filmfare Awards in January 2014.Chetan Bhagat is the author of bestselling novels Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), What Young India Wants (2012) (speeches and columns), Half Girlfriend (2014) and Making India Awesome (2015). All the books have remained bestsellers since their release and four have inspired Bollywood films (including the hit films 3 Idiots, Kai Po Che!, 2 States and Hello). In 2008, The New York Times cited Bhagat as “the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history”. Time magazine named him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Skryf Review
“Good Read.” The story is about the college days of three students from IIT Delhi. Indian Institute of Technology or IIT is one of the premier institutes for Engineering and science in India. Let’s introduced you about the story. There were the three characters in the story. The handsome, rich and brilliant, Ryan who is disillusioned with IIT system of education. The poor Alok who has a crippled father and a unmarried sister to support. The fat and not-so-bright, Hari who is the narrator of the story. The story describes the ups and downs of their college life. Their low scores, the way they are perceived by students and professors on the account of their scores, their drinking habit, their strategy to beat the system and finally being caught stealing from their HODs cabin. What I liked about the book is that it does not try to justify or give excuses for all the wrong doings of the protagonist. They are far less than perfect people, yet you come to like them and therein I think, lies the greatness of the Chetan bhagat.