Five Point Someone

This book is well known, popular book by Chetan Bhagat. No one cant say this is his first book. Enjoy the review of this book – Hari
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Hari, Ryan And Alok, 3 Students- at one of the most reputed engineering colleges of the country- the Indian Institute Of Technology; 3 pals-ready to stake their careers for one another; and, the 3 with some of the lowest GPA`s – Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat delves you into a non stop, fast pacing and a steady glimpse into the lives of these three youngsters.

Hari has accomplished all that an adolescent always was curious of- from romancing with a professor’s daughter to accompanying her to rail tracks where her deceased brother allegedly lost his life (or took his own). Ryan is the macho man of the three, from introducing his pals to smoking grass at a hide out on the terrace to smuggling alcohol bottles and exciting magazines in the hostel room… he’s the best at it. Studious, hardworking, passing out with an intention to earn for his family- that’s what revolves 24x7, in the mind of Alok, who has a complicate family ranging from an ailing father, to a mother who never stops complaining about their financial woes and her daughters marriage.

Bhagat does not convey the behavioral pattern one must follow at an institute, instead, he tells u about the Don’ts, the Shouldn’t, and the Not`s to be adhered to in a place where careers are made.

Why do you enter an institute when it does not cater to your interest? Why do youngsters’ accomplice one another and slowly loose interest in the subjects being taught? Why do these 1st day 1st benchers end up being the last benchers the entire Semester for the subjects they despise? The answers lie in a common pool of not being let free, of being over pressurized and not knowing that they entered in an institute which was too competitive for their minds and that their capability would have flourished like nothing if a field catering to them was chosen.

It’s too late when they realized they made a wrong decision. But yet the fear of failing in their semester leaves them no other choice but to chalk out Operation Pendulum, a smart way to steal question sets from the professors chamber, but one phone call by Alok destroys it all. An unsuccessful suicide attempt by Alok which gives him a first hand experience of what it means to die, to the uncovering of the love affair between Hari and Professor Cherians daughter, in fact discovered by the Professor himself when he finds his daughter open the door for him with just a bed sheet over her body and her boy friend wearing his (professors) own clothes!!!… hell breaks loose over them. The disciplinary committee makes a chill run over their spines like nothing has ever before…. The worst time of their life awaits them.
There is always a time to improve upon you mistakes, even the phoenix is born all over again from ashes which it had reduced to the last time it burst into flames, so can human beings, so can youngsters….

How four years of their lives change them forever, how it connects them to the institution of a repute, how discipline flows into the lives of brats… Bhagat has carved a fantabulous story by making Hari, Ryan and Alok get a new life at an IIT……..

Also By Chetan Bhagat
One Night At A Call Center- A must read for everyone pursuing a goal in their life. Amazingly unconventional and fantabulous. Just another Big Time Hit by the author .