Nice work by a first time author. Paints a very different picture of the IIT every engineer wants to pass out from.
It is a great story about friendship and the good old college days.....may be quite nostalgic for many ;-)
Quite similar to our days in engineering college and the 4 technically torturous years that shaped our lives. Those days can never be forgotten!!!
The writing style is very different and at the same time very simple and clear.
The book is full of one liners and light hearted humour.
A must read for any engineering student and more so for us mechanical engg. guys.
The plot is great and will keep u glued till the very end.
The characters are elegantly developed and it tends to develop a bonding with the readers.
Bhagat’s Hari, Alok and Ryan are a far cry from the nerd that an IIT graduate is widely perceived to be. Here are three young men, who instead of wearing the IIT stamp on their sleeve, feel immensely bogged down by the burden of being there, which translates into studying endlessly and wanting to have fun hopelessly.
And it isn’t just their failing at academics that brings on the misery........
Hari’s excess 20-kg is inversely proportional to his GPA; Alok is burdened as much by books as by overwhelming expectant parents and Ryan’s angst against a boarding school childhood shows up in his hatred of the system.
I wonder if the IIT’s are really as they are potrayed here.......i mean is there really no actual, fruitful research that they do and encourage from their students.
I wonder how much of it is actually pertaining to the authors very own IIT days !!
The book is well worth the price and can be finished in one go.
Synopsis
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 underperformers have a right to live? Can they show that they are not just a five-point-somebody but a five-point-someone?
- Now that his book on IITians is in the bestselling list, first-time author Chetan Bhagat is planning to make a film on the same.