I am a 12-year old boy very fond of reading books. Nowadays, we don’t really get to read, as such. The television and other means of education and knowledge rising up and up, I think books are - one day or the other - going to be "extinct ". Though I read all Rowling and Enid Blyton’s novels, I always feel -- these novels are made-up stories. They do not have any punch which real life stories have. These have nothing to do with real life. I was always wondering how a person could fill up a whole book of 150 or 200 pages only by incidents of life.. Then I realised that there is nothing less in life after this book by the Sudha Murthy, which changed my perspective towards life. It explained me through simple real life incidents to look at life in a way of optimism and only optimism. A great comic sense and a great attitude towards life, makes this legend Sudha Murthy an ideal on whose footsteps success is guaranteed... Anyways, the tenth story, " A man too clever by half " was the best in comedies..