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Unreal Elections (2014)

by C.S. Krishna(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0143423118 (ISBN13: 9780143423119)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Penguin

review 1: Considering all the mind-numbing politicking taking around the General Elections of 2014 ,this book provided a much-needed comic relief. The writing style and diction of the writers is perfect and they also display their layered understanding of many national and international political and non-political issues which is pretty informatory. However ,I feel that the jokes in the book are not as funny as the Unreal Times articles. All in all , a sidesplitting read.
review 2: Unreal elections is a satire focusing on political events leading up to the 2014 Indian general elections. The book is a mix of real events, dramatization of real events and authors' imagination trying to decipher it all.The book swings between being brilliant and good. The satire on the real ... moreevents is spot on - not loud, very witty and full of nuances. The writing style around the real events and their dramatization is very tight as well. Even if you follow The Unreal Times handle on Twitter, the book does not sound repetitive, which tends to be a big problem with the books written by Twitter celebrities. The portrayal of imaginary events and characters, while quite well integrated with the storyline, is probably not as tight as the real ones. Describing these parts, the book tends to veer off track here and there, producing neither laughs nor guffaws. This part however is quite limited - about 15-20% of the narrative.Overall, this is a must read for the bold attempt in this genre. One would think that such a book will tend to cause legal issues for the authors given the nature of the satire - that authors have braved that possibility to be true to their craftsmanship and to their readers itself is a good reason to buy this book.Finally, if you enjoyed the yesteryear Hindi political satire - think Raag Darbari and Shrilal Shukla's other works - good chance you will like this too. less

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