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God Save The Dork: The Incredible International Adventures Of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese (Dork Trilogy, #2) (2011)

by Sidin Vadukut(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0143414100 (ISBN13: 9780143414100)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Penguin Books India

review 1: A disappointment.I'll say this for Sidin. He's a brave, brave man.He's one of India's finest humour writers, with an instantly recognizable style, which is not something very easy to achieve. And yet, when he came out with a book, it was written as someone else (Robin Varghese). He deliberately HAD to be mediocre, he HAD to be annoying, he HAD to curtail his usual brilliance in order to bring out the character in the first person. And since your first novel is what many people are going to judge you by, that is a brave, brave thing to do.Which is why I loved Dork 1. It wasn't Sidin as we knew him on Whatay, but it was Sidin in terms of the humour. The character. It was fresh. And at one point, I laughed out loud.I was excited about Dork 2.Unfortunately, the book disappoint... mores. Robin's character was endearing in Book 1 but just seems out-and-out annoying here. The storyline is predictable - guy builds himself up in pomposity before crashing, only to be rescued by sheer luck at the end. It's not a bad thing, having a predictable formula (heck, Wodehouse did it for 90 books), but the story stops being gripping at a few points. Which is sad, because the hype around the book was huge and the Author's Note was a riot (coming to think of it, probably the funniest thing in the book).It's also unpardonable to have typos. Putting in a 'loose' for 'lose' is something you might expect on a n00b starting on Blogger, but not from one of India's best bloggers and editors at Penguin India. Shocking. I spotted at least three errors.Not that it's money badly spent. The narrative is a refreshingly different style (form of diary entries), there are certain gems (Robin dissing a person who wants to develop a social network where people tell each other what they do in 140 characters).It's going to be interesting what Vadukut churns out in the next book of the trilogy - it has to be along the same lines, and it'll be challenging keeping the fatigue in mind. (Later update: Dork 3 was MUCH better)I maintain that Sidin is one of India's funniest writers, and the stuff he puts up on Cricinfo is probably the funniest stuff on the Indian interwebz today, and it's highly recommended you check that stuff out before forming your opinion of him as a writer on the basis of this book alone.
review 2: The book has this unusual love-for-diary style, which is rather disappointing in the long run, as you start getting away as a reader(all the focus is on the diary). The book lacks content, in a sense, it does not elaborate anything except some basic Consult-Gyan(which is nothing but playing with words). It stands way below on standards to be a global-seller, forget a best seller. He is supposed to be from IIM A right? and He mentions "Credit Default swaps" as "Credit Default Something"! Why dear? You targeting some school audience kya? I cant believe why this guy has no respect for his Girl Friend? And if he really doesn't have any, why the heck is carrying along? (Come one man, get rid of that gal, or at least stop writing about your failed relationship)The guy proudly refers his MBA past with IIM and engineering past with some Engineering College? Why dude? NIT isn't a brand? Why cant you tag NIT even once? Sir, I have read your columns in Livemint, the food-connoisseur things you write about, they do have some standard but your book is quite a drag I should apprehend. Please work on your style, useless euphemism, 'aiyyo'... and such typical south comments and do refer to NIT whenever you talk about engineering/scientific jargon (I hope you weren't a middle east quota guy, your history says you spend a lot of time at middle east in your teen days).Sorry for being blunt.Regards, Parker. less

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