I'm Not Twenty Four...I've Been Nineteen For Five Years... (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Can you imagine a point in your life where you're finishing in top grade B-school but you are placed in "accident & casualties department" in a steel plant somewhere in remote Toranganallu instead of itz corporate for you are mistaken as a guy for your unisexual name ?!Can you imagine your very first work is to inform someone's mother that her son, who is just 27, has expired in heart-attack ?!Can you imagine the turmoil in you when your only best-friend/crush in your office falls into the furnace of boiling steel adding to the carbon content of steel in furnace while your duty is to weep inside and inform his death to his family ?! :|Can you imagine a point where you are falling in love with someone who is a mere-wanderer & changes his country/identity/life-style every 90 days and disappears ?!If not, travel with Soumiya, Mallaya & Shubro to Toranganallu Lala Steel plant and just live these moments !!!Gripping. Explains life (as it is meant to be) in every paragraph. Well ! Luking at the title.. don't expect a triangular luv story or a yash-chopra romantic tale as i did ! This book is seriously different ! Seriously a page-turner :)Watta Book ! I realized that i was in page 83 only when my landline-bell rang ! I was so tangled into the story-line ! There was no logic-flaws & the story was so believable !Here you've got no particular protagonist for all the three are given equal importance, no twist/turns & no trace of romance but still you want to finish it no matter what work you've left behind.Soumiya - A girl by looks & man by thoughts (In many-a-pages, I found myself in her) ! You hav to be more matured to know how intense she is !But too much drama in justifying Shubro's character ( This guy is that wanderer who never lives in a country for more than 30 days but falls for Sowmiya by destiny) :P !Practical, sensible & appreciable work from Sachin for he portrays human emotions as they're meant to be !P.S. A must read for bookworms ! If this is not a national best-seller, it means that whole nation has gone nuts ! The book’s tile is an interesting one. Definitely catches the attention of the readers. Going by the cover page you do not expect a lot from it. One would expect it to be another light read novel that you read on a train journey. It Seems fun but not making an everlasting impression. The gist of the story given in the last page also fails to hold you attention for too long. It gives one an impression of an ordinary story. The characters are ones you would meet everyday in your college, canteen, discos and pubs. In the beginning the story is very slow and not catchy enough. Saumya is transferred to a small village in Karnataka because the human resource department thought her to be a boy. Thanks to her unisex name. Along with her are amit from her own institute of management and malappa whom she meets in the township. And no! This is not a love triangle. One would want to give up the book in the beginning. But the story picks up the pace when the character of shubhro walks in. The story again dies in the middle. Towards the end the story gets interesting when saumya and shubro meet once again and spend time together. The end is quite interesting, nothing like one would expect it. The book overall lacks language, style and any skill in writing. Story is the only plus point in the novel. But narration again doesn’t do justice to the story. I would give the books two. But since the story is offbeat and gets you thinking, I can be generous and give it a three.
What do You think about I'm Not Twenty Four...I've Been Nineteen For Five Years... (2000)?
Whoooooo...So new Story, So amazing fatcs, Very near to reality..Thanx @sachin...
—krwcaw01
Different from what I have read yet, from this genre. Likeable.
—koralmatos
I have read one of sachin garg book , its nice romantic story
—LGLaxfreak98
