Huh!!!! back after a long long time. Feels different... both good and bad at the same time.
Now, coming back to the topic. I just finished The Class. About 3 4 days ago. And here are my views on it.
In one word, it was "amazing". I was reading the book for the 2nd or 3rd time and that, more or less, proves my love for it. It is an amazing and beautiful book that grips you and makes you introspect at the same time. I have not come across many books that can claim to do that.
The Class, written by Erich Segal, follows the story of 5 men - Theodore Lambros, Jason Gilbert, Danny Rossi, Andrew Eliot and George Keller - students from the Harvard Class of '58(I think). It is their story, the story of their lives and the players that held a key role in each's. You get to read their journey to the hallowed grounds, the four tumultuous years and the lives thereafter and end with their 25th reunion where they realise that those they had once seen as combatants are really brothers and what they had once prided most in is lost being lost every second - their youth.
There are laughs laughed, tears shed, sacrifices made and losses handled in the pursuit of that what is wanted the most. With each character, the reader is forced to face one more reality in life and am sure each one will find one character they can identify with. Each one of us is searching for something special in life - an identity, a place, some position or a basic need. And the day we get it, we sit back and wonder if it was really worth all that we had been through. The lucky ones get the answer ones while the other kind is left justifying to itself that it really was.
Once I read somewhere, that once in life, you come across a situation, a person, an incident and your reaction to it defines you as a person and this happens with everyone. The sooner you face it the better you will know yourself and steer your life accordingly. Some even pass it by without realising so. This moment comes in the lives of the heroes too. Few lay their lives standing by their beliefs while others compromise on them to achieve what they had set out to. And then there is the laid back hero who observes it all without realising what he means to others.
The book is a sure page-turner where every turn will bring to you a new revelation of human psyche, yours included. Do read it to know the characters and yourself better.
Now, coming back to the topic. I just finished The Class. About 3 4 days ago. And here are my views on it.
In one word, it was "amazing". I was reading the book for the 2nd or 3rd time and that, more or less, proves my love for it. It is an amazing and beautiful book that grips you and makes you introspect at the same time. I have not come across many books that can claim to do that.
The Class, written by Erich Segal, follows the story of 5 men - Theodore Lambros, Jason Gilbert, Danny Rossi, Andrew Eliot and George Keller - students from the Harvard Class of '58(I think). It is their story, the story of their lives and the players that held a key role in each's. You get to read their journey to the hallowed grounds, the four tumultuous years and the lives thereafter and end with their 25th reunion where they realise that those they had once seen as combatants are really brothers and what they had once prided most in is lost being lost every second - their youth.
There are laughs laughed, tears shed, sacrifices made and losses handled in the pursuit of that what is wanted the most. With each character, the reader is forced to face one more reality in life and am sure each one will find one character they can identify with. Each one of us is searching for something special in life - an identity, a place, some position or a basic need. And the day we get it, we sit back and wonder if it was really worth all that we had been through. The lucky ones get the answer ones while the other kind is left justifying to itself that it really was.
Once I read somewhere, that once in life, you come across a situation, a person, an incident and your reaction to it defines you as a person and this happens with everyone. The sooner you face it the better you will know yourself and steer your life accordingly. Some even pass it by without realising so. This moment comes in the lives of the heroes too. Few lay their lives standing by their beliefs while others compromise on them to achieve what they had set out to. And then there is the laid back hero who observes it all without realising what he means to others.
The book is a sure page-turner where every turn will bring to you a new revelation of human psyche, yours included. Do read it to know the characters and yourself better.
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