Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT
CHETAN BHAGAT
It was kind of creepy. Like a hospital was
suddenly asked to pack up and move. Instruments, catheters, drips and a medicine box
surrounded two beds. There was hardly any space for me and Ryan to stand even as Alok
got to sprawl out. I guess with thirteen fractures you kind of deserve a bed. The sheets were
originally white, which was hard to tell now as Alok’s blood covered every square inch of
them. Alok lay there unrecognizable, his eyeballs rolled up and his tongue collapsed outside
his mouth like an old man without dentures. Four front teeth gone, the doctor later told us.
His limbs were motionless, just like his father’s right side, the right knee bent in a way
that would make you think Alok was boneless. He was still, and if I had to bet my money,
I’d have said he was dead.
“If Alok makes it through this, I will write a book about our crazy days. I really will,” I
swore. It is the kind of absurd promise you make to yourself when you are seriously messed
up in the head and you haven’t slept for fifty hours straight…....
BEFORE I REALLY BEGIN THIS BOOK, LET ME FIRST TELL you what this book is not. It is not a guide on how to live through college. On the contrary, it is probably an example of how screwed up your college years can get if you don’t think straight. But then this is my take on it, you’re free to agree or disagree. I expect Ryan and Alok, psychos both of them, will probably kill me after this but I don’t really care. I mean, if they wanted their version out there, they could have written one themselves. But Alok cannot write for nuts, and Ryan, even though he could really do whatever he wants, is too lazy to put his bum to the chair and type. So stuff it boys – it is my story, I am the one writing it and I get to tell it the way I want it.
BEFORE I REALLY BEGIN THIS BOOK, LET ME FIRST TELL you what this book is not. It is not a guide on how to live through college. On the contrary, it is probably an example of how screwed up your college years can get if you don’t think straight. But then this is my take on it, you’re free to agree or disagree. I expect Ryan and Alok, psychos both of them, will probably kill me after this but I don’t really care. I mean, if they wanted their version out there, they could have written one themselves. But Alok cannot write for nuts, and Ryan, even though he could really do whatever he wants, is too lazy to put his bum to the chair and type. So stuff it boys – it is my story, I am the one writing it and I get to tell it the way I want it.
Author(s)
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CHETAN BHAGAT
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Place of Publication
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New Delhi, India
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Publisher
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Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
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Publication year
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2004
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Total pages
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148
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Language
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English
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