Sacred Games

Just finished reading this 947 page book "Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra - a far cry from his first book "Red Earth Pouring Rain" which was a huge disappointment. Sacred Games is a page turner for sure but i was not entirely awe-stricken by this magnum opus as much as other magnum opuses which i have read and savoured. Thankfully the narrative does not bore you but what was again disappointing is that the suspense is revealed in the initial few pages itself leaving the rest of the book like a history being told in the slow motion flashback - He has tried to make it like a family saga but he has put in too much irreverent family details in the book. He has taken on the Bombay police force and the political force head on and damned their practices brutally. The story closely resembles many small time and big time goons and newspaper headlines of the past couple of decades from Bombay.

red earth and pouring rain

just finished this first book by vikram chandra - what to say about this one - the narrative was good, therefore i kept on reading, even vowing at one time to finish it come what may - but overall it was a non-story, so to speak - it was part mythological, phantasmogical, cultural, weak parody, part history - all things rolled into one - a nothing kind of book - no story at all - not going anywhere - in short, 669 pages of crap.