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Campus Cola
Okay, here's a sneak preview of what will amuse you in CAMPUS COLA (aka What You Should Never Do In Medical College). Act hip. Bunk classes. Chase skirts. Dig philosophy. Explore a Zen master's commune. Fail twice. Get rusticated. Have a ball. Irritate profs. Join gang wars. Kill time. Loot a four star hotel. Mark proxies. Neck down alcohol. Organize strikes. Postpone passing out. Question killjoy rules, Romance foreigner babes. Smoke joints. Take a part-time job in an ad agency. Undermine campus harmony. Veer towards chaos. Wonder about God. Xerox-repeat wild schemes. Yack away at the canteen. Zip across to expulsion.
372 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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June 24, 2020
I liked it for its honesty, not so much for its plot and flow.
June 29, 2015
If college campus misadventure is your thing, this book Campus Cola has the right fizz. A fun, breezy read, Campus Cola reads like a diary of an MBBS undergrad. The language is über cool, the jokes are seriously funny. Though there is no big story as a central theme of the book, you'll still find it readable because of the quick pace and the witticisms.
To be honest the first few pages gave me the impression that I was about to read the ranting of a loser. The prologue was morose, and it read like a suicide note. But the opening pages of the first chapter was thankfully upbeat. And as you become a part of the DefComs group, learn the lingo, think their thoughts, you understand that there is more to hostel life than what meets the eye. On second thoughts, this book makes Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone seem like The Grimms' Fairy Tales.
However, I found the spiritual tangent that often took place in the book a bit off putting. I was not ready for the tripe about life, God and all that comes in between. In some places, I even skipped pages because I found it irrelevant and preachy. Yeah, Rammy was living too much in his head.
Would I recommend this book? Yeah, sure. If you are looking for an edge of the seat, cliffhanger book, stay away. But if you are game for some fun read, smart Alec lines, you'll enjoy this book. Hopefully the narrator will not have to take a rebirth in the next book.
To be honest the first few pages gave me the impression that I was about to read the ranting of a loser. The prologue was morose, and it read like a suicide note. But the opening pages of the first chapter was thankfully upbeat. And as you become a part of the DefComs group, learn the lingo, think their thoughts, you understand that there is more to hostel life than what meets the eye. On second thoughts, this book makes Chetan Bhagat's Five Point Someone seem like The Grimms' Fairy Tales.
However, I found the spiritual tangent that often took place in the book a bit off putting. I was not ready for the tripe about life, God and all that comes in between. In some places, I even skipped pages because I found it irrelevant and preachy. Yeah, Rammy was living too much in his head.
Would I recommend this book? Yeah, sure. If you are looking for an edge of the seat, cliffhanger book, stay away. But if you are game for some fun read, smart Alec lines, you'll enjoy this book. Hopefully the narrator will not have to take a rebirth in the next book.
January 5, 2016
The whole book is of nearly 340 pages
Until 300 pages the author almost exclusively talks about their deeds of college life.
Suddenly in the last 40 pages the topic changes to philosophy.
He did a great job of personifying himself as 'Rammy' the guide to 'Hucky', us readers but in the end the book looses it's appeal and gives us mumbo jumbo about the concept of the God which you can find in any normal youth oriented god books.
Until 300 pages the author almost exclusively talks about their deeds of college life.
Suddenly in the last 40 pages the topic changes to philosophy.
He did a great job of personifying himself as 'Rammy' the guide to 'Hucky', us readers but in the end the book looses it's appeal and gives us mumbo jumbo about the concept of the God which you can find in any normal youth oriented god books.
September 17, 2012
My wife loved it, I am not a big fan of the style of this writing. But this is certainly better than the Chetan Bhagat's book on campus.
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