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Once Upon A Time
Loving is never easy! No, not loving your girlfriend. That’s easy. But loving your dreams when you have nothing and are losing from everywhere. One moment, everything seems to be going so good, so apt, so right. Another, everything vanishes into thin air. And that, my friend, is horrifying! A sassy girlfriend, a couple of million bucks, abundance of fame and all of a sudden your alarm rings. Your friend comes to you saying that a person from your family has been trafficked and years later, you have everything you dreamed of and you even walk past that long-lost trafficked little brother of yours, only failing to recognize him. Life is exciting but brutal. What you want is not what happens. Fun We all still dare to dream!
269 pages, Paperback
Published September 13, 2017
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About the author
Saurav Chhawchharia
3 books5 followersSaurav Chhawchharia is currently one of the youngest authors of India. 18 years old and based in Rajasthan, he is a keen observer of life and loves catching subtle incidents from peoples’ lives which portray its depth and essence. Besides writing, he loves reading, travelling and daydreaming.
To get in touch with him, drop him a message on Instagram (@iamsauravc), Facebook (@iamsauravc) or write him an e-mail (iamsauravc@gmail.com)
To get in touch with him, drop him a message on Instagram (@iamsauravc), Facebook (@iamsauravc) or write him an e-mail (iamsauravc@gmail.com)
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October 3, 2018
Once Upon A Time is a beautiful story focusing on lifestyle of slum dwellers. It also talks about the struggles of aspiring writers.
Although the concepts were nice the story could have been made into two different stories instead of one.
There were stories within these two major stories. Grandmother's stories as well as the story of two different novels by two different characters. Initially I thought that the writer won't be able to do justice to the plot, but I must say that the plot was very clear and the stories were distinguishable.
There were some characters who were introduced but vanished suddenly and entered again later with no clear background about their time during that period.
It was difficult to keep an eye on the activities of each character.
At some places I felt like the thoughts of the writer were not organised. A very haphazard description of events.
There various incidents which proves the ignorance of the writer.
At one place a character "receives a mail" (an intent letter) and only a few sentences later he is so excited that he starts dancing "holding the letter in his hands".
At another place the same character meets an accident and a friend of his describes the accident to another friend with extreme details about how "the truck driver pressed clutch with accelerator which led to the accident". (If my friend was involved in an accident THAT I DIDN'T WITNESS MYSELF, I would just say that the truck driver was driving blindly and not whether the driver was pressing the break or the clutch.)
It is not a story where you expect a happy or a conclusive ending. You are just a viewer of the lives of the characters, whose lives continues even after the story ends.
The story could have been much better but there were lot of speed breakers in this journey.
I must say that the author adopted a difficult way of writing and tried to give full justice to all characters, but there were some noticeable faults which hindered my reading experience.
Having said that, I feel being a debut author, and trying something like this is tough. I hope and feel that the author will go a long way.
Although the concepts were nice the story could have been made into two different stories instead of one.
There were stories within these two major stories. Grandmother's stories as well as the story of two different novels by two different characters. Initially I thought that the writer won't be able to do justice to the plot, but I must say that the plot was very clear and the stories were distinguishable.
There were some characters who were introduced but vanished suddenly and entered again later with no clear background about their time during that period.
It was difficult to keep an eye on the activities of each character.
At some places I felt like the thoughts of the writer were not organised. A very haphazard description of events.
There various incidents which proves the ignorance of the writer.
At one place a character "receives a mail" (an intent letter) and only a few sentences later he is so excited that he starts dancing "holding the letter in his hands".
At another place the same character meets an accident and a friend of his describes the accident to another friend with extreme details about how "the truck driver pressed clutch with accelerator which led to the accident". (If my friend was involved in an accident THAT I DIDN'T WITNESS MYSELF, I would just say that the truck driver was driving blindly and not whether the driver was pressing the break or the clutch.)
It is not a story where you expect a happy or a conclusive ending. You are just a viewer of the lives of the characters, whose lives continues even after the story ends.
The story could have been much better but there were lot of speed breakers in this journey.
I must say that the author adopted a difficult way of writing and tried to give full justice to all characters, but there were some noticeable faults which hindered my reading experience.
Having said that, I feel being a debut author, and trying something like this is tough. I hope and feel that the author will go a long way.
November 8, 2017
Disclaimer: This is NOT a sponsored review. You might think this while reading the review because I have only good things to say about this one.
Okay this guy was ONLY 16 when he wrote this book and I am not kidding, THIS IS BEYOND PERFECTION.
Let's start with the cover.
A quite simple cover but then they say you used never judge a book by it's cover.
And just recently Hedwig (my owl) brought a news that the book is getting a new cover and I can't wait for it.
Samar Kaushik is a regular school guy who begins penning a novel partly based on his dreams wherein he is a celebrated author with luxuries of life and a hot girlfriend.
Sahil is a fifteen-year-old lad who sells toys at a traffic signal.
Rizwan sells chai (tea) and dreams of becoming a footballer
Abdul is a boy who is happily learning how to operate a computer.
And then something happens that changes their life.
For me this is by far the best thing i've read recently. An inspiring tale dedicated to all those dreamers out there. I don't think i've read anything like this before. Each and every character is described with absolute delicacy and you can easily imagine them.
You definitely can't miss this one.
Okay this guy was ONLY 16 when he wrote this book and I am not kidding, THIS IS BEYOND PERFECTION.
Let's start with the cover.
A quite simple cover but then they say you used never judge a book by it's cover.
And just recently Hedwig (my owl) brought a news that the book is getting a new cover and I can't wait for it.
Samar Kaushik is a regular school guy who begins penning a novel partly based on his dreams wherein he is a celebrated author with luxuries of life and a hot girlfriend.
Sahil is a fifteen-year-old lad who sells toys at a traffic signal.
Rizwan sells chai (tea) and dreams of becoming a footballer
Abdul is a boy who is happily learning how to operate a computer.
And then something happens that changes their life.
For me this is by far the best thing i've read recently. An inspiring tale dedicated to all those dreamers out there. I don't think i've read anything like this before. Each and every character is described with absolute delicacy and you can easily imagine them.
You definitely can't miss this one.
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