Dork - The incredible adventures of Robing "Einstein" Varghese - A small review

Note: I have never needed to publish my review of a book on my blog. This is something I am doing exceptionally. So book review critiques, shut it.


Dork, or D1 as Sidin Vadukut prefers calling it, is a great book. We have all read Five-Point someone, MBA, Stay Hungry, Stay foolish and all those books written out strategically for a certain group of young Indian readers. We have all liked them. We have only good words for them. What makes this book great is its simplicity in humor. A satire on freshly out of the college MBA grad's life, every page of this book eases its dry humor (and sometimes dark satire) on the reader. Although the book's tone is somewhat like Bridget Jones' Diary which is hardly appealing for Indian readers It didn't work out for me. What did work out though, was the easy flow from chapter to chapter. Doesn't look like a first time author's book. You know what you have to pick up from the local book store if we want more of that, don't you? The Immortals of Meluha (Chuckle).

I am an avid reader of the author's blog. It is funny, witty and classy. I have been following it since 2006. I could dive into the first pages of the book because of my familiarity with its flow of prose. Not sure if a first Sidin reader could ever speed through the initial chapters like I did. Every book lover will enjoy reading this book.