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goodreadsTitle: Q&A
Author: Vikas Swarup
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 361
Date read: January, 2007
Summary: Ram Mohammed Thomas is a waiter who gets the chance to appear on "Who Will Win a Billion?" on Indian TV. Even though the orphan has never been to school, an amazing sequence of coincidences allows him to answer the 12 questions correctly and win the billion rupees. The TV show thinks he must be cheating, especially since the producers hadn't planned on someone winning the billion before advertising revenue brought in more than the billion needed for the prize. So he is arrested. He tells his life story to his attorney, and through the questions the listener learns about his life and his real reason for going on the show. (From Amazon.com)
Review: I found this book absolutely fascinating. Each chapter describes a situation from Ram's past that enabled him to answer one of the questions on the W3B quiz-show. The story jumps back and forth in time, but not in a way that is at all confusing, and while sometimes rather unrealistic, all ends are tied up neatly, and the book remains true to its own universe. The book is written by an Indian, so I assume the atmospheres he describes are correct, and it was interesting to read how he depicts the life of a poor orphan boy.
Quick read and very enjoyable book. I recommend it.
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Author: Vikas Swarup
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 361
Date read: January, 2007
Summary: Ram Mohammed Thomas is a waiter who gets the chance to appear on "Who Will Win a Billion?" on Indian TV. Even though the orphan has never been to school, an amazing sequence of coincidences allows him to answer the 12 questions correctly and win the billion rupees. The TV show thinks he must be cheating, especially since the producers hadn't planned on someone winning the billion before advertising revenue brought in more than the billion needed for the prize. So he is arrested. He tells his life story to his attorney, and through the questions the listener learns about his life and his real reason for going on the show. (From Amazon.com)
Review: I found this book absolutely fascinating. Each chapter describes a situation from Ram's past that enabled him to answer one of the questions on the W3B quiz-show. The story jumps back and forth in time, but not in a way that is at all confusing, and while sometimes rather unrealistic, all ends are tied up neatly, and the book remains true to its own universe. The book is written by an Indian, so I assume the atmospheres he describes are correct, and it was interesting to read how he depicts the life of a poor orphan boy.
Quick read and very enjoyable book. I recommend it.
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