tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post8238619653554983254..comments2023-03-29T22:29:36.814-07:00Comments on little gold fishes: The Diary of an Unreasonable Man: Shock Therapy? Yeah, for Bozos!mukul sharmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04903714182994554289noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-57407132703173623882010-02-22T09:18:29.911-08:002010-02-22T09:18:29.911-08:00@BC/ Grateful Humanity (compliments on an even mor...@BC/ Grateful Humanity (compliments on an even more profound id btw): <br /><br />ha ha!! ho ho !!! hee hee !!! !!!<br /><br />ahmm..<br /><br />i actually thought about giving a serious reply after your first comment but with the second 'infuriating' one within hours you've convinced me that you ain't got a life. Well, i got one, buddy.<br /><br />So, go, fetch, while i do some other work but don't come back here.mukul sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903714182994554289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-64711741795340243882010-02-21T23:34:54.900-08:002010-02-21T23:34:54.900-08:00http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turd
ht...http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turd<br /><br />http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shit<br /><br />http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fuck<br /><br />You seemed at loss to understand what I meant, so I thought the above might help you.<br /><br />Seriously, you're a terrible reviewer and a worse rebutter. I am glad you are refusing to oblige me with a "conversation" because I don't have the time to wait until you're through getting over your newly evolved opposable thumbs and anal sphincter, which you so ably demonstrated the use of through your "review".BCBonerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryological_origins_of_the_mouth_and_anusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-50766696739112765242010-02-21T18:42:33.539-08:002010-02-21T18:42:33.539-08:00I am of the firm belief that a great humanitarian ...I am of the firm belief that a great humanitarian purpose is served when intelligent articulate men (such as I take you to be, mostly out of respect for the profound and complex irony you unwittingly let creep into your blog post) openly allow themselves to exhibit the debilitating effects of PMS on their faculties. <br /><br />For surely, your open admission – “I think what irritated me the most was that someone like that guy . . .” – was most helpful in understanding what you were blogging about (let’s not call it writing for fear some idiot publisher may pick it up, eh?). <br /><br />Did your post have a point other than to say “Mathur irritates me! Everything about him! his cheekbones, his characters, his book, his life, his...”? Or is it just that the point failed to come through because of all your childish and unnecessarily personal whining? <br /><br />By the way, you should feel free to disregard or discredit the above, if only because I really can’t help looking quite good in photographs myself.Grateful Humanitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-87837099125780939932010-02-21T06:32:38.199-08:002010-02-21T06:32:38.199-08:00@BC Boner: wow! you really seem to have a lot of t...@BC Boner: wow! you really seem to have a lot of time on your hands to write a voluminous 'critique' of a blog entry on an obscure blog about an idiotic book...<br /><br />seriously i don't know where to start, so i might as well start by slapping you in face, right, left and center..<br /><br />firstly, if you are really the link in 'BCBoner' (very profound id btw, i must say)...then i can understand your general frustration with life and please feel free to write anywhere and everywhere as long as it keeps you away from committing suicide...<br /><br /><br />secondly, the use of words like turds and fuck repeatedly does not add that acidic edge to your writing that you are so helplessly looking for...it only shows how pathetic and feeble your writing is..<br /><br /><br />thirdly, i am really interested in knowing how you write...i have a feeling you are one of the cult of 'auto writers' who close their eyes...and claim to be writing driven by their sub-consciousness...that would at least partly explain the inconsistencies in every second line with the previous one..the other part undoubtedly would either be a traumatic childhood or the failure to get admission in a good college..<br /><br />fourthly, did you ever pass an English exam? at least first learn to write proper complete sentences in English before you move on to vomit your earth shattering ideas..<br /><br />fifthly, don't tell me what to write on MY blog. get the point? MY blog. i know you are a bit slow, so let me repeat here, MY BLOG. I am not in the business of public welfare here...i am not making money out of this...if i have no intention of writing a serious review of something which does not deserve to be seriously reviewed, i will not.<br /><br />Sixthly, if you really know the mathur chap personally, and were gravely hurt when you googled his book name and found this blog, well...with all sincerity and politeness, fuck you. <br />On the other hand if you just looked at his photograph and found your long lost soul mate and his book has really changed your life, my best wishes to you because your life could not get any worse than it already is.<br /><br />Finally, i do not think that you are capable of a coherent reply, and certainly have no intention of wasting my time by indulging a dialogue with you, so don't bother. Just in case you can come up with something in remotely correct English which goes beyond your limited vocabulary of turd, fuck, shit etc., do reply. Else, don't bother, i'll just delete it. See, that's the good part about this being my blog, i don't actually have to see the nonsense that you are capable of throwing up any longer than i want to.<br /><br /><br />PS: I agree with the "quality of editing at Penguin" bit. Ctrl A, Delete, Ctrl S. That's exactly how much editing was required here.mukul sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903714182994554289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-26356099759213407012010-02-21T01:14:49.830-08:002010-02-21T01:14:49.830-08:00Wow. That's really rich. I couldn't have p...Wow. That's really rich. I couldn't have paid you for a better hit job. Heck, you may well have missed out on an a fat check from poor Mr. Singaporean Oil Tycoon there. The last I heard, he was looking for a professional hitman like you to vindicate the zeros he lost to this "Mahur" guy whole he was typing this book up at 3.00 AM. Here's what I gather from your shitstorm of a review:<br />* You feel strongly about Indian-born writers who write on subjects involving urban Indian society and who then ink contracts with an Indian publishing house. Wow, we need to nip this one in the bud before it becomes a habit, don't we?<br />* Singapore must be nice & comfortable and not the least bit like the materialistic, consumeristic mess modern India is, or is it? Where's the relatability here? Who'll believe it? Certainly not you, sir!<br />* Didn't like the portrait, did you? Come on, haven't heard of a goddamned photo-op? And some of aren't particularly flattering? What did you expect to see there, a horse's ass?<br /><br />What could have been a serious criticism about the quality of editing over at Penguin or hell, the stark inconsistency in writing between the quasi-philophical prose and the plot-driven narrative - turned out to be your wild, personal tirade against someone you probably don't expect to meet. If you already have, well, that's even worse.<br /><br />I'm amazed. You could easily have flung this loosely at the author, your pasty couple of turds, but you've managed to package this so well as this nice bag of turds that is your blog entry. Well done, you fucking ape.BCBonerhttp://www.chillibreeze.com/articles/TOPTENINDIANWRITERSINENGLISHTODAY.aspnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-11369892410032693482010-01-24T00:43:04.346-08:002010-01-24T00:43:04.346-08:00Agreed with your detailed replies on (1) and (2)....Agreed with your detailed replies on (1) and (2). (Although (1) wasnt a query!) "We also await the wisdom reserved for those of us who are fortunate to call ourselves your friends" Am glad you obliged. Do write more often.<br />Eagerly await your next post.Harsh Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00879526169007083867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-17646223972947493952010-01-23T23:10:17.274-08:002010-01-23T23:10:17.274-08:001. I am of the firm belief that a great humanitari...1. I am of the firm belief that a great humanitarian purpose is served by criticising a bad piece of literature or a bad film for that matter. If you've not read something in the first place, you have no locus to criticize it.<br /><br />But what is the point of criticizing anything anyways? If you did not like it, fine. Let others decide for themselves.<br /><br />The point is that people should know that something may not be good just because someone else said it was. The point of criticism is that Mr. Mathur should be discouraged from becoming another Mr.Bhagat.<br /><br />People are free to do what ever they want with their time but at least there should be some indicator of what may be a better way for them to use their time for.<br /><br />So that they may read Philip Roth instead of Mathur or Bhagat or at least are not under the impression that they are reading good lireature without knowing that there is actualy good literature out there.<br /><br />2. Come on. Its a blog after all not a book review for New Yorker. I am allowed to digress.<br /><br />But since you asked the relevance of all that diatribe against the compulsive self obsessed bloggers was that the book itself read like someone was pissed off with his job, boss et al. and blogging about it but to make it worse was trying to pass it off as a novel.<br /><br />I think what irritated me the most was that someone like that guy, a banker in Singapore is giving all that gyaan about being an anarchist, burning the materialistic world down. Fuck man, at least quit your fucking job before you start preaching like that.<br /><br />3. The part about great knowledge was an attempt at self depreciating humour. Please do not take it literally or personally.mukul sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903714182994554289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-14053799315731227432010-01-22T08:00:02.937-08:002010-01-22T08:00:02.937-08:00Angry Angrier Angriest! Well written and ofcourse ...Angry Angrier Angriest! Well written and ofcourse spot on.<br /><br />"Those who claim to be offended by a book are those who have chosen to be offended - by reading on instead of simply closing the book" -Rushdie. (this is ofcourse in the context of sensorship etc)<br />So why not close the stupid idiotic 'blog' that offends you? (tension na lo! band kar do blog ko!)<br /><br />One point: i am sorry i did not understand why your book review starts with a criticism of idiotic blogs.is the author Anurag chap a blogger? <br /><br />Please note that i find all your criticism accurate and valid. i just didn understand why are they there in this book review.<br /><br />Regards.<br /><br />PS: Please as an ardent fan of yours, dont say no one follows your writing, we sure do! <br /><br />We also await the wisdom reserved for those of us who are fortunate to call ourselves your friends.Harsh Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00879526169007083867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-27324906433149808932010-01-13T10:52:39.400-08:002010-01-13T10:52:39.400-08:00Take it easy doc...learn to see the difference bet...Take it easy doc...learn to see the difference between humour and bigotry..<br /><br />meanwhile you can chew on this.."humour is the last resort against the tyranny of stupidity!"mukul sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04903714182994554289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1766896190171364904.post-85670648868202150912010-01-13T04:29:40.243-08:002010-01-13T04:29:40.243-08:00there is enough space in the world for all of us w...there is enough space in the world for all of us wannabe bloggers and our blogs.<br />be and let be.Igirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09168245756019022446noreply@blogger.com