Batman’s Guide to Life-Chetan Soni

Book: Batman’s Guide to Life: Breaking Myths Since 1994

Author: Chetan Soni

Publisher: Amazon Kindle

Sometimes long essays are not enough to convey your point, sometimes, it just takes a couple of lines.

Batman’s Guide to Life by Chetan Soni can be summed up in this one line. This book has around 5 dozen thoughts that invoke a range of emotions from deep thinking to laughter and each of them is quite different from the other. The book opens with a prologue, describing what is a prologue, and with that the tone of the book is set. Then we move on to the reason why the book is named so, and Chetan makes quite a convincing argument for that one, and then we delve into his mind till we reach the The Long Short Story of Kabir-Sonia.

Writing about this book is a challenge in itself because Chetan has used brevity to convey his message. Each of the quotes in the book are a story in themselves and you cannot but imagine the grey between the lines. For example, “Instagram has made more photographers than Canon or Nikon ever did.” And this is my favourite, “In India, there are two types of people-Party AND Broker”  and then it hits you, the idea behind the line and this is true for each and every line in the book. Now coming to the twist in the tale, The Long Short Story of Kabir-Sonia is a wonderfully crafted love story between 2 people who beat the odds and made distance their friend. This story deserves a special mention for the very fact that it felt real, like I am watching it unfold and it was mesmerizing.

A definite recommendation, grab a copy at the earliest!

Batman takes away 4.38/5 from me.

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