Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese

Totally timepass. Dilbert meets Mr Bean meets Don Martin. The adventures of this totally wacked out mallu MBA are ROFL funny. Einstein is as memorable an idiot as the character played by Vinay Pathak in Bheja Fry. What can I say? Read it :-)

When I saw the book first, I thought probably the guy was testing the waters following the foot steps of Chetan Bhagat.I couldn't have been more wrong. It's a completely different book with a writing style that I'd say only Sidin is capable of. In this book your laugh riot starts right from page one (and when I say page one I mean right from the intro).

However, if you are expecting some real practicle corporate gyaan out of it you will be dissappointed, this book is meant for fun and only fun, you laugh at every page of the book. Overall an essential stuff for anyone who loves a good straight-from-the-heart humour.

After writing a less-than-favourable review for Dork 2, I felt it only just to say what I felt about it's predecessor.

Dork was a much-awaited book by the Indian blogosphere, and for good reason. Sidin Vadukut is one of India's finest humour writers. Name one person who hasn't read his epic Travails blogpost and laughed out loud.

This book is written in the first person, in the form of diary entries. Brave move by Sidin, who has to deviate from his normal writing style and almost step down two notches to fit into the shoes of Robin Einstein Varghese. Does so remarkably well, and the book is a laugh-a-minute riot.

Yes, it's not an intellectual book. It's good timepass for 2 hours. There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments. Enjoy it for what it is. There are hardly any lulls.

If you want to read Sidin at his best though, look no further than what he writes on his blog (www.whatay.com) and his stuff for Cricinfo.

Having read many other samples of Sidin's writing and having enjoyed most, I picked up this one just to show solidarity. But I'll have to admit that I couldn't hold up the show of solidarity past the first twenty pages!

The author is trying too hard to make un-funny things seem funny. I don't recall even smiling once during the twenty pages of supposed humour. However, I do remember cringing rather often. Utterly avoidable, this book!

The reason I am writing comments here is I just finished this book and I could not stop myself from opening my laptop and typing this.

Every character is unique and distinct, I loved it. I like protagonist's free spirit through out the book, his out of the world sense of humor made me laugh out loud many times during last 2 weeks. But sometimes I pity him for not being able to understand that others are making fum of him.

You can relate all events to your office life. That makes it a good read for working professionals.