and then... well... i quit... after 4oo pgs... but like... most hindi movies... this one has a happy ending...
this... starts with... sometime in 08... when i re-visited.. .the paperback i had purchased on the streets of kolkata.. in 07... cos it had the OLD art-work on the cover...
me n my love for the old art-work on books... :)
after going through abt 25 pgs.. .the book started to fall apart... we can hardly blame the thing... it held it together for 25 odd yrs :)
so... we went to the corner-store and got a shiny new atlas shrugged... with the white color cover n all that...
for the next few months... we read 20 pgs a day... abt twice a week.. on the ride to work... when we weren't on the phone... and other such...
we took it with us... to abt half a dozen states... and alll such!
ppl mocked us all around... for nvr ever finishing it.. and it being the book of my life and what not!!
then there was the holiday to singapore.. .when i carried the thing with me.. . in hope that .. .thru the various flights and other such.. i'll read the damn thing...
as luck would have it..forgot it in the hotel in singapore....
thus ended the second copy of atlas shrugged... in my trivial pursuit!
then... on one of my trips to mumbai.... i pulled out another copy of atlas shrugged.. .that we had borrowed from her... in 05... that's after-all how we'd decided to start reading it... though i am not very sure.. if it was him or her...
and over the next few weeks and a couple of months... finally finished the book....
after having managed to run thru the 1100 something pages... she tells me... vbv... over the lst yr... u must've... even forgotten... wht dagny's charachter had started as.....
she maybe right.... but i had... atlast shrugged :)
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ATLAS SHRUGGED.....I have an almost similiar story to write....jus the ending is diff...I still havent finished the damn thing!!!
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