Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Not a penny more, not a penny less

This weekend I had a déjà vu moment, I was cleaning up the house and bumped into a dusty old book, 'Not a penny more, not a penny less.' I hoped the book to be good going by the reputation of the author, Jeffery Archer. Reading the teasers of the book, I was even more drawn to the book as it involved a favorite subject of mine the stock market.
The story revolves around a stock market wizard who is pretty much a living rags to riches story himself and earned a dubious reputation for his not so ethical trade practices. In one such operation of his, four un-connected people fail pray to his trap and losing a healthy sum of money. The misery unites them to take revenge and thus the plot of 'Not a penny more, not a penny less' unfolds. The book sketches few characters really well the shrewdness of a stock market mogul, organization qualities of a professor, the practicality of medical profession and the winnings of a charmer :-)
The story has enough twists and turns. I would not say it tops the best novel list for me but it is a very light hearted story and a good time-pass. And yeah that is how I spent the Republic Day holiday.

4 comments:

  1. dude its one of the best from Jeffery Archer..
    Mera ko dena vapas padhata hoon, as i read it yrs ago..dont remember much..
    anyways,if u have started like Archer try"How to cut long story short"good good collection of short stories

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  2. kya itni raat ko blog likhta hai.... :)

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  3. Hey Bhavin,
    Its quite funny that every time you clean up your house you bump into a book :D
    Keep writing!!!!

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  4. @Vyankatesh
    Yeah its quite funny, may be it is because I share flat with four others and lot of ppl keep visiting me.

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