Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8129104598
Description
Welcome to Five Point Someone. This is not a book to teach you how to get into IIT or even survive it. In fact, it describes how bad things can get if you don’t think straight. Funny, dark and non-stop, Five Point Someone is the story of three friends whose measly five-point something GPAs come in the way of everything – their friendship, their love life, their future. Will they make it?
Five reasons why Hari, Ryan and Alok’s lives are in a complete mess:
01. They’ve messed up their grades big time.
02. Alok and Ryan can’t stop bickering with each other.
03. Hari is smitten with Neha who happens to be Prof Cherian’s daughter.
04. As IITians, they’re expected to conquer the world, something they know isn’t likely to happen.
05. They’re with each other
REVIEW
The novel to successfully capture the unique ethos, especially the cheerful insanity, of India’s elite institutions.
-Hari Menon, Outlook
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PROLOGUE
Bare Beginnings
Terminator
Barefoot on Metal
Line Drawing
Make Notes not War
Five-point Something
Alok Speaks
One Year Later
The Mice Theory
Cooperate to Dominate
The Gift
Neha Speaks
One More Year Later
Vodka
Operation Pendulum
The Longest Day of My Life I
The Longest Day of My Life II
The Longest Day of My Life III
The Longest Day of My Life IV
The Longest Day of My Life V
The Longest Day of My Life VI
Ryan Speaks
Kaju-burfi
Will we Make It?
A Day of Letters
Meetings Daddy
Five Point Someone