The Best of Good...

With a great enthusiasm i entered the city library not sure if we need to pay for the books as we do in India. Asked the assistant ," um..do we have to pay anything? " ..." oh no nothing" she said....n you can issue at a time 100 books !!! Oh my God, I am in heaven I thought.

So much to read in such a short period....I picked up 3-4 books for me n 3-4 for Ved.

Next day picked up one , started reading it....Break ....at evening again continued.....umm break again. Now the duration of breaks were clearly winning over the reading time. N it was already time to return the books. I couldn't even read a single one !! What was happening to me??

Many trips to library went in vain ..in the similar fashion.

I was now being sure..i lost it. I lost my power of reading and finishing a book :(

Few days back, while i was searching for my one of the fav Jeffery Archer book , I couldnt get it quickly and instead i picked up a book called " The Best of Good" ..I didnt know the author (sara lewis) , i had never heard of the book...I simply picked up because the cover was very good and i found the name interesting. I didnt even bother to go at the back and read whats the story about , what are the reviews... Just one thought came to my mind...what will it have? no murder no mystery.....no philosophy, what will it have?? will i really enjoy it?

hmm...lets see...with my current records, i might not even open it !!!

And at night i opened this book...

The story was about Good, Tom Good...a very different man. I finished the small chapter and thought is he mentally retarded or something?? Has he done something terribly wrong in his life? why is he so weird? But one thing was sure....i found the book very easy going, smooth . I like such books. I remembered which was the last book i thought so smooth ...Arundhati Roy's God of small things i guess...

I finished my dinner and again started reading Good's lifestory....

About his love, respect to his elder sister, he says in the starting chapter he owes her too much..why?

Being a fiction/criminal novel lover, my mind was at its creative best and thought about she might have saved him from going to jail or something ..etc etc.

I continued reading.

Good came to know about his long time love and about the child she has , a boy with striking similarity to Good. Is it his?? If Yes why did she hide it for 10 long years?

Whats going in Good's mind? Is he happy/ sad/worried/angry /surprised / confused?? Or everything mixed up?

We can feel the emotions running deep down his mind. I purposely said emotions in his mind n not in his heart..because that's the way Good is.

He is the founder of a popular band. A great guitar player. But works as a bartender.

Why?

Whats the deal with him? why does he buy cloths only once in a year that too from one specific place. Whenever he is upset or happy he locks himself in the closet which is his soundproof music room. He never interacts to neighbors. He doesn't like people as such.

He wants to meet his son and wants to be liked by him.

He does everything possible so that they connect. But they don't.

We came to know why he is under a great guilt, why has he said No to beauty of Life , to the pleasures of Life.

He is living under the tremendous guilt of his elder brother Jack's death. Had he said something to stop his drunken brother to go on a ride. Had he just ....

He idols George Harrison. He is his God.

There is one chapter of just few lines...." George Harrison died " ...don't know why but i cried like a baby..

Good falls in love with his neighbor , divorced with 4 kids but she declines.

All bad things happen when he decides to change for good. To change for a better life.

The journey of Good is simple, beautiful and something we can really feel.

The end is as we expected ; Happy and brings a tear of joy.

We feel satisfied ....we feel good.... as if Good is our Best friend .