sugar_popppp 's review for:

The strange case of Billy Biswas by Arun Joshi, Arun Joshi

5.0

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Very engaging and thought-provoking writing; it basically deals with a very privileged man who, even after having everything, was not happy and tried to escape. His discomfort and disconnection from his world make you feel sympathy for him, and you might also relate to him because we all, at some point, thought of leaving everything, didn’t we? But the truth is that his actions were not correct, and he didn’t make a mistake once or twice; he did it multiple times, which can make you frustrated. Not gonna lie, at some point, all I felt was that this man is trying so hard to mansplain all his shortcomings in a very philosophical way. But again, Billy was not the fictional man we all dream of; he was a tragic hero whose downfall is definitely sad, but you can’t help but blame him only because the series of events he opted for led to this.