The Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon

It is one of those very few Sidney Sheldon's novels that I didn’t like. It was somewhat inconsistent story. In the beginning it promised something extra-ordinary but later it turned out to be nothing at all. There wasn’t any Sheldon's usual well-researched account of things. There was no special character either. At least I didn’t find anything extra-ordinary about any of the characters. It didn’t even give the real feeling of something as big as Hollywood, which was unlike Sheldon since he almost always came up with something big and did justice with it.

Patras k Mazameen by Patras Bukhari

It was hilarious !

Even more due to the fact that an excerpt from this book was included in my urdu textbook at school and I had a lot of memories about how we mocked each other with the jokes in this book. 

I am a big fan of Urdu humour. My favourites include works of Ibn-e-Insha, Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, Col. Mohammad Khan and most of all Patras Bukhari. I probably read the excerpt in my texbook more than 15-20 times over the year and at that time I could remember it word by word.

Then I got hold of his book and treated it in the very same way.

I have a feeling that it might not be that popular with adults or those who have left student life long ago, because most of the book is devoted to making fun of hostel and college life.

It is undoubtedly a book to be treasured.