This is a very good book for those who welcome everything positively. It is indeed as good as knowing various interpretations of the same life. The protagonist's movement in the book is brought very close to reality except for a fact that so many coincidences occur in a single lifetime. But,that also shows that life is not an unbounded geometrical figure. It is rather a perfect circle but no one encounters the same point twice. An infinite 'circle' for that matter. This book and the story deals with taking the most crucial decisions at the right time! Loved the adventure. Good, fun and a light read.. :)From the hundred messages that one can derive from the plot and in comparison with one's own journey, what I value the most is this- being a hero isn't about being famous or being accepted and looked up to by society. Real heroes are made at the cost of high personal sacrifice and the strength of making those choices at the peak of time's test. At times I found similarities between Johnny and Jesus, they both made immense sacrifice for the "great good" and Johnny ofcourse is a lot more human- so he regrets those decisions at that moment. But a powerful line is this "Even if I could change it all, I could change nothing". You can't make sense of your choices and the confusion of it all is stifling, but the mosaic only reveals itself in the end.Being a hero isn't about jumping in and saving someone from being run over by a bus. A hero's life is about hardships, about being dejected and fighting back, about going to the very core of one's built and then rising up again, and sometimes the entire process repeats again and again.
Do You like book Johny Gone Down (2000)?
Super narration with an interesting pace, in the lines of Shantaram.
—finn
Very fast paced ...some very interesting twists
—Malia
has got pace but very fictitious to picture it.
—Fishy
Keeps the brain cells ticking every secs
—drmanojkamthan
