I recently read Two States - The story of my marriage. It was good, I finished it really fast. When I am not reading mysteries, I like to look for style and structure. The style and structure of these books are really simple- perhaps the author derives his structure principles from Einstein : " A design should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"..
The trouble with his writing is that he can only write from his point of view. I think it is important that one is able to look inside other people's heads and make them think and act like them, rather than you. Thats where power comes in, as a writer. Chetan Bhagat's problem is that he takes his characters and breathes his own thoughts and reactions into them. His solutions become their solutions, his language becomes their language, his perspective becomes their perspective. This works only in one case - the case where the main character in the book is him.
Now we know why Fice Point Someone and Two States was successful. And we also know why the other books didnt work. Maybe he will figure this out before writing the next one.
