Zero Degree - a "40 page" review

When was the last time you read a novel and you feel a bubble rolling between your stomach and neck (like vairamuthu said). when was the last time you read a book and struggled to classify/review it? When was the last time a book blared straight into your face and you were left stunned not knowing what to do.

I personally have this habit of reading the whole book in one-go,even if the book is bit uninspiring and boring.Even i read the  'The man who sold his ferrari',which is boring in my opinion, almost in one-go. However, i have read this book Zero Degree only 40 pages and my head was swirling for half an hour. I couldn't even eat my dinner for the next half an hour.

The legendary writer Sujatha called it ' a piece of shit'. Tehelka called it "Style with substance". Some called for the book to be banned straight away.Wikipedia calls it 'Postmodern lipogrammatic" novel and some call it transgressive fiction.This book shatters every little piece of idea you have about a book. Every third line in the book deals with drug addiction,sex maniacs and gory explanations.In many areas, the book likes  third grade pent-house type but understanding the thread which is scattered then and there is a difficult task. The author throws the name of many writers,artists then and there and you can be pretty confident that you would not even have heard about any of the names or countries.The information gathered by the author in pre-information age i.e. as early as the year 2000 is amazing.  

A page in the novel

If in Tamil movies, Bala is the "dark" director, then writer Charu nivedita can be called "the mother of dark writers". This book,if i am allowed to call it like that, has also been translated into english in 2008.

Before seeing the movie "Hey Ram", i was cautioned that it was a adults-only--movie.That was exactly the same review i got when i was thinking about reading the book.

If you are trying to figure out whether i liked the book or not, i have no answer.As i mentioned earlier, this book shatters every little idea you have about a novel.