Recently read the autobiography of the cricketer Shoaib Akthar. The book is popular, I guess, based on the long waiting period in my library.
The book is well written and eminently readable. This statement is also a comment on the life of Shoaib Akthar 😉 very interesting to read. Shoaib takes this opportunity to call himself a “good boy” and all the unsavory events in his life were due to the many villains in his life; the enemies he made in his refusal to kiss-a**. Conforming, a large part of life, most importantly adult life is lost of Shoaib; though it is true that there is no dearth of pointy-haired-bosses (aka Dilbert‘s boss) who make life difficult for non-suckers. Sorry Shoaib, though I feel sorry for you at times, like the leaked (untrue as per Shoaib) personal medical reports, seniors considering juniors as competitors, etc., there are a lot of times where you do not come across as a “good boy”. Shoaib goes out of his way to pull-down Sachin Tendulkar … non-conformist again.
However it is a good read … as long as you are not in an impressionable age where you believe everything you read.
