The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

Funny isn't it, when you read a book, and when you eventually get involved in it completely, the characters' lives start imitating yours, their feelings start becoming yours and you then realize that what in fact you are thinking and feeling and the arguments you are having in your head are exactly what goes on in everyone's heads, and also the fact what you think you only experience, has actually been experienced before, and has been going for centuries, its just that you are very new to it.

Right now i probably sound confusing but all these thoughts have been going on in my mind due to the reason that i have just right now completed reading this really serious book, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", and although initially i didn't really like it, as a matter of fact i was a little too quick to criticize it, i never gave the protagonist's character the time to develop. I had already become biased against him and had already formed an opinion of him and pictured him to be as someone i actually know and although it was very much like him initially, however i was wrong. I had been too quick to decide, and as the story developed i realized that the protagonist was just a confused person in life, someone i can relate to, someone that anyone can relate to, and the fact that all the mental anguish he was suffering with, is so common in our society and in our generation and particularly in my generation that while reading his story i could detach myself from the mental anguishes going on in my head and probably have a more positive outlook on life, also giving me the feeling as if i am some third person looking in, in my own life.