Customer Reviews on Amazon.com

1. 2 of 2 people found this review helpful

   By PAI on Amazon.com 9 March, 2013

   think of bad Tinkle without pictures.

   Very average book. There are large portions which are nothing but banter between people and does not add any value to the storyline.
2. 2 of 2 people found this review helpful

   By Jagdish Konduru on Amazon.com 21 January, 2013

   Wonder why this book is such a big hit!!!

   Mix ancient Indian characters and cities' names with scenes and situations from Indian soaps, and dialogues from Indian comics. The result of this mixture is 'The immortals of Meluha'. A very disappointing read.
   
   This could have been such an excellent book if the subject was researched and presented well. I read the entire book just because I started it. Got the sequel too from the library.....but I wouldn't consider reading it.
3. 1 of 1 people found this review helpful

   By Prakash Jha on Amazon.com 21 March, 2013

   Nothing extraordinary ...

   Started reading with great hope and somehow managed to finish. I am still not able to fathom why is it generating so much interest. Over hyped!!!!!
   The protagonist hails from Tibet, and assists the Good people win over the so called bad people, only to realise in the end that the so-called bad people, are not bad, just different. Thank you Amish, but i did not find you different and would give the other two books a miss.
   On a positive note, the book made me re-learn many hindi words that had forgotten. Thoroughly enjoyed tha last 5 ages or so.
4. 4 of 6 people found this review helpful

   By Priyabrata on Amazon.com 14 November, 2012

   Plagiarism does not go away so easily...

   I read the book, and not surprisingly, was totally dissatisfied. The book nurtured some inhumane ideas about separating babies from their mother on birth, and so, in order to relieve the society from caste system!!! Immediately I lost faith on the writer. The society seemed to be an utopia ruled by a unquestionable dead king named Rama!! In every line, chants of LORD RAMA and LORD SHIVA almost tired me. The descriptions were way too long (like Dan Brown books), as if the writer was trying to convince us about his views on things. The whole book could have been finished within 100 pages, but he had to make it a novel!!! And inspired by some Harry Potter book, the book ended abruptly without any reason, just so that people feel complied to buy the second book.
   
   The most disgusting part was how the battle description at the end of the book was clearly lifted from hollywood action movie '300'. The phalanx battle formation (simply copied from wikipedia after watching the movie), the volley of arrows, holing a larger enemy at a small pass, everything seems to be lifted directly from the movie. I never expected a writer to life ideas from a movie, let alone a well known hollywood one...
5. 2 of 3 people found this review helpful

   By dead_tiger on Amazon.com 3 March, 2013

   Can't read this book ... poor language and imagination

   I tried many times to read this book but haven't been able to go beyond 40 pages.
   Poor language and expression - Don't buy this book reading all these reviews.
   
   Read some pages in amazon before making your decision.
   
   Since I couldn't read the book , so just gave it to a friend.
   I loved books like Life of Pi, The kite runner , Fountainhead , catcher in the rye etc.
   
   I am not hung on literature , but book should be readable . This book is not.
6. By misti-doi on Amazon.com 9 May, 2013

   Horrible book

   This book is a total waste of time; go read something more substantial. I would not recommend this book to anyone to read.
7. 5 of 10 people found this review helpful

   By Sharat on Amazon.com 25 February, 2012

   Garbage.

   This book is really horrible, blasphemous and cheap. Indians will sell even their gods for money ! Doesn't even deserve a star
8. 3 of 10 people found this review helpful

   By Ujjwal Dey on Amazon.com 24 October, 2012

   A Hippie Fantasy, insulting to every Hindu or other religious people

   I was given this blasphemous Shiva Trilogy written by the infidel Amish Tripathi as an interesting read. I read it and am writing an honest scathing review to defame Amish for defaming a beloved God, the primordial God, the God of Gods, Mahadeva.
   
   As per Amish Tripathi, the famed Lord Shiva is nothing but an illiterate and lustful tribal who dances under the influence of drugs. I think this shameless author Amish has confused his favourite hippies of Goa with the myth of Lord Shiva.
   
   Atheists are spineless vermin. They will ridicule Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists - these are soft targets. If any atheist is not a complete hypocrite and not a complete scoundrel, let them talk in the same vein about Allah or Prophet Mohammed and lets see how soon they realise insults are not a solution for religious opposition.
   
   The book not only insults the very concept of Shiva but also goes on to mock Lord Sri Ram and every other God, demi-God or character associated with the mythology of Lord Shiva. This gross misrepresentation of a loved and benevolent God who is still worshiped widely in present day India is a slap on every believer irrespective of their religion or beliefs.
   
   Amish has gone to great lengths to make politically correct statements regarding ancient India. Historians would not only find it ridiculous but also a blatant denial of what constitutes India as an ancient nation. Tradition has been replaced by Western concepts of what is acceptable in 21st century while the whole scandalous odyssey is set thousands of years in the past.
   
   His philosophical arguments are childish and further make the book redundant as a reading material. Others have widely mentioned his lack of literary merit - but they are scared to mention the lack of any merit in his blasphemous hippie fantasy - simply because it is a bestseller. It was its marketing gimmicks that helped it top the charts. There is no merit whatsoever in the written word - which insults every believer of God and especially attacks every Hindu.
   
   If you wish to know anything about Shiva Mythology, there are plenty of reliable sources for them. Treat this book as it deserves to be treated - as a perverted retelling of a known and respected God.
9. 1 of 9 people found this review helpful

   By Dilip A Nithyanandam on Amazon.com 18 January, 2013

   Pseudosecular crap!!

   On the second page Shiva abuses marijuana!!! Amish wouldn't have the balls to write this about any other religion! No wonder the pseudosecualr brigade love this book: long live hindu bashing! Karan Johar making a movie, I bet it'll run well.