Life Knocks is the story of a guy who falls from grace, but rather than confront that fall, decides to hide in his room and pretend it never happened; but, little by little, Life Knocks...
The story will confront, challenge, evoke laughter, tears and, in parts, possibly offence...
But then life never claimed to be Disney world.
Step outside your bubble, because the only thing to fear in life is living in one.
It is the story of Collossus that is narrated
through this story. We follow him through his numerous adventures – right from
quitting his job to finding love to his depressions. From the highest point to
the lowest of low point of his life, Collossus realizes that no matter what,
one cannot stop life from moving on. This is a story of the highs and the lows,
of love and of loneliness, of laughter and of tears and it will have you riding
through all of it with a smile on your face – whether hysterical laughter or
just a sad smile.
The book begins with Collossus’s letter to
the ‘management’ informing them that he is quitting the job. And with that very
letter I got hooked on. There’s been so many times in our lives that we have
wished we could say a few choice of words to our bosses/colleagues but never
could manage. Reading that letter just cracked me up. Then there is his love
interest, Lily, who captured & trampled on his heart. But his dedication
towards her is remarkable. His interaction with other characters in the book
are also quite interesting. Then there’s also a segment about drug addiction/alcoholism.
Though under the influence, he lands himself in quite a few predicaments – all
of a sudden not everything was funny anymore – at least for me. Overall though,
the message in the book was very optimistic.
The author’s style of writing is pretty
simple yet indulging. By writing in first person, Craig Stone has managed to
add a personal touch to the story. His sense of humour is really something. I
have cracked up laughing at the most appropriate and inappropriate places. At
the same time he managed to touch that sentimental & emotional chords of my
heart with his portrayal of what ‘reality’ is like.
I love getting lost in mystery/thrillers and
in the fantasy world of magic, faeries and werewolves. This book was a good
change as it managed to bring me back right into the real world where
disappointment, failure and heartache awaits everyone. When ‘life knocks’ &
it invariably will, we can choose to hide or welcome with open arms. The
important thing is how we deal with it. We just need to take the lemons and
make a lemonade out of it.
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