It wasn't something new or surprising...Jodi Picoult does it time and again...puts you in a place and makes you choose one side...shows you the two sides of a coin n then asks you to disjoin them into the black and white...the problem is, the coin is a whole, and you really can't break it into two...
The Pact, I picked up this novel quiet long back...but then I didn't pick it up in the hardbook form or even in the ebook forms, maybe that's one reason it took me so long to really read it...with nothin to do while sitting in a really uncomfortable flight (yes IndiGo, I 'll think at least ten times before booking into yet another flight of you guys, after I finish my journey back to Hyd), I popped open the mobile version of The Pact, a novel resting in my iPhone since almost 2-3 months with barely 30 pages read...
I can't really review the novel...for Picoult makes sure you never can pick a side completely...all I know is, given the tragic beginning, she for a change surprised me with the best ending one could have asked for...after all the unfair things that happened in the novel, at least the end was a little fair, though unbelievable...
But the novel again makes me go back to the much used, abused and still never understood topic of love...I don't know how Picoult finds it...she comes up with a side of love none of us could imagine...I probably still can't relate to it even after reading through that impossibly long novel that I couldn't keep down, because I had to know what had happened...would be rather melodramatic, but as a fact, it did hurt to read a lot of what was in it...but it wasn't possible to let go off reading it..
And now, I don't want to think about it, but can't help thinking...there are quiet a lot many flaws in the novel...there are parts I still won't accept...are we so strong that we decide to end life even when it holds almost everything perfectly for us and still so fragile that we can't talk about things that are killing us from inside...can you love someone so much that you would do all they say, but never expect them to love you a little and tell you what really is disturbing them...can a million happiness be overlooked by an incident that happened way back and probably bears no scar in your present...and most of all, what really love and truth is, rather than being a matter of perception...Everyone's Truth is different...and so is everyone's Love..
There is not much I can really say about the book, it definitely is no literary masterpiece...but it does what it was meant to do...play with your emotions, put you in turmoil...
I can't help but be jealous of the girl, she had it all...probably not exactly the way she wanted it...but life never gives it all to us...but she did have the parents to whom she meant the world, she had the friend she could talk all with, she had love which probably exists only in novels (and yeah this was a novel too)..a few detours, few things going wrong, doesn't mean you get to kill yourself...or make someone else's life even worse than death..
I can't help but be amazed by the guy...how do you do that..how does love really make you do things a sane person would never understand...you can hurt yourself for the one you love, but how do you let the one you love give up everything...do you really play God, believing that you can handle it all yourself...
I simply won't be able to comprehend it all...for the book is about three things I never have understood...
Love, a different perception for every individual,
Truth, no one really knows if there is an eternal truth;
Death, more specifically suicide; it just is not imaginable...for someone to choose it as the last option, specially when life gives you a plenty of better things to choose from, Always...
Anyways, I need to get back to read some light, romantic, cute, funny novel....and get some peace for myself...
And hopefully, by the time I am back with something else to blabber on, I'll be in happier mode....Adios...
PS: And I so happened to go by her site and read what the lady herself had to say about her piece of work, in case you are interested to read more..Jodi Picoult's words about The Pact
