If God...

As they say, never judge a book by it's movie.
I would more like to put that as 'never judge a book by it's title' after I read 'If God Was A Banker' written by an IIM alumni named Ravi Subramanian.
What a waste of time (and of course, my hard earner Money :P)!
The title looked so appealing. And especially since I have developed this affinity for picking up books by Indian authors, I was very keen to start reading this one.
However, I was left hugely dissaponited when i somehow forced myself to complete this is less than 2 days. It's nothing more than a Sleaze fest. It's supposed to be a fictionalised account of incidents involving a set of "fresh out of college" B school Grads who join the banking operations of a Pvt. International bank in India. Goes back into the early 80's when Pvt banking was seen purely as a domain of the select Wealthy few. (Although I somehow cannot help but feel why this couldn't be a true story considering the fact that the author himself is an IIM grad and a Banker). The author's descriptions about the everyday scenarios in the professional lives of the protagonists, the marketing campaigns, their mercurial rise in their careers all seems to be very cliche'd.

The only positive is that it has a very simple narrative. Maybe one could try reading this if they're making a 24 hr train journey. Else, give this one a miss and you won't be missing much!