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The Sane Psychopath

The Sane Psychopath

bySalil Desai
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5.0 out of 5 starsPerfect
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 15 February 2023
Perfect psychological thriller by Salil Desai
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SIDDHANT GUPTA
2.0 out of 5 starsNot that good
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 22 February 2023
It's not good as compared to writer other books,there is no suspense ,no thrill.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 15 February 2023
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Perfect psychological thriller by Salil Desai
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A. K. SANTHOSH
5.0 out of 5 stars Based on a real incident... thrillingly narrated
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 February 2023
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5.0 out of 5 stars Based on a real incident... thrillingly narrated
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Roshni azam
4.0 out of 5 stars Psychological
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 29 September 2022
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SIDDHANT GUPTA
2.0 out of 5 stars Not that good
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 22 February 2023
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It's not good as compared to writer other books,there is no suspense ,no thrill.
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Meghdeep Sharma
4.0 out of 5 stars Greay book
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 4 September 2022
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Fun reading fully suspense
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Madhuri
5.0 out of 5 stars Thriller based on individual and collective psychology
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 December 2018
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The Sane Psychopath is the anti-thesis of ‘news’ – while news today is about frenzy, the book is about thought.

News narrates events as they occur, raises surface-level questions, and then answers its own questions, drawing us into its loudness and frenzy by feeding on our apprehensions and anger.

The novel, on the other hand, speaks to our sane mind. It takes a horrific real event, the mowing down of Pune citizens by a bus driver, and probes the events, emotions, and thresholds that trigger the latent ‘demon’ within the driver. It tells us that given the right triggers, sanity can snap for any one of us, at any moment, just as it did for Shanker Lande.

It shows the circular nature of cause and effect, in which the effect can once again become a cause, and points, without judgement, to the difficulty of letting go of our anger and pain. It also shows that we are all inextricably linked in ways that we do not want to acknowledge.

Showing that the perpetrator himself had been a victim and that the victim, in turn, can become a future perpetrator, the novel forces us to acknowledge our reluctance to look inwards at our own anger and the many times when we ourselves must have been the trigger in small ways. It raises the question of our interactions with pain, sickness, everyday life through the men in the car and Lande’s boss.

We are guilty of road rage, of being uncaring with colleagues, service providers, family, strangers, clients, of causing pain and discomfort in our interactions, which we brush aside, stating that we were justified in doing so.

In a very direct way, the novel also highlights the urgent need to better understand and accept psychiatric illnesses.

Crucially, for today’s times, lawyer Varun Gupte’s stance shows the interaction between thought and frenzy and the courage it takes to follow up on thought.

Whoever said that crime novels are mere thrillers! The Sane Psychopath is that and more. Salil Desai shows that the genre can help us revisit our attitudes and thought.
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RaZeEn
4.0 out of 5 stars Climax is not upto the scrach
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 September 2021
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Read the book its quit interesting and engaging bt some how for the chap 1 and. 2 felt that its beating around the bush nevertheless after this its moving quickely diluted with violence and the climax is also quit dissaponting if u alter this climax then it would be best I think so and its not everyones cup of tea
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Jahnavi
4.0 out of 5 stars Boring
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 6 December 2021
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It's a true story but the book doesn't build tension or suspence and title throws you off the person is mentally ill he's not sane or a psychopath or a sane psychopath he's just ill that's all
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good one
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 12 January 2022
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The book was a good read. It also explains how some people are treated and what kind of life they live.
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Akash Maheshwari
3.0 out of 5 stars Twisted tale with twisted writing. Not Everyone's cup of tea.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 May 2021
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To be honest I am a fan of Salil Desai's Inspector Sarlakar series. That is why I picked this up. The Sane Psychopath is a book, drew inspiration from 2012 Pune Bus Incident and I must say that this is a great mixture of reality and fiction.
But if we compare it to the other books of him this was a quite bad. The writing, the language is not lucid and easy to understand. Some questions are remained unanswered. Some plots are unnecessary. Character development is also not properly done.
So if you are a regular reader go for this one. Not for a casual or new reader.
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