Book Review of "The Great Train Journey"

THE GREAT TRAIN JOURNEY

Book Cover of  "The Great Train Journey"

Book Review by Bookish Adventures

How I came across This Book:- Earlier this year(2023) I got my hands on a tablet to study and take my video lectures without straining my eyes too much. As soon as I got the tablet I installed my online study app and Kindle on it.

     As I am an Amazon Prime user, I already knew that many books are available for free on Kindle under the Prime reading collection and found this great book, “ The Great Train Journey” by a legendary Indian Author “Ruskin Bond”. Ruskin Bond is a familiar name to me because his stories are published in school textbooks in India, and Ruskin Bond is a renowned author in the Indian Subcontinent. So I added this book to my Kindle library and started reading.

 

About This Book:- This book is a short story collection in which all the stories revolve around trains. And I am myself a fan of train journeys and Indian Railways. All the stories in the book are so perfectly written that they will make you aspire to take a train journey in the Indian Subcontinent, especially in the Siwalik region of the Himalayas because almost all the stories are based on the train journeys of the Siwalik region. This short stories collection consists of 13 stories which are-

1-     The Great Train Journey             8-   The Woman on Platform No. 8

2-     The Eyes Have It                        9-   Snake Trouble

3-     Dragon in the Tunnel                10-  The Night Train at Deoli 

4-     Belting around Mumbai            11-   Time Stops at Shamli 

5-     Going Home                             12-   The Tunnel

6-     The Long Day                           13-    Kipling’s Shimla

7-     The Tiger in the Tunnel

     All these stories are great and fun to read but ‘The Night Train at Deoli’ and ‘The Eyes Have It’ are my personal favourites.

Best Things About This Book:-

·        This book is written in easy-to-understand language and consists of as usual Ruskin Bond magic.

·        This book is best for beginners who want to start their reading journey but don’t have too much time to read. This book is good for children as well because of its beginner-friendly language.

·        Some of the stories are interesting and you just always get into the story so fast that maybe you won’t realize when you finished it.

·        If you pick this book then you won't regret your choice for sure because the stories are so fun and deep as well.

·        An amazing experience for those who love trains and railways.

·        This book can help you in learning English and build up your vocabulary.

·        The default font size is very good and as I am reading It on Kindle I didn’t face any problems related to the quality.

 

Drawbacks of This Book:-

·        Some of the stories may feel repetitive at first.

·        This book is not for everyone and may please certain target readers.

·        Many Stories in this book are shorter than the general size of the short stories.

 

Conclusion:- According to my point of view this book is a great short story collection and also it is the first English short story collection book I have read. So I rate this book higher than usual. If you want some light stories with amazing writing flavoured with the train journey then this book is perfect for you. I humbly give this book a solid 70 out of 100 and I would say that you should read this book.

     With that, I think that must be it for now and I will see you guys next time until then have fun. time until then have fun.