It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Never Knew Women by Vijay Poolakkal
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I was contemplating suicide when God manifested Himself before me and counselled me to reconsider. At His behest I began to narrate my life from childhood days to know where I had transgressed from the righteous path and the reasons for my repeated misfortunes. It was true that I never knew women. My first love at the age of ten turned sour when my letter landed in the terrible hands of our most despised headmaster popularly known as the "Hangman". He promptly hung me up and threatened to break every bone in my body if I did not keep my dirty hands off his daughter. I dropped her at once like a sack of rotten potatoes, but many years later when I saw her (now a mother of four) at a party the first thing she asked me was whether I had a copy of that masterpiece! Later, I moved to Calcutta where a neighbourhood girl scattered some romantic flowers into my otherwise dull existence, and we started exchanging novels with love notes inside. Unfortunately, my debut love poem, passed on to her with a James Hadley Chase thriller "You Never Know With Woman" happened to be evaluated by her tyrannical father, a connoisseur of English poetry, who threw my love poem into the nearest waste paper basket along with me. The girl categorically stated that she had no love for me. Dejected I decided to commit suicide, but at the opportune moment a beat policeman thwarted my smooth sail onto the outer world. I realised that I needed a change of climate and opted for a transfer to our Darjeeling office where I found I had to share my room with a ghost. I was less enthusiastic in having him as my companion but for a few months nothing happened and I was thinking that it was ridiculous to believe in such weird stories when one evening I encountered the ghost face to face. The next day I packed up and took a train to Bombay to try my luck in scriptwriting. A much acclaimed film director licked my story and found it tasteful, but as the shooting progressed the storyline took a detour through his chosen erotic bye-lanes to suit what he called the box office format. My dream died young, and I returned to Calcutta to take up a job with a large organisation. I never knew that I would be kicked about like a tennis ball whenever anything went wrong in the office. But my boss liked me, and advised me to take all such hollering as part of training. It was then, in this murky atmosphere, a bright star shimmered when a girl from the next street showed affinity towards me but her love too turned out to be nothing but a counterfeit of lust.All my love thus had ended in fiasco, and realising that true love existed nowhere, I agreed to marry a girl from my own hometown. But it proved a disaster as my days became a game of shuttlecock. Sickened, I decided to revive my suicide plan, and it was then the Almighty appeared before me who expounded me that it was due to my past-life karma that my arch enemy in the previous birth came as my wife in the present life. He said if I had properly studied women I would have found all situations hilarious, and would have taken life lightly. Later when I told my wife about meeting God, she poo-pooed it saying that I didn't even know a proper prayer for God to manifest Himself before a mortal like me. I didn't argue. Because I knew women.
Never Knew Women by Vijay Poolakkal is 190 pages long, and a total of 47,500 words.
This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 19 minutes to read Never Knew Women aloud.
Never Knew Women is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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