The best laid plans - Sidney
Sheldon
sidney sheldon's "The
best laid plans" is an explosive story of two equally determined people
headed in a collision course. Oliver Russell, a man with a desire for power, is
fated to rise to the highest office, that of President of the United States.
Leslie Stewart, his betrayed fiancee, is a woman dedicated to the single
purpose of bringing Oliver Russell to ruin. After amassing her own media empire
and marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell
on the eve of his most dazzling triumph. Thinking only of preventing Oliver
from winning the Presidency for a second term, little does she know that she is
about to fall into her own trap. They both should have known that even the best
laid plans can go dangerously astray in
in a deadly dangerous way.
The narrative style was the most
attractive part of the fiction, in fact that is the main reason which kept me
intact to the fiction till i could finish it. Sidney is not of the postmodern
types, he never gives any chance to the readers to decide on things and
situations but everything is readymade, well planned and exicuted by the
narrator . His style of writing is a simple and easily comprehendable.
Dialogues were witty and impressive and differed according to one's social
status. personification of Love, Lust, Ambition and Power can be witnessed in
the book and it concentrates more on the political aspects of United states. The
novel addresses not only the high class but also to the lower and the middle
class of the society. The charecters in the novel remain flat throughout the
book. On the whole the novel seems to be less practical and more imaginative.
Anyone who is interested in politics and power wil surely cherish the novel. I
could see traces of machiavellism in the
text, "the ends justifies the means", which is articulated through
Todd and Oliver in the process of becoming the president of United states. The
story line does not go beyond morality and ethics of human life. If I had given
a choice to rate the book out of ten I would give six points which is purely
subjective.
- Magdalene
