This is so far from the type of thing I usually read, and I can hardly put my finger on why I loved it..all I can say is I found it to be a rollicking great adventure...based loosely on a true story..in this case 'truth is stranger than fiction' I think..
There are very few books that I can think of that bored me as much as this one did.For anyone who has spent time backpacking and staying in hostels. This book is like that bloke (usually English)who hangs out all day in the hostel waiting to ambush someone and tell them about how great & adventurous...
Wow... took me almost two months to read this book! It wasn't a bad or boring book, but it just wasn't a page-turner either, and for a book of 900+ pages, that's really to its own detriment.I can't really figure out whether it's a novel or a memoir. From what I've been able to gather through online ...
I have spent the last two weeks in Roberts's seductive, chaotic, slum filled, audacious Bombay, full of vibrant, wonderful, charismatic characters. This is a grand, sprawling, intelligent, autobiographical novel, elegantly written and splendidly evocative of an India I would otherwise never know. A...
This book has everything..action, romance, mumbai mafia, hint of humour, emotions, philosphy....a foriegner writing about Mumbai city with each and every minute detail....AMAZING read !!!
"A Literary Masterpiece"- Daily Telegraph claims the spine of my book. Okay, "Masterpiece"? Aside from it's hefty 933 page count that clain is probably stretching it a bit. And "Literary"? I don't know if a book with this much eye-gouging can be considered truly literary. But, in truth this book was...
Do you think that watching/reading/listening to someone 'find their spritual way' is akin to being asked to tell their fortune via the skidmarks in their under pants! Especially when it appears to be such false and staged piece of 'sincerity'!Abandoned after 9 hours.Publisher's SummaryThis mesmerizi...
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Dorothy ParkerThroughout the first 150 pages, I was willing to give Shantaram the benefit of the doubt, seeing as I embarked upon it with a heart opened and crushed by A Fine Balance, and hoping it would achieve ...
The autobiographical nature of this novel is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The author knows his subject deeply and gives a fascinating portrait of underworld Bombay in the 1980s. On the other hand, it seems he's so attached to every detail of his experience that he doesn't ...
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