Unforgettable, truly outstanding book

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	• Shantaram: A Novel Gregory David Roberts St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 - 944 pages average customer review:based on 245 reviews view larger image
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Unforgettable, truly outstanding book

Transports the reader to an exotic locale and carries him through the gamut of human emotions. Beautifully written and, despite a bit of macho posing,infectiously deeply felt. Based on an incredible true story and all the more memorable for that.

Shantaram

This is the best book I have read in a long time! It is beautifully written. It is exciting, romantic, soul searching, and gives a very clear and wonderful look into life in India, especially Bombay. Gregory David Roberts also enables to reader to really feel what he was feeling about his life at the time this all took place in this wonderful autobiography. I am sure this will be made into a movie!

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Great read, bad writing

Terribly written, at times Roberts is able to squeeze up to five unrelated metaphors into a single paragraph (see below).

However, for virtue of the great story and the sheer consistency of the bad writing, although this book will never be a life-changer, it remains a ripping read.

Possible candidate for the first movie-was-better-than-the-book award.

Excerpt:
"I pressed my lips against the sky, and licked the stars into my mouth...Within velvet cloaks of tenderness, our backs convulsed in quivering heat, pushing heat, pushing muscles to complete what minds begin and bodies always win. I was hers. She was mine. My body was her chariot, and she drove it into the sun. Her body was my river, and I became the sea. And the wailing moan that drove our lips together, at the end, was the world of hope and sorrow that ecstasy wrings from lovers as it floods their souls with bliss." - (Scribe, 2006, p. 400)

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Shantaram: A Novel

This is an amazing book. Gregory Roberts speaks to the humanity in all of us with his exquisite writing. He honors us with a depth of wisdom about the intricacies of relationships. He reveals his knowledge through stories of love, loss, friendship, betrayal and patriotism. I laughed. I cried. His characters were in my head long after I finished reading his deeply meaningful book. I am recommending it to social workers, counselors, educators, psychologists and anyone in the health professions. We find ourselves in his words. I emailed Oprah and told her to put this book on her list and to hurry. It is a must read. Instead of flowers, I am now giving this book as my gift. Gregory's beautiful words linger with grace.

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Shantaram

My favorite book of all time, and for me thats a serious statement. I laughed out loud cried quietly and sobbed loudly with this one. It is beautifully written. I fell in love with these characters. What more can I say other than if you are considering buying this then DO IT

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"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."

So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.

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