Superb read (Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts)

Member Name: arrnoosa

Product:	Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Date:	27/05/09 (9 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: good story and interesting

Disadvantages: none

Quite simply my favourite book! It is a big book, but within the first couple of chapters you will be hooked. Basically, the character, based on the author, escapes from an Australian prison and escapes to Bombay. From then on the events that take place are non-stop as Lin soon integrates into the chaotic Bombay life and makes lots of friends. He soon becomes a very popular guy around the City and the people that he meets leads him towards some interesting opportunites.

One of my favourite parts of the book is when he is living in the slums. I've often wondered what it would be like to live in those kind of conditions and this section of the book gives a real insight. The book is a mix of fiction and non-fiction, so you can't be 100% that the images that he depicts are correct but I'm sure it has a lot of similarities.

His contacts lead him to Bollywood, prison, the mafia and Afghanistan plus much more.

I recommend this book to as many people as possible and I cannot wait for the film to come out (2009 apparently).

Summary: a must read for anyone interested in India