![]() ![]() Few people in the world can claim, the kind of adventurous and thrilling life which the author has lived.Things that stood out to me while I read Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Imagine rewriting a 933-page long book, again and again thrice, while you see the fruit of your labor, the story of your life, and the current situation you are in being destroyed. Even editing short blog posts like this is a grindingly difficult and cumbersome task every single time. The first two versions were trashed and destroyed by the prison guards, while they worked on him frequently as well.Ī testimony to his willpower and a desire to express. The author Gregory David Roberts wrote this book in prison. ![]() ![]() I won’t be exaggerating if I say, in some instances, it’s even life-like. Each paragraph and each sentence is as gripping as the one before and as vivid as a motion picture. “A literary masterpiece…it has the grit and pace of a thriller.”Īpart from being the obvious international bestseller, this book to me is a literary work of art. Like the Daily Telegraph said it and I quote Shantaram is a book of its own kind, one in a class of its own. ![]()
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