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judgefudge wrote: »Oh no! Don't say that! I'm only on page 220 ish. Yeah his fairly narcissistic. And the description when he met Karla made me feel a little sick. But I'm hoping it gets better. I heard people either love it or hate it
That is so true, people tend to either rave about it or really dislike it, there is no middle ground with the book! I'll be keen to know what you think of it when you have finished it.Aglomerado wrote: »The descriptions of the places are sumptuous though and made me want to visit India (still to happen).
I enjoyed the descriptions as well.
In fact I wrote a review of the book on a website when I had finished, I've copied and pasted it so you can see exactly what I thought!
I am presuming Roberts locked his Editor in a cupboard
This book had come recommended to me due to its almost cult following. Recommended by intelligent people whom had said to me that if I wanted to really immerse myself in a great book then this was it. How wrong they were. The book starts off promising enough with the protagonist landing in India with no great plan other than to survive. I was interested in elements of the story: the sensory descriptions of the bustling city, I found Prakaber endearing and amusing and was interested in village life as well as the tribulations of slum existence but that really is where the "story" begins and ends for me.
Because in all honesty this is not really a story, more a self-serving egotistical journey for Roberts who I am presuming locked his Editor in a cupboard so that he would have free reign in dumping a rather gargantuan, 950-word brain fart down on paper. The pop psychology, the feeble attempts at philosophy, the eagerness with which he paints the protagonist as a truly wonderful human being regardless of him being a violent ex addict and his woefully embarrassing love scenes with the utterly vile Karla all merge into a really protracted and painful book that really could have been cut down to about 250 pages. So that accounts for 700 pages of rubbish. Most of which are made up of Karla talking in riddles, akin to Joker in Batman. But with a German accent.
I adore reading, and was excited about the size of the book as there is nothing more exciting than sitting down with a thumping good read that will keep you company. This didn't so much keep me company as irritate the life out of me - I'd liken it instead to a persistent mosquito buzzing in my ear which simply won't go away. In the end you resort to killing it. Just like I did with this book. I reached in excess of 800 pages and figured life is too short so I simply pulled the plug and picked up a Steinbeck because I began to despair for humanity.
If you like reading and enjoy a good book, do not read Shantaram. It's time you'll never be able to recoup.0 -
That is so true, people tend to either rave about it or really dislike it, there is no middle ground with the book! I'll be keen to know what you think of it when you have finished it.
I enjoyed the descriptions as well.
In fact I wrote a review of the book on a website when I had finished, I've copied and pasted it so you can see exactly what I thought!
I am presuming Roberts locked his Editor in a cupboard
This book had come recommended to me due to its almost cult following. Recommended by intelligent people whom had said to me that if I wanted to really immerse myself in a great book then this was it. How wrong they were. The book starts off promising enough with the protagonist landing in India with no great plan other than to survive. I was interested in elements of the story: the sensory descriptions of the bustling city, I found Prakaber endearing and amusing and was interested in village life as well as the tribulations of slum existence but that really is where the "story" begins and ends for me.
Because in all honesty this is not really a story, more a self-serving egotistical journey for Roberts who I am presuming locked his Editor in a cupboard so that he would have free reign in dumping a rather gargantuan, 950-word brain fart down on paper. The pop psychology, the feeble attempts at philosophy, the eagerness with which he paints the protagonist as a truly wonderful human being regardless of him being a violent ex addict and his woefully embarrassing love scenes with the utterly vile Karla all merge into a really protracted and painful book that really could have been cut down to about 250 pages. So that accounts for 700 pages of rubbish. Most of which are made up of Karla talking in riddles, akin to Joker in Batman. But with a German accent.
I adore reading, and was excited about the size of the book as there is nothing more exciting than sitting down with a thumping good read that will keep you company. This didn't so much keep me company as irritate the life out of me - I'd liken it instead to a persistent mosquito buzzing in my ear which simply won't go away. In the end you resort to killing it. Just like I did with this book. I reached in excess of 800 pages and figured life is too short so I simply pulled the plug and picked up a Steinbeck because I began to despair for humanity.
If you like reading and enjoy a good book, do not read Shantaram. It's time you'll never be able to recoup.
Ha! Brain fart!
Excellent review though. Prabaker is indeed endearing, I like how he and his family are depicted. I loved the part where he was living in the slum. I did find it took me about four months to wade through it (OK I was writing a thesis at the same time so had other stuff to read) - the quasi-yogi type stuff he spouts from time to time was hard to get through.0 -
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Really struggling to get through A Dance with Dragons, Brans chapters bore the tits off me
I love Bran's :O Besides he doesn't have a lot of POVs in Dance anyways. Tyrion's finally starting to pick up some pace again.
Daenerys gets far too many chapters for someone who does nothing for the entire book0
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