Shantaram Rocks

I’ve just read Shantaram and would like to recommend it to any book-reading freak. It’s simply awesome. The points listed below will tell you why?

1. It’s interesting to experience the city that you live, through the eyes of a

complete foreigner.

2. The book is full of awesome one-liners, very insightful and thought provoking.
3. It’s tight – not even a single word is extra or ill fitting, especially for a book

that runs in to 1000 pages.
4. The simplicity of the story. Probably the hardest thing to do is ‘To-keep-it-

simple’. And that’s what David did.
5. Well defined characters, though the story consist of at-least a dozen

characters, still the author hold everyone tight. I still remember, there were

two Sri Lankan brother, for whom the writer hadn’t given more than 200

words. Still they were so vividly described and detailed that they are still

pretty much alive in my memory.

It’s a must read, for book aficionados, for adventure seekers, for people who suffer from sleep disorders (no this wont make you sleep, but at least it’s better than sleeping pills), and finally anyone to everyone who can read English.