Monday, August 22, 2005
Shantaram
Ok, so in all honesty, I didn't finish this book. But it's 973 pages and I really was into it at the beginning. So much so that I would lug the enormous tome everywhere just so I could get ahead a few pages every now and then. But then the whole Afghanistan scene happened, and I just lost it. I am bored. And I want to know what happens to the guy but now that I know that Johnny Depp is going to be playing Gregory David Roberts in the film version, I can't pull myself together to read the last 100 pages. Does that mean it's a bad book? I don't think so. It had good intentions from the start, but man, detail! Give it up! We are interested in smelling the smells, and seeing the sights, and feeling the emotions, but we don't need a total play by play about how you tackled every single problem and how you felt while you were doing it. Sorry, GDR. I think your autobiography should've ended awhile before it did. And I don't even know what ultimately happened.