Shantaram

I finally managed to finish Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. The book is such a page turner, but still i took like a week to finish Shantaram, coz the philosphies and the great quotes take you by storm and put you in the pensive mode. This book is not for those book-a-day type of people. Neither for those who read while travelling back and forth to work. You ought to take breaks to digest the content.

Saddest Parts of the book:
When prabhakar dies and when he finds out the two people he respected and loved most were actually hand-in-glove and hid the truth from him.

Favourite Characters:
Prabhakar and Didier

Favorite Quotes from the book:
"Sometimes you love only with hope, sometimes, you cry without tears. Someetimes, thats all that is left, to cling together till the dawn".

"Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And in the tiny precious wisdom they give to us, even those dreaded and hated enemies, suffering and failure, have their reason and their right to be."

"I dont know what i fear more, the power that crushes us, or our never ending capacity to endure it."

There are countless such lines in the book, that you read, re-read, think about, re-read them. Do not get scared by the size of the book, just start reading it and you will never put it down, and tell me how you liked it.

Happy Reading!