SHANTARAM BY GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS // MARKO BOOK CLUB REVIEW #3

Great read! Enjoyed it very much......
Lin (GDR) took great care not to implicate himself in any serious crimes. (understandably ;-)

Great book! 💥💥💥

Just finished this amazing book. So good.

Leopold was as described in the book. I went upstairs, sad down on one of the empty chairs, and relived what the author has written. I went to Leopold just for Shantaram.

My fav book

Very good videos. Keep up good work. Looking forward to discover more book !

Finished listening to the audio book can’t recommend it enough. Such an amazing book!
It’s awesome you got to experience leopald & India. Going through the story made me feel like I was there. Reading the book in India must have just been a whole other experience.

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Now he is soooo famous how come they don't arrest him right now because he escaped prison. Great book needs to have a sequel called my life after writing shantaram. Talking about his new life the one were he is not in prison. And not being brutally bloody graphically torture. I want to go to bumbay maybe I can sell some fruit there make some money travell indie. And maybe meet Gregory David Roberts.

As much as I love the book, it is however too good to be true

Thanks dear I am from jaisalamer rajasthan. I have been cafe in bombay

4 chapters in! Great review

Apple is making a TV series

I have loved reading this massive book. It was just so immersive . If you want to read another "fat and engaging" book, check out - India After Gandhi, A Suitable Boy, and Genghis Khan. !!

Well not a bad review but I still don’t understand why do people show slums of India all the time.. India is 3rd largest economy above UK Germany France.. 4th largest defence spender.. 3rd biggest space agency.. 5th biggest Nuclear power.. and best mafia in the world

A must read. There are so many memorable characters presented. you love the continued spirit of the people under hardships we can't imagine in our country.

it`s true .. I like what you said about the Shantaram ..it´s amazing.

This book made me laugh out loud and it also really made me cry. It felt like a journey. Beautiful.

Blessings ❤️🙏

Another great one that's long but a fabulous page-turner: War and Peace by Tolstoy. People are afraid to read it because it's so long, but it's really just a whole bunch of incredible chapters that read like short stories that all tie together. And yes, as a writer, I love books like Shantaram myself.

I read it three times in a row. Just love the language and the most extraordinary storyline. Just love it

My Favorite Alternative book

LOVED this book! Made me buy a ticket to India 😍

Best book. Eeeevvvverrr

Loved it; couldn't put it down.

My brother in prison recommended this book...
Should I be worried😅

Great book a fantastic book but a good percentage of it is fiction

Definately buying it after hearing the review from u Marko .... ❤️

Good review

Please visit Assam it is a wonderful place ❤️👍

Please review Empire of the Moghul by Alex Rutherford 👍

I read the book because of this video and I’m forever grateful for you.

ok, firstly can we acknowledge what a wild life it is to read a signed copy of Shantaram LITERALLY IN Leopold cafe?! and your mom meeting Lin baba IN Leopold?! this blew my mind.

The truth and bravery.Thank you
Shanta!

MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE, amazing book ..couldnt put it down once i started reading

Nice review. Thanks!

One thing he mentions is the human to human closeness in the slums. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing. I grew up in a young urban neighborhood. All the children played and fought with each other. Neighbours knew neighbours. Women who weren’t working gathered for tea and cards every morning . That neighborhood had all the social , and problem solving skills right there, in about 20 houses.
I watched a video about corrupt developers in India’s destroying those slums. I didn’t know if it was good or bad, maybe both. The contractor was building luxury, tall apartment buildings, but he had to provide homes for those living in the part of the slum he destroyed. Turns out he built the cheapest apartments you ever saw to house these people. Tiny rooms, and the building falling down already.
So those people lost more than an address. They lost the glue which held those slum neighborhoods together. He got nailed by the authorities in the end, but with the money he made, he’s probably right back at it.
I just finished the audiobook. I found it difficult to follow the story because of all the foreign sounding names. It seems like a couple of books. It seems like a different person wrote from after the slum. It was disconcerting. I think this book may be better read than listened to, unless you’re familial with Australian pronounced Indian names.
I usually love a nice long book. I’ve read several James A Michener novels, and they can run to 1000 pages.

I love it, my favorite book

I love prrebaker as well as Abdullah..n didier as well as ulga

Khader..is definitely vito andolini

I've read a bit of it and whilst the story seems interesting I still can't over how bad some of the writing is - some really awful Cartland-esque passages where the metaphors are overused and so bad they're funny. I will persevere.

I've bought this book almost 10 times, everyone I've introduced to the book just keeps the book I've loaned them.

It was a good STORY.

Next time I visit Chandni Chown region in Old Delhi region certainly I will search for an an used book.

Great explanation, I've listened to this on Audible. Very good.

Great review. Thank you. I just started to listen to the audiobook. Really excited to learn more about the characters and India.

Can anyone recommend a book for me? I’m not much of a reader but I did read Shantaram and it changed my life and the novel was amazing! Skeptical I can find anything similar that I might like but maybe you all can recommend something