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Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received.
I'm reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It's a 944 page extravaganza based on the author's life story, which involves breaking out of prison in Australia, disappearing into the slums of Bombay, setting up a free clinic in the slums, getting involved with the Bombay mafia, acting in Bollywood films and various other adventures. He apparently wrote the novel three times, as the first two drafts were destroyed by prison guards, and he's now sold the story to Johnny Depp and the film is in production.
The author's story is almost too ridiculous to be true, and the book is a novel, not a memoir, but it's much better than I expected and I'm enjoying the length of it rather than struggling through it the way I did with, say, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Recommended!
