unodelacosa
Bluelighter
The count of Monte Cristo is dope. Stephen King has trouble ending his stories, and IT is no exception. I won't "spoil it" for anyone by telling you how IT ends, but if you've read it, you know what I'm talking about. Similarly, The Shining ends poorly and so does The Stand. King ad libs most of his plots as he constructs his prose, and maybe this has something to do with it. Personally I'd rather stick to an outline.Just bought it. Holy shit, I had no idea it was so huge! I think it may rival Stephen King's It for word count. I take it you think it's worth it, though?
Shantaram is an excellent book; I second this recommendation. It's a 2003 quasi-autobiographical novel by Gregory David Roberts about a former bank robber / Heroin addict who escapes from a maximum security prison in Australia and flees to Mumbai, India. There he becomes friends with an array of characters in the bustling ex-patriot scene of Bombay/Mumbai in the 1980s, living in the slums after a series of bad luck and poor decisions before eventually running guns to Afghanistan for a wise Indian mobster who helps him redeem himself and look deeper into the meaning of life. It is indeed a very engaging book with well crafted dialogue and a quick pace. As @neversickanymore said, it really is a page-turner.@ChemicallyEnhanced
When you going to load up Shantaram.. it’s straight dope and you won’t be able to set it down.. you can try.. but it won’t work. It’s brilliance.
This was going to be made into a big budget Hollywood production at one point with Warner Bros. having purchased the films' rights for $2 million and Johnny Depp set to star – evidently he's a huge fan of the book as well. However, I think now Depp maybe is still involved, but the project started filming in 2019 as a series for Apple TV. No telling how it will do, but the book is stellar.