Books

[endo]

My personal Mumbai/India trilogy. Only if anyone is interested and wants to read about 2000 pages of exquisite literature.

[goosehd]

@endo I enjoyed Shantaram and found it a good recreational read. Well written and hard to discern reality from embellishments. I have thought about picking up the following book, but have heard mixed reviews.

[endo]

@goosehd I wouldn't call Shantaram the strongest of the three, but I just read it and enjoyed it. It took me back to the 90s when I read the other two and then spent some time in Mumbai on a trip from Istanbul to Goa, especially at 'Leopold's Cafe'.

[Karol]

Another read of this awesome diary. But finally first time in paper form.

[nurunuru]

Anyone else subjected themselves to this? It is, for the most part, competently written. The unpleasantness is so unrelenting that one becomes pretty much inured to it by the last third or so. I don't regret reading it, per se, but it is a miserable bloody thing that I am glad to be done with. I don't know why it exists and couldn't really recommend it.

Now I'm reading some Jeeves and Wooster. Way better

[Karol]

I finally got my hands on probably the only copy available is Sweden. I was searching online in vain for years. Libraries rule!

[endo]

[Aetas]

Erich Kästner-Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist.

[steelworker]

Horrific.

[SKT]

@steelworker adding it to the list

[Giles]

Ordered, I might say with some trepidation.......