jennreadsallthetime 's review for:

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

DID NOT FINISH

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A patron at the library I work at told me this was the best book he had ever read. I gave it 200 pages and there were times I was completely engulfed in the author’s world and I wanted to stay there. But I couldn’t because I needed to move on and the story was stuck with the same descriptions of the streets and the bar and the people and everything. I wanted to say “we already know this; you told us five pages ago.” He is an excellent writer but he is a repetitive writer and that kept me from reading further.