Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780349117546
Edition: New edition
ISBN: 0349117543
Label: Abacus
Manufacturer: Abacus
Number Of Pages: 944
Publication Date: March 24, 2005
Publisher: Abacus
Studio: Abacus

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Rating: - A Curried Curate's Egg
Having successfully extricated himself and his huge ego from an Australian prison, heroin addict and armed robber Gregory David Roberts flees to Bombay. This powerful but flawed book documents the following 8 years during which GDR rises from the slums and embarks on an impressive portfolio of work experience including unofficial doctor, gangster, bollywood actor and jihadist. Along the way he amasses a wonderful array of friends and admirers, enriches many peoples lives, falls in love and gains ... Read More

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Rating: - Great story but let down by some awful prose
This is a fantastically engaging story, and although over 900 pages long it keeps you turning the pages to see the outcome of his latest escapade. However I agree with some reviewers in that sometimes the descriptive abilities of the author, especially with regards to love scenes are pretty appalling. Phrases like `I was her chariot and she rode me into the sun' just leave you agape thinking "Did I REALLY just read that right??" Its like something from a rejected Mills and Boons novel. He seems far ... Read More

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Rating: - Walter Mitty with violence
Oh poor, poor, me! I am an educated person , but got hooked on drugs! I just had to rob and terrify innocent people using threats and violence. I ruined my wife's, family's and community's lives and turned my back on them. Not too much insight in this book on how he could have taken a different path. He glosses over his violence and torture, ("persuading" the 3 Africans to tell who had sent them), sets himself up as a Florence Nightingale, wallows in his own suffering, accepts a return to violent ... Read More

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Rating: - Appalling
I was appalled by this book on several levels: the abysmal writing, the complete lack of editorial judgement (it could have been cut by at least 50%), the author's vastly inflated opinion of himself and his views on life, but most of all by the awful glorification of crime. For those who have submitted rave reviews of this book did they forget the fact that this man was convicted af armed robbery and sentenced to 19 years in prison? Despite his claims that he is "born again" in India and becomes a "Man ... Read More

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Rating: - Powerful and stunning read
This was a truly amazing read. It hooks you in and then will not let go. You live and breathe Bombay in the '80's and all the vibrant and diverse people who lived there. Gregory David Roberts is on a journey and you are right there with him whether you want to be at that particular moment or not. You find yourself living in a different world with people of many different experiences and mind sets, and yet you realise that there is always something to learn. I suppose that is what makes the book so ... Read More

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