Mike R.W. ’s Reviews > Shantaram > Status Update

I've never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive, here we go

(From "Big Country" by Big Country. 80s all the way)

Gobbled up Part 1 (5 total), chapters 1 - 8.

So far I'd say this book is a continuous flow of words. It's the narrators self-talk that I'm focusing on. He thinks about a lot of different subjects and often heads out for brief mini tangents.

I'm enjoying it so far...I have a feeling it's going to pick up soon.

India. Running away. Memories of faces, fights, regrets and a ton of late nights.

Finally diving in, no stopping now.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio. Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye." Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen,
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye.