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Not the QF tie 6....
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BOTB: War Of The Worlds (Mad Cyril) v Shantaram (KingShrimper)
- Thread starter MK Shrimper
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Mad Cyril
The Fresh Prince of Belfairs⭐⭐
Why vote for a book that sounds like a bad Indian restaurant?
Ricky Otto
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If we are mud slinging I'll just say one thing, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds :winking:
MK Shrimper
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Play nicely children and sell your books like good little Shrimpers.
Yeah, bad call 'cos I love that album.
Yeah, bad call 'cos I love that album.
Ricky Otto
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Really?? Oh well good job we are voting on the book hey MK :smile:
Pubey
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Shantaram is a great book. Daft as hell but a perfect page-turner when you're on holiday.
southend4ever
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Shantaram just sounds barbaric.
Ricky Otto
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Think I've lost this one
WOTW is a decent book, no shame in going out to it but I don't think it's the classic some claim.
One more attempt to win some votes
For those that haven’t read or heard of Shantaram, let me try and win your vote!
It is a work of fiction by Gregory David Roberts which echo parts of his life and it is a mystery as to what has been embellished. The author says that it is fiction designed to read like an autobiography and has admitted to amalgamating characters from his life so not to create too much confusion.
The book starts with the protagonist escaping from Pentridge prison in Australia and getting forged documents so he can travel to London via India. When arriving in India he decides to stay longer than 1[SUP]st[/SUP] planned and becomes a victim of a mass fire in the slums where his documents are destroyed and he is forced to abandon his plan to go on to London (all of this is true to Roberts life and can be corroborated by public record). He needs to earn money in the slums and sets up a medical practice in the slums treating victim of the fire and becomes a respected part of the community. He befriends some of the more unsavoury characters in the slums and goes on to a life of crime again as well as heroin addiction. The protagonist ends up in prison again, this time in India and it’s squalid conditions. To get by in prison he befriends some Afghans and upon his release gets involved gun running for the Afghans in the Soviet/Afghan conflict. A hippy at heart he despairs of what he has become and the story ends with him running off to Sri Lanka. Obviously there is far more depth including some great characters and a love story.
Warner Bros purchased the film rights when Johnny Depp expressed his love for the book and his desire to star in a film adaptation, the passion project never came to light with Depp though and he has decided to step back and be a producer due to age. The film is said to be going ahead with Joel Edgerton playing the lead. It was Depp’s publicised interest that encouraged me to read it and myself and everyone I know who have read it have been blown away.
'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan . . . Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. It's a profound tribute to his willpower . . . At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision.' Time Out
WOTW is a decent book, no shame in going out to it but I don't think it's the classic some claim.
One more attempt to win some votes
For those that haven’t read or heard of Shantaram, let me try and win your vote!
It is a work of fiction by Gregory David Roberts which echo parts of his life and it is a mystery as to what has been embellished. The author says that it is fiction designed to read like an autobiography and has admitted to amalgamating characters from his life so not to create too much confusion.
The book starts with the protagonist escaping from Pentridge prison in Australia and getting forged documents so he can travel to London via India. When arriving in India he decides to stay longer than 1[SUP]st[/SUP] planned and becomes a victim of a mass fire in the slums where his documents are destroyed and he is forced to abandon his plan to go on to London (all of this is true to Roberts life and can be corroborated by public record). He needs to earn money in the slums and sets up a medical practice in the slums treating victim of the fire and becomes a respected part of the community. He befriends some of the more unsavoury characters in the slums and goes on to a life of crime again as well as heroin addiction. The protagonist ends up in prison again, this time in India and it’s squalid conditions. To get by in prison he befriends some Afghans and upon his release gets involved gun running for the Afghans in the Soviet/Afghan conflict. A hippy at heart he despairs of what he has become and the story ends with him running off to Sri Lanka. Obviously there is far more depth including some great characters and a love story.
Warner Bros purchased the film rights when Johnny Depp expressed his love for the book and his desire to star in a film adaptation, the passion project never came to light with Depp though and he has decided to step back and be a producer due to age. The film is said to be going ahead with Joel Edgerton playing the lead. It was Depp’s publicised interest that encouraged me to read it and myself and everyone I know who have read it have been blown away.
'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail. Then, in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan . . . Amazingly, Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. It's a profound tribute to his willpower . . . At once a high-kicking, eye-gouging adventure, a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision.' Time Out
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WOTW through to the real QFs.
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