Shantaram

I recently finished a book that I highly suggest picking up. Shantaram is incredible. It´s difficult to believe that such a variety of ludicruous things could happen to a single person, but author Gregory David Roberts takes the cake. Escaped convict, drug runner, freedom fighter, slum worker...you name it, and it happened to him. Although I don´t agree with a huge amount of the decisions made by main character Lin, one of many fake identities used by Roberts, the story and learning process that he goes through are second to none. It also raises a plethora of wonderful intellectual and philosophical debates ranging from the reasons for the wrong that we do, to the order of the cosmos, to the meanings of love and suffering. And even more excitingly, the blessed Johnny Depp will be starring as Lin in the upcoming movie. But read the book because I´m sure the movie will be obliged to omit quite a bit of fun.