hello, I am frankie.
I read fiction, fantasy, and detective books. Favourite writers: Jeffrey Archer, Oscar Wilde, John Green
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Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank …
Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank …
Ah, finally done after 12 weeks! 🤭 A superb read of 933 pages. Totally recommended, especially if you understand/want to understand Indianness. :)
One final quote from the last paragraph:
Love: the passionate search for a truth other than our own. Longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved.
An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked …
Been wanting to read this one from a looooong time.
Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank …
Excited and scared about this book. After all, it's a thousand page read! :)
The first edition is the third edition! (The author had to rewrite it twice, after prison guards destroyed the manuscript the first two times)
If it took him that much willpower to write it, I should muster enough to read it, at the least! 🤞
Superb read! Though I doubt if it would be any relatable to others outside of the Indian context, it sure as hell was a swell read to me!
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Nothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author …
Phew! Finally read it! 🥳 The ending was awesome, just like an Archer book!
Worth reading!
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome …
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings …