The last few weeks I've spend my time watching movies, reading books, and thinking about what I want to do after the summer, I've not really figured that last part out but am enjoying the other things very much. Seen some bad and good movies, unfortunately nothing exceptional.

I finished the book from Congo a while back and thought it was pretty good (the book, not about what happened in Congo). It also makes me never ever want to go to Congo. And I doubt there are going to be many places in Africa where I do want to go.

What I want to talk about in this blog is another book though, Shantaram:



I would recommend this book to everyone, however I think that it's best suited for people who've traveled a little bit and have seen different cultures (not necessarily the indian culture). I find it hard to explain why I think this book is so good but it was one of the few books that actually 'grabbed me'. I never really understood when people said that a book grabbed them but now I see how that works. It is a very interesting story and even though parts of it are fictional it shows that lots of it is written from his own experiences in India.

Even though it's a 930 page novel there was not a single point in the book where I got bored/distracted. Almost always when I read a book I can't resist looking at the page number (which in itself might say something about me) but this was the first book where whenever I looked at what page I was at it suddenly was 50 pages further...

There are alot of discussions in the book about good/evil/religion/murder/etc which showed some views that I had not come across before and found very interesting but I need to reread the book (which I'm sure I will) before I want to make a 10-page blogpost about that.

Now to figure out what the next book is that I'm going to read... if anyone has thoughts on the following books let me know because the next book I'm going to read is one of these:

- The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
- American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
- The name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
- House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Robin out.