Stieg Larsson

So I finally finished up on Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and I gave it a total of 4 stars. I really enjoyed it but I wouldn't give it a full 5 stars. There are just some important things I feel that he left out (and for obvious reasons) Sometimes I felt that he thought very highly of himself maybe cocky? Oh well I guess in some ways he has the right to be.

I am now starting the late Stieg Larsson's second book The Girl who Played with Fire it is the second of the trilogy (The Girl wit the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, & The Girl who Kicked the Hornets nest - yet to be translated). Mr. Larsson died shortly after his books were published. He lived in Sweden. The first of his books were great but it was very hard to get into at first because of all the business jargon but once you got passed the first few chapters it was quite good. This book grabbed you the minute you opened it. So far I can't put it down! It is too bad that the author passed away (and at a young age too - mid-fifties) because I think he would've kept writing and delivering such great books but we will just have to thank him for what he did leave us!

Still reading Shantaram...

Well, I am still reading Shantaram. I got no reading done this weekend because I had much to do. Friday we had the Brooklyn Cyclones game. Saturday we went to a BBQ. Sunday we went to our friends house in Long Island and in the car on the way there I read some articles for school and then on Monday, since I had the day off I let my babysitter have the day off too so it was just me and the girls. Once I got them to nap my sister and her husband came over and took us all out to dinner. Once I got them down I jumped in the shower and I was going to read for a bit and then take care of some chores but that never worked. By the time I got home from dinner, we went to look at an apartment that we may move into (but not for another year or two - it's a long story) and when I got home I was done. i was so tired that after I got the girls ready for bed, I took the baby into bed with me and left my husband with Marley and I went to sleep. I think it was like 8pm.

So, I got to read on the bus on the way into work today and this part of the book is not the greatest but now it is starting to get better. I am at the part where he is at the war and blah blah now it is getting good because he just found out about Khader and so on... I just wasn't getting into the war part so much and then Khader & Lin got into one of their rants and I found myself reading but not really paying attention to what I was reading. I don't know maybe I am just ready to get to the next book. Or maybe I am just reading too much from pleasure to school to work. Who knows? But at least now it is getting better again. I still love the book.

I am going to start The Girl Who Played with Fire right after this.

Interesting Site???

http://www.ohjohnny.net/shantaram/shantaram9.html

This site has a little more info on Shantaram the movie but it is more geard toward a Depp Devotion.

Shantaram

Sorry I have been away for some time but as most of you may know. I recently had a baby! Vinni Francis was born July 1st 2009. She was 6lbs 12oz and now is almost 12lbs! She is a big fatty LOL.

So I am reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and so far so good. I am 650 pages in (944 in total). I am enjoying it and I probably won't give it a full 5 stars only because some parts seem too far fetched. There are some wonderful metaphors and there are also some that are just ridiculous but all in all I am enjoying it. It is a semi-biography and there are a lot of truth to his story but for obvious reasons it is not a true bio. The one thing that drives me most insane is how he makes himself out to be. granted he did more wonderful things in his life that my whole town would never compare to but he has also done a lot of horrible things too but he makes it out that he has redeemed himself by all the great things he has done. He may have built schools and the like but he has hurt people and stabbed a few along the way. What I am really trying to say is that he makes himself seem very cocky, which may not be a bad thing but...Well, you would just have to read it to understand me. I am having little trouble trying to get my words out that is why I read and don't write LOL.

Anyway, the book is soon to be a movie. In October 2004 he sold the movie rights to Johnny Depp, Brad Grey, Graham King, & Warner Brothers and he began writing the screenplay. The Shantaram project was put on hold due to the writers’ strike in 2008.Depp loved the novel and he invited the author to visit him in London. Everything was going fine until Depp quoted his price. All activity related to Shantaram came to a screeching halt after that. but it is now to be a film in 2011.