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diggitalot's review against another edition
3.0
Våld, droger och aforismer i blandning. Inte lika bra som sin föregångare men det finns ändå något i historien om Lin och Karla som lockar.
quinndm's review against another edition
5.0
The Mountain Shadow - just like Shantaram - is a book that changes you. To the core.
No review can do this book justice. The story is incredible and epic, the writing is poetic and profound... the book, as a whole, changed my life: as a reader and as a writer. It inspires me to become a better storyteller and filmmaker.
These two books are literally the reason I started meditating. I cannot say it enough. This book is life-changing!
No review can do this book justice. The story is incredible and epic, the writing is poetic and profound... the book, as a whole, changed my life: as a reader and as a writer. It inspires me to become a better storyteller and filmmaker.
These two books are literally the reason I started meditating. I cannot say it enough. This book is life-changing!
jesswanderlust's review against another edition
4.0
Obviously not as good as Shantaram, but still pretty great. I felt fully immersed in his world and his characters, and there were some very beautiful lines and paragraphs. I’m gonna miss that crazy cast of characters!
crivens's review against another edition
2.0
Loved the original, put this down unfinished. May try again and update sometime in the future.
pizzamcpin3ppl3's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
sirisolh's review against another edition
4.0
Without knowing it, I read this book exactly two years after Shantaram and it being exactly the same amount of time passed between the stories, it found it worth mentioning.
Anyway, we're back in Bombay and Lin, Lisa, Didier, Abdullah, Karla, Khaled, the Gemini Georges and the rest is still around. Life happens. Not the average Joe life, but the life of mobster, gangster, smugler, self destructive, drinking, smoking, gambling Joe. And it's portrayed in a way that makes it seem closer to paradise than anything else: life, death, love, philosophy (sometimes a bit to much), laughter, fright, fleeing, hiding, fighting, losing, winning, resting, and being in peace is they keywords when Concannon, an Irish guy is trying to get rid of Lin, when Idriss is the new teacher, when the Company has a new boss with less respect and loads of guards, when Lin leaves the company and Karla returns to his life. We're travelling to the mountains, to Goa, to Sri Lanka, but mostly we stay in Bombay, the beloved city.
"We fight when we should have danced"
Anyway, we're back in Bombay and Lin, Lisa, Didier, Abdullah, Karla, Khaled, the Gemini Georges and the rest is still around. Life happens. Not the average Joe life, but the life of mobster, gangster, smugler, self destructive, drinking, smoking, gambling Joe. And it's portrayed in a way that makes it seem closer to paradise than anything else: life, death, love, philosophy (sometimes a bit to much), laughter, fright, fleeing, hiding, fighting, losing, winning, resting, and being in peace is they keywords when Concannon, an Irish guy is trying to get rid of Lin, when Idriss is the new teacher, when the Company has a new boss with less respect and loads of guards, when Lin leaves the company and Karla returns to his life. We're travelling to the mountains, to Goa, to Sri Lanka, but mostly we stay in Bombay, the beloved city.
"We fight when we should have danced"
mallorieedward's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75