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Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts · 2003
Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.
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What did Shantaram leave in you?
One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.
Live proof
The line you carried will sit here, in print.
From the margins
10 lines · sorted by underlines · offline shelf
- CarriedNo. O0HJLI
Lin escaped prison in Australia and found his heart in Bombay's slums. First chapter, already runaway.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byIlan04 APR 2026 - CarriedNo. MQZPSY
Prabaker's big white smile, the book's sun. I want a friend like that and I want to be one.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byGrace04 MAY 2026 - CarriedNo. LNGZID
Karla said every human heartbeat is a universe of possibilities. Then the book tested hers.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byMira04 JUN 2026 - CarriedNo. SN1WKA
The slum clinic with no license and all the medicine. Robin Hood updated to a tin roof.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byRosa04 JUL 2026 - CarriedNo. CMX7YW
He ran into the mountains with the mujahideen and learned war has no scenery.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byOwen04 AUG 2026 - CarriedNo. TEJR67
Abdel Khader Khan, the philosopher don. Loyalty with a library, crime with a canon.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byIlan04 SEP 2026 - CarriedNo. 4GEJCJ
The Bombay torture scenes read like theology. Does the universe care? The pain votes.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byPetra06 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. HQE5AF
Johnny Cigar and the kids of the slum. Dignity lives in smallest shelters.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byKofi15 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. AS7RQY
The haft of the knife and the black feather, some choices you make for the person you'd like to be.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byGrace22 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. 0ZM5JM
Carried out of it: luck is what the streets call grace. Spend it well.
Carried out ofShantaramGregory David Roberts · 2003not yet underlinedCarried byIlan28 OCT 2026