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(# From The Reading Room's FB Page) And I happily crossed Shantaram from my to-read book list! For almost four years it was topping the list, and indeed it was worth a wait! It is one of the books which you would resist to stop reading once you start to read one. Just like a typical color scheme, a particular brush spread makes an artistic painting tell about it's hidden ideas out loud or a beautiful camera setting, makes a photograph poetic, the words of this book, makes you fall in love with the book or the characters or the situations. They just speak. Sitting there silently, they make you realize their presence. They force you to hide under the pretext of fiction and make you believe that the characters are your real life friends instead. I know it feels bad and you are heartfelt when you notice that what you are reading is just another chapter from a lifeless book! So many times you have to make yourself understand - it's not real, and at times you need...