The latest selection in Andrew
Luck’s book club for adults is Papillon
by Henri Charriere. (Andrew Luck
makes this qualify as fitness reading.
Also, extreme endurance events in the plot.) The book is a memoir written by a man sentenced to life
imprisonment in French Guyana. He
attempts multiple escapes, eventually succeeding and going on to live out his
life in Venezuela.
This was not my favorite
book. Much of it reads too much
like fiction, and some of it like the kind of fantasy a horny con would come up
with. The exploits are exciting,
the prisons are horrible, and the characters are colorful. They just don’t seem all that real and
thus are less compelling. Maybe I
would like it better if I were a male.
Or if I saw the movie with Steve McQueen.
Verdict: Give this one a miss.
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