Miles's review
An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by Mahatma Gandhi
Miles's review
An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Miles's review
rating:
In Gandhi’s Autobiography (which was hand written by someone else, but told supposedly word-for-word by Gandhi.) the book starts off with Gandhi as a child and his recollections. From here to his teenage years its pretty exciting and an overall page turner. I don’t want to give away anything, but his childhood was pretty weird in comparison to the American lifestyle.
Anyway I found that the chapters later on that involved his life in England overall drab and boring. Gandhi seemed to recall boring court cases, as well as persistently mention his shyness for public speaking. One thing that I found unbelievably interesting is that as lawyer he completely refused to defend any clients who committed the deed they were convicted of, even friends. However in the case of his friends he wouldn’t defend their case, but moreover persuade others to let the case drop (if he believed the convicted had already suffered enough shame.)
The ending of the book is by far the best, where all ends...more
Anyway I found that the chapters later on that involved his life in England overall drab and boring. Gandhi seemed to recall boring court cases, as well as persistently mention his shyness for public speaking. One thing that I found unbelievably interesting is that as lawyer he completely refused to defend any clients who committed the deed they were convicted of, even friends. However in the case of his friends he wouldn’t defend their case, but moreover persuade others to let the case drop (if he believed the convicted had already suffered enough shame.)
The ending of the book is by far the best, where all ends...more
