![]() The detailed recollections of this man’s incredibly miserable life make for the most fascinating survival-adventure I have read in a long, long time. He wrote the quintessential book about escape! But what the film-watcher might not know (or remember) is that Charriere didn’t just escape from a handful of prisons: he escaped from nine. It doesn’t matter if a reader already knows from the film that Henri Charriere successfully escapes from an island prison by floating away on a raft. What a foolish thought and hindrance that was! ![]() That’s not because I didn’t like the film-I loved it!-but because I thought that, since I already knew the story, I wouldn’t enjoy the book as much. I’ve had this book on my shelf for years, and I while I’ve always been drawn to it, memories of the 1973 Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman film have prevented me from reading it. ![]() ![]() You ever run across a game-changing book? A book so grand it floats right to the top of your must-read, favorites-of-all-time list? Papillon did that for me this week. ![]() Each time I was tempted to despair, I would repeat three times: ‘As long as there’s life, there’s hope.'” (291) ![]()
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