Rudyard Kipling: Kim

A very complex book. There are essentially 2 storylines, the story of Kim being the chela to the Lama, and the story of Kim the spy in the Great Game. Kim is a white boy who grew up in teh slums of a city in India. He lived with all sorts of different people, so he learned how to act like any of them. He started on the Great Game at a young age by running messages for a "horse trader," really another player in the Great Game. His father was in the army, and told Kim that if he ever saw "A bull on green grass" (the welsh flag) it was his future. So one day, white walking with the Lama, he did see the flag, and so went and joined himself to it. One of the masters of the Great Game was there, so when he was sent to school he knew it was just preparation for the Great Game. He spent his summers learnign and practicing arts for the Great Game, and in wandering around with his Lama. His Lama was searching for a river that would apparently "wash all his sins away." Finally in the end of the book, he helped on his first mission, but spent a white recovering, and hid Lama found the river, or so he thought.
9/10 long and complex, and I didn't understand everything that was going on because of the differnet cultures, however, I really enjoyed it. Although it was complex, all the important details were there, and very few unimportant ones.