This is quite a long drawn out book but an amazing one nonetheless. It gives insight into Gandhi's thinking that led to the so called gandhian characteristics. There are possibly 2 ways of reading this book - either to read this as a documentation of his eccentricities or otherwise to read it as how personal conviction trumps everything else (even everyone's individual quirks).

Hopefully when you finish reading this book you come away taking with you the ideals of perseverance, ahimsa, the spirit of satyagraha and truth instead of focusing on his experiments with dietetics or religiosity.