This is better than War and Peace.The only issue I have with it was not making a small note at the end, one small paragraph even, that the veterans of the War went to Rio de Janeiro and created there the very first Favela
>>24968973I tend to agree. It's one of my favourite books, and I've recently finished War and Peace and found it rather disappointing. However, I feel like I haven't digested it yet.
It's so funny that he wrote this book and then ran for office as a libertarian
Wtf was that with the aristocrat and the maid at the end? It came out of nowhere.
>>24968973Started reading it in English. It was either weirdly translated or he's just a bad writer. I put it down after 10 pages.>The man was tall and so thin he seemed to be always in profile.That's the 1st line.I have a hard time imagining a stick insect, sorry.I ended up reading Marquez instead.
>>24970937He has a natural style, and you're missing out, but I've read a Romanian translation. Maybe English, being a more streamlined language, makes it sound Kafkaesque.
