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This is a fast-paced, marvelous book, exploring the way the drug industry has changed Mexico for the worse, by means of a trip seeking out drug producing areas within Mexico's mountains. I'm struck by how many people that Grant meets comment on how a place used to be safe and now is very dangerous. Having been to a few of these places in safer times, I found Grant's descriptions to be accurate, and his translations of Mexican obscenities to be diligent and attentive to cultural nuance.
This is a delightful children's book with phenomenal illustrations and a gentle but mischievous attitude. The illustrations really deserve a second and more careful look, as much goes on behind the scenes.
Read this book, if only for Guzm?n Wolfer's Twain-like command of regional Mexican dialects! Then avoid another title of his, Colman Los Muertos el Aire, which isn't nearly as good, unless you're a total vampire freak.
A lot of fun, you have to love Asensi's intellectual-athletic superman monk hero. A multi-lingual and a disciplined warrior, his biggest difficulties are with his teen-aged son. They take you on a guided tour of 14th Century Spain and France, solving mysteries for the Pope in Avignon, not Rome. Not yet available in English, but go for it if you read Spanish.
As this intrepid team roams through churches searching for clues about the Knights Templar, you may ask yourself if Asensi is ripping of the Da Vinci Code, but she cleverly threw off suspicion by beating Dan Brown to print by three years.
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God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant
CaliforniaBookFan, January 7, 2012
This is a fast-paced, marvelous book, exploring the way the drug industry has changed Mexico for the worse, by means of a trip seeking out drug producing areas within Mexico's mountains. I'm struck by how many people that Grant meets comment on how a place used to be safe and now is very dangerous. Having been to a few of these places in safer times, I found Grant's descriptions to be accurate, and his translations of Mexican obscenities to be diligent and attentive to cultural nuance.The Dragon Machine (Picture Puffin Books) by Helen Ward
CaliforniaBookFan, December 21, 2008
This is a delightful children's book with phenomenal illustrations and a gentle but mischievous attitude. The illustrations really deserve a second and more careful look, as much goes on behind the scenes.La Frontera Huele a Sangre by Ricardo Guzman Wolffer
CaliforniaBookFan, June 11, 2006
Read this book, if only for Guzm?n Wolfer's Twain-like command of regional Mexican dialects! Then avoid another title of his, Colman Los Muertos el Aire, which isn't nearly as good, unless you're a total vampire freak.Iacobus
CaliforniaBookFan, June 11, 2006
A lot of fun, you have to love Asensi's intellectual-athletic superman monk hero. A multi-lingual and a disciplined warrior, his biggest difficulties are with his teen-aged son. They take you on a guided tour of 14th Century Spain and France, solving mysteries for the Pope in Avignon, not Rome. Not yet available in English, but go for it if you read Spanish.As this intrepid team roams through churches searching for clues about the Knights Templar, you may ask yourself if Asensi is ripping of the Da Vinci Code, but she cleverly threw off suspicion by beating Dan Brown to print by three years.