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Crime with RAI humour I usually enjoy reading crime novels about as much as I enjoy being burgled: not a lot. But watching the RAI's excellent adaptation (for Italian TV) screened on BBC Four recently made me curious enough to try the print original. And the book, of course, opens up dimensions beyond the scope of visual media. Montalbano must be the only fictional sleuth who gets his intuitions from communing with 'saraceno' olive trees (ie those impossibly gnarled and knotty specimens pushing 1000 years old). He has an... more info
Such a joy I love these books. Camilleri writes with such a love of his characters and country and it oozes from every page. Montalbano is so real, a rough and ready cop, a fighter for human dignity and the old school way of doing things, butting up against nodern technology and corruption and taking it head on. In this book, an elderly couple go missing after an organized day trip and Montalbano is sent to investigate. Their seemingly ordinary lives start to unravel and Montalbano is there to pick up the pieces and... more info
Exquisite Mysteries, Little Personal Plots, Tiny Pleasures, and Sardonic Humor Excursion to Tindari has some of the best humor based on human elimination since Rabelais. Who else but Andrea Camilleri would indulge his character development in such an imaginative and earthy way? An ongoing theme in the book is the troubled nature of love between men and women. You will find the exposition to provide much room for chuckles and smiles. The mysteries are subtle and puzzling . . . with the ultimate causal strings well hidden until near the end. Those who love challenging... more info
Exquisite Mysteries, Little Personal Plots, Tiny Pleasures, and Sardonic Humor Excursion to Tindari has some of the best humor based on human elimination since Rabelais. Who else but Andrea Camilleri would indulge his character development in such an imaginative and earthy way? An ongoing theme in the book is the troubled nature of love between men and women. You will find the exposition to provide much room for chuckles and smiles. The mysteries are subtle and puzzling . . . with the ultimate causal strings well hidden until near the end. Those who love challenging... more info
