Finished reading the weekend ...
El Ultimo Caton (M. Asensi) Not bad, but very, very predictable. It is clearly written as a movie script, but fairly well documented and easy to read.
It focuses on three very different persons charged by the Vatican with the task of finding a strange sect known as the staurofilax who are stealing all relics involving pieces of Jesus' cross. Their only clue is the dead body of a member of the sect who died in a plane crash and had several strange cross-like scars etched in the body. Soon, they will discover that the mystery is related to Dante's Divine Comedy and that they are bound to walk through the nine circles of the Purgatory before reaching their goal. My only regret is that I did not manage to sympathize
with the main characters. A 7.5/10 would do.
I've also re-read Terry Pratchett's Eric in the plane back from Tenerife, because of the circles of Hell, and all. I give it (again) a 9.5/10 as to most Pratchett's books. Some random quotes of the book:
"The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so."
"Rincewind had] looked Death in the face many times, or more precisely Death had looked him in the back of his rapidly-retreating head head many times..."
"The badge said: "My name is Urglefloggah, Spawn of the Pit and Loathly Guardian of the Dread Portal: How May I Help You?"
Plus, Prometheus' torture :)
Rincewind: "What's going on? What's happening to him?"
Azaremoth: "I don't know what he done, but when I first come here his punishment was to be chained to that rock and every day an eagle would come down and peck his liver out. Bit of an old favourite, that one."
Rincewind: "It doesn't look as though it's attacking him now."
Azaremoth: "Nah. That's all changed. Now it flies down every day and tells him about its hernia operation. Now it's effective, I'll grant you, but it's not what I'd call torture."
It focuses on three very different persons charged by the Vatican with the task of finding a strange sect known as the staurofilax who are stealing all relics involving pieces of Jesus' cross. Their only clue is the dead body of a member of the sect who died in a plane crash and had several strange cross-like scars etched in the body. Soon, they will discover that the mystery is related to Dante's Divine Comedy and that they are bound to walk through the nine circles of the Purgatory before reaching their goal. My only regret is that I did not manage to sympathize
with the main characters. A 7.5/10 would do.
I've also re-read Terry Pratchett's Eric in the plane back from Tenerife, because of the circles of Hell, and all. I give it (again) a 9.5/10 as to most Pratchett's books. Some random quotes of the book:
"The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so."
"Rincewind had] looked Death in the face many times, or more precisely Death had looked him in the back of his rapidly-retreating head head many times..."
"The badge said: "My name is Urglefloggah, Spawn of the Pit and Loathly Guardian of the Dread Portal: How May I Help You?"
Plus, Prometheus' torture :)
Rincewind: "What's going on? What's happening to him?"
Azaremoth: "I don't know what he done, but when I first come here his punishment was to be chained to that rock and every day an eagle would come down and peck his liver out. Bit of an old favourite, that one."
Rincewind: "It doesn't look as though it's attacking him now."
Azaremoth: "Nah. That's all changed. Now it flies down every day and tells him about its hernia operation. Now it's effective, I'll grant you, but it's not what I'd call torture."
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