the other book review

I felt like writ­ing some­thing and hey…this is the per­fect place.

The book I’m read­ing now is The city of falling angels by John Berendt. How that man can write! I thought his first book Mid­night in the gar­den of good & evil great, and The city of falling angels is just as intrigu­ing. I know I haven’t fin­ished the book yet, but his way of sto­ry­telling is for­mi­da­ble. He knows how to intro­duce the col­or­ful char­ac­ters he comes across in Venice and he lets them speak as if you were right there beside him. Together with Berendt you find your­self in the mid­dle of a social net­work of inter­est­ing peo­ple, each with their own story about Venice, the peo­ple, the cul­ture.
The nice thing is, that this book, just like Mid­night in the gar­den of good & evil, is non-fiction. How­ever, I always com­pletely for­get that fact when I’m read­ing. Berendt’s style is so lively, the non-fictional facts are embed­ded in a what seems like fic­tional storytelling.

For my review on Mid­night in the gar­den of good & evil click here.
For the actual time line of Mid­night in the gar­den of good & evil click here.
For the real story behind The city of falling angels click here.

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