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kyyjonssoni's review against another edition
2.0
Aihe oli huippukiinnostava ja kirjailijalla omalaatuisen kiehtova tapa käsitellä teemoja. Mutta kirja oli pitkälti nimilitanioita ja pitkäpiimäistä poukkoilua eri aiheiden välillä vähän löytämättä punaista lankaa. Itse tutkimuksellisesti tässä on varmasti nähty vaivaa, riskeerattu omaa hyvinvointia ja toisaalta myös osoitettu tietty lohduttomuuskin koko Italian mafiamaailmasta. Sikäli siis vaikuttavakin kirja, mutta toteutus ei vienyt allekirjoittanutta mukaansa kuten toivoin.
rasuka's review
4.0
Great learnings - a book that touched me, because it introduced me to a parallel universe. Peculiar writing style and structuring which can be hard to follow, not a book for a bit of light reading. My deepest respect to the author who risked his life publishing this book.
nabilhamzaki's review against another edition
3.0
"I just had to stop dreaming of emancipation and anarchic freedoms and throw myself into the arena, stick a semiautomatic into my underwear and start doing business for real. Convince myself to be part of the connective fabric of my day, to gamble everything, to command and be commanded, to become a beast of profit, a raptor of finance, a samurai of the clans, to turn my life into a battlefield where you don't hope to survive but to merely go down after a good fight."
underthesea's review
4.0
I have to face the fact that adult me (unlike kid me, an obsessive re-reader) forgets the shit out of the majority of what I read. Reviewing becomes a must if what I write down is all I'm going to remember.
So, Gomorrah stands out as a very obviously courageous book. Saviano walks the reader through some of the Camorra's businesses, murders and modus operandi. To do that, he crams too much information into lists, he jumps from topic to topic with nary a connection, and such things as adequate backgrounds to characters, himself included, are neglected. Of course, as long as he was going to risk his life, he might as well put all the info he had worked hard to get on the page even if it was in no particular order.
The stand out for me is the chilling last chapter about trash disposal, a topic that our society has declined to face, and that is already coming back to bite us.
So, Gomorrah stands out as a very obviously courageous book. Saviano walks the reader through some of the Camorra's businesses, murders and modus operandi. To do that, he crams too much information into lists, he jumps from topic to topic with nary a connection, and such things as adequate backgrounds to characters, himself included, are neglected. Of course, as long as he was going to risk his life, he might as well put all the info he had worked hard to get on the page even if it was in no particular order.
The stand out for me is the chilling last chapter about trash disposal, a topic that our society has declined to face, and that is already coming back to bite us.
ennieeva's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Very interesting and informative but it was quite hard to remember all the names and to follow who's who.
leesendroom's review against another edition
3.0
Er staat een nieuwe recensie online! Dit keer van het boek 'Gomorra' dat ik voor school moest lezen. Of ik het boek leuk vind, lees je nu op mijn blog! http://leesendroom.jouwweb.nl/gomorra
philippelazaro's review against another edition
1.0
“I discovered that there are difficult truths that...prefer to have a face that remains in the shadows because the things that are said are so personal that to add blood and flesh to them would mean two things: to give up authenticity of the story or to die of it.”
–Roberto Saviano
Brutal. That's the best way to describe the book.
It's scenes are gritty. It exposes some of the darkest parts of Italy and of globalization, from forced labor to the violent methods of enforcing one's position of power.
Saviano's tell-all was very important. I also think it wasn't quite for me.
–Roberto Saviano
Brutal. That's the best way to describe the book.
It's scenes are gritty. It exposes some of the darkest parts of Italy and of globalization, from forced labor to the violent methods of enforcing one's position of power.
Saviano's tell-all was very important. I also think it wasn't quite for me.
sbaunsgard's review
5.0
This book is fascinating. It has a section on criminal nicknames that is the Catalogue of Ships of crime books. I also feel bad that Saviano will probably never lead anything like a normal life again.