A review by arquero
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service by Mario Vargas Llosa

3.0

No good deed should go unpunished )

text:
non-linear, I call it server log, duh. This was quite annoying. At some point, I thought the book file was corrupted.

topics:
legalize prostitution. Frankly, when you gather tons of young studs together you need to address their needs at the same scale. And yes brothels blossom near military camps.

brother Francisco's heresy was largely a pun on Christianity itself. It was sadly cynical but correlated little with the main plot. It was an overload.

cf. bridge over the river Kwai (blindly executing orders)