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A review by underthesea
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
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.