Travel to Europe

The City of Falling Angels

Format: Paperback
Author: John Berendt
ReleaseDate: 26 September, 2006
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Rating:

Outstanding
The richly detailed writing makes you want to visit the city. John Berendt has once again written an outstanding book about one of the most fascinating cities in the world, in this case Venice. It also provides an illuminating look at the strange Italian system of justice.

As with his earlier Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Berendt provides the reader with a good sense of what kind of place the city is. This time, instead of a murder, the central narrative of the book is an opera house. Strange as it may sound, this actually holds the reader's interest.


All in all, a most outstanding work.

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Nice little book
A slight let-down. What can one expect following the earlier book. But still a nice little book on the vagaries of another tarnished port city. Berendt does a good job handling the various kooks, nuts and average Venetians he comes across in a fair and even-handed way.

He does a fine job explaining Venice in a non-traditional way, and made me want to visit off season, to really check the place out.

He also piqued my interest in the labrynth that is the Italian legal system.

All in all a fine little book.

The City of Falling Angels
A good non-fiction,written like fiction read. This book kept me interested mainly because I was a recent visitor of Venice, and sould easily identify some of the places described. The people he described seemed very authentic.

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