Very nice book, very chaotic again and most of all : where in "Dio's" name does Ammaniti finds the inspiration for the endless row of losers and unlucky bastards in his novels. It's amazing, some character descriptions are so real, it's like they live next to you.
You can only feel sorry for them but then again they tend to get mixed up in the most outrageous situations that it becomes hilarious. All there adventures are so off limits that they make you feel bad, because of the reader's knowledge that things will end badly, but they also make you laugh by the way Ammaniti describes the course of events.
Great novel, great writer. ( )

Brutal, messy, bleak, but hysterical in places. Manages to be both completely character driven and not afraid of balls-to-the-wall action. Did not predict how things were going to work out at all, but the progressions flowed, and I didn't feel played. I was engrossed. Not an easy read, content-wise, but beautifully done. ( )

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Davvero brutto! ( )