The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become ...
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Jan 08, 2009
Meg
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BOOOOORRRRINNNNNNG. Really. Blah blah and more verbal random stuff. I LOVE books about Latin America. Forget it. I finished it hoping to figure out what the point of the book was....sigh. I need to stop picking books by the region the author is from. :)
Apr 03, 2009
Erin
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Wow, there are few books I just can't get through, but this was one of them. Boring and indulgent, its plot, character and dialogue are all sacrificed for a political manifesto. Zzzzzzz.
Jan 31, 2010
Kathyred
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I didn't like how passive the central character was, but I liked how he analyzed relationships between Latin America and the US, and I liked the mystery
Jul 27, 2009
Maggie
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I read this in Spanish first and then in English, and liked it in Spanish better. It is a quick read and is entertaining.
Aug 04, 2010
If you like self absorbed middle aged angst of academics that will bore you to tears, this book is for you. Suffice to say, I did not like it. And it is not what I would consider a political thriller. A meandering, predictable political mystery involving people you are not even interested in enough to despise, maybe. But to call it a thriller would imply that there's something engaging about the book, which is not the case in the slightest.
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