Tiago Pomella Lobo's Reviews > A Cidade e as Serras

Good book.
Not the best if you want action and adventures (hehehe) but it`s a good read.
The best thing about it, in my opinion, is that it manages to give the reader a complete idea of the backgroud in the end of sec. XIX, in Europe. It gives you exactly the sensation of abundancy and fullness that was around people in the cities. For every need, you had someone producing something that could answer to your problems, if you could pay for it, of course. The number of kinds of bottled waters is a good example of that, and one of the best moments in the book, for me, that gives you the sensation the writter wanted (i believe) for us to feel.
Later on, the same idea is fulfilled, but in relation not to the cities, but to the fields and mountains. You can get the idea of how was to live in the country, in Europe, that time, and only by reading this book.
Not a waste of time at all, but be ready to have to withstand some dull passages.