Bryn Hammond’s Reviews > Arauco > Status Update

still magnificent... I don't care if this takes me two months; once ended, what can possibly replace it?

Even better on the second read. In part, because I don't have to wonder whether I'm going to (continue to) love it, with that smidgen of anxiety; I can be confident of it, and in it, and sink in to enjoy.

'This was no Thomist but a tome, an excess of More, a book on shanks, a library on fire, a man improbably begotten of Guttenberg and God.'

A re-read. Happy to be back. Pedro's 'indument' (fantastic attire) is delightful. 'To this day Pedro was stunned by his own presence.'

I don't even follow ball games, but that Mapuche one was better than a battle. Epic.

To feel a certain sympathy with the dogger Mendoza, my god. The perspectives make this book, but that was a feat.

I mean to read this again; that lets me read on when I'm dopey.

The shaman Namku is an education in himself.

I'm not far into this 700-pager but it's fabulous. Immersive, hugely knowledgable -- on the Spanish and the indigenous side -- and written with wit. Life, shove over.