Gomorrah : Italy’s Other Mafia
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Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities, the leader has received so many death threats from the Camorra that he has been assigned police protection. Known by insiders as ‘the System’, the Camorra, an organized crime network with a global reach and large stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs and toxic-waste disposal, exerts a malign grip on cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast is the deciding factor in why Campania has the highest murder rate in all of Europe and why cancer levels there have skyrocketed in recent years. In pursuit of his theme, Saviano worked as an assistant at a Chinese textile manufacturer and on a construction site, both controlled by ‘the System’, and as a waiter at a Camorra wedding. Born in Naples, he recalls seeing his first murder at the age of fourteen, and how his own father, a doctor, suffered a brutal beating for trying to help an eighteen-year-ancient victim, left for dead in the street. “Gomorrah” is both a bold and engrossing piece of investigative writing and one heroic young man’s impassioned tale of a place under the rule of a murderous organization.
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I was agreed this book as a gift. I tried to read it – I read about 80% before I gave up. What is abundantly clear is that Roberto Saviano has absolutely no insight into the Mafia. This is certainly not an authoritative account of the Mafia, nor is it a excellent read, indeed “extremely tedious” is the best way to clarify this book.
The information is barely credible, the claims of prosecutors who knew very small, interviews with police, probably all collected second hand from Newspapers and TV News.
I am not an practiced on the Mafia or literature on the Mafia, but there must be many books that offer real insight. This is not one of them.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a compendium of crime. I am in no position to evaluate the truth of all that, but as a reading experience this book falls fleeting. There is no narrative thread. There are no characters around which you can organize your emotions, so the whole thing is ultimately heartless. I like the punchy writing style. There is a breathlessness that seems appropriate to the theme matter and to the feeling of sick ire that I would guess Saviano is trying to give the reader. But apart from brief moments like his adventure as a longshoreman early on, it’s just a lot of name-dropping.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
dont know about it bought it for my son and havent herd from him about it
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I selected this up expecting an appealing and in-depth look at the leader’s infiltration of the Mafia in Sicily. I didn’t make it far enough to see if it really happened. This book failed the 50 page rule, meaning that it didn’t get to the point and was not appealing enough to compel me to read past page 50.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Man, I can’t tell you how disappointed I was with this book. I downloaded the audio version because it sounded appealing and got so many excellent reviews. I judge I listened to about 3 hours of the book at which point I had to stop and question myself, “What exactly is this book about???”
Seriously. I wish I was exaggerating. But three hours into the book – but many pages that equates to – I just had no clue what exactly the book was about. It seemed to be the tale of how Italian criminals pirate clothes. Maybe. Whatever the book is about, I expected three hours into it to be agreed some compelling reason to end it. Just never happened.
BORING.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5