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Ladataan... The devil in MexicoTekijä: G. L. Morrill
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Reverend Morrill was an uber-fundamentalist minister operating out of Minneapolis during the Jazz Age who wrote a series of scathing travel narratives of the evils he found in what would today be described as Third World nations. If one doesn't mind the total immersion in political incorrectness, these accounts are screamingly funny, as he deploys a scathing wit, punslinging wildly to skewer the inhabitants and their politics and religion. Morrill's a bit off his game here, though; after short stops in Key West and Havana, he lands in Yucatan, which he actually liked, and not only is the sarcasm dialed down, he gets bogged down in agronomy and interminable descriptions of Mayan culture. He doesn't like anything else in Mexico, and when he's actually out on the streets, the book is as piquant as ever. Far too much space, though, is wasted on hating on then-President Carranza and Mexican politics and society in general. The book is also rather long and repetitive as he grinds his theoretical axes about Mexican society, politics, and relations with the United States. The book ends weakly with twenty-some pages of aphorisms and a slightly shorter section cheerleading for "Kick the Kaiser in the Can", which obviously has little or nothing to do with Mexico. ( ) ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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