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The Fruit Palace by: Charles Nicholl List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780099274049 ISBN: 0099274043 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Pages: 334 Publication Date: May 07, 1998 Publisher: Vintage Studio: Vintage Sales Rank: 98125 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - the fruit palaceThis book is a rare thing.There is something of the streetwise combined the well read.It puts you in a space between the world of the conformist and the outlaw.People can only critisize the sincerity of the story but even that only adds to beautiful prose-like seedy imagery in this unreal chaotic reality.It rocks. Rating:  - Glamorising the pre-Pablo Escobar Colombian Cocaine BusinessThis book is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining written on the Colombian contribution to the illicit drugs industry, but should be read with some caution. The book was written prior to the ascent of the Medillin and Cali Cartels and this shows clearly in the book. The book gives the distinct impression that the journalist is being funny and supposedly intrepid in his quest for the Great Cocaine Story at the expense of Colombia and the people who have to put up with having the Great Cocaine Story in their back yard and who are the real victims of the supposedly victimless crime of taking drugs. The book is also quite dated - the daring do would have been impossible in the last twenty years, and this does need to be borne in mind reading ... Read More: Rating: - Subtle blend of travelogue and political observationsThe Fruit Palace is unusual in travel book terms as it is written by someone who can actually write in an engaging style. I have read fewer novels with a better opening - a sting in a bar that sets the tone for the atmosphere in Columbia for a westerner. Nicholls combines adventurism with a poetic appreciation of the people, their culture and country. His trail has a sense of doom about it - Columbia seems to have a lot of characters pursuing ever diminishing circles of lives. Yet one is left with an overall sense of beauty and the unexpected which only such a level headed observer such as Nicholl could give the reader. Enough to make you want to go. |
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