Title: A Painful Read!
Product review: I've read Michener before--I loved "Hawaii," for instance, and really got a sense of place for Hawaii after reading that. But this doesn't do Mexico justice. It's mostly about bullfighting. And that would be okay, I guess, if it were an ENGAGING story about bullfighting, but it's not! Getting through it is an exercise in drudgery. Finally I gave up on the bulls and turned to the parts about ancient Mexico, but these, too, didn't do the true story justice. He shows the savagery of human sacrifices but then makes it all politically correct by adding two characters who are AGAINST that sort of thing, and then making them the ancestors of the book's narrator. I love Mexico. I actually like Michener's works. But this was a thoroughly disappointing read.
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