Who Killed Palomino Molero?
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  • Cliche' city. Disappointing
  • Who Killed Palomino Molero?
  • Murder most foul
  • Lacks much creativity and makes you sick!!!
  • Good but Minor Work from a Major Writer
Who Killed Palomino Molero?
Mario Vargas Llosa
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This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma investigate. Lacking a squad car, they have to cajole a local cabbie into taking them to the scene of the crime. Their superiors are indifferent; the commanding officer of the air base stands in their way; but Silva and Lituma are determined to uncover the truth.

Who Killed Palomino Molero, an entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, takes up one of Vargas Llosa’s characteristic themes: the despair at how hard it is to be an honest man in a corrupt society.

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2 out of 5 stars Cliche' city. Disappointing.......2004-04-28

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Picked this one up on a whim, based on cover blurbs & laudatory comments here. Has moments, and the descriptions of Peru in the 50's are interesting -- but the characters are thin, and the dialogue is just awful -- one bad cliche' after another. I can't say if the cliche's are the author's or the translators, but this one wasn't for me. I gave up about halfway through. Caveat lector....

Cheers -- Pete Tillman

5 out of 5 stars Who Killed Palomino Molero?.......2002-02-14

This book reminds me of "chronicle of a death foretold" - you may think this is too much of a overdraft but this is just pure sunshine. The translation is just as effective as the plot. The main investigators in the case Lituma and Lieutenant Silva represent a class who takes the insult in what ever form it may be but do not nudge back - gives back a subtle reply which gives the final twist. The author has been able to achieve a twist inside a twist which keeps us wondering at the end about the real topic of the book, which is suppose to be a detective story. The plot changes from an investigation story to traumatic social relations living history. Sometimes I was thinking - is this father Brown with a little bit of Tango? The death of Palomino Molero does not represent a simple case of torture and murder but a social dilemma of hatrate which has its grips so deeply rooted that sometimes people do not even question it . I promise you will enjoy this book.

5 out of 5 stars Murder most foul.......2002-01-18

The time is the 1950s, the place is Peru, and the victim is a young air force enlisted man named Palomino Molero, in Mario Vargas Llosa's spare, tightly written and excellently constructed whodunit. Palomino Molero, eighteen years old, a guitar player who enchanted everyone for miles around singing boleros, is found brutally tortured and murdered near a local air force base. Two civil guards, Officer Lituma and Lieutenant Silva, try to unravel the crime. Rumors abound all over the place; the victim was involved in smuggling or the like and the higher-ups are covering up the perpetrators. But when Silva and Lituma find out that what Palomino Molero was involved in was not smuggling but a love affair with the daughter of his base commander, the plot thickens in all kinds of ways. Vargas Llosa's book is not only a crime novel but a bitter indictment of the social/racial conflicts of modern Peru, where an airman cannot fall in love with the daughter of a colonel, especially if she is white and he is a cholo (half-breed). Vargas Llosa knows how to leaven his story with comic relief; Lieutenant Silva is hopelessly in love with and shamelessly pursuing the respectably married Dona Adriana, and her revenge on him for his presumption is a riot. The murder is solved, but the townspeople won't accept the truth, and insist that they were right all along; there were "higher-ups" involved. "Higher-ups" indeed. It would be a crime in itself to give the solution away and I'm not going to; suffice to say that Vargas Llosa has written a gem of a murder mystery with an ingenious plot twist. It's a very short novel and shows again that some of the best things come in small packages.

1 out of 5 stars Lacks much creativity and makes you sick!!!.......2001-08-26

After reading this book I found out that even a interesting book can make you sick to your stomach.Descriptions were detailed and even though the book wasn't that boring the ending was just so useless and terrible that you wished you hadn't wasted your time in reading this book. I'm sorry but I dont recommend this book to anyone unless you like sick books.

4 out of 5 stars Good but Minor Work from a Major Writer.......2001-06-06

Eminent Peruvian novelist Llosa tries his hand at the crime story with this police procedural set in 1950s Peru. He doesn't stray too far from the tropes of the genre, as a crafty Guarda Civil Lieutenant and his sentimental Sergeant run afoul of powerful military types as they investigate the torture and murder of a young airman from a nearby Air Force base. Still, in this novella length story, he manages to produce a remarkable amount of character development with the two policeman, including an offbeat subplot about the Lieutenant's infatuation with a pudgy married cook. Unsurprisingly, as they slowly unfold the circumstances surrounding the young man's killing, issues of race, class, and corruption come to the fore. And, with such a buildup, it should come as no surprise that the resolution is more bitter than sweet. In sum, this is a relatively minor work from a major writer.
Quien Mato a Palomino Molero?/Who Killed Palomino Molero (Biblioteca breve)
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    Quien Mato a Palomino Molero?/Who Killed Palomino Molero (Biblioteca breve)
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                    5 out of 5 stars Great Short Story.......2007-09-25

                    Unfortunately, many reviewers have not given Debt of Bones it's due. As this was originally released as a short story to sideline the Sword of Truth series, this is not as long as a novel.

                    Debt of bones is about a woman who has a bone debt with First Wizard, Zeddicus Zu'l Zorandor. She uses this debt to attempt to get Zedd to save her daughter from the forced from Dhara, but in doing so, helps to start events that we've read in the Sword of Truth series' past.

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                        Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remember his life on Earth as Jonathan Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. This stranger also remembers one David Reid, who now serves as New Mars's leader. Long ago, it turns out, Wilde and Reid had shared ideals and fought over the same women.Moving from 20th-century Scotland through a tumultuous 21st century and outward to humanity's settlement on a planet circling another star, The Stone Canal is idea-driven sci-fi at its best., making real and believable a future where long lives, strange deaths, and unexpected knowledge await those who survive the wars and revolutions to come.

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                                    Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems.: An article from: American Antiquity
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                                      Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems.: An article from: American Antiquity
                                      Glenn Davis Stone
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                                      Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                                      Title: Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems.
                                      Author: Glenn Davis Stone
                                      Publication: American Antiquity (Refereed)
                                      Date: October 1, 1997
                                      Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
                                      Volume: v62 Issue: n4 Page: p764(3)

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                                      An address, delivered at the laying of the cap-stone, of the combined locks at Lockport, on the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, 1825 by ... Rector of St. Luke's Church, Rochester
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                                        An address, delivered at the laying of the cap-stone, of the combined locks at Lockport, on the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, 1825 by ... Rector of St. Luke's Church, Rochester
                                        F. H Guming
                                        Manufacturer: Orsamus Turner
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                                        An address, delivered at the laying of the cap-stone, of the combined locks at Lockport: On the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, 1825
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                                          An address, delivered at the laying of the cap-stone, of the combined locks at Lockport: On the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, 1825
                                          F. H Cuming
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                                          Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (3rd Edition)
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                                          • A Comprehensive Book With a Big Flaw
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                                          Worldviews: Crosscultural Explorations of Human Beliefs (3rd Edition)
                                          Ninian Smart
                                          Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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                                          This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/mythic; doctrinal/philosophical; ethical/legal; ritual/practical; and social/organizational. For anyone interested in comparative worldviews, religious and secular.

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                                          3 out of 5 stars A Comprehensive Book With a Big Flaw.......2007-07-03

                                          Smart explains his structural understanding of worldview as being a triangle. At the top corner is the cosmos (meaning the physical universe) and the two bottom corners are self and society. One's worldview determines how the three corners are related. It also determines how self experiences the other two corners.

                                          Smart believes that there are six dimensions that help define a worldview. While all worldviews have these six dimensions, the value a worldview may place on any one dimension will differ. The first of these dimensions is the Experiential Dimension. This aspect looks at how the self experiences the cosmos. Smart defines the experience as emotional with a range from terrifying to loving. He also says that an experience may be the same in two different religions, but the interpretation is not. The next dimension that he discusses is the Mythic. This refers to the stories on which a religion is founded and gets its meanings. The Doctrinal Dimension is the aspect of worldview that seeks to make sense of traditions, safeguard the myths, and make religious claims relevant to the current knowledge of the times. Smart's fourth dimension is Ethical. He differentiates between major and minor ethics. Smart says that the major ethics are common to many worldviews because a society could not survive without them. Without these, there would be no societies following any worldview. The Ritual Dimension includes areas such as worship, sacrifice, and rights of passage. The Social Dimension is the final aspect of worldview that Smart discusses. This dimension deals with the relationship between the two bottom angles of Smart's triangle.

                                          The author provides a very broad overview of worldview both geographically and religiously.

                                          The primary problem that I propose for Smart's theory is that he is trying to dispassionately understand the passionately held beliefs of others. The "traditional believer", according to Smart, is incapable of neutral and nonjudgmental analysis of the beliefs of others (or even their own). He appears to fault "traditional believers" for actually believing their beliefs. Smart's "structured empathy" makes it impossible for him to understand the beliefs of traditional believers. Smart wants them to abandon their certainty in the truthfulness and rightness of their beliefs. His preference would be that they would adopt his more rational and correct view of structured empathy and neutrality. In other words, he wants them to become true believers in his system.

                                          4 out of 5 stars great for students.......2000-04-22

                                          This book is a good guide for those seeking more enlightenment about the religious world. this book was my major resource for the religious studies course I was taking. It provides an overview for approaching the different aspect and dimensions of religion as a student of Religion Studies, or as a seeker of truth. The book though gets rather confusing when it refers to the many religions' practices and terminology which I am not accustomed to, thus to make the book more bountiful, I used in joint Huston Smith's book "The World's Religions".
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