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I just finished reading Trevayne, another Robert Ludlum novel. Or as it's printed on the cover L'ultima verità (the final truth), my first book in Italian. And I celebrated the occasion by ordering more stuff from www.ibs.it. 
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existentialism a la nippon
I started reading a new one, The Sigma Protocol, "Protocollo Sigma". Tbh I'm a little disappointed that I can't seem to sniff out the spy novels in Ludlum's repository, the last several of his books were political thrillers, as is this one. I've made a lot of progress in reading though, there's now few words on the page I don't understand.
Just finished the most boring book I've ever read in my life:
Il pallone nel burrone - Come i maggiori imprenditori italiani hanno portato il calcio al crac
I only finished it cause felt committed after having bought it just a couple of weeks ago. It's written by someone with the mindset of an accountant who goes on to state the financial machinations of shall we say every personality in Serie A and even B. It's packed full of dates and figures and it's horribly boring. It also serves to remove any illusion whatsoever that you might have had about anyone in calcio being committed to fairness or having an interest in obeying the laws and the statues laid down. They're all a bunch of crooks and the financial tricks they employ to get around the rules are unbelievable.
I remember when Calciopoli hit I kept thinking "if what Juve did was so blatant and so sly, then I can't bring myself to believe that the other clubs acted terribly different". After reading this book I can see that it's worse than I ever imagined.
If you want to lose your respect for calcio once and for all, read this book, heck just the first chapter will do.
Il pallone nel burrone - Come i maggiori imprenditori italiani hanno portato il calcio al crac
I only finished it cause felt committed after having bought it just a couple of weeks ago. It's written by someone with the mindset of an accountant who goes on to state the financial machinations of shall we say every personality in Serie A and even B. It's packed full of dates and figures and it's horribly boring. It also serves to remove any illusion whatsoever that you might have had about anyone in calcio being committed to fairness or having an interest in obeying the laws and the statues laid down. They're all a bunch of crooks and the financial tricks they employ to get around the rules are unbelievable.
I remember when Calciopoli hit I kept thinking "if what Juve did was so blatant and so sly, then I can't bring myself to believe that the other clubs acted terribly different". After reading this book I can see that it's worse than I ever imagined.
If you want to lose your respect for calcio once and for all, read this book, heck just the first chapter will do.
