The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Review: Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.

Opinion: Of course I know many people alredy saw this movie and considered it romantic or whatever... But this book proved to be a great literature work in it´s own. You just submerge and enjoy every moment of the story being carried by the author´s dazzling descriptions. Everytime that I read I like to learn as much as I can and at the same time fulfill my curiosity of every subject by using the great resourceful google! haha. I learned about second world war bombs (by this I meant that I analyzed blueprints of the bombs to understand how the function) and I also got to know about Count László Almásy that it´s in fact the man that inspired the author for the character of the english patient.

This is an statue of the guy provided by the mighty wikipedia. haha... But now at least I can prove to my mother that books are useful and that I learn stuff all the time... (gud hur dum!!!)