i just came back from colombia and read this book in the plane. enjoying my return to speaking spanish for a little bit. i’ve always liked fernando V. he is intense like no one else. his prose is agile and nice to read. the book doesn’t have an academic format but it has plenty of academic discussion blended with just pure ruthless opinion. he is quite versed in greek and latin so a lot of discussions are quite authoritative. fernando V. despises the catholic church, seriously. he completely destroys a lot of its arguments and tells you the brutal bloody story of 20 centuries of killing and destruction the catholic church has perpetrated. it’s brutal, it’s so brutal, so many killings… fernando loves animals and he spends quite the time speaking for them and pointing that jesus never did so.
the reading is recommended – i’ve never read a translation though – but if you read in spanish, it’s good, well, if you like his work, his prose, his way of being. it goes well with the recent movie “religulous” – very similar -.