Why Nations fail

Fools Die by Mario Puzo is one of the few books I genuinely regretted. Other times I hate the book but it’s fun to rant about them. But this book got on my last nerves.

For “Never let me go” I would say it’s because it’s marketed as some kind of twist story when that’s not the point of the story. While we do get a twist we can work out the major part of it well ahead. The point of the story was to feel for the characters hearing about the relationships among them.

So someone picking this up for a gripping horror novel with a twist end would be bitterly disappointed. As one reviewer put it “…he rambled on for 100s of pages” when that’s all all the books I read do.

I blame the two line reviewing social media bookfluencers for false marketing.

Thank you I took it literally too until the end. Of course doesn’t take anything away from the story. It’s not like this was all in Piranesi’s head but just what one could learn from the story.

Celia St. James in Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She was unbearable for me

Thank you for answering. You gave a unique insight to question 1 which I didn’t see before.

Yea he comes close to realising when the monster finishes narrating his tale but then dismisses it as him trying to manipulate him.