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A review by sofrosune
Chilam Balam by Linkgua
2.0
Note: I read the spanish version from 'Ediciones Brontes S.L.'
Do not waste your time reading this book. It's a mess that cannot be understood without previous extensive knowledge of Ancient Mexico, and their characters, and their culture, but to a gigantic level of detail. What's more: even with the knowledge, you could still get bored from it. And even if you not get bored with it, you would not understand A THING because it's narrated in a figurative, poetic, religious, prophetic way that requires the knowledge of the cultural way of speaking back there in the 1600's to be deciphered... you would need a time machine.
It is also a mess technically: It's a collection of writings that are incomplete, some of the writings start in the middle (because the rest of the pages are missing or something) and when it ends, another writing is presented that is another unrelated story to the previous writings, and in some cases, the next writing is about something that happened BEFORE the previous ones.
It will make your brain collapse with all the names that you are presented with, of both peoples and cities, but one could not care them about the irrelevant excess of it.
Not worth the non-an-historian normal person's time.
Do not waste your time reading this book. It's a mess that cannot be understood without previous extensive knowledge of Ancient Mexico, and their characters, and their culture, but to a gigantic level of detail. What's more: even with the knowledge, you could still get bored from it. And even if you not get bored with it, you would not understand A THING because it's narrated in a figurative, poetic, religious, prophetic way that requires the knowledge of the cultural way of speaking back there in the 1600's to be deciphered... you would need a time machine.
It is also a mess technically: It's a collection of writings that are incomplete, some of the writings start in the middle (because the rest of the pages are missing or something) and when it ends, another writing is presented that is another unrelated story to the previous writings, and in some cases, the next writing is about something that happened BEFORE the previous ones.
It will make your brain collapse with all the names that you are presented with, of both peoples and cities, but one could not care them about the irrelevant excess of it.
Not worth the non-an-historian normal person's time.