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Originally Posted by cc_in_oh
Just found this thread so it will take a while to catch up, but wanted to say that I recently finished the Montalbano series and really enjoyed it. The cases aren't very complex but are interesting, but it's the cast of zany characters that made them fun reads for me - Salvo's constant misadventures with Livia and other beautiful women. his antics with the commissioner and Lattes, his feud with the pathologist, Livia's feud with the housekeeper, his irrational fury when Fazio tries to give him background info or tells him something is already taken care of, Catarrelli smashing his office door and mangling the language - in fact I think the translator deserves some kind of award for bringing it all to English so colorfully...
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This is reassuring, thanks. I'm just starting the series with
La forma dell'acqua , I'm trying to read along while listening to the audiobook, as an exercise in improving my Italian. There's not a whelk's chance in a supernova of my reading the whole series in Italian, so it's good to hear a positive summary of the series.
