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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (Enterprise) (Enterprise)19 reviews
Tim Parks

W. W. Norton, 2006

AMAZING STORY AND STYLE
WOW! EXCELLENT! BRILLIANT! Tim Parks' way of explaining things is so dexterous. As a failed reader of "The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397-1494," I was deeply impressed by this book. Even if de Roover's book is a must-read book on financial history, it's so hard to keep reading. But this excellent book isn't. I couldn't do anything until I finish it. One of the merits of the book ... 		  
  







  
  
An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (An Evergreen book)3 reviews
Tim Parks

Grove Press, 2006

Raising kids in Italy from a father's point of view
This book was required reading for an Italian Culture course I'm taking. What wisdom my professor has shown in assigning this book! In addition to gaining valuable insight into contemporary Italian culture, I was also very moved by this story of an Englishman raising his half-Italian children in Italy. He observes how Italian his children are and how early they recognize that he is not one of ... 		  
  







  
  
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)10 reviews
Giorgio Bassani

Everyman's Library, 2005

haunting love story
This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about discovering one's three rich heritages (Italian and Jewish and literary). And it is a story about a boy becoming a writer. There must be thousands such coming-of-age stories; thousands of stories about that first (and naturally unrequited) love; and, since most of the people who write these stories are authors there are even a few ... 		  
  







  
  
Contempt (New York Review Books Classics)8 reviews
Alberto Moravia

NYRB Classics, 2004

Faustian Bargain and the Unreliable Narrator
After a second reading of Contempt, I feel compelled to call the short, tautly written novel a masterpiece. Told from the perspective of a neurotic egotist, the narrator accounts how he "sacrificed" his literary writing career to debase himself in the tawdry task of writing screenplays so that he can afford to lavish his wife with a bigger more opulent living quarters. The narrator convinces ... 		  
  







  
  
A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and...Goals!14 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 2003

Life on the "curva sud" with a real fan
An English academic, living and teaching in Northern Italy for the past twenty years, Tim Parks offers a colorful, rich, detailed account of a year (2000-01) following his historic local football club, Hellas Verona. This is a week-by-week, blow-by-blow account, up close and very personal. He starts as an interested observer and becomes a believer. Better that this is written by a man of letters ... 		  
  







  
  
PHP5 and MySQL Bible11 reviews
Tim Converse, Joyce Park, ...

Wiley, 2004

educational AND entertaining
This book is not meant to be a profound cache of code-snippets. Indeed there are some coding errors. I freely admit that I learned raw html "OJT" years ago, with little reason or time to learn anything more involved that wasn't required of me. I was a designer, typesetter and layout hanger, not a programmer. I have no experience in C or in Java. Call me a programmer groupie, I have dozens of ... 		  
  







  
  
D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin ...6 reviews
D. H. Lawrence

Penguin Classics, 2008

Over the Alps with a stolen German girlfriend...
If i were to read only two travel books then this would be the second one, although both my wife and an English friend read it in German translation and reported that it was terrible. Maybe it doesn't translate well. Lawrence, as young man, describes a thread running through his life as he starts the journey by heading south toward Italy on foot from Bavaria with Frida, a way of travel that many ... 		  
  







  
  
Italian Neighbors13 reviews
Tim Parks

Grove Press, 2003

Italian experiences at its best
Here I was, taking Italian language classes and desperately searching for a book describing a slice of the real italian life. You may say: but what about "under the tuscan sun" As much as I wanted to like it, I couldn't really get into the book. I am not sure why. "Italian neighbors" is a spunky, honest book about life in a country that is so alluring and one would think so similar to what we are ... 		  
  







  
  
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony18 reviews
Roberto Calasso

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993

A Voice from Inside the Myths
It's a cliché often used in book reviews, but like the Greek myths in the masterful hands of Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony reinvigorates the cliché with a new and powerful meaning: This is a work of staggering genius. Calasso doesn't talk "about" the myths; he talks from inside them as though they have assimilated him and he now speaks with their voice. That might ... 		  
  







  
  
Php 4 Bible (Bible (Wiley))29 reviews
Tim Converse, Joyce Park

Hungry Minds, 2000

Amazing Resource for those New to PHP
This book proved to be the perfect resource for me. I am familiar with Basic, Pascal, C++, Actionscript, Lingo, and Javascript, but PHP was my first server-side language. This book is great for those new to programming, but especially helpful resource for me as I just needed the PHP syntax and an overview of the server-side workflow. 		  
  







  
  
Cleaver: A Novel2 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 2008

Masterpiece...
Harold Cleaver, who is in his mid to late 50's, is balding, overweight, a womanizer and also happens to be Britain's most celebrated T.V. journalist. This story is set in 2004. Several days before his interview with the U.S. President, he reads a just published but thinly veiled fiction novel written by his son about Harold and his family titled "Under His Shadow." His son viciously and ... 		  
  







  
  
Adultery and Other Diversions5 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 2000

a sassicaia 85 type of a book, complex ,sensual,has breed.
This is the third book of the author I have read.I run into the Italian Education accidentally,while perusing through the travel section in a bookstore. Later I have read the Italian Neighbours. I recommend these books higly especially for those who are interested in Italian society and who thought that Francis Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun was a tasteless joke. This last book by Parks which ... 		  
  







  
  
Juggling the Stars8 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 2001

Parks: the next Fowles?
This is the first book I've read by Tim Parks and I plan to follow it up immediately with the sequel, "Mimi's Ghost". Park's style can be compared favorably to a young John Fowles' , especially his earlier works such as "The Magus" and "The Collector". As in "The Collecter", Parks creates a disturbing story told from the perpetrator's POV wherin the main character attempts to justify his own ... 		  
  







  
  
Italian Education25 reviews
Tim Parks

Harper Perennial, 1996

Living in Italy/Italian life
I have read two of Tim Parks books and have even sent them to my daughter who recently moved to Italy. His books talk about real life things in Italy that she has also encountered. It was enjoyable reading them in succession because I could see how he had been adapting to the new culture and different ways of doing things. A must read for anyone thinking about moving to Italy and a pleasant ... 		  
  







  
  
Destiny : A Novel3 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 2001

Tim Parks Goes Deeper
This is my kind of novel. The disenchanted, urban, pan-European middle-aged protagonist is the only type of character that interests me at the moment. This book goes deeper into the kind of philosophical yet entertaining writing that Parks' readers have come to expect of him. The novel captures its protagonist at the riveting crisis point after a son's suicide, as he contemplates the breakup of ... 		  
  







  
  
Baltimore's Patterson Park (MD) (Images of America)2 reviews
Tim Almaguer, Friends of Patterson Park

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Great memories
Another great photo history book of the area in which I grew up. I've recommended it to friends and several have told me they purchased it and are just as happy with as I am. My children and some of my grandchildren have also read and enjoyed it. 		  
  







  
  
Indian Nocturne (New Directions)3 reviews
Antonio Tabucchi

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1989

"To light and shadow"
This Medicis Prize('89) winning book is an exploration of the frontiers of identity within very ancient India. It may all be a dream as the "Author's Note" which precedes this 100 page text describes the narrative as an "insomnia" and a "search for a shadow". You can make of that what you like but those evocative sentences only partially set the tone for Tabucchi's book is a playful series of ... 		  
  







  
  
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories3 reviews
Italo Calvino

Vintage, 1996

Far out.
If you see polka dots as round stripes (as I do) then this collection will appeal to you. This guy has a really off beat take on the world. 		  
  







  
  
My Life (Hesperus Classics)
Giuseppe Garibaldi

Hesperus Press, 2004

Translated for the first time into English from Garibaldi?s original manuscripts, these memoirs provide an authentic reading of the life and times of one of the most remarkable figures in history. The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi?distinguished by superhuman courage, personal tragedy, and tireless struggle in the name of freedom?has remained a source of fascination for generations. In this engrossing first-person narrative, Garibaldi charts his ... 		  
  







  
  
Europa18 reviews
Tim Parks

Arcade Publishing, 1999

Wonderful book by a remarkable writer.
I read this rather lenghty book in two consecutive days, immersed in Park's looping, breathtaking, inner monologue, stream of conscience writing. This novel is about an obsessive love afair, a troubled, alienated, at times self-loathing academic with his heart not in the academic game show at all, a tale about the "other" as another reviewer succintly put it, about the complexities of life and ... 		  
  







  




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