Paolo Nori
La vergogna delle scarpe nuove

I lend you this book here, which has a title that just reading the title is enough, then one imagines the book and it becomes a nice book, but if you read it, maybe it's even better, because in the end the beauty is also that, that there are writers who do it, they imagine it and write it, and so you can just sit there and read it, that with this heat, even imagining it is hard work.

If you like it, when you finish your shoes, I'll send you the others too, as I, once I start, order quite a few, because Nori's books are all the same, if you like one, you'll like them all, I think, and I order them. Then maybe you won't like them all, because some are not exactly the same, maybe Paolo Nori changes some words, puts some wrong ones, but by then you've bought them, and even if on page eighteen you start to think you'd put that book aside because it's not quite like the ones you liked, you say maybe it's fine, in the end, something had to change too, you know publishers are people with many demands.

And then you try, you go on, and maybe after a while, you like it, because reading it thoroughly it is just like all the others, that book which at first seemed like it was not the case to continue because it wasn't like all the other books by Paolo Nori. So then you finish it and don't think you've completely wasted your money. Anyway, up to now, "La vergogna delle scarpe nuove" is the most similar one I've read, let's say it's my favorite. Then I don't know, because "Bassotuba non c'è" I read it too long ago, and "Grandi ustionati" I'm reading now, then maybe I'll prefer another one, but "Pancetta" no, it's not really the same, there Nori made some changes, it's a bit tiring and all those Russian names, "Pancetta" unlikely to become my favorite. Even if. For now, this one about the shoes, then we'll see.

Sometimes I grow fond. Now I've become fond of Nori. Ah, look, it’s not a great book, but better if someone else tells you this, because I, now, in this period, I'm fond of him, I won't criticize Nori, even if I could do it better than this guy who does it, but if I wanted to, not as someone fond of Nori, but just as any reader, I'd dismantle those criticisms in a heartbeat, I'd make better ones, but I don't feel like it.

When you've finished it, give it back to me, the book.

Bye.