The Telling Room, (Paperback)

from ozzer

What was this book about? It started out about the history of a magnificent artisan cheese, made in a small Castilian village by a charismatic Spaniard, but morphed along the way into something else entirely. The main theme certainly was stories and story-telling: how they come into existence, ar...

from Kristine-Williams

For the first two-thirds of The Telling Room, I would have awarded it 3 stars--I was nearly as exasperated with the author as he was with himself! I found the footnotes fascinating, but their constant pull out of the narrative made for a bumpy ride. However, unlike some of the other reviewers, I ...

from jnwelch

"The key to the telling room was a conical piece of metal, an artifact, it seemed, from Middle Earth. Because of its weight, I had to steer it with two hands into the lock . . . Up five steps was the telling room itself, with its white stucco walls, benches and a table, and the musty smell of hay...

from mitchself

Having lived in Spain seven years and having passed through some of the landscape described, I found myself re-immersed in the land and culture that I had come to love so much. But, especially in the first half of the book I was irritated by the author's repetition and circular storytelling; ther...

from JAshleyOdell

It would seem that any book with such an outstanding subtitle would be an enjoyable read, but there wasn't enough about Paterniti's text that one could truly enjoy. A bit too charmed by himself, the author consistently loses focus by going off into hamfisted side-stories or laborious footnotes. O...