The Telling Room A Tale of Love Betrayal Revenge and the World Greatest Piece of Cheese (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Paterniti LJ Ganser Audible Studios Books
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Audie Award Finalist, Non-Fiction, 2014
In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room". Containing nothing but a wooden table and two benches, this is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets - usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine.
It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family recipe, Ambrosio's cheese was reputed to be among the finest in the world, and was said to hold mystical qualities. Eating it, some claimed, conjured long-lost memories. But then, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong.... By the time the two men exited the telling room that evening, Paterniti was hooked. Soon he was fully embroiled in village life, relocating his young family to Guzmán in order to chase the truth about this cheese and explore the fairy tale-like place where the villagers conversed with farm animals, lived by an ancient Castilian code of honor, and made their wine and food by hand, from the grapes growing on a nearby hill and the flocks of sheep floating over the Meseta.
What Paterniti ultimately discovers there in the highlands of Castile is nothing like the idyllic slow-food fable he first imagined. Instead, he's sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery, a blood feud that includes accusations of betrayal and theft, death threats, and a murder plot. As the village begins to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti finds himself implicated in the very story he is writing.
Equal parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and history, The Telling Room is an astonishing work of literary nonfiction by one of our most accomplished storytellers.
A moving exploration of happiness, friendship, and betrayal, The Telling Room introduces us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an unforgettable real-life literary hero, while also holding a mirror up to the world, fully alive to the power of stories that define and sustain us.
The Telling Room A Tale of Love Betrayal Revenge and the World Greatest Piece of Cheese (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Paterniti LJ Ganser Audible Studios Books
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl barely fills 3 pages and it feels perfect. Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables is upwards of 1,400 pages, and one is left wanting more.Michael Paterniti’s The Telling Room clocks in at 352 pages. One gets the impression that this is what his publisher’s advance required him to write. And herein resides the problem. Half way through it the author pretty much admits that he has trouble writing more than perhaps 60 pages on his topic. The result is that this is not a story about a cheese, or a story about the man who made a cheese, or even about the land from which the cheese and the man came from. This is a story about a writer's struggles in writing a book about a man, a land, a cheese, and a lot of random thoughts about random things.
Even with this expanded range of topics, the story often to drones on and on, with fillers, lengthy footnotes, and parenthetical anecdotes about the author’s personal life which, while sometimes charming, are run of the mill.
There is a good story buried in The Telling Room. Perhaps Hans Christian Andersen could have told it in 3 pages, or Victor Hugo in 1,400. In my opinion, Paterniti mostly fails in 352 pages.
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The Telling Room A Tale of Love Betrayal Revenge and the World Greatest Piece of Cheese (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Paterniti LJ Ganser Audible Studios Books Reviews
My friend, author Dave Cullen (Columbine), told me about this book. He is a friend of the author and said he'd been waiting ten years to read.
What grabbed me was the title. I ordered the hardback cover and brought it on a work trip my husband was taking.
Before I finished reading Chapter One, I said to my husband who never reads, "We have to listen to this together." I immediately made him pull over at a restaurant in Silverthorne, CO so we could find WiFi to download the audio version.
We were both enraptured as we listened. This book moves between Spanish history and the author's current life. There are so many layers of stories, and it soon becomes apparent that the stories the author is telling about the characters are also the important parts of his own life.
Some people likely get irritated by all the asides that take you down relentless bunny trails, but that's what makes this book so much fun. Every time we went to an asterisk, I would announce to my husband, "Aside!" It was pretty hilarious.
We're not quite finished listening but I'm eager to give this book a stellar review. How could anyone not love a book about food, revenge, history, memoir, mystery, and the importance of story?
This would have been a terrific book if the author stuck to the story instead of always trying to prove how much he knows about everything! The incredible length of the footnotes at the end of every chapter, which really had nothing to do with the plot, served only to turn those pages more quickly and try to get on with it! The language used was unnecessarily complex and added nothing to the story other than wishing I could read faster and get it over with. In my opinion, the author’s writing style ruined the book. I have a deep love for Spain and read books set in Spain all the time. That is the only reason I stuck with this one to the end. I can’t say enough how much better the book would have been if it had stayed on the story, and it would have been shorter!
This was a chore of a read for me, namely because it took the author about half the book to get to the story of the cheese itself. The first 200-ish pages are all about Paterniti getting to know the cheesemaker and
then struggling to get to the point where he can write the story of the cheesemaker, Ambrosio Molinos.
I learned more (& sooner!) about El Cid and Goya than Molinos.
His writing style meanders, which I usually find engaging, in a layered sort of way, but not this time. Instead of a circuitous path to a dynamic finish, Paterniti’s was... pointless. 10 years pass without a whole lot happening - that’s why I call this a chore to read.
I was particularly bothered by the footnotes, which often felt longer than the chapters they supported - and since I read this on , I found it exceptionally challenging to remember what the footnotes referenced.
Paterniti has a strong grip on word choice, and kept me on my toes as I read, using for example, hirsute instead of hairy, but does “mandible” move the story along better than “jaw”? Maybe not.
Hard to finish, harder to recommend. Meh.
Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl barely fills 3 pages and it feels perfect. Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables is upwards of 1,400 pages, and one is left wanting more.
Michael Paterniti’s The Telling Room clocks in at 352 pages. One gets the impression that this is what his publisher’s advance required him to write. And herein resides the problem. Half way through it the author pretty much admits that he has trouble writing more than perhaps 60 pages on his topic. The result is that this is not a story about a cheese, or a story about the man who made a cheese, or even about the land from which the cheese and the man came from. This is a story about a writer's struggles in writing a book about a man, a land, a cheese, and a lot of random thoughts about random things.
Even with this expanded range of topics, the story often to drones on and on, with fillers, lengthy footnotes, and parenthetical anecdotes about the author’s personal life which, while sometimes charming, are run of the mill.
There is a good story buried in The Telling Room. Perhaps Hans Christian Andersen could have told it in 3 pages, or Victor Hugo in 1,400. In my opinion, Paterniti mostly fails in 352 pages.
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