{"id":4333,"date":"2014-01-24T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:14:22","slug":"voice-of-the-violin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4333","title":{"rendered":"Voice of the Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001R9DI84\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001R9DI84&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Voice of the Violin<\/a><\/em> (1997\/2003) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/camilleri_andrea.php\">Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jqjQCG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/Voice-Violin.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7306\" \/><\/a>This story is a turning point for Catarella.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;(I)n a few days, some absolutely up-to-date computer will be arriving&#8230; He wanted each of us to give him the name of an officer we thought had a special knack for computer science. Which I did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you insane? Nobody here knows a goddamn thing about the stuff. Whose name did you give up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Catarella,&#8221; said an utterly serious Mimi Augello.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I shan&#8217;t tell you how it works out. You&#8217;ll have to read for yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Catarella remains, in many ways, unchanged.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(T)he door to the inspector&#8217;s office flew open, slamming into the wall, and Catarella came barreling into the room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next time you come in here like that, I&#8217;m gonna shoot you. And you know I mean it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the food. Even simple things make me hungry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Want a little wheat bread? I took it out of the oven less than an hour ago. Shall I prepare you some?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without waiting for an answer, she cut two slices from a loaf, dressed them in olive oil, salt, and black pepper, adding a slice of pecorino cheese&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m hungry just thinking about that&#8211;never mind the fact I had a delicious and filling dinner.<\/p>\n<p>There is also, of course, a murder to be solved. And it&#8217;s fascinating and horrible, and well done.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, one last bit&#8211;you can tell when this story was written, not as much by the reference to computers at the start of the story, but by these passage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Assuming a boarding pass exists, it means nothing, even if the protagonist&#8217;s name is on it. Anyone can use it since they don&#8217;t ask for ID.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That world is so strange and foreign today.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished by Penguin<br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/30969\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voice of the Violin (1997\/2003) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli This story is a turning point for Catarella. &#8220;(I)n a few days, some absolutely up-to-date computer will be arriving&#8230; He wanted each of us to give him the name of an officer we thought had a special knack for computer science. Which I did.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,8,291,42,38],"tags":[94,95,54,435],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-mystery","category-paper","category-police","category-translated","tag-andrea-camilleri","tag-inspector-montalbano","tag-italy","tag-stephen-sartarelli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-17T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10845,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10845","url_meta":{"origin":4333,"position":0},"title":"Voice of the Violin, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"May 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Voice of the Violin, Audible Version (1997\/2003\/2008) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli narrated by Grover Gardner This book begins the slow and slight redemption of Catarella. \u201cOh, Chief, I got another streamly impoitant ting to tell ya. 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