Inferno by Luc Sante Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Inferno
Book Review: Pictures that will sear your mind and wound your soul
Summary: 5 Stars
With this book/pictorial, it becomes quite clear, that yes indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words or more.... Each picture means more than any news report or article you've ever read... You see the evil in the world with a clarity rarely shown in few other works of media... When you look at these pictures, tears of anguish, tears of a simmering anger begin to well in your eyes... the question we all must ask ourselves, "How can we let this happen? and why does it happen?" No one should ever suffer like those people suffer in this book, and it is heartbreaking and disheartning to realize that so many Americans and others don't really give a darn enough to stand up and do something...Book Review: Powerful
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most powerful books (experiences) I have ever read. It reminds me daily that our family is great need and that the responsibility for its condition is ours!Book Review: Reminder: Inferno
Summary: 5 Stars
Luis Bunuel once said, and I paraphrase: "Where is the kindness and intelligence that will save man?"I applaud "Inferno," and at the same time note that it serves as a reminder to us Americans to look at our own backyards: East Los Angeles, South Central L.A., the Bronx, Harlem, Cabrini Green... all are centers rife with pain. HUMAN pain. It takes work: mentoring, mentoring, mentoring. As Luis Rodriguez ("Always Running") has said: "To know (these young people), you have to walk with them." Young people need elders in ways that empty political rhetoric, Pokemon, MTV, and Hollywood cannot and will never compensate for; the HUMAN ways.
Let's begin healing ourselves, maybe via mentoring, transmitting the spirit of entrepreneurship or teaching literacy and the vast freedom of books to Black and Brown kids in East L.A. and South Central. Let's do the practical, never glorified work! For in that spirit, we find an added bonus: we see love in action, right where it counts.
Book Review: Searing and Unforgettable
Summary: 5 Stars
I have never felt compelled to write a review before but having, a few hours ago, looked at each photograph in this book in our local bookstore, and still consumed with the images I saw, I am writing to tell you that it is impossible to view these photographs without being viscerally seared. While we all know of these horrors their sheer magnitude renders them hard to assimilate: it is therefore generally easier and so much more comfortable to forget about them as people do with the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the killing fields of Cambodia and so on. Each photograph in this book shows a heart-breaking human tragedy that completely personalises the horror and thereby forces us to become emotionally involved with those who suffer. This book should be in every public library.Book Review: The Truth About Suffering
Summary: 5 Stars
Its ironic that I came across this beautiful book the day before Thanksgiving. I will always be grateful and never complain again. Not many will be able to stomach the contents of this groundbreaking work.
God help us all.