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Feb 22, 2013good_food_good_mood rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I read this book twice. By reading it a second time I think I was hoping the ending would be different. Alas, I knew it wouldn't be. The other reason for reading it a second time is that the author puts you inside a unique, very different, and amazing culture at the time that it is being ripped apart by goldthirsty Spanish conquistadors (aka mobsters). The portrait of the Inca is objective--no moralizing is done--but warts and all you can't help but wish their culture wasn't wiped out for a few thousand pounds of metal.