Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book
Italian burglar caught after sitting down with book
The would-be thief became distracted after picking up a book about Greek mythology on a bedside table.
Giovanni Nucci, the author of The Gods at Six O'Clock, which explains the Iliad from the perspective of the gods, told Il Messaggero: "It's fantastic."
"I'd like to find the person caught red-handed and give him the book, because he'll have been arrested halfway through reading it. I'd like him to be able to finish it.
I like this writer
36Mr Nucci said his personal favourite deity was Hermes, the god of thieves.
"He is also the god of literature. It is clear: everything fits," he joked.
21Can you think of a greater honor for an author than "your book is so good that a guy stopped burglarizing a home just to read it?"
21Also:
He is said to have told police he had climbed the building to visit a person he knew.
"I thought I had ended up in a B&B, saw the book and started to read it."
Im not sure whether this guy really is a burglar or a troll.
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So much for that "thieves don't read" meme.
13Now I want to read this book, sadly it seems like it's Italian only
4The article is put together weirdly. It seems to jump from one point to another and back again
3Maybe it's structured like the novel.
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Bookstores in Iraq will never be the same.
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