RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-17 10:26:24 UTC
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@sim Haha, yeah. Then again that's in a big part the fault of schools that make such works mandatory reads. Schools tend to be terrible at picking books for the students to read. For example here in highschool students are expected to read a book called El Matadero to cover for local historical literature set in the 1800s, and this book is about political thugs overpowering a man and shoving a corn up his rear (long story short a political party here at the time had thugs that used that as a form of torture). Instead I'd suggest Milla Loncó which is about a kid in his early teens that moves to the frontier lands in ~1870 (at the time disputed between natives and the army) and recounts how life was there, both in the forts and among the natives. It's a much better read, meant for a more general public, and still covers the late 1800s period in the country.
