The would-be thief became distracted after picking up a book about Greek mythology on a bedside table.
  • @[email protected]English
    36•19 days ago

    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

  • @[email protected]English
    21•19 days ago

    Mr 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.

    • Flying SquidOPMEnglish
      21•19 days ago

      Can 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?”

    • SockenklausEnglish
      5•19 days ago

      Also:

      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.

    • Flying SquidOPMEnglish
      20•19 days ago

      It was so engrossing that he had to sit down and read it right there. It was that good.

        • Flying SquidOPMEnglish
          13•19 days ago

          Don’t keep it in your car. You might be driving down the road and glance at it. You won’t be able to prevent what will happen next.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•19 days ago

            I don’t know what happened officer, I have this book on tape and suddenly I was transported to Ancient Greece!!

        • @PronellEnglish
          5•19 days ago

          Some good viral marketing right there!

  • pruwybenEnglish
    13•19 days ago

    So much for that “thieves don’t read” meme.

  • SkaveRatEnglish
    3•19 days ago

    The article is put together weirdly. It seems to jump from one point to another and back again

    • Flying SquidOPMEnglish
      1•19 days ago

      Maybe it’s structured like the novel.

  • @yesmanEnglish
    3•19 days ago

    Bookstores in Iraq will never be the same.