Company of Liars

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Todos con sus vidas presentes y pasadas. Todos con secretos inconfesables que irán saliendo a relucir a medida que la desgracia se vaya cebando sobre ellos. Una desgracia que, aparte de la peste, conlleva la forma de hombre lobo que los persigue y los atemoriza cuando la oscuridad se cierne sobre sus cabezas. Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth. When you no longer have to remember which tale of your own past is true and which is an invention, when you know that you are an invention, then is the time to seek out your home. Perhaps only when you have come to understand that can you finally reach home.”

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One of Maitland's jobs took her to Nigeria for eighteen months where she lived in a rural village, without running water, electricity or sanitation. She was in Nigeria when the civil war broke out. The author knows Middle Ages well, there are references to real places and customs, also, her settings are usually shabby and gritty, which adds to the atmosphere. I was extremely fascinated by the details of daily life, by the very premise of a plague-ridden country and how people grow terrified of it not to mention the author’s apparent Medieval knowledge (holy crap, the whole custom of Cripples’ Wedding is horrifying!) 1 and basically devoured the book in one sitting – despite realising that yes, the book is overlong, quite info dumpy and I was able to predict every single revelation including the Big One. Superstitions of the era influence the journey. They believe in witches and the supernatural. They think a wolf or werewolf is following them. Dramatic tension is maintained by wondering what evils will befall the group. The narrative is driven by the sequential uncovering of secrets. The tone is eerie. The reader will feel a sense of foreboding. We know something bad is going to happen and are waiting for the axe to fall.I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.” From hanging to a tree, to the deadly confirmation that more than Plague is at stake, this group of people is held in suspense by several more sinister circumstances. Maitland’s novel is a juicy concoction of a medieval historical fiction novel mixed with spiritualism, magic, and mystery dumped into a pot of a fairy tale/fable core served to adults versus the Disney crowd (fear not: it is not a fantasy novel and more on the historical fiction end). “Company of Liars” transports the reader to a dark, rainy, medieval forest on foot with the many characters of the story despite if the sun is shining outside your own window. One can almost hear the thunder clap. “Company of Liars” has a simple plot (various travelers come together by twists of fate passing through England); and yet the novel is gripping and quite entertaining with strong visuals and emotional threads. Secrets are a part and parcel of our lives and to hide them we often take the help of lies to ensure that these secrets stay hidden and protected. This is almost everyone’s story and I honestly feel that each person is entitled to their secrets and lies. What man does not lie? It could be those small white lies said to make others happy or even the big ones, told majorly to ensure some secrets are kept safe and no damage occurs to their lives and the lives of their loved ones? Can these people honestly be blamed for those lies that are often disguised, maybe badly, as ways to help keep their loved ones safe? Can people be blamed for keeping secrets that when revealed would lead to their persecution? Human nature is tuned in such a way that it will do anything, absolutely anything, to escape their own persecution or the persecution of those they love and therefore lying in such a context doesn’t seem like a major sin to them. Or maybe they feel that they are justified in telling such lies and don’t fear the consequences that they will face because of it. As in the quote above ‘a secret stays a secret until it finds an understanding ear’.

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I would end by saying that this book had a lot going for it but it was not fol Besides, if you can read the future, you can read the past for they are but ends of the same thread, and I always take great care that no one should know anything of me except my present. You cruel woman Maria!! This is one of my all time favorite stories and I wouldn't change a thing! I loved the sense of inevitabilityAre you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?” Susan wrote: "I am relieved so many people liked this book. I nominated it for my in person book club and I can't wait to hear what those little old ladies think. It makes me smile just thinking about it." David Ellis is a lawyer and the Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for Best First Novel for Line of Vision. Ellis attended Northwestern Law School and began his legal career in private practice in Chicago in 1993. He served as the House Prosecutor who tried and convicted Illinois Governor Blagojevich in the Impeachment Trial before the Illinois Senate. He was elected to the Illinois Appellate Court in 2014 and took office December 1, 2014. Ellis currently lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children. Maitland combines the story-telling traditions of The Canterbury Tales with the supernatural suspense of Kate Mosse's Sepulchre in this atmospheric tale of treachery and magic." - Marie Claire (UK). Company of Liars is a 2008 historical novel by Karen Maitland, set in the fourteenth century. The setting is a Britain which is being decimated by a pandemic known as the Plague.

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http://thebookhttp://www.thebooksmugglers.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gifsmugglers.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gifhttp://www.thebooksmugglers.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gifhttp://www.thebooksmugglers.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif Thats why I'm curious . I've read some rants on how bad ending is. I dont think it bad at all just a suprise. There are clues throughout as to what is going to happen, not just what will happen next, but what will unfold throughout the rest of the story. Some of the hints are fairly large; most readers will probably guess ahead of the plot, but it was the pleasure of fitting everything together that kept my interest -- this and that I already knew, but what significance it could have... My favorite quote: "Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth". - CamelotRead this book in 2011, and its a standalone book about ordinary people during the outbreak of the Plague. So I have no idea what people in Middle ages were like. Sure, they weren't completely alien to us. But there must have been some profound differences in the worldview, right? And the characters in this book felt just like XXI century people - and probably that's one of the reasons they seemed so likeable: you can identify with them! There are many cruel men in this world. Men who rob and kill and prey on the weak, but at least they are honest. They do not claim it is God's will. They do not drive a man to despair and say they are doing it out of love for him. If they torture someone it is only in this world; they do not condemn him to hell to be tortured for all eternity. Only the priests and bishops do that.”