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getting old in mke

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4. _Captain Alatriste_ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 08:32 PM

Feb 2013

First of several in 17th century Spain and environs. I've read his _Club Dumas_ and _The Fencing Master_ and enjoyed them + went through a couple of Napoleonic military series last year (Sharpe & Aubrey/Maturin), so I think I'll like moving back in time three-quarters of a century as well.

Question for those in the know: In his present day books, a character drinking a bottle of gin and starting another happens regularly. I'm guessing that in Spain and/or France a bottle is something other than a US fifth? At least I hope so. Otherwise I'd think the stories would be really short: Page 1: our hero drinks a bottle and starts another. Page 2: our hero dies of alcohol poisoning...

Still listening to _Poseidon's Gold_ by Lindsey Davis.

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