Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Roald Dahl

do not know where I read recently that one writer said that, while Dahl continue reading, we have some hope. I think the same. I just read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory without much desire to see the film version. The story is delicious: a boy from a poor family, very very poor, you win a golden ticket to see the inside of the famous chocolate factory of Willie Wonka. Assists with his grandfather and then discovers the old man's hand Wonka, the candy most surprising, most unexpected jellies and even chewing gum that taste of food (including blueberry pie). Meanwhile, Roald glad to criticize parents who give their children everything, children Wolverines, for children who only watch television and even manners, about how bad is chewing gum. In the end, well, read the final one ends with a desire not to eat candy for a while, and besides, none of the candies on store shelves come, either by mistake, yummy Wonka candy. You have to read Roald Dahl. No doubt. Your imagination is clear, powerful and the best of it, warm.
Editorial: Alfaguara
child p. 172

Saturday, May 2, 2009

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Hawksbill Station Robert Silverberg

I have a deja vu that someone will come to graffiti this post ... in order.

many years ago had a couple of friends fans of Science Fiction. Their houses were huge libraries where the same could be found that Foundation and Empire Asimov. Thanks to them I found a collection of Plaza & Janes called imaginary world where I read an interesting and funny novel by Brian Aldiss, Galaxies like grains of sand . Now I just read
Hawksbill Station of not less writer Robert Silverberg, who walks around the review of one of his books. In Hawksbill Station, Silverberg creates a communist prison, prison located on planet Earth, yes, but in the Cambrian period. A plain red, volcanoes and a warm sea virulent yielding trilobites is the landscape for this wonderful novel.
The tension started when a new prisoner arrives at the station and he always doubts concerning the future if that world has changed, what new things have happened and if the fate of this handful of old men and crazy, more so second to first, have any hope of returning to 2025.
I like the characters in Silverberg, defeated men, but remain on edge in the desert thanks to a certain honor that has overcome while encouraged. If literature should give us images, this book gave me more that there was no thinking, an old lame, leaning on a crutch, looking beyond the plain red and the solitude of his memories, a small boat where four of his colleagues scrambling to get the largest trilobite history to eat the flesh spongy and terrible Silverberg said.
Editorial Plaza & Janes
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p. Imaginary Worlds 223

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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Madero other / Ignacio Solares

Repeatedly, Ignacio Solares has demonstrated a great pen. At least I think so. Columbus , his novel about the Villa attack the American population is certainly a novel enjoyable, clear, concise. Has its great moments of joy and action and above all as a historical novel, the reader sheds light on the facts hidden in the storyline which, when combined with fiction not only recreate a historical period, but closer to the people of the time. In
, Madero, the other , however, the solar boom is a great atorĂ³n. More than novel, could pass as a great historical essay by the number of sources and events that populate the work. Without doubt, the life of a native of San Pedro de las Colonias is a matter of literature: his eagerness to mysticism, his confrontation against Diaz, the passion that men born in Villa and discontent that resulted in men other men like Zapata.
But the novel progresses. The author tried counting backwards, as in Journey to the seed, Carpentier, but the narrator used in second person, who used to detonate the narrative, in most cases, questions, rhetorical tone, slows down the narrative.
This data dotted. of appointments, and cuantitavos leaps in building the character, reading back Madero, the other , a little tired. Ignacio Solares is a good storyteller, at least compared with the same Solar Columbus, imagine that you know Madero went to another course. Yes, I think he knows. Still, it's a work that is a reference for understanding history. Unfortunately only a reference and nothing more.
Editorial: Punto de Lectura
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