Sunday, April 24, 2011

Gerber Baby Food Blueberry Buckle

Sh * t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern


Very poorly translated into English as The bullshit my father, this book comes from a Twitter page where Justin Halpern was publishing the most memorable phrases he heard that his eccentric father daily . I can not imagine a worse source for a book and started reading it with no expectation (good growth, expectations were, but all bad). Of so that I myself was first surprised to find a book unpretentious, funny and endearing, about a father and son not very conventional. A relationship that has nothing to do with those that appear in Disney films or books on how to educate your children, but that is what Justin Halpern and his father have it, and they work fine. The author does not attempt to beautify and ennoble the reality of his father, which makes it needless. With candor and spontaneity not prohibit him from using his undoubted talent as a writer, Halpern AC jr brief quotations in his book from his father about all sorts of everyday situations with more extensive accounts of stories of their life together. The result is a tribute from son to a father who had to play its role without other instruction manual that love and personal convictions, and has succeeded in being true to himself throughout his life. Find a book feared afterpunk postmodern, and has proved a very personal and human work that does not appear this time.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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The Impatient Alchemist, Lorenzo Silva


in 1995 by chance and I bought a book called curiosity November without violets, the first work of one Lorenzo Silva published by an obscure publishing house called "Editions libertarian." And I loved the book. As were the days without internet, had to spend more than fifteen years before I found out from exile this heresy that a Lorenzo Silva was becoming world famous in our country with a series of novels about a couple of Civil Guards. And yet it took another ten years for that series of novels finally fell into my hands, thanks to the wonderful idea that has had the authority to offer on pack for the electronic book reader for the price of laughter.

The second novel in the series, The Impatient Alchemist, was awarded the Nadal Prize in 2000 and is a delightful book that is read in one sitting, leaving a great taste. The detective plot is less than the height of the entanglements Scandinavian we are used today, but the author knows compensate with characters that, while some archetypal sin (can not get too deep into the psychology of a cast so wide in less than 300 pages), although these are drawn with brushstrokes very accurate and also produce some dialogues which are among the best ever written in our literature. Another important difference is that the current thrillers Lorenzo Silva proves to be an incurable optimist in regard to human nature: for his novel parading a series of wicked and unscrupulous characters, but also appear while a few men and women upright, principled, not necessarily nice but with a conscience and a strong sense of justice. And the best part is that these characters are entirely credible and capable of convincing even for a moment that all is not lost. Not every day has a body to postmodern skepticism.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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Debt

Pay them or ignore them but not suffer.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Tundra Ski-doo For Sale

Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl


This book collects seven stories that Roald Dahl was published separately between 1940 and 1950, but once assembled form a surprising amount of thematic unity, plot and style. I read a review which describe these stories as "chilling ghost story without ghosts, and I think the description perfect sense of unease that remains in the reader after reading some stories seem so innocent and quaint.

The mysteries and eccentricities of rural life that exemplify these stories are presented to us by the hand of a first-person narrator, who acts as an outside observer and target (although it occasionally gets involved in the action) of behavior, customs and reasoning of his friends and neighbors of the English people who have gone to live, and the relentless logic of common sense applied by these people for his most barbaric, amazing, disgusting or simply unimaginable. The irony is so subtle as it is black humor, and an inattentive reader could to think that the author simply to chronicle any manners of a people and its people. But it is clear that Roald Dahl has only what you have, that their choice of characters, situations and outcomes has been very meditate for a composicón result might have been inspired by a painting by Brueghel: a collection of rural scenes of apparent normal until the viewer begins to notice the details.


A book very apt to be read by all unrepentant urbanite who are convinced that Hell is other people in the countryside. These stories will give you enough material to satisfy himself that they were right.