have been quite
least about one book per month. Then put the list in order of completion:
- Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- A Brief History of Nearly Everything , by Bill Bryson Canticle for Leibowitz
- of Walter M. Miller ( rereading )
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- Herbert West Reanimator, HP Lovecraft
- Tales of HP Lovecraft ( rereading )
- The shadow out of space , HP Lovecraft
- Cryptonomicon 2: Pontifex code, by Neal Stephenson
- Permutation City, Greg Egan
- Saragossa Manuscript by Jan Potocki Cryptonomicon
- 3: Aretusa code, by Neal Stephenson
- The world of yesterday, of Stefan Zweig
- legend Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
- The Dark Tower III: The wastelands of Stephen King
This has been a year of good and interesting readings, all of them. Then I will discuss a few:
Kafka on the Shore, although I can not say that I excited, yes that I love this novel, for his imagination, his approach, his writing, and the situations and landscapes dream he describes. On the other hand I think it is intentionally morbid, with a sexual charge that sometimes seems to start without more, to leave you with the heater. I also found that it is a novel with a definite end and closed (which need not be bad), but in this case gave me the impression that the author wanted to tell a series of scenes and dreams that had occurred , without really knowing then how to glue together. Lastly
mention the wonderful story of man who could hear the cats, for its beautiful prose and imagination. I also loved the end, when Kafka Tamura goes into the forest, beyond the limits the cabin.
A Brief History of Nearly Everything : I bought kikollan recommended (by Kiko). A wonderful and entertaining book, which shows the stories and the lives of people behind the breakthroughs and scientific discoveries of all time, with anecdotes, situations and curiosities. Reanimator
I confess that he had not yet read this classic Lovecraft. Despite the years, continues to fear and restlessness. A worthwhile read. Cryptonomicon
: Another recommendation kikollan (and Angelillo), who has come back to thank Stephenson to be discovered. I had a big read all three installments, with the adventures and misadventures of his characters, with descriptions and lessons of cryptography, with an interesting introduction to how computers work, with pearls geeks that it pushes in the development, with sexual tension crescendo between two of the characters ... In short, everything.
permutation City: The third recommendation kikollan. Science fiction of the times, we might call, but I think that is written in 1992. For me today is today, because it describes a virtual world created from cellular automata, a subject which, with other notes on artificial intelligence part of my research.
Saragossa Manuscript: This book was a revelation. It was parked down positions on the stack of books have been pending for a couple of years, perhaps respectful of their size, but once I decided to start reading, was opened to me a fascinating world of interwoven stories within other stories, stories love, death, seduction, picaresque and nobility. An amazing description of the idiosyncrasies of the eighteenth century Spain. To highlight the scientific small pearls in the mouth of a geometer, and bold statements about religions , humanities and philosophy in general, with a history of the origins of the Christian religion told nothing less than the Wandering Jew himself.
The erotic charge is also present in many of the stories, not just purely love. For example, the protagonist, the theme of every story, who, despite their "resistance" start is "obliged" under the influence of magic to keep trios with two "distant cousins" Muslim.
yesterday's world: this book contains the memoirs of Stefan Zweig, a Viennese writer who did not know, and who had the misfortune to live through two world wars. His autobiography is actually a description of the changes that shook Europe and the world in the twentieth century. How a century Europe that began innocent and quiet, anchored in the traditions and optimism, suddenly came to a war that nobody wanted, then the economic crisis, mistrust and strengthening of national identities, and hence the rise of National Socialism, Hitler, and another war that ended the hopes pan and changed the world beyond repair as it is now. The author tells of movie things like that before World War
made a trip to New York and was working there for months, all without a passport, visa or any documentation. Unimaginable in these times.
This book has made me understand what failed the history books, and how life was then and what were the reasons which led the German people to accept and bring to power Hitler and his party. A worthwhile read for anyone who wants to know the origins of modern Europe, or what were the events that led to two world wars in such a short period of time.
The Dark Tower: On the Dark Tower saga, there is actually little to say. Sometimes thrilling, sometimes slow and cumbersome, but always full of fascinating imagination, drawing a Western world combined with old civilizations, technological wonders and magic. The next three deliveries are reading my next targets.
In short, I have really enjoyed everyone. But if I had to choose one to recommend, I would recommend Cryptonomicon and the Dark Tower, also good are also the most entertaining.
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