Friday, January 9, 2009

97 Yamaha Waverunner Wont Start

known Paul Mastrocola and a boat in the woods




I finally found time to devote to a book by Paul Mastrocola: A boat in the woods, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
The text is written in a simple way at least until near the end of the story, the narrator is in fact a teenager - Gaspar - who emigrated from South to Turin to attend the High School. In the new town will like a fish out of water - a boat in a forest, in fact. The first 3 / 4 of the book, focus on the integration efforts of Caspar, we have set realistic and surreal surreal ... or maybe just for us adults. Because they reflect a bit 'up, a teenager who has never felt out of place? Today, then, in today's society young people, the continuing search for membership in the herd seems to me that much stronger in my day. So I do not think it is right to define the absurd story of Gaspar, as done by many.
Or rather, it is far from absurd, ironic drama in the first part of the book.
Where the text collapses and loses the absurd instead of force, leaving the reader (in this case me) nonprofit, is the last part: change the language and the rhythm Narrative: too fast for the account of the first year of high school, presents us with an adult Gaspar, not at all realistic, perhaps too "fantastic", so that makes me wonder: Paola Mastrocola wanted to tell a story? So lack of consistency in the first part of the book, I read where there is no fairy tale.
bad.
If I may express my humble and personal opinion, why we wanted a good text editor that held the hand Mastrocola latter part of the book. For the rest, however, the work seemed extraordinary.
One last thing: if you read the comments here and there for us humble readers, you'll find many items that do not have loved this book ... but in the woods A boat won the Prix Campiello 2004. Some question arises ...

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Emerson 10 Garbage Disposal

DURING Andrea De Carlo




Andrea De Carlo is an author that I have been following a lot: consigliatomi by chance from a friend, then entered the arrogance of my reading in Hit. Why start a review like this? I think it is the desire to just spit out a bitter taste in the mouth that lately I leave the books De Carlo. If at first his lyrics leave me a sense of magic in the mouth because life is something magical in itself - but when De Carlo tells his characters and their countries becomes even more - now I just got tired of reading stories with different names and work with different colors and scents (but then maybe not so different) are repeated endlessly along the exact same thread.
Yet it is true that a painter is known by the style of the stroke, a cook with the flavor of spices, a designer from the color of the fabric ... but something new in their jobs there is always a landscape, a seasonal product, or a soft rather than tight.
dream for some time to read a book by De Carlo, again, overwhelming, amazing ... completely different from all others in all respects.

So, not having read the texts of De Carlo, I told myself that maybe it could be a new innovation: Durante, Andrea De Carlo Edizioni Bompiani.

Peter, the narrator (who has the same voice and the same profile as any other person narrator of De Carlo) lives in the hills of the Marche (more or less the same places more or less already seen) with his Austrian girl alone obligations or work without boundaries ... Or so they think they live (hoibò. .. I am convinced that you have already read something like that ...) until it reaches between them during the perfect man, quiet, irreverent but reverently, who mounts his horse and fly away like the wind, ignorant of each rule, nice to frighten even the dog to Peter and that is literally down to his feet every woman he meets, but also many men, including our Peter .
to discover that when it is not so perfect ... or at least, TO ME it is not at all (although the author, in an interview has defined the ideal, the author and the best hybrid many other things).

How to fall at the feet of a man so self-centered? How not to get angry in front of his way to escape? Leaving lives his lives, scattered here and there without love? And then, we wish to consider the many limitations that against women? ... Other than falling at his feet, we must flee!
Andrea De Carlo will have to exalt or demonize his character?
In the first case for me when we are not successful, but if he wanted to demonize, well then he has succeeded well. During

Council who has never read De Carlo: you can make an accurate reading of his writing, without having to read everything. Once you have experienced
De Carlo, knows what is going to read. POINT.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Scorpio Man Very Selfish In Bed

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night" by Mark Haddon The



The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon , Einaudi, was reviewed by many as a detective story. For me it is not: maybe the pretext on which part of the story of Christopher - the protagonist of the book - may be relegated from the typical themes of a yellow (the investigation into the death of the Dog in the Night), but from my point of view this text encompasses much more. Introspective depth to a world different from "normal" with raw realism and sensitivity turned on us getting to know and love Christopher then, with all its foibles, fears or habits that from time to time we also recognize even our "normal" and so different a boy with autism.

A book that is read in one go and not find out who killed the dog at midnight, but to approach Christopher and understand what the boy is able to exceed its limits just to reach the goal, which already from the first half of the book is no longer find the murderess.
come to an end, I wanted to start again because Christopher is un ragazzo dal quale non vorresti staccarti mai.
Un libro che fa riflettere sulla diversità, ma che fa anche sorridere molto.
Solo una domanda mi martella nella testa: quanto Haddon è attendibile? Voglio dire, le sue parole sarebbero davvero anche le parole di un ragazzo con la sindrome di Asperger? O la fantasia limita la realtà?

Chi ama la matematica ha un motivo in più per leggere "Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte": un problema da risolvere in appendice, che per me è assolutamente irraggiungibile visti i miei limiti in materia!