Monday, November 30, 2009

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the lost symbol of Dan Brown

belong to the ranks of readers at all a snob, that all 'out of the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown shall observe it as a wonderful adventure novel.
No wonder then that just left the 'last effort' s American author, I took advantage of the 'inevitable -30% discount to' Esselunga to procure a copy of the voluminous tome.
Bound by serious book, over 640 pages of story, the lost symbol is bulkier volume in my library. Won the 'performance anxiety, I started reading.

From now on, I realized that 's friend Dan would follow the saying "Never change a winning team." I speak not only the protagonist, but also the ingredients of the history and construction of the plot, with a starting very similar to those of previous stories.
Ready away in fact, you find yourself involved in yet another treasure hunt with riddles attached occult and mystical orders, which keep secret the immense reach, able to change the world for their unveiling.

Here, a detractor of our writer, the review may close the case.
Not much to say about it monoepressivo Robert Langdon, the protagonist of the saga, whose thickness is much lower even than the book. Of him we know only that wakes up every morning hours before dawn to get to a disproportionate number of tanks pool and teaches success with symbols to 'universities. Ah! I forgot, a child has slipped into a well and they have been traumatized, getting a violent form of claustrophobia (as well as a crazy bad luck, because every story he happens to be locked up in some kind of closet ...).
To be clear, other than Tom Hanks had to do to interpret Steven Seagal movie! But

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But I'm not a detractor at all costs. And then I have to just admit that without bewitch (instead of what happened with the Code), romanzone this adventure, I was intrigued and enthralled from cover to cover.
strong pace twists and turns that follow one another with a frequency so high that you could not even dwell on the goodness of the same.
conclusion, this is not for delicate palates, but a well-designed and exciting adventure story, with no other pretensions than to amuse. And sell.

Your blog of the evening, he considers ideal for reading a digestive after Christmas lunch.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

White Blisters In Mouth

heads - to lose.

always looking for authors or noir detective stories, I followed the advice of the Blog Alfonso and I bought The Heads, a tale of Giuseppe Genna.

's the third and final chapter of the cycle of three stories (including this one) dedicated to 'Inspector Lopez, disillusioned and cynical police inspector of the investigation section of Milan.
's inspector moves in a contemporary Milan is the' winter of 2009 and has to do with a grisly case that shocked forever 's existence.
Nell 'is Idroscalo found the body of a pensioner and, by chance, even a bag containing a woman's head. It 's the way to a crescendo of events without an accelerated smooth, will lead the main character (el author'?) In front of 'extreme. It 's a yellow (despite the claim of' author to put the story "programmatically outside the genus) with many twists, from the original (and daring) and found that Perier attend in Milan they know.
Unfortunately, it suffers from many flaws that make it inadvisable to friends.
Prose. A bold use of punctuation. Immoderate. Excessive. I give the idea?
The lexical search. Esoserrima. Hyperbolic. Too. I pay again?
About half the book (a chapter of a story and introspection throughout the book) devoted to delusions in total stream of consciousness' s author.
pretty shocking to the point that I almost immediately decided to skip the parts of delirium.
's so that the approximately 370 pages of the book, fell by almost half, with good or bad you can not take it term.
But I, who have a decidedly hedonistic relationship with reading, this is not what I expect from a book. To be sure
Alf says I need to read the first two stories of other 'author, however, I fear that I will not try to recover ...
For reference, I placed the above link to the review of our favorite Trieste, which was certainly more generous than me.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Love the bandit - or the consequences

And I finally found the time to read the 'latest chapter in the saga of' Alligator Massimo Carlotto.
Love of the bandit is a story all in all well thought out, which tracks ultmi brush strokes on the characters in Mark Bolton, Max and the old Rossini.
In this episode, where the evolution takes a really large amount of time, about five years, things happen and take the streets, from which there is no turning back.
And above all, our trio refines the individuality of each and the declines in a different way through the relationship of each with the 'love. The love of the bandit. The result, lethal for the trio, who will each take his own way.
The story said, is well thought out, though not always linear flows. A bit like if the author 's had really written in the five years that embraces and sometimes as if he had had changed his mind on how to continue or even finish it. Even the tones and the consequences of history are really more powerful than the previous situations, a bit like if there was a desire to convey everything to the point of no return.
short, I would not want Carlotto was the victim of the typical love-hate relationship that sometimes it takes a novelist most famous for his son and struggling to find inspiration to tell the adventures dell'Alligatore.
conclusion, the law willingly despite some signs to warn us about the future of Marco Buratti, tired and without a hero by the woman to return to.