Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas

Before across the Atlantic, people who had sent me to think that with that title, the book had something to do with me. After five years writing under the same pseudonym, those that I have read, or even those who know me, I identify more under the name of Harry, that myself or the diminutive. Undoubtedly, those who sent me and as I indicated in the dedication, thought of me when I saw the library shelf. A Harry, Revised can not speak but a person who is continuously revised, as I have the habit of doing in my personal blog. With my background and the chance of the title of the book, I guess that was the motivation than my good friends was enough to buy it and send me to Nicaragua.

Needless to say, I have a bad habit to read my books in one sitting. In this case it was two days because I do not know what happened, I had to stop reading, I went to bed and I had to leave for the next day. Despite my voracious reading, the book can be read quite well and could even say that I had read in an afternoon, if not, as I said before, because I had to stop reading.

Before you start reading it, I took a while to find out who had written it. Apparently, its author is a blogger Mark Sarvas very famous in the U.S., and this is his first novel. I guess it's the dream of some bloggers, to see published on paper what one writes. I say guess, because sometimes I plan to write something for me to publish it, but I'm too vague and inconsistent to complete a similar project, every time I go from one idea to another, I have difficulties with paragraphs and a tendency to repeat myself. It seems that Marc Savas has done it and began to write, I suppose also encouraged by the success of his blog, the succulent offerings from publishers eager to see new talent 2.0 and the occasional groupie compliment any blogs. To be your first attempt, it has not gone wrong, it has been translated into several languages \u200b\u200band has had good sales. The case is that it reads well, is fun and has some black humor.

On the plot, saying that this is a guy named Harry, who hours after the death of his wife, starts flirting with a waitress. Harry, who wants ligársela knows that being himself is not going to get anything for nothing, and is reinventing itself, following the model of the Count of Monte Cristo. During the course of the novel, Harry is reviewing the stormy relationship with his wife and defining the strategy to woo the waitress, which leads to absurd situations and bizarre. Harry's previous life, based on the lies that continue to drive their marital relationship, give way to a new life that will define through its review and processing to a new person.

I can say that at times I identified with the character and at other times deeply hated it so pathetic and petty it is. However, if something is good is that Harry gives up and tries to change anything that made you unhappy in their previous existence.

who have wondered what happened to Harry and why is revised to read it. Here we always encourage you to read, although we have enjoyed the book, and this time, yes it has. Again, thank my dear friend send me this book, which I enjoyed, despite letting me read in one sitting.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

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Jernigan by David Gates

Choose a book by its cover. Everyone knows that this technique has a very high risk. But at the moment of truth, we all do. Moreover, some of them even choose a book by its cover properly. Damn editors happy! In this game, of Asteroid Books takes the cake. Covers like Street Station, 120 inevitably make you throw your reading. Furthermore, when the story follows, as in the Leo Malet book, everything looks perfect.

But either way, sometimes it is hit. Or at least not entirely. That happens with Jernigan of David Gates . This 67 year old American was able to publish at 44 his first novel and get her to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991. The novel won a book of characters and losers, both of which are particularly valued in contemporary American literature. The way to tell the story of David Gates is addictive, entertaining and fast stroke. But the story does not hold expectations about him were created.

Jernigan is the name of the protagonist of this story of self-destruction. From a high social and cultural spheres, has a special relationship with alcohol that completely dominates their vital status, and dominated his wife. With memories of the family tragedy experienced by him and his son, Jernigan was launched to try to get your life in the only way he knows how: by doing nothing and hoping that everything will be resolved alone. His appetite for life and his disregard for his teenage son, Danny, and all that surrounds it seems that miraculously is being rewarded by being suddenly transformed into a new head of household. However, Jernigan is someone capable be destroyed many times in a row and an even faster pace than expected.

As can be seen, Jernigan character is the epitome of modern American literature today. Something that works commercially many times but that literally is much more complex. Only a drunk, but with a very high cultural level that allows the author to demonstrate cuantĂ­simo cultural level is through the inclusion in the story of several references to pop culture or literature. Jernigan, the character is simply the means by which David Gates has been used to show off all that culture is at the margins of the mass and that he loves or simply funny. And so it seems, works to the extent that the publisher has opened up a My Space the novel itself. All book reviews are very good, but in reality it costs to move from approval.

Moreover, Jernigan is a drunk who, as such, is not sane enough to understand and meet your fellow story-his son Danny, his new partner and her daughter-have more problems than it. It is a type-loser by nature, you can drop nice at first, but that will not bear long story, becoming unbearably tedious.

As we say, is a fun book that is well told in a funny way that causes an addiction to reading large enough to fight him a few more minutes sleep each night.