The Horla and Other Fantastic Tales part of my stock of books read but not to be read but not more than read some of the author. Guy de Maupassant is one of those musts of literature, a key figure in the development creacióny short history and specifically the horror short story, then his mountaintop llevaríaa Lovecraft Circle. In some stories, like Las Nieves Prtimeras or The Horla , the influence of these authors is detected clearly and I personally summaryltan especially welcome; other accounts instead In The River, have no direct and we have to contextualize the author at the time to understand the Avenc in narrative technique involved. Very good at times, boring in others.
Cryoburn is the highly anticipated (by segidores of the series, at least) final novel by Lois McMaster Bujold Miles Vorkosigan on. Since 2002 he published diplomatic immunity had us waiting for the result, truth is not what I expected. The novel begins in media res ( allucinatio in media, rather) and still takes time to pick up pace, Mostly because you find out what the hell is going on. The plot is, in truth, mediocre and predictable, with characters who, except the two main (Miles and ROIC) do not have any depth, perhaps with the possible exception of Vorlynkin, the consul in Kibou-Barrayar daini, which evolves with the book. It is a shame, because the premise of science fiction in which the book is based (a company crioniza their dead to be revived when medical science has solved the problem of old age, which does not legally have to be dead and ptrimoniales and voting rights, delegating centuries in Comp &; Iacute; as of cryonics) is as original as it was disturbing, for, as very little, other Cetaganda and well treated, a Darwin's Radio or Brave New World. But everything dissolves into nothing with the introduction of the character of Jin, a brat of the first caliber and spoil the story for me was the equivalent of a stupid child who opens the door to the zombies in horror movies series B and you want to eat at once. A waste of a premise, honestly. Now, the last three words of the book are, for fans of the series, frightening, and the book ends with a bizarre four or five pages muand very good, but that has nothing to do with the story it tells. In short, only recommended for fans of Miles Vorkosigan (like me) it would not stop reading just said it was worse than hunger in the world. Wintersmith
, after reading me A Hat Full of Sky last month, had to fall in the same order from Amazon in which they were the newly released Cryoburn and almost recently published I Shall Wear Midnight . I was also disappointed a bit, in that it is always Pratchett Pratchett. The plot revolves around the Wintersmith, a mythical entity (although it is known thaton the mythical Discworld authorities are quite tangible) halfway between a god and anthropomorphic personification, not the Winter or the god of winter, but the guy who is dedicated to creating the winter. to do things like snow and blizzards and the like) who becomes obsessed with Tiffany Aching (some would say that love) after that interrupts a ritual of welcome to winter. The plot itself seems a little wimpy, the truth, but is saved by the quality of: (i) the secondary characters, especially Granny Weatherwax (Granny Weatherwax) and Nanny (Nanny) Ogg but not forgotten to Nac imapagables McFeegle and its peculiar language (please, when you translate these books into English & ntilde; ol Galician return to the hilarious hit from Carpe Jugulum and not the awful translation Small Freemen), and (ii) the subplots, which leaves Tiffany to light (eg its relationship with the witches mentioned above, Ms. Treason, with Annagramma) by one hundredth not forget the magic cabezológica addition, the boffo. Recommended, as all Pratchett, especially those who have not read certain lines of reasoning and six or seven times (the headology, the difference between witches and wizards, etc. Etc..) Interestingly extract of this book memorable lines ...
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