I Shall Wear Midnight Pratchett is the latest (released in September) and fourth in the saga of Tiffany Aching, as I mentioned at other times, is written for adolescents ( a younger audience than that for which Pratchett usually written). In this novel, Tiffany has fifteen years and attended, among other things, the evolution of their relationship with Roland (the son of Baron), to meet as much as anything Masy with Eskarina Smith, who starred along with Granny Weatherwax's first book in the saga of the Witches (Equal Rites / & nbsp; Equal Rites) and we had not seen since then (for over 20 years) during a lightning trip to Ankh-Morpok in which there is a large selection Guard members (Carrot, Angua and Wee Mad Arthur, the "gnome" Falcon Regiment Monstruous ) and its relationship with the two witches of Lancre (with special attention Tata Ogg, which is discussed in this book with another point but it keeps throwing a few laughs with her a few laughs with Nanny Ogg) and the always hilarious adventures and explanations of the Nac Mc Feegle.
Again this is a story metememética. Pratchett is writing a lot lately about the power of stories and tales, of how the mind set (1) and with it, the reality as perceived by that mind. The argument (the philosophical basis of the plot) is relatively similar to Wintersmith what makes me think that the whole saga is trying to form the minds of children and tweens who read it to realize that all they have learned so far about how things are supposed to is actually a kind of simplification, something like you have some stories po help you make a model Practical, simple and good enough as fuciona the world, but one that literally you can not trust because, in reality, is based on stories and lies. I think the series is to introduce into the minds of his readers the idea that life hereafter, not really going to be so simple and that appearances are deceptive, that you can not trust someone just because it appears in shining armor on a white horse, and not all witches are bad. One always advisable critical lesson, even for many adults, which has the added virtue of making you throw a few laughs.
And, nearly two a & ntilde, I then finally found the time to reread The God Delusion . I still think it is a superb book, but the second reading has shown me some very interesting points in my eagerness fascinacióny not the first time I noticed, probably because I was too interested in what Dawkins meant that the details of their arguments. For example, one of which struck me most were eventually charged cults and their similarities with Christianity, the new reading has made me see that these similarities are due to the missionaries had introduced clristianos memes as ubiquity or the Parousia in indigenous cultures; Nous for centuries, did not appear spontaneously after the departure of John Furman, evolved after being introduced to this culture by missionaries. The second reading reminds me too much Richard Dawkins is wrong when he talks about Christianity in general and Roman Catholicism in particular. His apologists say that Dawkins is wrong for example in speaking of Purgatory is irrelevant, because what matters is not whether the emperor's clothes has ruffled or frilly garter double, but the suit if it does not exist. And that argument is as ingenious as misleading, because when used as an argument to show that the suitEmperor's stupidity no description is necessary to know the difference between a purse and a jabot or additionally be noted that not know what you speak, you lose credibility.
And I found it interesting to reread knowing all the physics and mathematics all know now, The God Delusion prompted me to read and therefore the first time unknown. One of the most devastating chapters for me, the only thing that made me real dent, in fact, was the last The Mother of all Burqas, which speaks of the strange Dawkins ISIM isthe universe and how far we are not equipped to understand it in its entirety. That chapter made me realize that the God they believed was not, despite all their sophistication, rather than dad raised to infinity. If God existed, a God who has created a universe like this, with black holes that challenge the notion of continuity of time and where everything is made of the precipitation of the probability of a lot of individual things or not there are ridiculously small in a given time (if there is such thing as a "moment", of course) ... If God existed, as I say, and & nbsp; was like the universe, then it was so strange, so alien, it was impossible to relate to it. If God existed, there could be, at heart, Zeus magnified in which he believed, and could not conceive God otherwise. Yet now, after reading it knowing everything I know, which is not much, I had an epiphany that I have different let it settle before talking about it.
Again I say: A superb book everyone should read. And I say again: if you are a believer and your religion make you happier and better person, think twice because once you read you can not dissolve. And if I pudiera choose to go back in time and would not read it. It would not be alone.
Finally, after having seen the film , I read Going Postal another Pratchett and the first of Moist von Lipwig. I have already read the second, Making Money and, between us, I hope as rain in May the third, Raising Taxes. I have to say that beyond the complexities of Granny Weatherwax and, above all, Sam Vimes (which is becoming the richest in the Discworld character), my favorite is the saga Lipwig. Ehis book specifically about the resurrection, but is virtually the introduction, the postal system in Ankh-Morpok, led by this character, a professional con artist begins the book practically on the gallows. It is very good, very funny and very interesting, not so much as the second (which is a prelude to the introduction of the stamps) but above the average even the Pratchetts. A pity that none are translated ...
Ah, yes, a curious note. The title of the book, Going Postal , refers to an American expression which means something like "get mad, lose your head, grab a shotgun, subierte the roof of a McDonald's and Liard shot with everything you see. " It originates in the curious statistic that since the mid 80's hardly a year passes without a carrier, specifically a letter carrier in the United States to do exactly that, or something very similar. Lately people think twice before you lose your temper with an employee of the USPS ... You never know where you're going to leave.
And greetings to all of an insomniac Arthegarn____________
(1) And, of course, the collective unconscious and the Weltanschauung ...
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