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Ubuntu installed

A week ago last installed Linux on a computer after so many years looking forward to it, from Red Hat in 1993, SuSe and Mandrake in 1995 in 2002 ...

I tried Ubuntu on my netbook 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook Edition and 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Netbook Edition, and also tried 10.4 and 10.10 at the Desktop version on the HP laptop abominable corporate use at work (but not install, not to lose the "support" from the computer).

And the most convincing version was 10.4 Netbook Edition (in parentheses for the wise: I do not like anything the very recent 10.10 Netbook Edition is much less polished, more slowly, and much less intuitive than the 10.4 (Unity interface is pathetic), who is also a version LTS (Long Term Support, or lasting support, will continue to offer support on it until April 2013, as opposed to 10.10).
Finally, thanks to an ex-coworker GNU / Linux (because total Maquera now:)), install Ubuntu on my netbook, coexistence mode with Windows XP that was already in the netbook, and letting the Ubuntu decide how to stop the boot loader and everything.
Just 30 minutes (because I made the mistake of telling the Ubuntu all the music that mattered and documents, without remembering that the netbook I keep a copy of all music and all the literature, but it would have taken much less, I'm sure) and we were testing it.
At first I was not sure what user were, but then I remembered that on the Mac I was the same: the first user to create and with which you start the first session is an administrator, but NO is the root, if I remember correctly, and it is very easy to create another user, for routine use daily, but without administrator privileges to avoid irreparable mistakes committed by ignorance, such as deleting system files. Then
recognized everything, wireless, bluetooth, very easy to configure all
Then started tinkering with the Nautilus and the terminal-bash-shell, and that night I installed a couple of programs (LyX, the reason for nearly netbook , to write novels in progress, and all the material needed to surf the net but owner, Java and Flash abominable but omnipresent).
And I installed from the terminal, which, for the uninitiated, is a black window where you type text in white (as the window of this blog, but in reverse, and also this blog is text window inert, while in the terminal is the heart of Linux in its purest form, an operating system (the set of programs that let your computer do things and interact with humans) unimaginably powerful despite its innocuous appearance: in the Linux kernel there are no icons, or colors, no sound, no cool animations. just plain text in a window . But the hidden power behind that window is reflected in nearly 4 decades of impeccable professional performance (do not you would think that the big computers, banks, missile control, satellite control simulators, air traffic control, etc., are handled with Windows, right?).
There is something magical about typing a line (sudo apt get etc. Etc.) And see how the computer picks up things from the network, assembles, installs things, change its own configuration, and finally create an application where none existed, for to do more, and reports throughout the process of what is being done. It's like the continuous learning process of the human brain ... (Of course, I prefer to download an icon and drag it to a folder, and Mac OS X, but what's under the Mac OS X is a direct cousin of Ubuntu Linux.)
The feeling of robustness, reliability, and stability is unknown transmitting for users of Windows, which almost have been integrated into the noosphere that things are broken alone (Linux servers almost never go out, and its performance does not drop anything at all), that every so often you have to reboot, things are slow to start and shut down much (9 s in Ubuntu, by the way) ...
Everything points to gradually stop using Windows XP on my netbook ...
keep you informed.

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500 posts

Now you can not do anything without giving a number, the higher the better, because journalists can count only on transfinite numbers, ... we have reached 500 posts since I started this blog, consolidation of some other previous had failed to maintain regularly.

Thank you all for your monitor and your comments on these 4 years.

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irrevocably renounced the office of love without measure. His heart wanted to work notice, his conscience.

managed to leave my mind blank, but did not know what to do with the heart ... Its autonomy prohibited degrade ...

walking, counted every star and celebrated how close it was the love ..

He invented colors to make your own rainbow and dream again.

She listened attentively to every word he did not dare to pronounce and was happy.

not know the fluttering of butterflies wounds. Emigrate in FA Waltz flat and time to another belly ...

hoped the rain dance and hide the tears that left your absence. It did not rain today, tomorrow maybe?

And let you dream to hold on to her pillow and tell their dreams ... Welcome Insomnia!

visited him only in dreams, sly and mischievous peered into the corner of his soul ... and was happy.

Just make up a color that defines this nostalgia, I paint the sky and I look a cloud ...

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survived, ask me how! Intense

It is no secret that Twitter can be addictive. If you're full of work, trade or travel, you take a little time to review the TL and warn that these "in passing."

without penalty and since I have 3 kids, husband and a thousand jobs a housewife, I confess twitteradicta . A brief account of my experience in the mission "zero twitter" a few weeks ago.

12 am I sleep, the phone without battery on the nightstand. I give it pretty and not over .. # Cuaimaqueserespete swears he can live with the cel off all night, if Louis ...

5:30 a.m. I wake, I thank God for the new day and look at the night table, lies inert cell. I feel an emptiness in my stomach, I get up to brew coffee. 7:30 a.m.

Paraguaná Leaving trip. I briefly left the phone at home, but a voice like to Obi Wan Kenobi says, "do not let him." I put it in your wallet ...

8:30 am After loading some pile in the car, I turn on the appliance, open ÜberTwitter, I see a couple of mentions, but I refuse to answer, I refuse to "balk." I keep the phone.

10 a.m. I open UT, and I see a # FF and I think twitteriano perfect: "I can not thank them # CDLM" so I inhale 5, keep 5, exhale 10, turn off the phone.

12 m. We Tucacas a while, we are on Yaracal, had been distracted enjoying the green zone and their cows, however snaptu open. I whole inter alia, that Xabi Alonso has the flu and @ leopoldopez have faith in our beautiful but battered country than human poverty. I turn off the phone but I sudan hands, strange feeling.

3 pm already passed the dunes, in the car sounds "inside the sausage" and gives me too much laughter. Dying to tweet and @ elproximojuego make their respective RT # Chinazo included, but I work up the courage and turn off the phone. At this point I feel the electric fingers, as if to sit down and play the piano piece by Chopin, but he ended up playing the chicks with the index finger of his left hand.

7 pm. With headache and fingers confilcto Überwitter entered, answer some # FF via DM and I think: God, I'm using twitter? is this account? But I refuse to be ungrateful to the few people that I recommended on Friday. The brave Politeness does not it?

9:30 pm. 24 hours since the last tweet! I look at my TL and I do not think! Comes back the voice of Obi Wan Kenobi saying, "use the small force padawan, turn that shit" I hesitate for a moment but I ignore him.

The other days were "cutting and sewing." When he thirst for information, reading news via Sanptü and put out the Cell. Occasionally answering some messages via Bbmsn but that if, relax and enjoy my family as God intended. When I got home, another was the story.

Thanks for trusting me Obiwan, you're my only hope ....

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SUBTLE
subtly intertwined, our bodies are recreated
Life this subtle pain of love.
Subtle colors adorn your angelic smile.
A subtle whisper my memory gets

DISCOVER

Night

discovers the haunted moon

angelic smile discover new springs

dreamed I discovered my vast geography

waving discover fantasies still alive.

ILLUSION

Wow my dream

dead at birth ...

you

mischief turned into rich illusion

Sweet illusion lost in other mouths ...

Offshore shed old illusions broken

BITE I bite the point of swallowing words

Bite my lips furiously crystalline

Biting pieces of your cruel wound

Blessed mania biting your skin

Soft be biting his feverish maddened

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Game 2010: New Literary

The Spiel des Jahres, Game of the Year "is a award for best board game strategy, which ultimately tends to win a family game, simple, colorful ... Zooloretto, Keltis, etc.

This year he won the Dixit, a cross between the Dictionary and the Rorschach test. Ein? That's it.
The truth is that it's 2008, but none knew him before he won ... We'll see if it rises to the top of the ranking of the best games ...

Players must shift to state a phrase, quotation, or piece of music on a card with a picture they have, and others must make one of hers they think best fits the sentence that makes "mother." If no one matches which was the mother will lose, if all of it right, too ... It's harder than it sounds, and illustrations of the letters, very successful and halfway between Jan-when stories in the collection was Rain Stars in the 70 - and Magritte, lend themselves to many interpretations ...

game is the "lightweight" perfect for a couple of games on Sunday, or for a game before or after another thick, as Puerto Rico, Agricola, Tigris & Euphrates, Power Grid, El Grande, etc.

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dvp89's Influence by ~ Map Dvp89 on deviant ART

Byueno this is my "influence map" I did due to a mode that s eimpuso on deviantART for a while. And I said why not try? By the way, if you want to visit my other pictures or things like that in my profile DevianART .

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Dixit

it known that I do not like to categorize genres, let alone a novel qualify as "science fiction" ...

parentheses After my reading mainly spontaneous philosophy / anthropology, with occasional general narrative hiatus to rest, to begin to review mathematics first race, and the barrage of technical notes - "Peipers" - which prevented me from reading more narrative or essay "classic", discovered by chance that William Gibson has published the third part, although not a trilogy, only repeats certain themes and certain characters, not necessarily retain their importance-of Pattern Recognition (2003) ("Mirror World" as the English version, which fortunately I have not read). The second installment of this universe, the most interesting and subtle of the three that make up his work, not saying that do not overlap, except that they are distinguishable-was Spook Country (2007) (do not know how is called the version here) . No longer will it take to read it and inform it.

took the opportunity to browse if other authors had also issued new things in the same style.

You bet.

China Miéville has published another novel, according to his custom to challenge any attempt to label his work, this time it seems that the police aspect is predominant (The City and the City) ... Robert J.

Sawyer has started a new trilogy (WWW: Wake is the first part), apparently about the awakening of consciousness encompassed within the www virtual ... (But that was Neuromancer, and was written in 1984 ???). Also

Greg Bear, which I have not read anything after Darwin's Radio, because I did not like, or in fact anything that he wrote after Eon has seemed even remotely to the height ... this time it seems a novel meant to be a movie script, Hull Zero Three, on a flight a spaceship that wake up remembering nothing and not knowing why or what happened or where they go ... interesting premise if executed well, and it tells the parallel or the homomorphism between going learning and discovering the environment, according to reviews, big shit in the implementation ... Michel Houellebecq

has published a month ago La Carte et le Territoire (and not even I have not been bought or read, and wait a bit, although I found the previous one of the most important novels of the past 25 years ...).

Stephenson should be immersed in whatever you are doing while working with his hands, after publishing in 2008 the exceptional Anathema. Dantec also should be resting after Métacortex-also strongly recommended this past winter.

Soon, a lot of reading at sight ... After

Underworld, DeLillo, I started a collection of curious tales of .. Mircea Eliade! I bought more than a decade ago because I was surprised to find general narrative fiction of it, nothing less. PSE, good ideas, implementation is difficult to understand and very outdated.

I also reread The Sorrows of the Empire, by Chalmers Johnson, almost become a classic, and highly recommended ... (Talking about the militarization of USA, how Truman came from and how come beyond imagination ...).

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More on Ubuntu, and so for now

Finally, two days after posting the image itself-out tool that lets you record an image of Ubuntu 10.10 on a memory key, so I could test it on my netbook.

Fraud.

Come on, I have not liked anything. Be better than the last, the 10.4 with which I write these lines, but is slower, less intuitive neodistrohopper (Linux neophyte evidence distribution), and is more uncomfortable.

this trend apparently continues to consider a netbook as an impoverished version of an iPad or even an iPhone, ie a cool little machine for browsing and point, but IMHO is a mistake. If there are people who use a notebook as well, probably too well-used only to browse and view e-a laptop stuffed full of resources. That's what any smartphone, unless you continually see web pages or movies (and no doubt it is better IPAD and will last much longer and give better results than a netbook for the Chinese).

A netbook should be a very portable laptop, because, let's face it, what ads and business notebook is a behemoth called portable or removable, because I removed the back of his weight, the bastard. Yes, such a portable 5 kg (do not forget the boots that weigh almost as much as the laptop) 15 "has more than enough processing power, maybe even graphically, the unfinished business of many laptops, BUT, is not comfortable, it is not portable.

When you travel and have / want to use as close to your computer from outside, it's going to take a Kg cacharrillo to watch movies, listen to music or browse and view emails and social networks. What they want is power generating documents almost to the level of what normally would with your corporate or home computer. That includes reading and easily extract lots of PDF, generate reports, small-leaf models presentations, ... and sometimes all at once and without notice and starting almost from scratch ...

So, if you suddenly decide at Canonical, the Ubuntu developers, the new interface for Ubuntu 10.10 should insist on promoting the philosophy that a netbook is a "cachophone", and the interface is not convenient to work with more than one application at a time ... it worse for them, I will not use it.

is much more functional than 10.4, while designed and comfortable for a little screen like that netbooks are 10 ".

In the next days try to install it at all, not only run from a Live CD or Live USB.

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Updating the previous post on Ubuntu Ubuntu

After two days of intensive testing it (I mean I tried to do as if working normally, you have designed battery of tests and experiments), these are my tentative conclusions about the use of Linux (GNU / Linux )

course I remember that I am not at all a Linux geek and my knowledge of Linux is 5 times that you have read Neal Stephenson's essay In the Beginning Was The Command Line (this is a story about the incredible amenities of operating systems read, and freely downloadable from the network in plain text in English to seek with patience, and yes, it's 1995, but there is a 2004 article on Slashdot, I think, of Stephenson, about the Baroque Cycle, another novel, 3000 pages, which I recommend highly to anyone reading-in which gives a kind of completion / revision of that essay that boils down to "Mac OS X") and have tried to work normally with Linux for two days, both at home and at work.

other words, not much experience you say ...

At work I have an HP laptop (and who is not among those who are lucky enough to have one, or the curse, because it also means you can work from home) Windows Vista (and I do not understand it, they changed from 2000 to Vista without going through XP, and a few months before I left the Windows 7 ...). I said in previous posts that the combination of Windows Vista and corporate policies by lobbies poisoned computer support is lethal, and the direct result is that daily work is clumsy and nothing tunable or optimized. I have absolutely no Hasidic soul, those who spoil the farming implements on purpose to make it worthwhile, so when someone suggested this "workaround", I decided to try: running Linux from a LiveCD without installing anything.

10.4.1 I have tried the Ubuntu Desktop Lucid Lynx a couple of days, and today 10.10 Maverick Meercat (just downloaded yesterday after its worldwide release.)

Conclusion: If one of those days where you do not have to work on the final version of a document set of Office, it is worth running the Linux LiveCD instead of using Vista as always, and yes, despite that run from the CD slows down everything and distorts the real experience. To avoid the slavery of Outlook is necessary to have web access to email, of course ... and yet you can not see the PST-I suppose to be a way, but it would probably install the OS ...

At home, I tested than 10.4 on my netbook netbook instead of everlasting old XP, which compared with Vista, I even like him, not yet available free tool that lets you record an image on a netbook 10.10 USB memory key or flash drive.

is nicer than XP, because if you're planning to run in a tiny netbook: enlarging not have to walk around, and the screen continually falling down, and things are easily at hand.

But, it seemed more unstable than the desktop version 10.4 (see how it goes the 10.10), and of course, not a Mac OS X. It is not so ... reassuring. Exudes strength and power, but lacks the touch "quiet, your problems with computers are gone, I'm here to make your experience more pleasant, simple, and effective "...

But is approached slowly.

Whenever I get the USB with the new image to ask for help to install it (that manage memory partitions manually has always seemed as close to neurosurgery or theophany on this side of Route 32 ...)

comment for Linux users want to spit: I'm not at all agree with the criticism of Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical, the developers and distributors of Ubuntu, which as necessary recalquémoslo IS FREE ", about that Ubuntu tends to resemble Mac OS X:

There are already thousands of Linux distributions all degrees of frikería desirable.

The ONLY way for former and current windowseros windowseros deserting and joining the ranks of stable Linux users is that the process of change is not at all traumatic.

windowsero While full of good provisions will be greeted with displays information about partitions and file systems unpronounceable always acojonar and prefer the security of Microsoft Tatar.

Only when everything is reduced to download a file, put it on a CD, reboot, run 3 or 4 clicks, and Hop! Linux is already installed without deleting Windows, and allowing you to choose at startup will cause an exodus of windowseros to do so (ie those not belonging to a corporate environment). For the geeks you always that you can be Gentoos complicate and confuse to be filled ...

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Underworld

The last joke funny computer services (I do not mean the external company that makes maintenance (I have nothing against them except that pisses me off that porn movies down our wide melting band), but managers who dictate that we must follow absurd policies) of my company, is to include all of something that sounds like neotrotskista social mediocrity everywhere ... all or almost all members of lower caste (Ie, not managers) have a set of variables that define how we use our computers at work:

can only use Windows Vista, we can only use Internet Explorer (version 7 and, unable to update, so there are sites not seen, and not worth the portable versions of Firefox or Chrome that we used almost all so far) and can not install anything, we can not change the time or date, we can not update their own corporate programs (you must call the maintenance, open a support ticket, you get an email to our responsibility (as if I had nothing better to do ),...); and the list goes on ...

Well, the last grace is that we can not use computers at peak performance.

me explain.

Windows laptops have 3 modes: slow agonizing (but uses less battery), normal (ie, mediocre), and high performance (can use all the resources of the computer, at least to the extent permitted by the nasty Windows .)

Until now I used in high performance, because as usual in a typical work day is to have open at once 4 windows of Word, Excel 4, 2, Powerpoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer with the abominable 4 tabs (former Chrome with 20), and three or four open PDFs ... As I work with the laptop plugged in, I do not eat much or little that battery (if it is plugged into the mains!), the important thing is to do everything every day. And it takes almost ten minutes off and on, not turn it off more than once or twice a week (can not be on indefinitely, because Windows is entruña, and every day a little more ... entruña

Well now I can not have open and running simultaneously over a third part of it. I mean, I have to close things to open other, I have to wait while the computer continuously decides to open the documents, apply the changes (5 seconds to change a format in Excel, word ...)...

and I can not put the High Performance mode. Neither a thousand requests signed by my manager and the manager of my manager (who send more than the asshole who runs computing issues) ...

words remind me what it means to be English, that forces you to be a mediocre AGAINST YOUR WILL.

To avoid falling into the solution is asymptotically stable for 99% of the company, happy that the system itself prevents you work a lot (according to them), I tried the suggestion of a friend to try Ubuntu without installing it.

And what is that?

For an operating system (the program make other programs work, that gives substance to the bottom of the computer, put it in a record level of journalism of the heart) based on GNU / Linux, which is extremely reliable, lightning fast, very secure, updated fully each 6 months, y. .. FREE. AND FREEDOM: I encourage you to distribute it. And no charge for it, however much that the bastards Fuck the SGAE.

How: you download the disk image to a CD or USB, is stored in one or the other gets one or the other on the computer, restart the computer, and it is: Starts without the damn windows colors, and is another matter. (Okay, maybe you have to enter once at the boot tell the computer to try booting from USB or CD, but that is not much).

not charge you any illegal or corporate policy because you have not modified the computer: you're running a set of programs from a USB or CD, do not install anything at all on the computer, or touch anything that would.

I tried it on the corporate laptop (Ubuntu Live CD Desktop 10.4.1) and worth the time lost between reboots and Windows steps to Ubuntu, because to surf for information, and read PDFs, it is incomparably faster . The only thing not available is the email because it is not clear configure a mail client for mail corporations, without the assistance of the computer (which naturally should not and know that we do these things), and also may have to install Ubuntu, do not run from the CD directly. But, but ... you can access the corporate email via webmail, and it can be done from Firefox in Ubuntu. The only thing is I can not see the Outlook PST (well, as you can, but I have not tried ...)...

the third time to boot into Ubuntu, it took less than 1 minute to configure the Bluetooth mouse, the English keyboard, time zone, and the local wifi (you have to do that because when you run Ubuntu without installing anything, not is nothing recorded once for another).

I also tried not installable version Netbook, no Desktop, from a memory key, in my netbook. So I'm writing these lines.

is not as smooth as the CD version of my laptop, but can be at the bottom of my netbook features, or because it runs from a USB and not a CD (?)...

In any case, nothing to do with comfort with Windows XP that was running normally my netbook, the Ubuntu netbook is more convenient to handle, do not walk continuously telling the operating system to extend this, change that ... can see that is much more designed for a notebook of 2009 that the Windows XP, which is a system Operating ... 2001!!

Why I have not used Linux before?

I tried, of course. I remember some early versions Current PC in 1993 (Slackware?), Which seemed very unlikely to work without considerable work practice in the installation and configuration, and not compatible with daily work, especially at that time that there was no the quasi-ubiquity of instant communication of today: a doubt or error in the installation of Linux, which was not nearly as intuitive and simple as today, could not see the act in the web forums .. .

Shortly after I tried Mandrake in 2002 ... installation was not as easy as promised, and overall appearance was not very nice, looked like orcs engineering, or as a Batmobile made brass patches on the body of a tractor, but once ready will work effectively as a next-generation game ...

Another attempt, in 2007, with Ubuntu, and a very useful book, non-Linux geeks, basically, but in a smaller publisher and serious, not the kind of books that take macramé for Dummies "or rafting in an hour. " By then I had a PC bought in serious, far from the pots who rode almost hand-pieces to orc, which had almost outlived its original function, and could afford to play around a bit with Linux, but Dell was fiddling their PCs to install Linux you can not find the options that bring Ubuntu installer (the Dells come with so many partitions Ubuntu's installer let you know "hey, I do not know what it is, and if I can I upload it all ...").

And just when planted to take the plunge and learn Linux, even sacrificing to have Windows at home ...

... I ran into Mac OS X Leopard, the best operating system in the world (except perhaps his successor, Snow Leopard ...). Although not free or can be placed on any computer, but that's another story for other posts ...

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you to read a little about the origin of Ubuntu, or how is because it is potentially one of the most advanced and best examples of business initiatives of solidarity. Initiatives "one computer per child" for Negroponte, for example, seeking to channel funds to build affordable portable million to educate children in developing countries by giving them a laptop each, could not exist without Ubuntu or other GNU / Linux. Imagine many very capable and well-meaning people made a quasi-recyclable laptop without markup (rather the opposite, literally), quite different from those seen in the "carreful" (like a pileup of wood), which costs less than $ 200, and get Steve Ballmer (a bud who runs Microsoft) or why not, Steve Jobs, and say, yeah, okay, this is cooperation and solidarity and all that, but I have to charge to put my system Operating ... therefore have zero cost for Linux. NO piracy because e l own legal framework that protects and provides you can and must be distributed free, free, without being able to charge for it ...

And of course, I recommend Page visiting Richard Stallman, one that deserves the Nobel peace but nobody knows who the hell is. It is especially recommended to visit your page in the times we live in which only supports mediocrity and vulgarity on the one hand, and neoliberalism deadliest predator on the other, to check that there are people who think of others, although it is not clear or caveats ...

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few days ago, finally finished Don DeLillo's Underworld (Underworld).

Essential (and I've read it translated, because I bought it before deciding that it would not read French translations and English, but yes, clean the 2003 edition of Reader's Circle, and thanks to which I gave it, soon you read this).

I know many people [informed the rest and consider them people] will disagree, that if no big deal, if it was a bit disappointing that so and so.

Yes, there is a 5 / 5 stars is more like a 4.5 / 5.

But it is a book to read fluently, not because they pay to it (quite the contrary) and the novels that now populate the tables "as read", "as sold", against which regularly rant like that of Espíderman Jameson, but because we must devote attention or quantum pathologically accurate and continuous: It is a book to take on holiday so as to be sure in advance that no one is going to cross in the middle. I do not give me time to finish it, and return from vacation meant being unable to continue reading over 150 pages a day, or half an hour away, nor the power to always carry a mazacote almost 1000 pages (not in format pocket), browsing other things, to begin to spend much time re-learning math ...

The "superomnisciencia" that reveals the characters the reader has its counterpart in building wealth narrative. Every detail is there for something, and once one gets lost and is carried away, if you suddenly refocused attention on the way to the last level (word, rhyme, point, bleeding, coma, etc.). , one can not help but marvel at the ability, all Serendip, but engineering, DeLillo (for example, which is unwound from the title Long Tall Sally of the same name, absolutely brilliant.)

The novel begins in 1992 and goes back to 1951, through the life of a family and people around them. A site in 1951 prologue and epilogue of 1992 + frame the journey back toward the foundation, the entombed, trash ...

The common thread is multiple, but there are two obvious level, the baseball homerun of the principle that changes in ownership until the main character, Nick Shay, and the ubiquitous waste, both literal (barrels, plutonium, waste dumps, etc.), and metaphorical (the memories with the declining age of the characters). And the tour de force, as publishers and agents say that is like telling the world (underworld) back.

begins with the protagonist, and more, seeing the sunrise from the air B-52 bombers of the cold war, lying in the desert and in the process of being painted in pastel tones that fade on the environment ...

And ends with the protagonist as a teenager, living a life quite dull in the Bronx New York, just before a pivotal fact, quite far-fetched in my opinion. Finally, the epilogue shows the main character across the Iron Curtain about to invest in a company that destroys former Soviet nuclear-waste business of prota, waste-... nuclear explosion to blow. Something like the dirty side, terrestrial, or "Morlock", the first with the B-52 cake to the New Age: the side "Eloi" ...

parade along the way real people (Hoover, Sinatra ,...) with imaginary side, mentioning or near real stories from the point of view of characters, the great NYC blackout, the game of home run by Bobby Thompson (according to many, the best of the novel, I'm not at all agree, I think all the chapters of the Ninety-Eighty are much higher), the heroine, the paranoia Third World War ...

I said, delicious.

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The new Nobel ...

few years ago was with some interest and anticipation the announcement of the new Nobel laureate in literature is supposed to be the biggest prize in literature, bla bla bla ...

Oe won that year, and I had read swift A personal matter and I liked it a lot ... then came Mahfouz -O was just before I'm not sure-look pass and, after such a ,..., Naipul Xinjiang (it sounds so called Han Uygur area, but as in Chinese each character is read four hundred thousand ways and influence over the order) with a novel sold with great marketing, the kind that'm excited to read just for the title, cover, and the review of the back (yes, at that time brought books on the back reviews because I still had something to say, and were not codable and multipurpose phrases summarized in plan "a great tour de force of an author who was already enshrined in the critical" or "a new achievement undisputed author that dazzled with his work ...", blah, blah, blagh, bleuarghhh-vomit-...), and then was a total truño, which I remember only a fragment (from almost 1000 pages, reminiscent of the parody The Lord of the Rings, by the thing "and are some guys who spend three movies walk ")...

And then I discovered a surefire way to find literature that I liked was from a personal recommendation, and if I liked the author to exhaust as far as possible, and then, undertaken with the favorite authors of the same author ... sometimes the seed was not a novel suggested by word of mouth, but chance, or novel that inspired a movie I had thought it worthwhile (yes, years ago there were occasional movies that were worth today psché ... again nausea) and in these I, of course. And so I discovered

Bradbury, Dick, Stephenson, Egan, Dantec, Anders, Girard, Cioran, Kahçem, Eliade, Ellroy, Abellio, De Lillo, Spanbauer, Hempel, Khadra, Houellebecq, Palahniuk, Amis, Haefs ...

And of course, always be (re) read the classics, Joyce, Stendhal, Coleridge, Whitman, Zola, Zweig, Balzac ... None

the first group will never even remote Nobel candidate and not many of the classic were.

what.

Go and give them to those Vikings collectivisation of design.