Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 2:59:14 GMT -6
For some time at the end of the year I published a meme, in fact it only happened in 2010, then I just wrote a post about my readings, even if the structure remained the same. But, as I wrote when I talked about the various types of posts not to publish on the blog , I'm tired of writing posts of that kind. However, I liked my reading report, so I gave it a new shape and will continue to do so in the future. This year I managed to read 50 books, including novels, essays, guides and manuals, ranging from various literary genres such as horror, science fiction, historical novels, adventure, detective stories, noir, thrillers, post-apocalyptic and classics. There were 12 books that I didn't like at all, so about a quarter of the books read: too many, actually, don't you think? I don't count the abandoned ones, which I don't even remember. But let's move on to a brief analysis of my readings. Readings of 2014: a brief report I have only read ten books by Italian authors, therefore a fifth of those read.
For the first time I read novels by Japanese authors: 1Q84 by Murakami Haruki and Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi. These were two interesting reads. I thought I had stopped reading sagas and trilogies but instead I read Special Data two of them in paperback, for a total of 7 novels: the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth and The Giver by Lois Lowry, both, as is my usual, known thanks at Cinema. I go to the cinema to read more. To these I add a third in ebook: 4 stories from the second Mondo9 saga by Dario Tonani which, I'm sorry, I didn't like in the slightest, unlike the first. I met, through their works, some authors who I will reread: Paul Auster, Oliver Sacks, Lorenzo Carcaterra (also known at the cinema 20 years ago with Sleepers , a novel read only this year), Daniel Woodrell, Kim Leine, Michele Mari. Among the most curious books I have read is undoubtedly He's Back by Timur Vermes, a novel that predicts Hitler's return to today's world. At the end of the book there is also an essay by the author which, chapter by chapter, gives information on the narrated events in relation to the historical ones.
This book, in my opinion, should be read from a critical perspective, not as a warning about a probable return of Nazism - which, in my opinion, is impossible - but as an examination of conscience for our society which, in Hitler's eyes (to be seen in this case like a simple man from the past who has arrived in the present), appears disjointed, senseless, even ridiculous and banal. Hitler's point of view - the novel is narrated in the first person and it is he who tells the story - is perfectly suited to perfectly convey the sad picture of our reality. Not that he was happy in his time, obviously, but being able to see what we have become today through the eyes of someone who lived a century ago illustrates the futility of everything around us. I've only read 5 ebooks, but now I have a new Kobo Glo, they replaced the previous one, which only caused all kinds of problems. We'll see if I can read more in 2015. Among the classics, I preferred Caesar's De Bello Gallico , although I would have a lot to say about the translation and the translator's incomprehensible liberties.
For the first time I read novels by Japanese authors: 1Q84 by Murakami Haruki and Moribito by Nahoko Uehashi. These were two interesting reads. I thought I had stopped reading sagas and trilogies but instead I read Special Data two of them in paperback, for a total of 7 novels: the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth and The Giver by Lois Lowry, both, as is my usual, known thanks at Cinema. I go to the cinema to read more. To these I add a third in ebook: 4 stories from the second Mondo9 saga by Dario Tonani which, I'm sorry, I didn't like in the slightest, unlike the first. I met, through their works, some authors who I will reread: Paul Auster, Oliver Sacks, Lorenzo Carcaterra (also known at the cinema 20 years ago with Sleepers , a novel read only this year), Daniel Woodrell, Kim Leine, Michele Mari. Among the most curious books I have read is undoubtedly He's Back by Timur Vermes, a novel that predicts Hitler's return to today's world. At the end of the book there is also an essay by the author which, chapter by chapter, gives information on the narrated events in relation to the historical ones.
This book, in my opinion, should be read from a critical perspective, not as a warning about a probable return of Nazism - which, in my opinion, is impossible - but as an examination of conscience for our society which, in Hitler's eyes (to be seen in this case like a simple man from the past who has arrived in the present), appears disjointed, senseless, even ridiculous and banal. Hitler's point of view - the novel is narrated in the first person and it is he who tells the story - is perfectly suited to perfectly convey the sad picture of our reality. Not that he was happy in his time, obviously, but being able to see what we have become today through the eyes of someone who lived a century ago illustrates the futility of everything around us. I've only read 5 ebooks, but now I have a new Kobo Glo, they replaced the previous one, which only caused all kinds of problems. We'll see if I can read more in 2015. Among the classics, I preferred Caesar's De Bello Gallico , although I would have a lot to say about the translation and the translator's incomprehensible liberties.