Greetings, readers!
The exams have kept me away from anything that distracted me, and as the computer is an abundant source of distraction, I practically had to hide it. I hope my colleagues haven’t upset you too much with technology articles.
Today I’m going to talk about my private library, I mean, the books I enjoyed the most.
- “The lost origin” Matilde Asensi
The truth is that I love almost all the books this woman has written. She has an incredible ease to get you into the story and its characters make plot twists in a unique way.
This particular book was the first I read from this writer, and the one I liked most. It’s about how three friends try to cure the illness of the brother of one of them, who has gone crazy. Researching, they found that the brother discovered the origin of the first language, but went mad trying to decipher it. So they embark on an adventure through an uncharted territory on Earth. Places that not even the GPS are able to decode because of the height of the trees, the thickness of nature, where mankind has not yet arrived, or maybe yes…
- “Finis Mundi” Laura Gallego
Michel, a monk of Cluny, is proposed a virtually impossible mission and decides to accept, knowing that it involves risks, but ignoring what will happen him during his adventure all over the world. According to the revelations of a hermit the end of the world is approaching and the only way to stop the destruction of mankind is to invoke the spirit of Time. To achieve this, he has to find the three “axis” (past, present and future). He search them in France, Spain and England, to end up at the end of the world…
- “Sans dessus dessous” Jules Verne
A book that I certainly recommend to young people. It’s a very short science-fiction book, with no aliens nor travel to the center of the Earth or anything similar. Let me explain.
This is the period in which nothing is known of the North Pole. Some failed attempts to get close, but all failed with horrific results. Because nobody is able to reach the North Pole, an odd character send all the world civilizations an invitation to auction the land at the North Pole. The countries send their representatives in order to seize the land. Finally the struggle is won by an unknown dynamite company. What’s their intent? Change the axis tilt of the Earth, so that the sun’s rays impinge on the part of the pole that they can’t reach, to colonize it, and to exploit the natural resources (oil, coal…) that they think it has.
When the world learns about this, they mustn’t say what’s happening. The explosion needed to modify the earth’s axis would raise the sea level, submerging parts of the world, it would change the height of some places…
- “Stories to read in a fullmoon night”
I don’t consider myself a person who likes the tales of terror. I think it’s because it’s so hard to instill fear through the word, that it is accessible to very few.
This book is a collection of fantastic, mystery and terror tales of the greatest writers like Bécquer, Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens…
A book I recommend for those who don’t know these authors’ terror tales. It’s worth reading this book.
- “The great Gastby” F. Scott Fitzgerlad
It’s inevitable to talk about books and not to talk about one of the authors of the so-called lost generation.
Jay Gatsby is a millionaire with a dark past, often linked with illegal sale of alcohol or being a murderer for hire. He has no friends. However, he makes great parties where strangers are invited. He invites, he gives the house, and nothing more, he doesn’t even assist to them. People go to those parties, but don’t really know who he is.
Gatsby is a lonely man that wills to return to the past. A past to revive the love of his life, Daisy. Unfortunately, she got married to a famous millionaire and they have a daughter. But the discomfort with her husband and Gatsby’s insatiable desire to be back with her, makes that the past can be back for a while.
But from that point, the tragedy of events is inevitable and the present returns to its place. What happens? I think you’ll have to read it for yourselves.
- “The tyrant” Valerio Massimo Manfredi
I decided to include this Manfredi’s book (excuse my familiarity, Mr. Manfredi) because it’s the latest I have read. Although it might have included some more ones. I discovered this writer by chance, like the little things of life, and now I can’ get him out of my hands (his books, of course).
Sicily, V century B.C. Dionysus, the boldest warrior of Syracuse, had a single passion: to free the island from the Carthaginians and strengthening the Greek control over it.
Thus began the wonderful adventure of Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, feared by those opposed to his policies. He managed to turn his city into the most prosperous of the Greek empire and the magnificent monuments that he built still today admired. However, he must pay a high price, one that not all were willing to pay. View his friends, his family, his soldiers dying. How he was only trying to liberate the Syracusans from Carthage invasion and how the people was smearing his name. Because when all power rests with one person…
I think for today I fulfilled my part. So I leave you until my next contribution, and I hope that you read at least one of the books I mentioned about.
Thank you and have a good day!
