Friday, February 8, 2008

Inorganic Chemistry Shriver

"Cream and the weak link in Sumatra," Vandermeulen Casanave

This is a new character whose name gives the tone: Bruno Cremer, namesake of the actor who played Maigret on our screens. Divisional Police Commissioner of Seraing (pronounced Srin) was discovered in the cruise vacation that he shares with his faithful sub-divisional Lucas (George, his given name), a little shy and docile, and her dog Jessica true also, but susceptible to seasickness

While Jessica binds with the affection of a wealthy Danish passenger, Cremer, it becomes the arbitrator of a debate about the evolution of man. Professor Shrewsbury, he has just met, every night between his theory of evolution to those of two other stooges intellectuals. Debate agreed, at first, and which appears to exceed cream until it is itself confronted with the question of humanity: forced during a stopover on a small island of Sumatra, dies of fall in Shrewsbury a tree on his head. Tree knowingly be sawn by a small anthropomorphic: a kouyû-kouyû .

Proud to keep his guilty cream should solve a problem, however: Is it a man or an animal? Guilty or not guilty? Justice or law of nature? Indeed, the species of kouyû-kouyû is widespread on the island and enslaved (in coal mines, as drivers, ...) or to taste (luxury food: brain-kouyû kouyû living). Although it seems with humor and logic, being concerned he provided the characteristics of being human?

If the highlight of cream and a weak link in Sumatra is to raise issues without making any answers filled with morality, I found a bit disappointing in his desire to stick to a classic design (set Larcenet colors), adding a cover page layout very "Tintin". The humor is not always funny and entry on a bit long. The subject is not interesting, no, but I wavered between feelings of too much and too little. As if he had taken much out of the cliches of the genre. Continued ...

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Average Dress Size For Models

and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by J. Safran Foer

As the back cover, Oskar Schell is "inventor entomologist , letter writer, Francophile, pacifist, computer consultant, vegan, origami, percussionist, astronomer, collector of semi-precious stones, butterflies died a natural death, miniature cacti and Beatles memorabilia. He has nine years. ".

And Oskar is driving this "his territory family" waiting to be discovery. His father died a year earlier in the attacks of September 11 and that, that is not explained, it does not make sense when you have nine. And when it is in the business of the father disappeared with a key inside a case where only the word "Black," Oskar says that this key will provide the missing explanations.

If his work leads him dating personals (there are millions of locks could be opened with this key and there are many "Black" in New York) that will learn about the adult world and himself, we also discover parallels between the story of his grandparents, German immigrants.

A theme that might seem heavy, but that is not at any time. An airy tone and dynamic in the narrative of this little boy intelligent, lively and sensitive. "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is a particularly touching story but jam ais pathetic. It lacks neither humor nor inventiveness and shows some insight on the grieving and missing that make us change.

Punctuated Imagence photos and accentuate the point, this novel positively challenged me, despite my reluctance to enter. Like what, it is often worth more than its a priori ...

second novel just thirty Jonathan Safran Foer , "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" has a lot of talk at the exit and was deserved.