Specifications: Volume 2003, is the work of successful Licalzi (debut in 2001 with "not me"). Novel of 250 pages or so, fast and easy to read. Plot: The story of Mario is the classic late thirties who knows his maturity, his venture into life forgetting the powder residue of adolescence and youth. Reluctant to make decisions, to load on their shoulders the responsibilities and their own growth, will have to deal with Julie (his girlfriend, with whom he had a child) and the difficulties of life (work, being a father, compared with the death and pain). It 's almost a personal journal that could be drawn on the skin of many people, those people who (by definition of the volume) answered "do not know" surveys, answer "I do not know" to the front forks, they can not help but say " I do not know "when they have to make a choice.
Comment: In some ways I found it autobiographical, but this is a subjective parameter, someone can meet again in the role of Mario, not someone else. The fact remains that the life of this character and this is basically very credible, his passions and his being a free spirit that will not conform to the harsh reality of life is a passage of many staff (All?), More or less. Loose and fast reading, it is too "light" in some parts. Above all, reading is going ahead with the clear sense of the derailment as "I do not know" of the title leaves room for other events, other events in the life of Mark, and I think it goes a little way from the novel. The final feeling is that he started a book with expectations, and it finished with a tally different. Not that I discourage reading, but the predicament is not the final balance the hours spent in my opinion: do not you come out enriched, nor do we think that much. Overall Rating: 6 -
Specifications: Novel of 1986, one of King's most famous, if not THE most famous. Taken from the book is the movie of the same name in 1990 (see below). Definitely long (more than 1200 pages, is listed as one of the great masterpieces Horror)
Plot: 7 boys in the town of Derry (in Maine, as always), spend part of their youth to fight against the difficulties of 'be kids, fight with the bullies in school, but especially against a monster (it turns out cyclically, every 27 years or so) kills and devours children in particular, showing the form of their most terrible nightmares (vampire, mummy, werewolf, in second Deepest fear in the victim) often luring them with perhaps the most disturbing: a clown with orange buttons, at first sign of play and lightheartedness, but terrible and violent as any nightmare never experienced before. E 'own form of clown that kills and devours George, the brother of the protagonist of the story, Bill. Since then he has a fighter that will continue for a period of 28 years, when the first 7 children, led by Bill Pennywise the clown face (as he calls himself) the sewers of the city, then as adults, in spite of themselves when they return to town Christmas, because Pennywise is back, again, as always, as each cycle. To beat a once and for all.
Comment: A long story, very long. With so many interludes and parentheses are classics now the King's formal and technical in some ways, my personal point of view, the individual stories of seven children, the flashbacks and the stories (apparently) little doily with the general plot is an integral part functional and well the story short, even if they seem to slow down the story, do not bother actually reading. Rather, It is the struggle with that in my view falls page after page to the final pit, probably King wanted to tell a fear too great or too difficult to perform, and already had written 1000 pages of the preamble to make more ... 1000 to tell the struggle was too much. And ill make the 100 final double challenge by children and adults (always carried out in parallel, and that's good). understand exactly what is IT, where it comes from, what they want (and at the end of the book is "explained") is what, if you will allow a parallelism almost scandalous, Tolkien wrote in Silmarillon: that the "before" is so vast and important, that we must explain separately. Written but almost as an appendix to IT demeaning towards a volume of 1200 pages, as has been prepared in writing and the plot is worth more. In short, a very bad end of the story, in my view. IT the evil that existed before the world? Mah explained by the ass, in my opinion.
really excellent points in which each of the 7 characters back mentally to the past and rediscovering places and people with whom he spent his childhood. For example, the point where Bill finds Silver (his old bike) in a shop window of used items. There are many places where King back on childhood (and related trauma) and on the "memory", and these are the true moments hinge on which turns the story. And perhaps the only good when they spend hours reading. But the rite is defeated and some blowjobs It definitely about friendship (really too pedantic) and unity of the group (which expired in incredible tall tales) are the real flaws of a volume of 1200 pages maybe not worth spending your time, honestly.
Overall Rating: 5
[below: the piece incipit, in the book is much better. Strange]
Specifications: One of Tolkien's work (dated 1949 and released in 1975 for the first time) that Over the years it has undergone several modifications and variations. And several versions are available in the library. Even a hundred pages of all-inclusive, is a book that is read in a day.
Edition recommended and cost: The cover is next to the edition that I have read, perhaps the most complete. Preface and Appendix Tolkien's son, has the complete story of notes, changes, history, versions, notes the author. Let's say a version-proud, passionate, but very pleasant for the completeness and accuracy. (Edition 2005). Price: € 19.00.
Plot: Britain invented and In a time not specified, Tolkien tells the story of Farmer Giles, his hunting dragon that annoyed the country, the sword Tailbiter (Dragonslayer given to him by the king), Chrysophylax Dives and other inhabitants in the country. Al Giles ride in search of the dragon, he will return in victory, rich and famous, so that will take the place of the king and become the true master of their land. Comment: The story itself is not a great story, more than anything else is a fairy tale (which, in fact, Tolkien wrote for his children). Retraces the great myth of the Dragonslayer and simple people who can become real heroes, introducing the classic narrative of Tolkien, his characters a little unbelievable, a a little bit funny and wonderful, in a scene as simple as "functional", even if disguised as a fairy tale. Read it in one day, do not be disappointed. But it must be understood for what it is, and inserted in a context of "study Tolkien" I can appreciate a new facet (compared to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion, of course). unpretentious, and with the desire to read a story that is almost as children, you can definitely tackle in an afternoon.
Overall Rating: sv (too particular, too short, too sector to give a simple vote)
Specifications: Volume 2003, is the work of successful Licalzi (debut in 2001 with "not me"). Novel of 250 pages or so, fast and easy to read. 
