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The Crime Files #10 compiles riveting and chilling true cases that seem to be related under the headline "Worth More Dead". Every case is unique on its own way and develops a simple and easy to follow prose that make this a quick and worthwhile read. This is no bedside reading (for some readers that is) but it is indeed pure and unbiased. Rule makes a huge effort in being impartial throughout the whole series and she seriously accomplishes this. She is a wonderful writer that certainly knows the perks of keeping the reader focused. Worth More Dead R: 3/5 An unbearably long case that gives the title to the collection focuses on the crime of the murder of Cheryl Pitre under the hands of Roland Pitre. Rule develops Pitre's character focusing on his ability to manipulate everyone around him. We get to witness justice being made with a lot of lingering throughout the years, that can only be blamed towards Pitre's snake like behavior. Also, we get to hate Roland Pitre on ou...

I promised myself that I pour my heart and soul in every review of books I love that impacted me to the point of considering them my favorite books of all time. That is the case of East of Eden. This is a story filled with tragicality, suffering, reality and sin. This is considered to be Steinbeck's masterpiece, even by himself. And I think that it holds the title very well. This novel is an accomplishment on literature and on Steinbeck's narrative; it felt like a glimpse of everything that he is capable of. He writes about what is most immediate to him and everything that is contrived by the human soul. The problem of the correct moral path and the ethical choice is one of many themes Steinbeck tackles in this beautiful novel. It's written with heart and soul, blood and tears. Pen and paper, because the fundamental value of this novel is for the human to develop and the human to absorb. That which was engraved in the 600 pages of this novel is posthumous and extremely quin...

"Thousands of followers are listening to his teachings every day, follow his instructions every hour, but they are all falling leaves and don't have in themselves the lesson or a law." The path towards enlightenment is everything but rich. One realizing oneself is the utmost difficult task that one must do to achieve the Nirvana. One must be conscious and aware of his existence. One must be disturbed from his existence to the point of realizing that he is an excessive form in a world of forms and horizons. He is subject of his own actions and he drives every force in his life towards decisions that could benefit him or injure him. Wisdom is only achieved by experience and not by teachings because the vicissitudes that exalt the heart impregnate the scar of regret or satisfaction that no lesson can give. The best lessons are those that allure directly to the connection between the soul, these being one's awareness of nature. Listening to the river, listening to the air...

  El fantasma de Canterville R: 2/5 "Aquella gente estaba colocada a ojos vistas en un plano inferior de la vida material y era incapaz de apreciar el valor simbólico de los fenómenos sensibles" El fantasma del ya perecido lord Canterville es el punto intermedio entre las diferentes gradaciones de la especie humana. Los decadentes inundados en la propia decadencia y exacerbados en el mundo material. La busqueda de un nuevo hogar con la accesibilidad y recepción absoluta a él no es nada mas que una forma de revelar la naturaleza pobre y ambiciosa del humano. El punto donde el lujo se convierte en una costumbre y de modo que es imposible deshacerse de él. Esto es aborrecido por el fantasma de Canterville pues dedica su vida a asustar a cualquier rumiante que se acerque a su antes adorada mansión. El decadente no es digno de ejercer el fruto pues está tan enfocado en la superficie y en lo cotidiano que no es capaz de enfocarse en su destino ni en el mundo que le rodea. No siquie...

Después de un año entero viendo la pelicula una y otra y otra vez, decidí leer el libro. El libro trata de la pérdida de la condición humana; bueno, no tanto la pérdida pues eso implica algo involuntario e inevitable, casi como un accidente, entonces es apropiado definirlo como ser arrebatado de la condición humana. El libre albedrío y la libre elección en el camino de la moral es lo que nos distingue como personas, una vez que eso se pierde, se pierde todo. Es una decisión absolutamente propia e irreemplazable. Cuando el humano deja de elegir, deja de existir. El establecer a Alex dentro del camino del foco moral es algo que nadie mas que el puede elegir. Esta imposición viene enmascarada como una buena hazaña pero que dentro de sí misma considera una deshumanización. Alex termina destruyendo todo el sentido de superioridad y de ultraviolencia que llevó a cabo durante su adolescencia. Pierde su propósito y su fuerza motriz que se manifiesta en timbales orquestrales. No es capaz de dis...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exposes somewhat of his gulag experiences by telling the story of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov as a prisoner. He decided to focus not on the subjection carried out on the camps but on the human experience. This is a novel about work, happiness, loneliness and everything else. A prisoner gets to establish himself as an inhabitant after he’s alienated from society. He creates a new home for himself after years and years of adaptation. He is forced to forget everything that binds him towards his old life in such a way that his old self is now unknown to him. Emotionless and soulless faces fill the gulag. Those that have been able to face their new reality seem to be happy in their own way but some that haven’t been able to grasp their bittersweet existence are tormented for life. Ivan Denisovich is one of the first type. He found a new life and takes pride in his work. He gets happy over the small triumphs in his monotonous life and he has dissected the rope that h...

Muy pocos libros pueden volverte adicto a su contenido y a la vez dejarte con un vacío inmenso en el alma. La Náusea es uno de ellos. Cada frase y cada palabra utilizada por Sartre es precisa, desembocando en una narrativa exquisita que invita constantemente al pensamiento. Es uno de los libros fundamentales de la filosofía existencialista, puesto a que esclarece todas las dudas que aficionado tiene constantemente con respecto a su situación y a su propósito. El existencialismo prima en esta novela y lo hace de una manera que te toma completamente por sorpresa. Hay veces en las que uno no puede seguir leyendo este libro pues te sientes agobiado por toda la cantidad de detalles que se han visto perdidos frente a tí. Todo aquello que es evidente de la existencia hubiera seguido ausente ante tus ojos, hasta que lees este libro. La Náusea ahora es tuya y de nadie más. Sientes que este carácter monstruoso que apremia a la existencia humana es experimentado únicamente por ti, cuando al contr...

 THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS  "There is no almsgiver in the world like a poor man who is suddenly lucky" And after reading The Pearl I have finally finished "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck" and boy was it good. It was an amazing ride and I discovered a lot more about my favorite American writer. The Pearl's set on the typical Steinbeck scenario and this time he focuses greatly in the small descriptions that build the nuances of the town this story is set in. I could almost smell the bay and the slanting waves of the coast. I could almost feel the whole town watching me as I'm exposed as a whole and I could almost feel my dread falling from myself as the pearl was being described. The pearl is stated as a paradise towards comfort and it falls terribly in the wrong hands (or did it?) thus condemning Kino and Juana to inevitable tragedy. It arrives at first as a benefactor that distributes happiness, hope and specially wealth. As the novel develops we see...

  “What could he do with it if he had it?” Jones asked. “There wouldn’t be no fun in that.” John Steinbeck can do anything he pleases and still keep on making me fall in love with his novels over and over again. In this case he writes about what he knows best and boy is it beautiful. I ended up knowing Cannery Row (the town, that is) like the palm of my hand. Steinbeck adventures the reader in an intricate and resourceful narration that covers the main story beautifully while still emphasizing symbolism. The characters are all differ from each other but they seem to be connected down to their core. They each share the struggle and the hardship that clubs Cannery Row. Hardship is expressed in this novel as a cyclic phenomenon, one that sways itself betwixt everything and everyone. How everyone faces this congenic pathology, is for one to decide but life helps us break it down into two paths, good and evil. A man can either come out of darkness as a noble man or as a scoundrel, but t...

  "You won't believe this but it is true: authority is in the town." It could be that my short stay in the earth might be hindering my expertise but, there's not many authors that manage to evoke the duality of the conquered and the conquerors in the way that Steinbeck does in this novel. It may be something superficial but it is indeed something wonderful, alluring and precisely humble. The experience of being conquered is portrayed beautifully so that the collective anxiety of the characters is felt even within oneself. Society holds the power, a power so hegemonic that it cannot even be digested betwixt bureaucrats. A person cannot be withheld from their nonchalant ways of practicing freedom. Once this is destroyed, the soul is at stake and one cannot help but feeling distressed.  "Your private anger was the beginning of public anger" . As I remarked in my review of Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck always contrives for camaraderie between his characters, and...

John Steinbeck will still remain as a "simple" writer whose prose, to some, has no virtue and zero talent, but that has continued to enchant readers worldwide. I include myself in the latter type simply because I find Steinbeck's novels hypnotizing and filled with social critique that becomes easy to understand, even for the unconscious. The worlds he creates are suddenly relatable and familiar so that they fit with anyone's perception of society, carried into any context, into any town, into any soul. Every letter, word and sentence acquires a quintessential meaning that can only be related to Steinbeck's profound knowledge of the world he creates. His books are personal and meaningful in every sense of the word with stories that John Steinbeck himself lived through or witnessed. Stories that have been prone to censorship and underappreciation because they managed to expose that which is inhibited or looked down upon in society. He was the voice of the Depression...

Existencialismo es un humanismo es una obra accidental del filósofo existencialista Jean Paul Sartre. No nació como un texto filosófico intencionado pero sí como un preconcepto dedicado a la divulgación de la doctrina existencialista hacia el público en general. Aquí, Sartre se ve ejerciendo el derecho y la responsabilidad de purgar a la opinión pública y a los aficionados de filosofía con la ideología del trabajo que Sarte llevó a cabo hasta 1946, fecha de publicación de esta obra. Es un transcrito, a veces referido como el texto fundamental e introductorio a "L'être et le néant (1943)", que cumple con introducir el existencialismo como una idea pragmática, pero sin alejarse a ningún momento de la teoría que sustenta el arduo trabajo de los filósofos existencialistas. La conferencia está llena de ejemplos y de un lenguaje aprehensible para cualquier aficionado por lo que esta obra se destaca al ser relativamente accesible al lector común enajenado de la densidad filosófi...

"El mundo estaba dividido en dos partes: aquellos que estaban obligados a sufrir o tomarse venganza, y los que se encontraban al margen del derramamiento de sangre" Abril quebrado es una de las obras más conocidas del escritor albanés Ismail Kadare. Es una novela que asemeja un realismo mágico interpolado con un tratado que revela las minucias del código de conducta Kanun. Es un componente del Rrafsh, el caso de una religión que supera el mandato supremo de la política convencional y que destruye todo preconcepto del bien y el mal. Es uno de los pocos códigos éticos que es capaz de enfrentar, y superar, a las leyes y suposiciones jurídicas que reinan en el mundo "normal". Esto permite a Kadare interponer su cultura al lector de una manera amigable y fascinante al lector. Es un gran libro que emplea una narrativa unidireccional a pesar de emplear tres historias diferentes, pero íntimamente conectadas entre sí. Las tres se terminan juntando hacia la misma dirección r...