Sunday, September 26, 2010

Can U Get Genital Warts From Tattoos

"Suite (s) imperial (s)" by Bret Easton Ellis - Editions Michel Laffont


Allez, il faut bien le dire. On se frotte les mains lorsque la sortie d'un nouveau livre de Bret Easton Ellis vient agrémenter la rentrée littéraire. Il n’y en a pas des tonnes, de ces auteurs dont on attend plus ou moins impatiemment la prose. Le voilà. Et pas besoin de noyer le poisson, le nouveau cru m'a un peu laissé sur ma faim. En posant ses valises auprès d’une simili suite à son 1er roman Moins than zero released in 1986 (in France), Easton Ellis found 25 years after the characters to whom he gave the body to make vases Hollywood today.

Thus, Clay has it become a successful screenwriter and returns to Los Angeles to monitor the casting of a film based on one of his stories. Along the way, he meets his very old fellow loves his old mop and stuck in the system made in vain for showbiz, which mixes ego, vanity, emptiness and plastic surgery. The author is at ease here. He aims his sharp pen on a microcosm put under the control of appearances, boredom and even childish. Easton Ellis excels in inane chatter and hollow, where the dialogues of circumstances have other goals that we lay the figure of extreme mental and emotional abandonment that are decked out his characters.

And even though a love story emerges inevitably thwarted, the author puts all his energy to work to undermine that adopts a minimalist style and icy for all Clay's torments are a fool's game that has only one goal: flatten black on white this deafening silence of solitude. Then, the history of this (too) short novel runaway in the bloody ... As we go out of torpor and make us realize that the bodies are not only silent and disarticulated dolls. Clay Is the Devil, in the end? But all at a cost. For the reader. He did not always understand the intent. It is not easy to find its place in front of a book that inflicted the banalities of a comedy dross human communication. The player tries to be attentive spectator of the vacuum to free himself, trying to sublimate this nothingness. The author goes to work. It is both trying to be as involved and annoying to climb the Everest.

Long interview with the author

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Cali' Italian Surname Meaning

"Apocalypse bébé" de Virginie Despentes - Editions Grasset


A strange feeling I triturated neuron when I just finished the last delivery of Ms Despentes. I've loved, or not? Because the overnight disappearance of Valentine, mysterious girl, is a pretext. An excuse for the author of Apocalypse baby to engage in a series of portraits of his characters typed as the ingredients of a dish made with a nice application but lacks a little flavor of astonishment , surprise or suspense. Here we meet an unlikely pair of private detectives feminine, which one is a lesbian claimed strong character nicknamed the Hyena, and the other is a woman in search of itself. One finds here the family of the "disappeared" (a famous writer father, stepmother, grandmother), a biological mother, the bastard ... Each, each chapter has recounted his personal history, his portrait was embedded in the script of this frantic search for Valentine, between Paris and Barcelona. It certainly looks

all these characters who are representative of both formal strata of the population (the famous, rich, wealthy, opportunists, the abandoned, the ambitious, losers, homosexuals, religious, small strikes ...). All are entitled to the attention of the author. But the impression remains that, in sum, we see a panorama of our time casting studied that would display its subversions and transgressions. All combine to make the story into a well-oiled machine that it does not feel so much like to join. It never feels closer to the world described, it is the viewer a bit excluded from the militancy of the non-standard life in all its facets and perhaps in reality a caricature. I do not know. One senses, plus the end is near, the descent to hell and tilting a bit easier to something irretrievable. That narrative worked and mastered ... But I feel that trimballe image rebel fighter and protest of Virginia Despentes, I read for the first time, was only slightly yellowed old photograph. So what? I probably liked this story, but I do not have a little forgotten.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Bad Blistered Rash On Babys Butt

monitoring mission in UNIKIS

After having completed his doctoral research, Dr. Jan Kennis, a research biologist at the University of Antwerp back in Kisangani as responsible UniversiTIC campus to replace Peter De Cleyn.

TOENGAHO Hosted by the Rector, Jan KENNIS and the Program Manager worked with the local team of Professor DHEDYA adaptation of the 2010 program and financial developments at mid-point of the second year of the program.
The home team will soon be complemented by the arrival of a new system and network administrator from Kinshasa, Pierre Mukadi.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Saree To Attend Indian Wedding

"Le mec de la tombe d'à côté" de Katarina Mazetti - Editions Babel



To my right, Desiree. To my left, Benny. They meet often, sitting on the bench for a cemetery is eyeing a look. One is a widow, another comes flower's grave sa mère. L’une est lettrée, bibliothécaire, l’autre est agriculteur, un peu abrupt. Pourquoi se regarderaient-ils, se comprendraient-ils… s’aimeraient-ils ? Pourtant, il suffira (d'un signe) d’un sourire en coin, chacun, pour que contre toute attente le coup de foudre les traverse de part en part. Mais tout n'est pas si simple...

D’abord luttant contre cet irrépressible sentiment, Désirée s’avouera vaincue, conquise avec toujours ce petit « mais » au coin des lèvres… Tandis que Benny, lui, tentera de ne pas être tout à fait lui-même sans faire fi de ses origines, son esprit volontaire, sa simplicité… Une class struggle? Rather a drop spot where everyone will try to go to the other, to find his place in history, to go against his prejudices to understand without denying. We play cat and mouse in "The guy's grave beside." They place the ball in this tennis well trussed from one chapter to another, where the simple feelings and existential questions are intertwined, from confusion to the reality of things, the dream of happiness to shock cultures, and the superiority complex pragmatism of life together. Each in his own way trying to convince the other to enter his universe.

The reader does not know who has (uranium) and because he does not care a bit. He lulled (fool?) By the story of Desiree and Benny who seek, find themselves, discover themselves, s'amadouent, reject ... With these sentiments in a roller coaster and the struggles of every moment, there is the universality of romantic relationships with their wounds and their blissful smiles. It is in these readings then found a little of his soul shopgirl hopeless dreamer or defeatist. Everyone goes there on his own story is probably why this book is such a global success. Everything is explained.