The Jungle Book is one of the favorite children's movies of my children. Or at least it was in earlier ages, so we used to see frequently. Also remember that once my daughter saw a movie more faithful to Kipling's book that was not animated, and that she was impressed enough. This is because the Disney adaptation of the story quite certain smooth turns of the story and changed many others. Almost Like the story of Peter Pan

The book has been around me for long, and more than ever struck me reading it, but I never put dedication to the task, so I read several sections of it separately and on different occasions.

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The book begins when Mowgli "frog" arrives, pursued by Shere Khan, to the cave wolf family that adopts him, who decide to stay with him and make it part of the herd, for which are supported by Baloo The bear teacher who teaches children the law of the jungle, Bagheera, who pays a bull for Mowgli is accepted within the herd. Broadly then tells Mowgli growth in the pack, growing older faster than him, until the day he was expelled from it by mediation of Sheer Khan.

It is here that the book comes back in time and as first adventure tells Mowgli's capture by the Monkey People, who wanted to make him their king to learn some of their skills, but the monkeys always leave everything unfinished starters, including their attempts to feed their captive king, who died in danger, but is rescued by his knowledge of the law of the jungle and the timely intervention of Bagheera, Baloo and Kaa the python. Read the rest

There are countless books available to read at any time. Some read them because someone recommended to me, some other reviews I read because I remember about them, because I read other entries on other blogs concerning these books. This in particular I found this way, reading comments on other blogs about non-trade books, books not being best sellers (perhaps should start to get away from these books) have won critical acclaim and have even won literary prizes in their respective categories .

A Japanese author sounds like something I hardly look. Yet the book's name sounds different, which I think was the first thing that struck me about him.

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Toru Okada is a Japanese in their 30s who voluntarily left his job as a gofer in a law office looking for something different. However, a little encouraged by his wife Kumiko, decides to stay off work for some time, taking care of the housework while living on their savings and income of his wife. Kumiko comes from a problem family in which he received little or no attention, and although it is well positioned families economically, they do not depend or expect to maintain their marriages based on the position of that family. Shortly after marrying, adopting a cat called with the name of Kumiko's brother: Noboru Wataya, which is lost in the moment when the book begins, so Okada, in addition to their normal spending some time to find the cat in the neighborhood.

It is in these runs through the neighborhood where he meets May Kasahara, a teenager who runs away from his classes to work and earn income. Also at this stage, Okada receives a strange phone call, while Kumiko seeks help from a "medium" to find the lost cat. Thus Okada contact with Malta Kano and her sister, Crete Kanoo, who embark on a bizarre investigation that goes beyond the whereabouts of the lost cat. Kumiko's family likes to hear the views of mediums, people with ability to see the future. Malta is supposed to Kanoo has this kind of skill and that's why Kumiko knew of its existence. Kanoo Malta Before, they were sent by the father of a former military Kumiko almost deaf, Mr. Honda, who actually was the one who approved the marriage of both, a simple messenger for a law firm's daughter a family well-positioned. Read the rest

A recount, this time more read the reviews last year. Keep in mind however, that the count of views did not work throughout the year, but was started around May or June. Probably next year we will have a more accurate count for the period we want to dial, for now, this approach gives us a picture of what was read over this blog in 2009. Remove also the readings of other blogs that are not book reviews, to let the following list: Read the rest

This year has been quite productive in terms of books. I started the year with a fairly quick read a book that I thought more extensive, but I was surprised by its brevity. I then spent a number of books read since I had expected for some months. The series finally I got bored and made a break with two different books, being one of them a pleasant surprise, as was the child 44. Finish the series of books and went on to other issues, but generally books without much relevance. I read Angels and Demons by commitment before the premiere of the film, which I saw on DVD a few months later, I read the sacred book Enigma, who was waiting since I read the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci Code. In a forum that I came in moments of pause libreopinion started a book club, whose first proposal was War and Peace Leo Tolstoy, a book that pushed me habiendolo begun to seek alternatives to reading, finding the series of guide galactic hitchhiker, a number interesting and refreshing. Let's note: Read the rest

This is the movie I was expecting to see since the day I saw GIJOE. Although at that time I thought it would be an adapted version of the story of Ang, the Avatar of the cartoons that my son is a fanatic, and who first met the character. However, the Avatar of the film is an entirely different concept.

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Jake Sully is a paraplegic ex-marine now, replaced his brother, killed in a robbery in an exploration program in a supposed moon of Jupiter: Pandora, which is all a planet that is home to a pseudo-humanoid species, the Na'vi . The ground mission on this planet has the mission to extract a strange and expensive metal called unobtanium.

Jake Sully has a double mission, one with two different teams with very different goals each. The first team and the main project is the Avatar, by which native apparently created a being that can be connected by sophisticated equipment, and live in that world as natives. Humans on their side should wear masks to breathe while in the atmosphere of Pandora. The second team for the reporter Jake Sully is a group of soldiers, who plans to rule and get the unobtanium diplomacy by force.

But from the start Jake seems predestined that planet, because after apparently fleeing animals and predators of the planet just as a native is preparing to kill him, a flying seed lands on the arrow will go through it, which is interpreted as a signal, and is left alive. That day is abandoned by his team, who are unable to find it. At night he is attacked by the equivalent of wild dogs, and survived with the help of the same war that nearly killed him earlier. And that is accepted into the tribe of them, Omaticaya.

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After reading El Cartel de los Sapos, someone said I should read Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano, a book that had meant a death sentence for a writer, because he dared to mention names and places in Italy where the Mafia has its operations, and further, to reveal how these operations are carried out. And so it is a journalistic book, a book of complaint. It is far from a novel.

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The book begins by describing how the Chinese killed in Italy returned to their homeland after killed when a container full of bodies falling from a crane, watering their macabre cargo on the docks of Naples. And just like that, Saviano describes the operation of the port, smuggling, methods and sources of contraband, how much of the merchandise is introduced to avoid taxes and how this contributed to the economy smuggling local. He describes the deceits of the world of fashion, and how is it that smuggled clothing is cheaper than the fabric it is made.

Then paint the violence around the world, in a series of chapters that actually reminded me of the frogs Cartel, with the difference that one is written in novel form, while the latter is written as a journalist. Saviano gave an account of annual deaths caused by the Camorra, since his birth, and really, if these numbers impress you, Saviano should avoid coming to El Salvador, because if I do this exercise, the number of deaths caused by the violence since the year of my birth, the numbers would be negligible in comparison Saviano.

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Retrieving data from a book that interests me, I found a new blog like mine, with reviews of books I've read, and some that have not. This is one of those books reviewed here and that I had not read, so I decided to get it and because it is short, I interrupted my reading to finish this current one.

Saramago heard about for some time now, when NRP888 published his review of the irregularity of death, subsequent to that, I heard about the nobel prize for literature, his blog and some other of his books. I wanted to read The Voyage of the elephant, but I must say that I could not finish reading it. I got out there and left half. I just could not, I caught reading. When I recommended Blindness, I did and the experience was much different. If you ask me, commented that perhaps Saramago's writing style has been refined over time, and I think that more now reading this new book by the same Saramago, which humorously tackles an interesting subject: the passage through history Cain.

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The book begins in Genesis, and Saramago's vision of what should have been the genesis, and I guess you can not avoid sarcasm in describing the likely ancestry of Abel, the eldest son of the first family. It narrates the expulsion from paradise and how early humans learned they were not the only and perhaps not even the first, then join a walking group with whom they learn to fend for themselves in the world they have been convicted to live. Thus was born after Abel and Cain. Both live in relative harmony until the day that both a Abel dedicated to farm animal breeding and farming country Cain, begin to dedicate offerings to their god. And the problems started because smoke from the offerings of Abel went straight to heaven and that of Cain was dispersed over his head. Read the rest

Given that this blog was designed more to talk about books, and is only coincidentally sometimes write about the movies I see, I did not comment here GIJOE film, might not have much to say in that film, but start by's mention because during the exhibition of this projected the trailer I want to note at this time: 2012.

The topic is fashionable, if we consider that one of the books I read recently was about the same subject (The Mayan Testament). Throughout the trailer, I had the impression that the movie was about a cataclysmic eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, so I mentioned in other forums where I write regularly. However, the issue is slightly different.

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I missed the beginning of the film, after having lost an hour of projection, I decided to wait for the next going to lunch, and again I spent the time and when I was about 5-10 minutes of projection. However I believe that startup also tried to present the characters, paint a series of murders that sought to hide a huge plan in which a few would be able to escape the impending disaster, and those few wanted to keep everything secret to avoid generated panic prevented them save themselves.

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In the forum disappeared once replaced for a time in this blog, one of our partner wrote a review of this book. This review disappeared with the forum, since I did not want to return the writings of others in the forum, based on respect for the rights of their respective owners. The forum, for those who do not remember, fell into disuse and I was left alone by adding my reviews, so I finally decided to do a blog again, for restoring a backup of my old blog and added the reviews he had written in the forum. The rest, unfortunately, was lost in the change of hosting when my blog was off the air for a brief period last April. Returning to the book, read it I was born since then, I must confess that this was the first time I read about him, although he had recently seen at that time in a used book sale. But it was only this week that I could get and yesterday I finally got to read it.

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The hero in this story is a miserable condition dog who became farm dog after an incident in the village did not want him to return, so seeing Toribio going down the road, hit him and adopted hereinafter referred to as master, despite the bad reception he had in the house, where he ended up accepting the end and gave the name Nero.

Cowardly as himself, the hero of the story makes the ranch near Toribio the scene of his adventures, which included as co-stars to a Chump (turkey), a couple of chickens, a pig, a dead frog, a lizard, saints in procession, an occasional surprise in a sack, and even a bear!

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Concerning the eternal question of what is better, first read the book and then watch the movie, I think my personal reply does not apply to this story, given my personal answer is that it is better to read the book, since the abbreviation of history that is usually done to put film in two hours what the book is a much longer adventure, the film siemrpe less clear. And it applies to this book because to be a movie over two hours and half hours, is based on a book on my PRS is barely 40 pages. However, I still maintain that it is best to read before seeing the film, so I will give the answer in Libreopinion.net Garroferal, which was one that I had read previously published a cartoon many years ago one of the two newspapers more coverage in El Salvador (can not remember exactly which one), but the cartoon was called "The family circle, where a comparison was reading the story, where one imagined the scenes and dialogues which he imagined and even intonation of the characters, hear the story on the radio, where dialogue and intonation were no longer to the imagination, but the images themselves, and finally to watch TV, where neither the one nor the other were to imagination, and therefore was richer reading the book, since everything depended on our mind.

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Andrew was the model of NDR and a series of numbers, and when he came home to Martin, the youngest of the family was named Andrew, that's why it was that the name was given in the family in the future. It was a time in which robots were not very common yet, and the Martin family was allowed to have one at home given that Mr. House was a member of the legislature, and therefore could afford it.

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