Doña Perfecta

¡Que novela más buena de Benito Perez Galdos!

La editoral rusa Kapo no podría haber escogido mejor un título para retratar una España que pese a ser la de principios/mediados del 19 no está nada lejana de la actual.
El libro, como decía, es una edición rusa pensada para aquellos que están aprendiendo español, por lo cual se encuentra llena de acotaciones en determinados terminos y expresiones dificilmente traducibles.

He disfrutado como un enano con esta novela y me dan ganas de transcribir fragmentos y fragmentos de sus páginas pero solo voy a dejar aquí esta breve descripción de uno de los personajes del libro:

No es esto decir que era fea; mas también habría pasado por hiperbólico el que la llamaran hermosa, dando a esta palabra su riguroso termino.

Jajajaja.

Non fiction - Chuck Palahniuk

This is a compilation of articles written by Palahniuk on different magazines. And I have to say that is very irregular: some of them are damn boring while others are fascinating. I don't know if the problem is that the three longest articles were a plain description of something that I understand as "too American for me" but it was very tedious to read about people that wrestle, construct castles by their own or participate in a demolition derby. Buuuut, on the other hand we have some fantastic short stories about Chuck's life and sharp reflections about the power of writing and the process involved during the creation of a story.

The heroin diaries. A year in the life of a shattered rock star - Nikki Sixx

What a great book!! If you like Motley Crue or you as just interested in rock'n'roll stories this is a must-read. Right from the start (Nikki Sixx left in the garbage because people though he was dead) till the moment he dies for a couple of seconds one year later, this is a non-stop of drugs and, sometimes, sex and violence. Yeah, and also the creation of the "Girls girls girls" album and its following tour.

I could tell soooo many things about this book, but I think I'm going to leave it here because I wouldn't know where to start.

From the band Sixx A.M.

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

I just finished this novel which is entertaining but nothing more. Maybe is because I read it in English and I had to be looking for words in the dictionary all the time and trying to remember the movie they made based on the book but I didn't like Thomas Harris' way of writing even when I think the plot was ok.

One thing that I didn't remember from the movie is that the first part of the action is set on Lithuania. Actually, even when it's never said, is very likely that Lecter is Lithuanian since he spends his childhood there. It's funny to read about Vilnius or Klaipeda now that I know a few things from the country.

Diary. A novel - Chuck Palahniuk

Ok, I tell you what it happens.

I was quite tired so I decided to go to sleep. It was early, not even 24:00, so I thought that I could read one or two chapters from Chuck Palahniuk's "Diary. A novel". Two hours later I have finished the book, I'm totally awaken and my brain is full of an angst that is difficult to describe. Palahniuk probably would be proud of how bad I felt while I was reading this book.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like to suffer and if I continued reading this book was because:

• Some of the thoughts about Art on the book were interesting.
• The psychological horror that defines this novel gets you almost right from the beginning. And even when reading it becomes a hard work and the atmosphere is so oppressive that you are damning Palahniuk for being so twisted, you have to continue.

Do I recommend the story of Misty Wilmot, a once-promising young artist currently working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt. According to the description on the back of Diary: A Novel, Misty "soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives."? Well, I'm sure that I won't read it again but some of the elements that are inside the novel moved me to a reflection exercise about what means to be an artist.

Lately, seems like all books that I'm reading are not exactly cheerful... Now this book, before it "Si esto es un hombre" ("If this a human being", I guess would be the English title) the biographical history of a Italian Jew that survived from Auswitch that my friend Eduardo gave me before I left Spain. And the books that I bought with "Diary" seems to be similar: Rant, also from Palahniuk and Hannibal Rising. Luckily, I also bought "The merchant of Venice".