Monday, March 14, 2011

Cheats For Fire Red On Pc

Ho visto...

Okay, il mio tedesco - bene o male - ha retto. Okay, mi sono reso complice dell'assassinio di Diosolosa quanti suini. Okay, ho fatto "indigestione" da birra. Insomma: sono ancora intero.

Sei piani di libreria. Librerie OVUNQUE. Lettori che NON si credono eroi solo perchè hanno un libro sotto mano. Postazioni per leggere. Librai e non commessi. E scaffali. Scaffali MERAVIGLIOSI. Ho visto una donna allattare un bambino in libreria. Niente sconti. E NESSUNO che si sognava di chiederli. Hardcover che costavano anche 28 - 29 euro, paperback a 9 - 10. E persone che compravano libri A MAZZI. COMITIVE di ragazzi e ragazze, uomini e donne, vecchi e giovani, che si consigliavano, discutevano, parlavano di LIBRI.

Che genere di libri?

ALL.

no distinction.

In Germany there is the SF. The real one, with ideas, ideas monstrous. Diocristo I read the back covers and a face I had to worry so much upset by the bookseller. And then there are thrillers. Thriller with controcazzi. Why? Because publishers can rely on a bunch of readers who do not go to war with each other and are damn OPEN to any new and - at the same time - also appreciate books which, though not original to say glowing things so different. CONSEQUENTLY, IT IS SEIZED. Psychothriller, Krimi, Crime. There are novels-novels. Erotic novels. Novels of the day. Biographies of people uncomfortable. I seen at least ten different books written by former soldiers in Afghanistan (this is democracy, how many there are in Italy? yet we have had more deaths than the Germans at the front, right?). Illustrated books, in piles and beautiful.

And the Italians?

Mafia. There is nothing more than that. Transfigured in the Mafia game thriller - Italian or italotedeschi. Other? No, there are even more books about Berlusconi. Before you laugh now ZERO.

I am convinced that the degree of civilization of a people see how these books.

[To be continued (maybe)]

Thursday, March 10, 2011

What Color Drapes For Red Dinning Room

Prove tecniche di espatrio

In a couple of hours, I booked a train. It 's funny, not to I hated the train too long ago, has now become my main means of transport - and I like it too. Probably because the train I used to read a lot, or maybe just because the metal is the root of the Blues, you know the range.

I'm leaving a couple of days in a more civilized country. I need a change of scenery, the Italian stinks. I want to see what moves into the literary underworld of a country that is prepared to lecture a bit 'at all, Germany. It 'a lot that do not use my Deutsch and will be fun to see what's left of me in the head. I need to look around.

I need, in other words, hope.

I need to hope that something can change. Hope in new plots, new stories, powerful, strong. Stuff that grabs you by the hair and throws you off the cliff. I have no faith in the players but I have faith in the stories. Those MUST be there and somehow have to get out. Here, I want to understand how the hell do they do it. I need to see faces that are not ashamed of their country. I need to see people who love what they do. I need to talk to my peers who still head the word future.

What we do not have anymore.

Take care and do the good.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Lacrosse Helmets Visor

Quando giochi allo Yankee Stadium, beh...

There are people you meet and you do not leave anything. Really nothing. Maybe I'll talk for hours, exchanging ideas, words, thoughts. And finally ... nada.
I know that if I were a better person than what I am able to appreciate everyone. I could see in everyone something important. Unfortunately, I can rarely. To hit people should have ... something. Stephen King would call it "The Shining". I call it talent.
I have a very low threshold of reactivity to boredom, and just the slightest thing annoys me. Talented people irritate me maybe, maybe make me feel in awe, but never, never bore me. Never disappoint me. And always, always, I am rich. You do not need to know live this kind of people. It is often impossible to do. Think Saramago, Borges, Lovecraft in: they are dead, but every time you meet them have something to teach.

I had the good fortune to meet many talented people. One of these has become a friend who is teaching me a lot. If I have a Dirven, if you know the most important, I would say perseverance.

So now not only are very happy for her, but I take the lesson and put in the safe .

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Saved Game Utility Minis

L'orbita Dantec

A new book due out in January 2012 by Maurice G. Dantec. Dantec is one of the writers to whom I owe more. And as time passes, I realize how much weight its influence on myself. When will the W in France (I do not have a date yet, sorry) I will try to make him have a copy. Not for him (if you know what makes my little book) but for me: I like to say "thank you" to those who taught me a lot (and then use it to clean the cage of the canary, so what is the canary Dantec!).
Everything that I have to tell you the expectations on that novel. But that's not what I want to talk to you.
I want to talk about how this book will be published.

Eye and cool because we're in dangerous territory and easy to misunderstandings. As usual when it comes to Dantec.

The news has left me thrilled. The new novel does not have a publisher. For a moment I thought to leave the country on Neptune. A world that does not believe in a world Dantec is really sad. So I'm aware. I asked him directly to his agent (Who an agent is a kind of adept ...).

And I understood.

Dantec is about to launch what we call "publishing house" ad personam ". In short, having broken his balls publishers decided to "self-produce." Words are important.
DK (agent Dantec) rejects the term "autopubblicazione. And he has good reason. To be able to manage alone Dantec refused an advance of half a million euro from big publishers in France.

Half a million.

Di.

Euro.

The new book will be released in ebook, but on paper. A Dantec the ebook does not like (uh, look ...) except as a corollary of the traditional book. You can find it on amazon.fr but also in libraries. Production, therefore, not autopubblicazione.

work?

In short I think so. Dantec is very famous, has an impressive following of readers, his books are drawn from the film. Also "Satellite Sisters" (title of the new book) is the continuation of his two masterpieces. There is mouth-watering. Add the factor of "novelty" and you're done.

work in the long run? I have no idea. I hope so for him, I hope that the fields at least three hundred years and then upgraded in heaven as the New Messiah Photovoltaics. But to make predictions is silly.

It 's a "precedent"? The future is "do as Dantec?



No. Why?

Because it is a situation difficult to reproduce. For three reasons.

1) Dantec is already recognized urbi et orbi (or believe that the EC give half a million in advance that the first pass?) And therefore can afford this and more. The reputation thus reduces the possibility of a lot to emulate.

2) Money. To build a "CE" ad personam "means that it has, or has supplied a lot of donors pecunia. Think of the cost of distribution, for example. This reduces even more operating space for those who want to get in "trail".

3) Most important of all: readers Dantec. Dantec readers are not casual readers. Hardly are those who buy a book just because it's on display. They want Dantec. Seek Dantec. Or belong to the kind of reader, "Hey, Surprise!" - Which gets the readers who have a dream. Players like these would follow him even if published on toilet paper. Only

Dantec, among all the writers that come to mind, has the right combination of these three factors.

Hats off, Mr. D.!