Monday, August 16, 2010

Piaggio Cabin Scooters

to 100 TIME-holiday

Hello,

After a busy summer of work, it is time for me to go on vacation. I'll see you in September. Meanwhile, good reading at all.


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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Normal Thyroid Size On Ultrasound

Las Vegas Fear and Loathing - Hunter S. Thompson

Author: H. Hunter Thompson
Title: Las Vegas paranoid. A wild heart of the American dream
Original Title: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey in the Heart of the American dream
Translator: Philippe Mikriammos
Edition: 10/18
Collection: foreign domain
date: June 1994
Number of pages: 208 p.
Cover:


Dedication: "Bob Geiger, for reasons that there is no need to explain here - and Bob Dylan, for Mister Tambourine Man "


Quote: " Whatever is done beast gets rid of the pain of being human. "Dr. Johnson


Presentation of the author by the publisher: Hunter S. Thompson was born in 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. It begins his career in journalism as a sports columnist in Florida, then collaborated with titles as diverse as Esquire . The New York Times , The Rolling Stones and National Observer in South America. Reporter azimuth and unlikely politician, he became famous in the late sixties by inventing gonzo style, kinds of stories which the author is deluded himself the hero. He published among other Las Vegas Parano , The great shark hunt , The New Testament and Gonzo Hells Angels. Hunter S. Thompson killed himself in February 2005.


Presentation Editor: "We posting to Las Vegas convention of all the Narcotics Squad of America. Dr. Gonzo rushes ... and discovers hundreds of cops Stups released into the hell of game! and therefore in the middle, Hunter S. Thompson, drinking huge glasses of bourbon, smoking joints, sniffing cocaine, breaking bulbs of poppers under his nose on lectures from seventy hours without sleep, returning to his room for delirious hours on his typewriter and swing the final outcome in Rolling Stone ... Las Vegas is a scandal. And a classic American wild Delatte, a book which is not apparent over, as if reading caused alterations in the cortex, or as if the learned hodgepodge of words woven at a frenetic pace had the power to cause flash- acid back in the reader. " Philippe Manoeuvre, New Look

Comment: 1971. While war raged in Vietnam, the psychedelic phenomenon of LSD seized in the United States. J JOURNALIST sports Hunter S. Thompson aka Raoul Duke, is sent by his leadership in Las Vegas to cover one of the biggest events of the year: the famous Mint 400. Accompanied by Dr Gonzo (lawyer), here it is launched in a race driving a Great Red Shark stuffed with drugs of all kinds. Then sent to the National Conference of Prosecutors on Narcotics Drugs and dangerous, Duke must return to Vegas to write a paper after a leak fantastic ...


epic story of a completely crazy, this text, largely autobiographical, is a reflection of its time. A time with many daydreams where people still believe in the American dream . And drugged to the core, our two heroes evolve "flashes" in scandals a path strewn bats, lizards and other comedy. Fu-laughs, paranoia or panic attacks, our buddies discover throughout their trip, a delusional America: casinos us into ultra-modern form of circus or circus-like casino, the duo takes us through the days wildest imaginable available. The replicas are as absurd as scathing and we discover with pleasure gonzo journalism accents undoubtedly provocative.


faithfully adapted for the screen by Terry Gilliam , Las Vegas Parano perfectly symbolizes the reign of a bygone era. This crazy adventure certainly dangerous but extremely exciting, we would like to have lived a quarter. Unfortunately, every time his dreams. Ours does not lend itself to it and with a little envy that I shared this experience gonzo. Many people have tried to style. Few have been able to match eccentricity and spontaneity "ultra-subjective "Hunter. Read this book so over thirty five years after the fact does not detract from its charm. Instead, what a beautiful tribute to freedom! Read So for fans of the 1970s when everything was still possible, even be paid to say what we think and do what we want ...


Excerpts: "The Circus-Circus is what all those in the know would do on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich. The ground floor is covered with gaming tables, as all other casinos ... only the ceiling is four floors up, in the style of a circus tent, and it goes on all sorts of strange Madness mid-Canton Fair, half-Polish carnival. "p.51


"Sauté pellets nipples this dyke of three meters and you win a cotton candy goat." p.52


"No, this is not a good city for droques psychedelics. Reality itself is too distorted. "P. 53 about Las Vegas


" It was treacherous, stupid and demented in every way of view - but it was not possible to miss the hints of humor hovering on the idea of a gonzo journalist and struggling with a psychedelic episode virtual terminal that would be asked to provide reporting on the Conference National Counsel on narcotics and dangerous drugs. " p.84

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Ostrich How Much Can You Sell The Meat

Antibes - Corinne D'Almeida

Author: Corinne D'Almeida
Editions: Gallimard
Collection: Collection White
date: February 2010
Number of pages: 282 p.


About the author: Corinne D'Almeida lives in the Paris region. Antibes is his first novel.


Comment: Story of an unconventional life paths, Antibes tells the story of a nurse's aide who works on the services of an old lady in Paris. The narrator is also the author evokes through the details of his daily moody, intense moments of his life: the suicide of his father understood his unconventional sexual experiences (the author and her sister both love the albino), Corinne Almeida resurrect the ghosts of a past tragic events woven sordid or incredible. Haunted by memories of a sister sometimes protective, sometimes perversely, the author demonstrates a disconcerting decline that gives the text an undeniable charm.

Offered by a friend who personally knows Corinne Almeida , this book does not initially got inspired. Tags that rank among the novels, I was not at all encouraged to take an interest. Yet Antibes is diametrically opposed to the idea that I had made. Clichés of romance mushy like I expected, I was really pleasantly surprised. If the author is difficult to follow because of the many digressions and returns in time poorly marked, she nevertheless shows great imagination boldly put into words. Death, love and sex are recurring themes in her writing and its impact. At the boundary between morbid and comical, this novel is disturbing in both its modern and vintage (it frieze sometimes dadaism ) than the story it unfolds. I found it difficult to read and I had to repeatedly go back and do not lose the thread of the story. Also note that the long footnotes pages as part of short stories in history, interfere with understanding. This text could much in my opinion, to be adapted cinema because writing vivid and lyrical Corinne Almeida, lends itself readily. In fact, I enjoyed this novel for the mystery and enchantment that emerges. A successful first novel so for a most singular fate.

Excerpts: " A woman was killed by love. She was not stabbed. She drank a glass of poison that do unforgiving. It was fortunate. She would not be forgiven. Maybe she wanted was not to be certainly not. (..) It only had a sister but we do not kill for her sister, was what his sister thought, she called a taxi to the hospital because emmner had to the take him somewhere. " p.31


" How could he come and go that way? It was very simple, in the same way that our father had appeared and had disappeared in the manner of a rupture, a cut in the real, like a misunderstanding . "P. 200


" Hearing Antibes, my future had to jump into the cup. Alas, I did not keep their eyes on him, I could not see him leap and run the black surface concentric shocks (a vortex in a cup of coffee). Antibes? "I said. Yes, I have a villa. It was crazy I thought the number of people who had a villa in Antibes . "P.272