With the arrival of my vacation and the "parking" momentary, for various reasons, my chores blogs, I had time to think a long time, and to retake one of my hobbies the most handy when a contest you ask about your hobbies: reading.
enough in two days I fulfilled my anxiety with three very different titles, and although I am sure it will give me time to read everything in the holiday week for my country, but the intention is what counts, and also the desire to renew have now emerged ...
The first book is Millennium Carvalho, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It is an issue that combines the two complete volumes: Road to Kabul and In the Antipodes, and represents for me the first contact with the author. Yes, I have not read anything yet Vázquez Montalbán, and whom he may seem odd, well, we can not always know everything. It promises to be entertaining, and that is what I was looking to purchase. It also has the advantage (if one can call ahead) to start afresh with the character, since I have not seen not even TV series, starring Julia Puigcorbé. 
continue, but this time a more serious book, at least for the implications it had for its author, Salman Rushdi e. This is The Satanic Verses, and when I just fifty pages, I begin to realize why it lifted up.
Sentenced to death in the famous Khomeini's fatwa, he spent years hiding from fans who wanted to end his life, a fanaticism that was to provide three million dollars in 1989 for his head, then doubling that amount in 1997.
According to Wikipedia (in order
...), February 14, 1989, a religious edict, or fatwa, calling for his execution was read on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, religious leader Iran. The edict accusing the book "blasphemous against Islam." In addition, Khomeini accused Rushdie of the sin of "apostasy," abandoning the Islamic faith as the ahadith, or traditions of the prophet, must be punished with death. The charge of apostasy was due to Rushdie by of the novel and claimed not to believe in Islam. Khomeini called for the execution of writer, and also the implementation of those editors who published the book to know its contents .
to pee and do not take drop. Let's see if I take something to clean reading of the case, but at first notice the shades of the work.
's latest book is miniload the History of Science (1543-2001) , by John Gribbin. This is a topic that really interested me, not only science, yes, but the history of its protagonists, their lives, their circumstances, knowing what factors other than itself research leading to scientific and technological advances. It is often the result of be in the right place at the right time . I once read that to really learn something about science is to read biographies. What I realized over time is that the best biographies are sometimes presented the least reliable, with few exceptions, and that history was lost very big characters who decisively influenced the development of science and technology. The book that opened my eyes as I mentioned here, A Short History of Nearly Everything , which I am giving a rereading (who has had several books started to time?)
Like everything I do has a beginning, and is, like everything lately, linked to blogs. Two particularly marked this taste that is increasing by the History of Science: Science Stories (ovbiamente) and obsolete technology .
's it. Well, not quite. I lack the monograph on the Lancia Delta Integrale , very cool, Italian and luxury, luxury ... I love it.
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