Booking Through Thursday #3

Originally from here

Have you every written any fan-fiction? If yes, why and for which book(s)? If no, would you like to and for which books(s)?
For that matter, do you ever READ fan-fiction??

About writing… no I never tried to do a fan-fiction but if I was to write one probably would be involving the encounter of characters from different books and different authors. Something funny like Hogwarts being sucked by a worm-hole in space and time to the time and place of George Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire. That seems to me much more engaging than picking characters that I like and put them in a romance with some fictional me or other character that is going to be molested in some weird-shit way. With that said…

Well there was a time when I stumbled across some Harry Potter themed fan-fictions but how should I put it… hmmm… they were kinda awkward xD I read one that was Severus Snape having a romance with Luna Lovegood, written by some girl that clearly as some daddy issues and thinks that sex in porno-with-tentacles films is the real deal. So… I believe that somewhere in the twisted mingled mind-fuck that is the Internet there are some people that can write interesting stories but for each one of them there’s twenty other that just write some reaaallly weird things product of their disturbed imagination or hormones behind the anonymity of the web. 

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Green Lantern: Secret Origins

Escrito por Geoff Johns; Arte por Ivan Reis e Oclair Albert; Capa por Ivan Reis

Publicado 16 de Dezembro 2008 pela DC Comics

Witness the beginning of the career of the bravest Green Lantern who's ever lived as the "secret origin" of Hal Jordan is revealed. Discover how and why Hal received the power ring that changed his life forever. Uncover the mystery of the death of Jordan's predecessor, Abin Sur. Find out why Jordan's teacher and mentor, Sinestro, became obsessed with the prophecy of the apocalyptic end of the universe "The Blackest Night".

It's the first time for me in the field of comics review... so with that said...

Welcome everybody! The Green Lanterns... easily one of the most powerful heroes of the DC Universe, seriously! The rings grant them the freest manipulation of power possibly through their willpower. They kinda channel willpower that can shape through constructs and with that raw force maintain the peace in the universe working for a sort of inter-galactic police force called the Green Lanterns Corps. Ok, ok… there’s that thing with the yellow spectrum of colors…everything that’s yellow is immune to their power, so what? Just add up to the ring and lantern battery recharger kit a two or three buckets of green paint. I’m obviously biting a bit in the yellow-thing business but although this is the first comic I read in the Green Lanterns story I know that yellow is the color of fear and that’s probably the connection they try to make in this Origins since fear is the number one thing that they are always saying in green lantern boot-camp that can mess-up with their willpower and directly with their super awesome capabilities. And fear is the first thing we can read Hal Jordan talking about, this story shows us how the greatest human Green Lantern started and that was the main reason I read it first instead of the other first printed stories. 

I liked this beginning mainly because of one major point, when I was reading it my eyes and curiosity where not only focused in Jordan they were also in Abin-Sur, Sinestro, Carol, Jim, the Asian friend that I forget the name all the time. All their stories are well connected and stand by themselves – they stand together but they also stand alone, and sometimes I think that comics tend to focus too much in the main hero and the rest it’s landscape easily forgettable – all comes together wonderfully and the artwork is very imaginative and strong. Reading this gives me the curiosity to search for the rest of the story but the problem with 70 years of Green Lantern story development is the feeling that I get kind of lost, so better do some research our maybe if someone that reads this can point me out the next issue to read I would appreciate it very much. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, As Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes III

Início e Fim da Leitura 12 de Fevereiro

95 páginas

As Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes incluem originalmente doze contos de aventuras do detective Sherlock Holmes, publicados em 1892. Os contos foram divulgados pela primeira vez na revista Strand Magazine, nos anos de 1891 e 1892. Neste terceiro livro de aventuras estão reunidos A Liga dos Cabeça Vermelha, O Solteirão Nobre e As Faias Cor de Cobre.

Opinião Geral: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle é sem sombra de dúvida um dos meus autores preferidos do género que soube criar e fazer crescer tão bem. As suas personagens são até hoje queridas e conhecidas resistindo com impressionante facilidade ao esquecimento que o tempo proporciona por vezes a outros autores. Esta compilação de contos nesta colecção de pequenos livros é para mim o livro ideal para transportes pois são muito fáceis de transportar e simplesmente deliciosos de ler, para quem aprecia o género. Dos três contos o meu preferido foi As Faias Cor de Cobre porque tenho preferência de entre os contos de Doyle para aqueles em que quem solicita a ajuda do famoso detective é uma pessoa normal da comunidade londrina digamos tomando como comparação todos os casos que Holmes resolveu para a realeza Europeia, Duques, Banqueiros e outras figuras sociais mais importantes. Além disso a singularidade deste fez me lembrar O Carbúnculo Azul - a que o próprio Dr. Watson faz referência - que é um dos meus preferidos. O passo da narrativa também é interessante porque é pelos olhos de Miss Hunter - a governanta que pediu ajuda a Holmes - dando nos a nós a oportunidade de sermos os olhos do detective, o que para mim é óptimo visto ter o vicio de tentar solucionar o enigma antes de ler a conclusão final da lógica do mais famoso detective da literatura britânica.

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Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes III é da autoria de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle e esta pequena colecção foi publicada pela Global Notícias.

Booking Through Thursday #2

Originally from here

If you had to pick only 5 books to read ever again, what would they be and why?

Such a cruel question... only five books...hmmm. For me is quite difficult to choose only five so maybe I'll cheat a little bit and the first one would be The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection (in one book xD) and then for the second maybe I'll glue altogether the complete Harry Potter series or the Juliet Marillier books. Fine, fine I'm dodging the point but actually the HP series are my most time read books, for third place perhaps a Jane Austen romance, fourth definitely a Bernard Cornwell work and the final one I'd close my eyes and pick one randomly from a pile of books I haven't read until now, just because a little surprise and unknown is always welcome.

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In my Mailbox #3

Os gastos de Fevereiro já começaram mas francamente é meu objectivo este mês não gastar tanto dinheiro no meu vício. Digamos que o mês de Janeiro foi o descontrolo total *cof cof* Anyway... fiz duas encomendas pelo BookDepository e em exactamente 8 dias - como prometido - chegou o primeiro livro.

The Man who Broke into Auschwitz é o relato na primeira pessoa de Denis Avey quando durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial trocou de lugar com um judeu no campo de concentração Buna-Monowitz mais conhecido como Auschwitz III, acabando por viver ele próprio a experiência que o iria marcar para o resto da sua vida. Conseguiu sobreviver e ser testemunha de uma das realidades mais cruéis em toda a História da Humanidade. Com 91 anos recebeu das mãos do Primeiro ministro Britânico Gordon Brown a 22 de Janeiro de 2010 a medalha British Heroes of the Holocaust tornando-se a segunda pessoa de um conjunto total de vinte e sete a recebe-la ainda vivo.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it

 (George Santayana)

In my Mailbox pertence originalmente a The Story Siren