domenica 29 aprile 2012

This Charming Man, by Marian Keyes (2008, London)

Dublin. Lola is a nice, good stylist who reads on newspapers her boyfriend, the New Ireland politician, Paddy De Courcy, is about to marry another woman. Alicia is the not totally aware Paddy's wife to be. Grace is a beautiful journalist in love with Damien but, in a way, involved in Paddy's story ...and her twin sister's one of Paddy's exes. Marnie, Grace's twin sister, living in London, married, two daughters, Paddy's ex, is so fragile she can barely survive day by day. All the Paddy's women share a secret about him... Turn-pager.

martedì 10 aprile 2012

Ristorante al termine dell'universo - The reastaurant At The End Of The Universe, by Douglas Adams (1980, UK)


Arthur, the last Earth inhabitant, Ford Prefect (from Betelgeuse), Zaphod (the former Galaxy President) and Trillian, from UK as Arthur, when they can finally get to their spaceship, The Sweetheart, go to the restaurant at the end of the universe, millions of years ahead, where every evening you can see the grand show of the collapsing universe. Getting away from there, they go into new adventures by chance, Zaphod and Trillian looking for the person who governs the universe, Ford and Arthur to a pretty strangely familiar planet...
Peculiar.

mercoledì 4 aprile 2012

Stelle cadenti - Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett (1990, UK)

Victor is a not-wizard by choice: he puts a big effort not to graduate...for the skin of his teeth, at the Unseen University in Ank morpork. But one day, as thousands of people, he is catched by the Holy Wood magic and there he goes. He meets Ginger, the Discworld version of Marilyn Monroe, Gaspode, the secretely speaking dog... and a different kind of magic. Mysteryous. And perhaps dangerous.