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Interview - Pastor Stephen

Title: The interview
Author: Stefano Pastor
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Montag
Pages: 212
Price: € 16.00

Novel Award winner "The Phoenicians 2010"

PLOT
A Rocciaverde, a small country, David is seen eleven gray into a car. Disappear forever. Four years later, Maximus, twelve year old actor prodigy, is coming to Rocciaverde to play a movie on the history of David. The country has not forgotten, although Umberto Raschi, the gray car killer, is in jail. But Max is a perfectionist and wants to know everything about the life of David, every single detail, talking with all those who knew him. A search that leads him to a game more than him, and that could cost him his life.


PROCEEDINGS
I happen to find myself less and less to their hands a book that takes my sleep, the interview was one of them.
Pastor proves very good in the art of writing, but I believe this work must necessarily be divided into two distinct parts. On one hand, the narrative style, pace and ability to involve the reader, the texture and thickness of the other characters. The first aspect
is clearly positive and compensates for (almost) the absence of a second. The author is in fact very good in the use and choice of words, t'incolla pages with a fluid style and direct, that is striking and intriguing. On the other hand I believe that the credibility of the characters and the narrative is not entirely sufficient.
this is a thriller that has its roots in a history of serial murder, the eye of an attentive reader will immediately fall heavy on the inconsistencies, especially the total absence of any investigation, coming out as the plot unfolds. A reader can not help but wonder why no investigations were carried out following the arrest of a serial killer, how come they have never been done research in the area, and will not find the chalet where the killer tortured the victims, why has not shown anything in four years, which could be suspected to investigators that things had not turned out as the killer would have you believe.
The author seems to be paying more attention to the scenery which surround the story rather than the story itself, which is paid too much superficiality.
The theme, that of child abuse and the tragic consequences that such events bring, it is merely a means to tell the story. The argument, however, is thorny and complex, and in my opinion he deserved a much deeper introspective and certainly more careful.
The attitude of the players, compared to what they have experienced, it is sweetened, almost superficial, the choices that have worked are faced with too much simplicity, without enabling the reader to convince himself that are just, or at least credible. Can not get into the psychology of these guys, you do not understand what are the predominant issues in their lives, what you should aim to become attached to them, in essence, we must passively accept the little that is told by the author without asking too many questions because otherwise if you insist on translating the story on a rational plan, the book loses much of its potential.
The development of the plot is somewhat difficult to fill the black hole, especially in the finale, which is a bit 'too much fireworks (for example, in the crucial moment comes out a gun that has not ever mentioned during the narrative) and maybe a little 'feel-good and too easy.
Too bad, because it is obvious that Pastor has excellent potential, and is now increasingly rare to find an author so good in the art of writing. And especially shame because this book could earn five stars with a firm foundation and a bit 'of extra attention to detail, which would have made The Interview a small masterpiece instead of a decent pastime.
Despite the flaws, however, the interview is a good way to spend some time in the company of an author who seems to know his stuff, who knows how to keep high the attention of his reader and knows perfectly dosed suspense and revelations.

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The death of disenchantment - FERRARO Salvatore

Title: The death of disenchantment
Author: Salvatore Ferraro
Publisher: Arduino Sacco
Genre: Fiction
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124 Price: 13.90



PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK (THE SITE EDITOR)
too simplistic to give quick explanations on why we can not even look like a little idea we have of ourselves or the idea that we would like to project. The most common excuses are: the university, the gym, exams, / boyfriend / or work. The cliché that chase, are: the use of command, the porno-woman, fast machine. These targets are worth our time and our sacrifices?

PLOT
The death of the disenchantment is a short novel divided into chapters that track the life of Marco, Naples boy on the threshold of thirty. The text opens in exactly one month after the fateful turning point and ends on the birthday of the protagonist. In between, neurosis everyday gestures of ordinary life, expectations, dreams, regrets and abrupt return to reality.
This book is in fact the consequential exposure of thoughts and daily actions, tells the classic way of life of an ordinary man with a vision of impending maturity, an ordinary man like all that is in the grip of responsibility that does not want to take , a maturity that seems to Mark choking first, then gradually discovers that less and less, until it becomes a chimera. Between childhood arcade and console, adolescence chasing the first offense, and a youth marked by a mate for life and a more or less stable, with his hand trodden on the choice of Mark not to succumb to the temptation posed by the bank from his father in favor of trovatogli a job as a freelancer in a study. With an eye always open football, which runs across the board in the entire life of Marco.

PROCEEDINGS
If you want a innovative interpretation, detail, found a text that offers scenic and fireworks, this book is not for you. But who is looking for a light-hearted narrative and at times bitter irony, those who feel the pangs of nostalgic childhood developed in 80/90 years, who wants to relive their experiences and their regrets, those who are curious to discover a new author trying to describe, through satire and metaphors, their encounter with the maturity, has certainly bought the right book.
How easy is it to happen by telling a story so heavily self-referenced, in some places it seems that the book was written to give vent to allow the author more than to satisfy the reader. It lets you take a bit 'too carried away indulging in a bit considerations' boring. There are charts and lists rating unoriginal, there's a bit of trivia, however, that the author tries to tell in order to make it interesting. There are some inconsistencies, such as when Mark tells us about his perception of the month of May: the first defines it a pleasant, quiet, small intestine. A few pages later it becomes hot, muggy, suffocating.
Overall, however, weigh the positives over the negatives: a reading is unpretentious but discreet, nice and fast.
The smoothness is enhanced by the brevity of the chapters, interspersed with flash outside the narrative defined Clipboard . Presents are nice and t'immerge in an atmosphere somewhere between the nostalgic and hopeful. One of the strengths of the novel is certainly the shortness of time arc told: although there are ample digressions on the past and future, episodes carriers develop within a single month. A similar text difficult to bear a higher number of pages, would end up bored.
A note on the finish: The book seems a clean break. Not for the final plot twist, but the gap between the penultimate and the final chapter. Perhaps it is intentional, maybe not, but the fact remains that I was a bit 'crowded out.
is not a read for everyone, in the sense that not everyone might like. The ideal reader of Death of disillusionment is perhaps reflected in a mirror image of the protagonist himself: average male, thirty years, a life neither too difficult nor too easy. I think it is easier to identify with such a target and therefore appreciate it. In
Overall a fairly good debut novel, with some flaws but worth reading.

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