The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Ulysses has been read and in silent apartment house arose my primal scream. A university environment is inner world, which is alien to reality from where you came. That’s if take prestigious institutes. There can meet people demonstrate arrogance and snobbism by which they view on things. From there was James Joyce about whom I’ve learnt. I was getting disgust from his book. It felt that I was reading a pornographic diary. It rarely haven’t a page from where was coming this thought. Joyce in reality was sexual possessed and he liked women with large breasts as was his wife Nora Barnacle. Same size in description had Molly Bloom – wife of a main hero Leopold Bloom with whom Joyce was associating himself. A text’s structure, which I was liking at first time, but later saw that it moves to nowhere, and I hadn’t a hope on change, is better explained by author “put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality”.

It wasn’t a conclusive thought, but about that’s professor danger I had on mind before reading of The Name of the Rose, which eponymous film adaptation with magnificent Sir Sean I was watching few times. Excellent medieval detective, which attracting mystery characterized in spirit of time, where monks connect murders with incoming of apocalypse. I precisely knew only one thing on the book – it’s different.

Umberto Eco’s writing style is a good tailwind for a sail ship. A professor with a devotion tells about XIVth century in Christianity, where can understand without expression of glazier Nicholas that religion uses for political and power goals. Interesting can see in conversations between characters, which sometimes images a time. Eco was talented in writing, but wasn’t well to right use it at least in read The Name of the Rose. The book reads as historical guide than a fiction story. Author overfills in all those details and dialogs on many pages. A main personage William of Baskerville must do investigation on murders than have long disputes in Christianity topics. So much text for strike off. Some talks and thoughts of Adso, who narrates plot, have feel of XXth Century. In exclusion quantities found wild sentences and same shade thoughts of personages as Adso’s impression on ignited fire on books in a library. In a few scenes monks don’t humble to use swears for which nobody willn’t criticize them about “you dare” in “God’s house” and no mention about crossing. Sometimes the book looked as failed comedy then serious. Eco tries to present the story in found manuscript, but it rarely moves away from a fiction book. He much writes about inventions of that time, which are unwelcome guests. That’s always comfortable to write from a future about past in demonstrated in clearly seeing a future William of Baskerville, who surprisingly never be called a heretic for his views in which can close to deism, because he much relays on sciences. Through him and Adso the author expresses own crushes on Christianity.

Investigation is a backstage. Writing on it reminds a film director, who is making drama movies and in one of them appears action scene, which terrible staged, because a filmmaker isn’t experienced. Umberto Eco is a well lecturer (he didn’t achieve in describing of Dulcinians story, which looks as unrealistic fiction.), but in excellent method of kills he fails in a solution structure. Adso accidentally in plenty of books took attention on needful on one of many tables. The oldest monk Alinardo, who just said how open the library, accepted as a madman by every inhabiting monk despite they’re living together. It discloses that he always be in sane in the end. Adso’s wacky dream helped to continue investigation. Salvatore, who was introduced as troubled for conversation and Adso understands nothing in his talk at first meeting, but in the next time a novice was catching every word. The book has much of this kind untied. Umberto Eco wasn’t experienced as Arthur Conan Doyle with Sherlock Holmes. A deduction of William of Baskerville can be without a commonsense on his surveillances. Detective’s line wasn’t intriguing as it was in film watching. Eco uses known and dull methods for the plot as dying victims prefer to talk in riddles as was with alive in read not to so far Death Is a Lonely Business. I always reason unprofessional when characters say everything what they wanted and than appears a next personage and starts conversation with him. Umberto Eco a lot of times used it.

A film adaptation makes a perfect surgery with the book. Sir Sean’s William of Baskerville actively devoted in investigation, demonstrates his fine mind (as in the great scene with sandals, which hasn’t in Eco’s work.) and likeable protagonist than unattractive in original story. Same relation I have to all characters, which in the movie are brilliant disclosed. In the book they lose own mystery shortly, when in the film them hold as excellent wine. I have sympathy only to Nicholas in the book, which didn’t appear in a flick, what is savvy, because line with second glasses of belongs to strike off. The film’s adaptation purifies from unnecessary and triviality. No straight dry in relationship between characters. Approach Adso and the girl came accurate slowly and their first meeting was on distance, when in the book it just a long text of fantastic words (yes, for strike off.) by a monk and immediate sex. Adaptation, as in everything, has preference in place where happened coition. A consequential conversation with William was changed for better for Connery’s character. The girl creates more important meaning in the film and I like a final scene when Adso is choosing. Film’s library design with stairways is hyping than it doesn’t do the book. Eco made a platitude with Jorge as mastermind and real ruler of a monastery, when those details absents in the adaptation. A conversation between Jorge and William perfect in the film to Eco writings of these mantras. Jorge escapes with a searching book in the adaptation, when in original I didn’t get an explanation why the protagonist looks long on how a monk destroys the book. I like film’s line in William admirations to books, which could kill him, what nothing in Eco’s original. Acts of inquisitor in the film has a logic and haven’t book’s scene with a new deadman, which didn’t change his mind on execution. The professor loses taste in the end in killing characters with having of background story and meeting with antagonist.

And so on. The reading of the book discovered for me that from it’s liquid founding was released a magnificent film of 1986.

Chronicles of Second Cold War. 04/26/2020.

Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury’s writing style is impressing me in lightness. It smoothly tells stories and his articles are never be heavy in words. Fahrenheit 451 isn’t big in quantity of pages book, but it reads with a speed of express train for one evening. Success makes a great plot at first, where described society is possible, because I saw it. I remember that acquaintance with the writer was in school by a tale, which title I couldn’t find, about arrived alien and his contact with a one man, where also was a glass ball was displaying life of alien. Unfortunately, I didn’t read it since that time, but I feel how strong a story. I’m looking back on destructive school program and see that this Bradbury’s story was a blessedness among plenty tales of Russian literature, which didn’t satisfy then due of uncomfortable writing styles and always about boring gloom life in Russia from first word till last, where every time I was wishing to drunk.

Death Is a Lonely Business is the first of three author’s detective novels, which tied in characters and where action happens in California in time for noir.

A protagonist is a nameless writer from whom goes a narration. He delves a story of pile of needless and sometimes senseless metaphors and his tale often overdramatized. Own personality is a writer of primitive stories, which fit only for cheap magazines as it happens in this book, but there he is more acclaimed in writing. It doesn’t feels that he’s telling, because it doesn’t compare with characteristic of personage. Death Is a Lonely Business gives presence of actual author in narrating. Delight from reading I had in describing of Californian Venice in 1949, where can know a year weather on sun, see how city failed to become similar to Italian Venice and hear a noise of unstoppable oil cranes. The interest to look on today city is definitely originates. Do everything was erased since that time?

Expecting of detective noir from Death Is a Lonely Business will bring a bitter disappointment. A whole book about useless visits of Nameless Writer to people with unusual characteristics, which didn’t surprise me (that’s because I was in New York.). Bradbury surpasses pulp writers in style and doesn’t tease by primitive, but his fail to intrigue is useless dramatization, which sometimes intended for film. Something is familiar. A character who will next for die is prefer to talk riddles. A backstage of mystery is ruining of the pier with installed amusements rides and other entertainment places. In the book becomes clear in understanding who will be killed and who will not, but if it cares. The only unspecific among everybody person is detective Elmo Crumley, who is a main representor of police, follows to common of justice structure’s line, which defines in don’t show activity for crime solution. He doesn’t shy to ask Nameless Writer to do his job and simultaneously criticize him as unprofessional in investigation. Crumley listens protagonist’s silly speculations, which, of course, will true. Murders could solve in fast terms, but police appears on another corpse and after final confrontation. Their procedures aren’t in activity in this book and their existence more take as a myth. Nameless Writer threats to drop a lighted match on lying piles of papers in newspaper room if editor willn’t share in telephone number. The last doesn’t rise a thought in his mind about say to call police at least. It was in the end of the book, where the story became infirm.

And it was no one time when I was founding far from logic things. Ray Bradbury made a lot of wrong decisions in Death Is a Lonely Business. Presumably, I would drop reading if it would be somebody of pulp writers. To other trilogy’s books, I absolutely have no a wish to read them.

In a collective of The Balvenie 12 Year Old Triple Cask.

Whisky originated with similar to tobacco one function of using – for medical purposes. A sweet taste did a cure to drink for everybody. Flavor of whisky wasn’t always as it known today. It was unbalanced and rude thing many centuries ago. One undisclosed Irish chieftain died from much using of whisky on Christmas in 1405. Since those times the drink had evolution process to perfect. I’ve got opportunity to open and taste The Balvenie 12 Year Old Triple Cask. That’s again Speyside Single Malt as I had a bottle of Glenfarclas 21 Year Old and created on William Grant and Sons, which is a world famous by excellent eponymous Grant’s.

The Balvenie 12 Year Old Triple Cask hasn’t unusual in characteristics about barrels and no adding to formula. I like it for that. From a good inhale goes to comfortable mouth rinsing, where the drink can tickle and a little burn if hold so long, to same in quiet and without fireworks finish. That’s whisky doesn’t belong to hard, but not so soft as Jim Beam, Ballantine’s 17 Year Old and The Macallan 10 Year Old. It gives one experience on using the drink with ice or without. The Balvenie 12 Year Old Triple Cask was a fine choice for evening for me.

 

Bushido books: Budo Shoshinsu by Daidoji Yuzan, Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.

In reading of history, I prefer books from view of eyewitnesses. These three samurai code of honors are documents of past by which can look on tempers and life of never stop to be interesting Japan. Society became less harsh and followers of warrior’s way are gone since passed centuries, but I was founding a little similarities with nowadays in process of reading. I was thinking about Japanese corporations, where devotion of their workers to administration express in keep a low bow to leaving car of their boss until transport will disappear from a view. Of course, times are absolutely incomparable.

Budo Shoshinsu serves a guide on how to follow to way of warrior and knowledges need for learn. As any code of honor writes and makes pivotal attention – a full devotion to own daimyo, which must be radical. Yuzan describes it in examples as spearhead shouldn’t point on master and comes to funny absurd in his manual on behave in deathbed, where a first pronounced name must be daimyo’s. I’ve got funny about tea ceremony, which starts about obligation to learn, but in further thoughts he finds that it can bring to troubles and solutes that better don’t know it.

Hagakure filled of curious thoughts to which I came long time ago. Frequently I met phrases against logics of previous written. A book is subjective, because author of this bushido Yamamoto Tsunemoto praises house of own master, what is must to do a real follower of way of warrior, but it enhances in devastation of my interesting in reading. Hagakure also has stories, where can see how far from samurai’s honor in demonstration of betray, lie, set-ups and big part of tales where given power in some interpretation of license to kill for men with katana to misuse, which usually happens in taverns and after drunk in mostly cases. Tsunemoto found a mind harm in learning of strategy and saw a hampering in battles. Warrior must go straight to attack in his view, which gave a bad kamikaze inspiration for Japanese pilots in World War 2, what didn’t approve it as tactics.

Miyamoto Musashi had a different opinion on strategy and relied on it as on many aspects, what made him of greatest samurai warriors. One of common thing relates me and him is self-education. A man with biography of action film personage, who wasn’t only swordfighter, but artist and at least I saw him talented in writing. I like his comparisons for explanation, where no typical Asian metaphors and filling of quotations, where feels a demonstration of individuality. Musashi’s bushido centers on swordwieldings, which oriented on battle of one thousand against ten thousands and this offered learning claims achievement to invincibility, what is a normal feeling for a man who didn’t lose a fight (if everything is truth, because author’s biography fogged of mysteries.), but a self-made samurai thoughts wisely, what couldn’t be in dispute due of his experience. I read with hyping except awkward conclution in The Book of Void, where writer’s thoughts stop to keep rationale.