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La Odisea by Homer

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4.0

Homero relata el que puede que sea uno de los primeros grandes dramas jamás contados. Una vez leído el libro me he dado cuenta de la brutal influencia que ha tenido esta historia hasta nuestros días en todo tipo de narraciones desde películas hasta teatro.

Quizás uno de los mejores sabores de boca sea conocer las más enraizadas referencias de todas las grandes historias creadas por el hombre con el paso del tiempo.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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2.0

This book has two different views for me. First of the views isconcerning the contents. On it, Hume unleashes his tremendously abstract mind to tackle the 'understanding' of concepts, the concept of 'ideas' and the process of 'thinking' itself as well as digs into the concept of the skepticism. He does so in a tremendously deep, detailed and very ornamented style, even though he uses some lines to praise against this kind of philosophy, in my opinion he falls in the same trap (maybe is just I'm not used to way to use the language to express ideas in that century).

The other view of the book for me is the intense and deep study that Peter Millican gives us in this edition. Dissecting every part of the book and putting it into matter and time in few pages. Perhaps the best from the book is this study, that makes easier to understand Hume's mindset.
Francois Truffaut: The Complete Films by Paul Duncan

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4.0

Básico para entender a filmografía. Moi ben estructurado e tratamento dedicado para cada película.
La fiesta del chivo by Mario Vargas Llosa

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3.0

Non gosto deste home, máis este libro gustoume. Recomendaríao incluso se che cae mal
Try Rebooting Yourself by Scott Adams

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4.0

Great, as all Adam's compilations.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles W. Goddard

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4.0

Amused by some parts, bored by some others, but without no doubts the best story told from the inside character's brains. A work to read when comes to understand human mind, I would say.
On the Money: The Economy in Cartoons, 1925-2009 by The New Yorker

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4.0

Nice views of the economy throughout the time. Probably is better to browse them with some historical perspective, rather than in those times, I bet.
14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box by Scott Adams

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3.0

Yet another collection of Dilbert's amusing statements and views. Funny as always!
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

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2.0

Impossible translation. Discarded.