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Carlos Cámara rated ¿quién ha robado la Mona Lisa?: 3 stars
Carlos Cámara rated Star Wars Ep IV Una nueva esperanza: 3 stars
Carlos Cámara finished reading Star Wars Ep IV Una nueva esperanza by Hisao Tamaki
Carlos Cámara replied to Jorge Toledo :mastodon:'s status
@eldelacajita@mastodon.social es curioso, llevo 70 páginas leídas del tirón, porque Escrivà escribe muy bien, con un equilibrio entre concreción (datos concretos) y fluidez de lectura. Pero a la vez estoy teniendo que parar a ratos porque me entra la eco-ansiedad, que curiosamente es lo que quiere evitar el libro. Imagino que es porque solo he leído la primera parte, titulada "Emergència", así que imagino que ese es precisamente el objetivo. Trasmite muy bien la idea de que hay una emergencia climática cuyos efectos son extremadamente serios y que hay que actuar inmediatamente. Y que todos tenemos que hacerlo. Te lo recomiendo desde ya, y así podemos comentarlo luego.
Carlos Cámara reviewed The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
Good ideas, bad story
2 stars
Content warning It contains spoilers
After having enjoyed a lot The Dispossessed, and having read so many great reviews about this book, I cannot stop but feeling disappointed or under the impression that I failed to understand it or it was not the right time for me to read it.
I must recognize the originality of describing a whole hermaphrodite species in a forever frozen world, with their own culture and social organisation (something I enjoyed). But I felt that the story that was promised was weak, full of Deus ex machinas, unnecessary interruptions, and not even as strong and moving as I had imagined. Is the bonding between Therem and Genly as strong as suggested or is it merely survival? Are their beliefs about the other so shaken and deconstructed as suggested or were simply weak prejudices broken by the forced coexistence?
The fact that I found the narrative unconsistent and unnecessarily complex, didn't help at all. Genli's trip is littered with plenty of complex concepts that are not fully developed, (I am still unsure about what the Shifgrethor is -I had to look at Wikipedia and stack exchange), legends, explanations about calendars or chapters written from somedody else's perspective, without a clear criteria or rhythm on when those interludes are added. But probably, what I found most disappointing was the constant mentions to the how different gethenian culture, society and cosmogony are due to their hermaphroditism, but IMHO, it is never not clearly exemplified in anything specific, not to mention the missed opportunity of using they/them pronouns (albeit I'm aware that that might not be that commonplace back in 1969, and probably editors thought that books had to had male characters to be sold).
Carlos Cámara started reading I ara jo què faig? by Andreu Escrivà
Carlos Cámara finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) …
Carlos Cámara started reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) …
Carlos Cámara wants to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)
Carlos Cámara started reading Mapping (Critical Introductions to Geography) by Jeremy Crampton
Mapping (Critical Introductions to Geography) by Jeremy Crampton
Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information …
Carlos Cámara rated Vallvi: 4 stars
Vallvi by Edgar Cantero (Proa beta -- 217)
Carlos Cámara wants to read David Harvey by Brett Christophers
David Harvey by Noel Castree, Greigh Charnock, Brett Christophers
David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and …
Carlos Cámara quoted David Harvey by Brett Christophers
Lanchester (2016) asked [Danny] Dorling to resolve something that had been puzzling him, asking 'why, when I was at school, geography was about the shapes of rivers, but now all the best-known geographers seem to be Marxists'? Dorling's answer was illuminating as Lanchester's question. He (no Marxist) conceeded that 'when you look at a map and see that the people on the side of some line are rich and healthy and long-lived and the people on the other side are poor and sick and die young, you start to wonder why, and that turns you towards deep-casual explanations, which then lead in the direction of Marxism'
— David Harvey by Noel Castree, Greigh Charnock, Brett Christophers (Page 115)
Carlos Cámara quoted Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
Governing by numbers is the last resort of a country that no longer knows what it wants, a country with no vision of utopia