"Al Unanimity Is Stupid"

"ALL unanimity is stupid"

This sentence there Nelson Rodrigues is perfect to illustrate my comments today. You've been watching as he walks the literature of our time, people and more people, today's readers, reading everything that appears incensed by the media.

"You should read and reread very little. There are few books total, three or four, which save us or we lose. And yet, the player wears is gone, thousands of books in more than three arid deserts . [Nelson Rodrigues].

This is another good advice from the master to follow Nelson long ago, book, trendy, hard to put your hands! Pickers, kites, Da Vinci Code, cabins, alchemists, nothing, not thinking. And I explain: I believe them as things disposable fad that will last for a short time. But every rule has exceptions, the most widely read book by the misses, "The Little Prince" by Saint Exupéry, is very remarkable, but yes this is very good!

I would say then the lover of idioms: Ah, this writer has sold millions of books, the other, he says, has been translated into six hundred languages. Even in Latin (I think) dead language, but must have some future utility. Who knows?

Okay, no one can escape from a fact, but I ask: Is it possible to compare these works with, for example, (this is cowardice to) any one of Machado's trilogy (The Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas, Quincas Borba and Don Casmurro all published at the end of the century, and still very lively)? Anyone still on earth in a hundred years will know the answer!

I do not care if it is new or old work, but the content of it, the literary quality, that really matters. Face it, keeping the proper proportions of the authors, compared with Machado de Assis ... P,,, (shut up your mouth), is let it go to the wise is half-words, enough!

Some say that reading Machado is very difficult, if not understand anything (must be referring to the perfect use of language). Oh My dear, he was a master of form and content, translator of the works of Edgar Allan Poe to the Portuguese, and you think that a professor would expose it to ridicule, using a colloquial word in his books extremely perfect? Is that story, maybe it does, those who can not spy!

Now get ready for Il gran finale with the arrival of the Kindle and the iPad, electronic gadgets that will revolutionize the way to read with comfort and convenience, where you'll find an entire library on the Internet at their disposal and they could take them anywhere. And that huge bookcase almost fall right in the middle of your room, no longer exist.

Many possibilities are opened especially for new authors, talented or not, who will have the World Wide Web to disseminate their work at no cost, with their books scanned. These same authors who were despised and stigmatized by the publishers of traditional printed books, that after these gadgets will have to rethink their formats, adhering to the news or dying, as with the LP disc, video cassette, the tape deck of car the tape recorder etc.. etc..

Although many staff feel that the book as we know it will never fade, I'm thinking of programs and mp3 audio editing that have abolished the rule with the labels, who chose his singers and their albums sold for the price they wanted, now anyone can burn your CDs at home, with the elegance of quality found in any professional studio.

Authors from all walks start and turning your drawers, pull their writings lost in the bottom of them! The Kindle and the iPod is coming!

Publishers who take care! The time of fat cows are about to end! ...

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