tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14987260859154714772024-03-22T04:21:54.329+01:00e-blog, buzz & CoMedia, literature, comic strips, advertisement... and a lot more.Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02249912714107337584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498726085915471477.post-42501957135242969832008-05-23T20:53:00.013+02:002009-02-01T17:40:28.443+01:00Ellroy´s Dark Places<p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Out of the many books James Ellroy has written during the years, this particular book no doubt has the most personal touch. <span style=""> </span>For the first time in his life, Ellroy accepts the fact that his obsession for the Black Dahlia is actually derived from an inner obsession… for his mother!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Ellroy’s mother had been murdered on the 6/22/1958.<span style=""> </span>Her body was discovered at King’s Row and <st1:address st="on"><st1:street st="on">Tyler Avenue</st1:street>, <st1:city st="on">El Monte</st1:city></st1:address>.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>My Dark Places is all about this murder…and the personal enquiry Ellroy undertakes 36 years later.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>As a whole, this is a complex book - not in the sense that it is difficult to read and grasp, but its structure is very multiple.<span style=""> </span>It opens like an impersonal report book; like the ones policemen write after a scene of a crime.<span style=""> </span>In this book, Ellroy talks about him as a third person in which he is the child; the victim’s son.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>The second chapter is more personally written.<span style=""> </span>It is the memoirs of the young Ellroy living with his father, and later having to live alone, being a heavy drunker, a junkie and a thief.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Ellroy associated himself with Bill Stoner; a retired police from LAPD, to re-open his mother’s unsolved case. Together they read thousand of reports pages, interview innumerable witnesses or witnesses’ ascendants. They publish articles and give advice to film makers and television authors to relay a message to audiences and get an echo of the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>The next chapter is probably the most touching part of all.<span style=""> </span>It is about his mother.<span style=""> </span>Was Jean (<st1:city st="on">Geneva</st1:city>) Ellroy a heavy drunker and a man chaser, or simply a woman searching for some peace of mind by moving into <st1:city st="on">El Monte</st1:city> after several years residing in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Hollywood</st1:city></st1:place>?<span style=""> </span>Who were the swarthy man and the blonde woman that accompanied her during her last night?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Was the murderer a serial killer or simply an occasional criminal; murdering a woman who refused a sexual intercourse?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>The inimitable Ellroy’s style is sharper than ever and his personal revelations are written as blankly and coldly as the police reports, more touchy and disturbing than any crime novel ever written. This book is a total scream - a scream of love and unreachable despair.<span style=""><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">Marco and Suzi.<br /></span></span></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=eblobuzandco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0679762051&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02249912714107337584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498726085915471477.post-169793950105527532008-05-13T13:54:00.001+02:002008-05-13T13:54:39.749+02:00qui a piqué mon fromage ?Pour lire l'article précédent en français, rendez-vous sur le site de 001Aalto : <a href="http://www.001aalto.com/Qui-a-pique-mon-fromage-_a28.html">www.001aalto.com</a><br /><br />Bonne lecture !<br /><br /><br /> <div class="flockcredit" style="text-align: right; color: #CCC; font-size: x-small;">Blogué avec le <a href="http://www.flock.com/blogged-with-flock" style="color: #999; font-weight: bold;" target="_new" title="Flock Browser">Navigateur Flock</a></div>Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02249912714107337584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1498726085915471477.post-13509594534355917102008-05-12T16:05:00.001+02:002008-05-13T09:45:53.191+02:00Who moved my cheese ?<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmedMn6ttXiPtShVSMwJgfTmKcXFNktZbh65nRj5gMrghUePx98TwUAzTfENQZgTc-vgiysjYT5BllmuaO3rouiWygdEENbn300nhmBKVqM33Wea4LKPG9aEfFkPAb6kMGAh_0naKWu_8/s1600-h/Who+moved+my+cheese.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrmedMn6ttXiPtShVSMwJgfTmKcXFNktZbh65nRj5gMrghUePx98TwUAzTfENQZgTc-vgiysjYT5BllmuaO3rouiWygdEENbn300nhmBKVqM33Wea4LKPG9aEfFkPAb6kMGAh_0naKWu_8/s320/Who+moved+my+cheese.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199496006699375058" border="0" /></a> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Some books can literally change your life<span style="">, b</span>ecause they change YOU.<span style=""> </span>Or rather, because they change your behaviour in some circumstances.<span style=""> </span></span><span lang="FR">THIS BOOK is one of THIS KIND.</span></div><div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Who moved my cheese ? is about change.<span style=""> </span>Every kind of change : in your professional, family life or in your relationship with your soulmate.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Who moved my cheese ? is the simplest story ever.<span style=""> </span>It tells the tales of four tiny characters and a cheese.<span style=""> </span>Two of the protagonists are mice : Sniff and Scurry.<span style=""> </span>And the other</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> two</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> are Haw and Hem, the </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">little people </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">.<span style=""> </span>They all lived in a Maze and they ate cheese they found in Cheese Station C somewhere in this Maze.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>However, one day, the cheese is vanished in thin air.<span style=""> </span>Somebody has moved the cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The mice adapted rapidly.<span style=""> </span>They put on their shoes and searched immediately for new cheese.<span style=""> </span>The little people, with their more complex brains, overanalyzed things, regretted the good old days… and wasted a lot of time searching for the old cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br />Which character are you ?<span style=""> </span>Are you one of the mice, who changed their minds immediately </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">in order to adapt to the new situation ?<span style=""> </span>Or the one from the little people who lost their time thinking the wrong way ?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br />The story is so simple, so full of enlightenment, and the characters are so typified that you can easily project and identify yourself with characters and situations.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><br />You can use this tiny book for your own advantageous, but it can also be used as a base of support for a training course, or a campaign for change in your organization, or the basic story of a training course, or as a method of starting point for a discussion for individual coaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>Who moved my cheese is a must.<span style=""> </span>It is the prove that wisdom often takes very simple ways.<span style=""> </span></span><span lang="FR">It is simply a modern parable about change.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><span style="font-style: italic;">Who moved my cheese ? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Dr Spencer Johnson<span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span></span>Foreword by Kenneth Blanchard, PHD, Vermillion, Randomhouse, 95 p.<br /></span></p><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=eblobuzandco-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0399144463&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Marcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02249912714107337584noreply@blogger.com0