Biblioteca de la EOI de Oviedo

Título: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Autor: Stieg Larsson

Obra adaptada: NO

This is the third book in the Millennium-trilogy, all them available at our School Library.

Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back.

http://www.waterstones.com/

Título: The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Autor: Muriel Barbery

Obra adaptada: NO

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated an ideal concierge. But Renée has a secret. Beneath this conventional façade she is passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. Down in her lodge, Renée is resigned to living a lie, with only visits from her one friend Manuela to break the monotony. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the predictably bourgeois future laid out for her, and plans to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. But before this happens, the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever. With sales of over a million copies in French, this funny, moving and wise novel is now an international publishing sensation.

Nobody ever imagined that his tender, funny book with a philosophical vein would have enjoyed such incredible success. For some, it is part Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, part Monsieur Malaussene by Daniel Pennac. While for others it resembles a written version of the film Amélie. Either way, readers are responding in vast numbers. –Le Monde

http://www.amazon.co.uk

Título: The Museum of Innocence

Autor: Orhan Pamuk

Obra adaptada: NO

The Museum of Innocence is the latest novel written by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, published in August 2008, Orhan Pamuk’s first novel since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

Pamuk has been working on the novel for many years and it has been hinted by himself in many interviews during this period. “The story, which takes place in Istanbul between 1975 and today, is about obsessive passion and the great question: What is love, really?” says the writer, in a Spiegel interview back in 2007.

Orhan Pamuk is also trying to establish an actual museum based on the novel, in Cukurcuma - Istanbul, to exhibit several objects mentioned in The Museum of Innocence.

http://themuseumofinnocence.com/

Orhan Pamuk publicó en España el pasado octubre su primera novela desde que es Premio Nobel y no solo sobre islamismo, kurdos o Turquía y Europa quiere hablar el Nobel de Literatura del 2006, Orhan Pamuk (Estambul, 1952). De hecho, prefiere rehuir esos temas y conversar sobre novela y museos, amor y ciudades. La semana pasada lo ha hecho en Barcelona para el diario ‘EL PERIODICO’

 ENTREVISTA EN ‘EL CUADERNO DEL DOMINGO’ (24/1/2010) 

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Título: The Lost Symbol

Autor: Dan Brown

Obra adaptada: NO

Released on September 15, 2009, it is the third Brown novel to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, following 2000’s Angels & Demons and 2003’s The Da Vinci Code. It had a first printing of 6.5 million (5 million in North America, 1.5 million in the UK), the largest in Doubleday history. On its first day the book sold one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, making it the fastest selling adult novel in history. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction for the first six weeks of its release, and has remained near the top since then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Symbol

Título: Murder on the Orient Express

Autor: Agatha Christie

Editorial: Berkley

Obra adaptada: No

Nivel: Avanzado

Reseña:

Murder on the Orient Express was written by Agatha Christie, a famous British writer, who is the most widely published autor of all time. This popular novel was first published in 1934 and it is a detective story about a murder on the Orient Express. In 1974 it was made into a film starring Albert Finney and Ingrid Bergman, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and was directed by Sidney Lumet. 

The story takes place at the legendary train called “Orient Express”, where a man called Casseti, a former killer, is murdered. One of the passengers, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, starts investigating and he discovers that many of the passengers have some connection with the family of Daisy Armstrong, the girl kidnapped and murdered five years before by Casseti. All these suspected passengers want to avenge a crime that the law was unable to punish. In the end, the director of the railway company says that they should tell the police that the crime was commited by a stranger who escaped unnoticed. 

The main character is Hercule Poirot, a psychological detective who proceeds not by examination of the crime scene, but by enquiring either into the nature of the victim or the murder.  

In my opinion, this novel is entertaining and quite absorbing, the plot keeps your attention until the end. In fact, when I started to read it I couldn’t put it down. In spite of the fact that I had sometimes difficulties with the language because of the vocabulary unknown to me, I enjoyed reading it a lot. I think, this detective story is worth reading and I would recommend it as an entertaining book for those who enjoy mystery and thrillers.

Valoración: 4/5

Eugenio Corpas  2ºNI

Título: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Autor: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Editorial: Oxford

Obra adaptada: SI

Nivel: Intermedio

Reseña: The story takes places in Dartmoor, a wild and wet place in the south-west of England. In the beginning Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective of all time, is interested in the legend which tells about a hound which murdered all the members of the Baskerville family. When the last member dies, a new member of the family comes to the Mansion and then, the hound appears again. Holmes, Sherlock’s inseparable partner, investigates the event and meets the neighbours. Finally and with the aid of Sherlock, he manages to solve the mystery. 

I think this is a good mystery book and a classic literature work that everybody should read. The language is not difficult and it is quite enjoyable and entertaining. I would recommend it as a gripping book for those who enjoy detective stories.

Valoración: 4/5

Sheila Cidón Brincones  2ºNI

Título: The Da Vinci Code

Autor: Dan Brown

Obra adaptada: No

Nivel: Avanzado

Review: It was written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003. It is a bestseller that sold more than 80 million copies and has been translated into 44 languages. The narrator is not present in the story and it combines the detective, thriller, and conspiracy fiction genres. 

The book tells us about a professor of Religious Symbology, Robert Langdon, who is looking for “the Holy Grail”. Typical plot with good guys and really bad guys, the police who always arrives one minute later and, of course, the girl. 

The story starts in the Louvre Museum of Paris where Langdon is the prime suspect in the murder of the curator of Louvre. With the help of the curator’s granddaughter, Sophie Neveu, he escapes from the police and they solve a set of puzzles to find a keystone. This key is a device supposedly invented by Leonardo Da Vinci for transporting secure messages. Langdon and Neveu take the keystone to Langdon’s friend Sir Teabing, who is an expert on “the Holy Grail”. With him, they can fly to London and try to solve another long series of brain-teasers, anagrams and puzzles. The ultimate solution is found to be intimately connected with the possible location of the Holy Grail and to a mysterious society called the Priory of Sion, as well as to the Knights Templar. 

I think the book is entertaining although it has too many puzzles in my opinion. Moreover, there are characters who are not so credible, ridiculous situations, the story is quite predictable and the general plot is just nonsense. 

On the other hand I found the language rather easy to understand and follow despite the fact that it is not a simplified version, so I would simply recommend it as an English reading exercise. As a curiosity I saw the film after reading the book and… it was even worse !!!  

Valoración: 2/5

Anonymous  NI

Título: The Woman in White

Autor: Wilkie Collins

Editorial: Longman

Obra adaptada: sí

Nivel: intermedio

Review: It was written by Wilkie Collins in 1859. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is one of the first in the genre of “sensation novels”

One night on a road to London a young drawing teacher, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white. But, who is she and what is her connection with his pupil Laura Fairlie, the woman he loves? We can find terrible secrets, abductions, cruel aristocrats, etc…

In my opinion the book is interesting and it is not difficult to understand. But for me, it is not a real mystery book. If you want to know why, you´ll have to read it.

Valoración: 4/5

 Susana Pérez Alvarez 2ºNI

Título: Macbeth

Autor: Shakespeare, Brigit Viney

Editorial: Heinle Cengage learning

Obra adaptada: sí

Nivel: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate + Audio CD

It

It seems Conan but it is Macbeth. A graphic version of one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. A fun and easy way to read (and listen to) Shakespeare without dying in the attempt

Miriam Salazar  2ºNI