My favourite book

My favorite book ever is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I love Jane Austen! She is absolutely my favorite writer. I really like this book because I love period novels and this story follows the life of a young woman, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with the issues of manners, morality, education and marriage in the early 19th century. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. 

The story narrative opens with Mr. Bingley's (an aristocratic, charming and social young bachelor) arrival to Netherfield house in the neighborhood of Bennet family with his good friend the “proud and condescending” (but also handsome) Mr. Darcy.

Mr. Bingley easily falls in love with Elizabeth elder sister the beautiful Jane. But, by contrast, Mr. Darcy despises Elizabeth, who overhears a joke and about it and she immediately starts to hate him.   

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” Says Elizabeth. 

But what Elizabeth doesn't know yet is that she has completely enchanted Mr. Darcy and he loves her “most hardly”. 

Here is a reviw of the book in Amazon.

A Masterpiece of Wit and Style, A Timeless Work for the Ages,

June 11, 2002

By 

Gary F. Taylor "GFT"

Jane Austen is one of the great masters of the English language, and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is her great masterpiece, a sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in early 19th Century English society, a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status, respectability, wealth, love, and sex in order to marry both to their own liking and to the advantage of their family. And such is particularly the case of the Bennetts, a family of daughters whose father's estate is entailed to a distant relative, for upon Mr. Bennett's death they will lose home, land, income, everything. But are the Bennett daughters up to playing a winning hand in this high-stakes matrimonial game without forfeiting their own personal integrity?

This battle of the sexes is largely seen through the eyes of second daughter Elizabeth, who possesses a razor-sharp wit and rich sense of humor--and who finds herself hindered by her own addlepated mother, her sister Jane's hopeless love for the wealthy Mr. Bingley, and her sister Lydia's penchant for scandal... not to mention the high-born, formidable, and outrageously proud Mr. Darcy, who seems determined to trump her every card. But the game of love proves more surprising than either Elizabeth or Mr. Darcy can imagine, and sometimes a seemingly weak hand proves a winning one when all cards are on the table.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is simply one of the funniest novels ever written, peopled with memorable characters brought vividly to life as they both succeed and fail at the game of life according to the manners of their era. It is a novel to which I return again and again, enjoying Austen's brillant talent. I have little respect for people who describe it as dull, slow, out of date, for as long as men and women live and fall in love it will never be out of style, always be meaningful, and always be funny. A masterpiece of wit and style; a timeless novel for the ages.

 What can I say? I completely agree with this review. Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's masterpiece (and I can say this because I read other books like Emma). It's funny, timeless and I can read it over and over again and never get bored.

A photograph

Last semester I had my first photograph class and I had to do an oral presentation about the Photojournalism. When I was looking for exponents I found a group of photographers that call their work the "Anti-Photojournalism" because they try to make photos with a new personal vision about the events that they cover.

And then I found this picture: 

 

The photograph is call "The Day Nobody Died, 2008" and it was taken by two photographers, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, in Afghanistan in the middle of the war when they were traveling with The British Army. The story says that in that week of June (when the photo was taken) more than a hundred of British soldiers died by the attacks, but at the fifth day of their journey literally "nobody died". So they took a roll of photographic paper 50 meter long and 76.2 cm wide and unrolled a seven-meter section of the paper and exposes in to the sun for 20 seconds. The results you can seen here, is a mix of powerful colors that express the feelings of the day.

I really like this photo because is a non-figurative, unique way to show an event, offering a profound critique to the conventional Photojournalism and the current professional exercise of war journalism.