Renato Guerra

“Published in 1935, the Secret Museum is a mystery book. It has no author or credits, no copyright, no date, no page numbers, no index. Published by “Manhattan House” and sold by “Metro Publications”, both of New York, its “Five Volumes in One” was pure hype: it had never been released in any other form.
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Presented here is the Secret Museum in its entirety, all 564 pages scanned and transcribed– nothing is omitted or censored. However, I’ve cleaned up the images somewhat, paginated, added thumbnail galleries, an index, and a copy of a 1942 magazine ad. Treat it as entertainment instead of education (don’t take it seriously and don’t believe a word it says!), adjust for the blatant racial bias of the time, and enjoy.”

The Secret Museum of Mankind

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I finish this book today, a slow lecture because I use little free time on it (translation: I read this on the bathroom, he, he…). Writing by Maurice Druon, The Iron King is part of The Accursed Kings, a seven historical novels set in the Middle Age France about conspirations, romance and… oh yeah, templar knights baby!! I recomend this book? Yes, is almost serious and thats pretty good, youre not reading that DaVinci Code (or any similar) garbage.

I read this because I need research about royalty in hard times and the book (in fact, the complete saga) is a real help. In this first part, Philip IV (the Fair, le Bel in french) gives death sentence to the last templar knights after a seven years imprisonment. Before his death, Jacques de Molay curses the french royalty until the 13th generation…

…and thats the start point of the saga.
I need the other six books.

Ok, what can I say? what can I say?…

Perhaps I begin to update this thing the next week… no, a little while, perhaps before. I dont know. Meanwhile, check these three of my friends deviantart galleries:

- Andrés “darkiescout” Esparza: Hes drawing a comic called Nahuice.
- Tomás Hernandez: Kick-ass artist.
- Balta Cárdenas: The guy who see interporn in the mac on my left.

The last week I finished The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson, very good lecture, also I finished Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, the second part of Ender`s Game, I liked too, not at the level of Anderson`s novel but is better (in a literary level) than Ender`s Game. Now I have a pair of books of Italo Calvino and the Lord of the Rings series… I must say this: I fell asleep at the first five minutes of the film, so my expectations on Tolkien aren`t too good… but my girl give me the books and I will give a chance since she did the same with Dr. House (oh, I love that show!).

[SPOILERS on links]
I just finished the Ender`s Game and Shadow of the Hegemon book`s, both by Orson Scott Card. I enjoy Ender`s Game, was a great lecture with surprises in the final chapters (well, no surprises at all, my first lecture from Ender`s universe was Ender`s Shadow, a parallel novel and first part of Shadow of the Hegemon)… on the other hand, I hate Shadow of the Hegemon, the story looks like a Risk game and I hate Risk, theres a lot of plots of enemy lines, war tactics, fights… myohmy, you need a world map to understand the storyline!! was hard but I finished the book, yeah, Im a book-junkie and big masochist.

The next book on my list is Speaker for the Dead, the second part of Ender`s Game. I hope a not so bad story as the second part of Ender`s Shadow. I hope, but Im not sure… sniff!

Ok, the original idea was buy the Ender`s Game book (by Orson Scott Card), but I dont find it :( so, I bring to home the Ender`s Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon books (parallel novels to the Ender`s saga). I just finished the Ender´s Shadow a few hours and… wow! what a book! not a masterpiece but works. Heres a link to the original short story. By the way, check the kick ass covers by Leo Flores, unfortunately, I dont find links to any gallery of his work.