Eduardo Galeano - Community Reviews back

Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it

9 years ago

text كتاب المعانقات

‎ربما يصيبك إحساس بالحيرة وعدم التركيز والفهم عند قراءة هذه المعانقات!‎وهذا طبيعي جداً! اللقطات في هذا الكتاب رمزية، ولذلك صعبة ومعقدة إلى حدّ. ولكنها رغم ذلك جميلة وعميقة. هناك الكثير من الاقتباسات والحِكَم التي خرجت بها من الكتاب. ولا بد من أن أقول أنني في كثير من المواضِع في الكتاب شعرت بالملل، ر...

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Ashkan rated it

10 years ago

text کتاب دلبستگی‌ها

احمدو غراب از مبارزان استقلال الجزایر برایم تعریف کرد که او را یک افسر فرانسوی در طول چندین ماه شکنجه می‌کرد. و هر روز سر ساعت شش بعداز‌ظهر، شکنجه‌گر عرق پیشانی‌اش را خشک می‌کرد، دستگاه شوک الکتریکی را از برق می‌کشید و مابقی ابزار کار را جمع می‌کرد. آن وقت کنار شکنجه‌شده می‌نشست و از مشکلات خانوادگی...

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Letras y Bucles rated it

11 years ago

text América Latina: El desafío del tercer milenio

Me dice elgordo que escriba cualquier cosa que cuente como reseña provisoria para disminuir el riesgo de que borren el libro. De todos modos pinta interesante y se me ocurrió a mí comprarlo, así que lo iba a turridear igual.

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So many books... rated it

12 years ago

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Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist/writer who has written a magesterial three-volume expansion on this book since it was published in 1970. It is really a jarring read, especially if you're not familiar with how badly Latin America has been exploited by first Spain and Portugal, then the British Empi...

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Beth's List Love on Booklikes rated it

13 years ago

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1785: GuanajuatoSilver PortraitUsing the language of fluttering fans, ladies chat in the leafy gardens. Somebody pees against the wall of the church and on one side of the plaza two beggars, sitting in the sun, pick at each other's lice. Beneath the stone archway a distinguished doctor in a huge clo...

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Beth's List Love on Booklikes rated it

14 years ago

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Really wasn't sure I would like this book when I read the description. I wasn't sure I was up for a three volume history of the Americas in the guise of literature. But I ended up enjoying it and really looking forward to the next 2 volumes of the series (which I won't get to right away, since they ...

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Itinerant Librarian on Books rated it

15 years ago

text Las Venas Abiertas De America Latina

It took me a while to get through it, but it was well worth it. You can find my review over in my personal blog here.

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AC rated it

15 years ago

text Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

An interesting book -- it has been influential in some circles -- and it is certainly finely written. I am also sympathetic to what he says. But the book is too repetitive and rhetorical for my tastes. It is enough for me to read once his outrage, and then to let the facts speak for themselves. ...

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La Mala *the mean girl* rated it

22 years ago

text El libro de los abrazos

A lo largo de mi adolescencia - seguramente la época en que consumí , devoré y compré libros - tenía una tradición invernal : cada vez que visitaba Uruguay , Tenía que llevarme un libro de Eduardo Galeano . Así que pasaba largas horas de sábados y domingos recorriendo sin cansarme ni aburrirme un se...

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Inklings rated it

23 years ago

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Interesting book. My favorite quote was a piece of graffiti scrawled on a wall: Eliminate poverty--shoot a beggar. It just goes to show you how hard-hearted some people really are.

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