John Wayne, the best

John Wayne, the best

True Grit, old and new movies

What is better?

At the end of the old movie we see, as conclusion, the stubborn Mattie, recovered and making sarcastic jokes with his big friend, who laughs and jumps to the eternity on the back of his brave horse. In the new version of Ethan and Joel Coen…

See my article in Yareah magazine: http://yareah.com/?p=3368

 

My new web page: Isabel del Rio Yareah

http://www.isabeldelrioyareah.com

Now in English: a lot of info about women, myths and legends

Fake Game, serial novel by Martin Cid

Read the first chapter:

http://yareah.com/?p=1846

Fake Game by Martin Cid

Yareah magazine: Shoe Street Art in Madrid

http://yareah.com/?p=1982

Shoe Street Art in Yareah magazine

My opinion about Alexander VI Borgia

I have just published this article in Yareah magazine

http://yareah.com/?p=594

 

 

Famous sentence by Martin Cid

‘The best papyrus is not that one buried in Alexandria, survivor of fires and extinguished libraries. The best papyrus is that one which is yet to write.’

http://martincidshortstories.blogspot.com/2011/11/papyrus-by-martin-cid.html

Review: A Century of Ashes, by Martin Cid

Martin Cid, novelist

What impress me more of A Century of Ashes is the atmosphere. That hell created beside the Mississippi river, in Tennessee, U.S.

The Fiodorovich family fights to survive in a snuff plantation during a century: from the middle of the 19^th century, when the first family members start the business, to the middle of the 20^th century, when the last members die… consumed by their own irrational sins.

In this novel, Martin Cid creates a collective protagonist and the Mississippi river is its voice and eyes, the blood of this wild family from Russia. They arrive to the United States when there are slaves and they will be unable of adapting to a democratic society.

Bad men, worse women, they increase their tobacco business during the two World Wars…, no feelings, only money, because all is a joke, the joke of those people who are condemned to Hell, the hell that they have created. They like it, because it is better the known world than the future one.

During a century, they have seen great changes and they dislike them: people keep on suffering and they prefer their known sufferings because they know how to prevent them.

All is ashes… all is a joke. The hell is as good as the heavens if you know how to survive among sinners.

See: http://www.martincid.com