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Cargando... Las hormigas (1991)por Bernard Werber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 8422668017 I already like books about animal societies, so I guess I'm biased. You could tell he'd done some research (I did a bit on ants myself a few years ago) which meant that though it had the feeling of magical realism, a lot of the details were right. The best parts of it were definitely the sections following the ants. They felt like a proper mystery-adventure and I was excited to see what happened next. The ant facts didn't feel superfluous or crowbarred in to the text. I wasn't so keen on the way individual ants had intelligence, as my understanding was that they have more of a swarm intelligence. I thought that was anthropomorphising unnecessarily but I understand that it advanced the plot. The whole story with the humans and the cellar was just... bizarre. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Some of the "insights" from Edmond Wells and his Encyclopaedia were quite tired, and bordering on racist I thought. Comparing the Japanese to insects? Check. Shallow anthropological observations about caste in Hindu society? Check. Honestly humans are a separate topic I would expect the same level of research in to write anything profound. (Werber spent 15 years researching ants as a hobby.) There were a couple of quibbles I had with the misuse of words - calling the venomous moth Zygaena a butterfly. (Still amazed at the fact of there *being* venomous moths!) Mixing up a few biological terms which aren't interchangeable (I didn't mark where he or the translator did that, but I'm sure it would be easy for others to spot). These may have been mistakes in translation rather than errors from Werber himself. Apparently this book is well known in France. I had never heard of it. It was given to me as a gift after a lengthy explanation of how amazing it was (and if I read it as a child I'm sure it would have changed my life too). It's worth reading and I'm sure older kids would love it. Don't kill any more ants!! This book is worth learning French to read. Honestly. It had me worrying for the fate of an ant by page 40! Fascinating swap of perspectives, and hair-raising cliff-hanger ending. I have the 3rd book in this trilogy, but am anxiously waiting to get the 2nd from the library! Ne tuez plus de fourmis ! Ce livre vaut la peine d'apprendre le français pour le lire. Vraiment. Il m'a fait soucier pour le destin d'une fourmi avant la 40e page ! Changement impressionnant de points de vues et fin incroyable. J'ai déjà le 3e tome mais j’attends avec impatience le 2e de la bibliothèque ! ShiraDest 22 Decembre, 12015 HE Don't kill any more ants!! This book is worth learning French to read. Honestly. It had me worrying for the fate of an ant by page 40! Fascinating swap of perspectives, and hair-raising cliff-hanger ending. I have the 3rd book in this trilogy, but am anxiously waiting to get the 2nd from the library! Ne tuez plus de fourmis ! Ce livre vaut la peine d'apprendre le français pour le lire. Vraiment. Il m'a fait soucier pour le destin d'une fourmi avant la 40e page ! Changement impressionnant de points de vues et fin incroyable. J'ai déjà le 3e tome mais j’attends avec impatience le 2e de la bibliothèque ! ShiraDest 22 Decembre, 12015 HE sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Here is the stunning international bestseller in the tradition of Watership Down but with a dark, original twist. Unique, daring, and unforgettable, it tells the story of an ordinary family who accidentally threaten the security of a hidden civilization as intelligent as our own--a colony of ants determined to survive at any cost.... Jonathan Wells and his young family have come to the Paris flat at 3, rue des Sybarites through the bequest of his eccentric late uncle Edmond. Inheriting the dusty apartment, the Wells family are left with only one warning: Never go down into the cellar. But when the family dog disappears down the basement steps, Jonathan follows--and soon his wife, his son, and various would-be rescuers vanish into its mysterious depths. Meanwhile, in a pine stump in a nearby park, a vast civilization is in turmoil. Here a young female from the russet ant nation of Bel-o-kan learns that a strange new weapon has been killing off her comrades. To find out why, she enlists the help of a warrior ant, and the two set off on separate journeys into a harsh and violent world. It is a world where death takes many forms--savage birds and voracious lizards, warlike dwarf ants and rapacious termites, poisonous beetles and, most bizarre of all, the swift, murderous, giant guardians of the edge of the world: cars. Yet the end of the female's desperate quest will be the eerie secret in the cellar at 3, rue des Sybarites--a mystery she must solve in order to fulfill her special destiny as the new queen of her own great empire. But to do so she must first make unthinkable communion with the most barbaric creatures of all. Empire of the Ants is a brilliant evocation of a hidden civilization as complex as our own and far more ancient. It is a fascinating realm where boats are built of leaves and greenflies are domesticated and milked like cows, where citizens lock antennae in "absolute communication" and fight wars with precisely coordinated armies using sprays of glue and acids that can dissolve a snail. Not since Watership Down has a novel so vividly captured the lives and struggles of a fellow species and the valuable lessons they have to teach us. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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