Jorge A Gallegos's Photos

A small pic of my birth cert. It (roughly) says that I was born on the ninth of last Feb (at the time) in some hospital in Aguascalientes (Mexico), half my name and then the statement saying I was the 7th kid in the family. Wicked.

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When my first daughter was born the pediatrician was worried about her fingers, until he saw mine :)

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ok, what the hell is this? my screen suddenly went dark and displayed this message

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Veeery bad light, but I couldn't let this one pass :)

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The red circle on the front excitedly says: "FROM COWS NOT TREATED WITH rBST**" The small notice on the back squeaks in a tiny (but serious) voice: "** No significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST-treated cows and non rBST-treated cows." Half lies are not lies?

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I don't know what made me pick this book. Perhaps my fascination with serial killers. I find their motives and background worthy if careful study and analysis. Anyway, what I liked: * The narrative is easy to digest, it is mostly written from the POV of a somewhat educated but not overly-complicated person. * It is clearly distinctive what chapter belongs to the main character and what comes from another character. * It paints a nice picture of the environment without going over the edge and losing the point of the story, something I've seen in other books. What I'm picky about: * Grammar. It may be intentional since I found the most glaring mistakes in the "diary" chapters, so if the idea was to get a verbatim copy from the (fictional) author's diary, I may I might forgive the editorial * The ending. It's become a somewhat normal occurrence now, but the end is... nonexistent. There's no clear ending to the book, which makes me mad What kinda freaked me out: * Most of the book takes place in the bay area: San Francisco, San Mateo... heck, the killer's house description makes me think it's about a block away from where I live right now in Burlingame (the book does mention it being Burlingame, but I kinda pin-pointed the actual location). This means the author is very familiar with the environment * This book is recent. Like, less than a couple of years recent. I don't know how a book can be written in such a short time? that would dictate the book's quality I guess * I sometimes found myself thinking "hey, the reasoning behind this killing is not flawed". And don't be confused, I know killing in any form is bad, I just found myself in the killer's shoes and found the logic sound All in all, a nice book, not terrific, but not horrible.

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I usually don't edit the pics I upload here, but I wanted to do something funny today :)

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(small note, due to the font color the name of the author is kind of lost, but is Sam Taylor) I confession: I got this book because the cover's artwork is frankly awesome. I didn't expect it to have anything to do with the story, but it does: it teases you here and there to then drop the issue quietly. The story is strange, from end to finish: it gives you half truths (literally), about half the chapters are written in kid speak (and was that hard, at least for me that learned the language with all its grammar structures). From all the books I've read since I came here, perhaps I wouldn't recommend it. It has its nice points, but they are far and sparse. The end of the book is just... simple. I guess it was supposed to be very thrilling, but it is not.

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... becomes your own, if you're willing to

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A pic while going up

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