Ana-Baba Okulu - Haluk Yavuzer ücretsiz kitap indir

Dragus Florina dragusflorina — I first read this book in high school about 40 years ago, and as I recall was underwhelmed by it. Its Victorian wordiness seemed overblown and dated. In fact, what I most liked about the book was that it inspired one of my favorite movies, Apocalypse Now. I am glad to report that the book has much improved with the passing of the years. Funny how that works. Conrad has left us with a lot of memorable lines, some of my favorites passages being: * On war: "Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent ... and nothing happened. Nothing could happen." Hmmm, I believe that aptly summarizes the US experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. * On Kurtz and his mad lusts: "But the wilderness had found him out early, and taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core." * On Kurtz's last words: "I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror - of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was not more than a breath - 'The horror, the horror!'" Why has this book endured when just about everything else Conrad wrote has been largely forgotten? Something about this allegory sticks with me, maybe because it goes so far towards explaining how megalomaniacs lose their bearings and go horribly awry. And Conrad manages to do it by suggesting so much more than he actually says, providing a still more universal allegory of monsters and their horrific misdeeds.

He Kai hekai — Another good story by my favorite author, in fact, like him so much that I plan on reading all of his Gabriel Allon books. This one was alittle slow in the beginning, but as always, finished up with an exciting ending. A huge bomb destroys the Israeli embassy in Rome and sinks any hope that Allon can live a placid life free of bloodshed.