Menon - (Platon Bütün Yapıtları - 11) - Platon (Eflatun) ücretsiz kitap indir

Daniil Grishin tadory — About half-way through this book I had an abrupt change of opinion. When I began the book I was captivated by the language, the ideas, the ways my imagination was being sparked (and no, I'm not talking about the raunchy scenes - even though there were oh so many of them. ugh) and the gradual unfolding of the lives of the two couples involved in the story. But then I started to get depressed. And then even more depressed. Soon I dreaded picking up the book and I wondered how in the world I could have gone to loving the book to dreading it so much. I thought I understood what Milan Kundera was saying (even though I readily admit to much of it just going right over my head), but I think I got an idea. I understand what he's talking about when mentioning the "Unbearable Lightness of Being" - or at least I think I do. What I don't understand is why there couldn't be just one character we could fall in love with, just one! Instead, I felt as if he approached this in a clinical, hands-off manner as if saying, "Sure I thought them up, but now they are your responsibility!". I've never read a book that's flipped me from one side to the other like this, so it's a new experience for me and one I'm hoping to not have happen again anytime soon. I haven't given up on Kundera though and do plan to check his other works out. I just hope I will end them able to at least smile instead of feeling as if I should tear up the book and cry crocodile tears on its corpse.

Maria Avalos ma_avalosba97 — The World Jones Made was a great sci-fi book from the 1950's, although some of it is a bit dated. Told from the point of view of Cussick, a member of the Fedgov's secret police in a world where it's a crime to tell people what to do or what to think. Or as one of the characters says of growing up: ". . .It was quite revolutionary; many of us had never heard of the multiple-value system. The idea that everybody might be right, that everybody was entitled to his own way of life, had a startling effect on us. The Hoff concept of personal style of living . . . it was exciting. Neither religious dogma nor anti-religious dogma; no more wrangling over which interpretation of the sacred texts was correct. No more sects, splinter groups, factions; no more heretics to shoot and burn and lock up." The problem is that there's a man named Jones who can see one year in the future, so he knows everything that's going to happen, giving him a bored attitude, since he already knows every conversation he's going to have with people and what they're going to do. The secret police have a problem with Jones, because he threatens their way of life as he moves up from carnival fortune teller to minister and world leader, based on his xenophobia, hatred for the alien spores landing on Earth from outer space. There's a subplot with mutant humans designed to live on Venus as a way of relieving the overcrowding of Earth. Mostly it's quite good, when focused on the main plot. Filled with lots of early Dick style conversation with characters saying one thing and then immediately saying the opposite. While some of Dick's books were written more to earn money, this was definitely an inspired one.