Bloktest 3. Sınıf Deneme Sınavı Seti 44 itibaren Bloktest Yayınları içinde LIT biçim

Sunaina Mehrotra _unaina_ehrotra — This is my favorite of the whole series!

Morten Lassen _orten_assen — I loved this book so much as a child. Re-reading it doesn't diminish its sacredness for me. Everybody should read it at least once, no matter how hold they are.

Gregory John _adjaw — This was my favourite Shakespeare play so far. One reason is that I really understood it and could follow the story better than with the other ones. It also had some great speeches and interesting characters. One thing that I've missed in all 4 of the Shakespeares I've read so far, though, is a really strong hero. There's never a character (or at least not a main character) whose virtues outweigh his faults, or who even acknowledges and confronts his faults. There's never someone I can just admire without hesitation. I noticed that in Henry V especially. Even though King Henry is the most heroic character out of the plays I've read, he's still not very honest. It's hard to tell when he's acting and when he's sincere. That was my only problem with the play. I'd like to see it on the stage sometime, though!

Dennis Dragt dennisdragt — Like it so far ... it's very exotic and treats my sense of wanderlust. Fun to read ... JL, would you like it ?

Ailsa Morton ailsamorton — this review is part of an essay found on threeserendipity.blogspot.com... ...on the flight home, I inadvertently picked up The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. I was deciding between the Coelho, and Cormac McCarthy –but I felt a little too tender to read about an apocalyptic future. For whatever reason, I had imagined The Alchemist as something fun and colorful ala Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Jorge Amado. Boy, was I bummed. For those of you who don’t know: “The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a bestseller novel that is the most famous work of author Paulo Coelho. It is a symbolic story that urges its readers to follow their dreams. Originally published in Greece in 1988, The Alchemist has been translated into 61 languages, a guinness world record for the book translated in most languages. It has sold more than 65 million copies in more than 150 countries, becoming one of the best-selling books in history.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alch.... Chief in its principals the book espouses the philosophy that when you take steps towards your personal destiny, the universe does all it can to cooperate. It positively encourages taking leaps of faith, but the dark side of this reads that the only reason you don’t get to your goals, is because you have not committed deeply enough to your “personal legend” or are blocked by fear. I don’t disagree whole-heartedly with these assertions, but there is something politically idiotic about the assumptions. For example, would things have worked out differently for the Etowah had they had a copy of The Alchemist? Or my relatives in Omaha, Georgia? Or perhaps, my grandfather would still be at the lake had he exhibited more dedication to his “personal legend”. Truth be told, books like this (Celestine Prophesy, The Secret, et all.) make me so mad I could spit. Sharper minds than mine, can no doubt quickly deconstruct what is wrong with such a book from any number of philosophical perspectives. Instead I just get flummoxed trying to explain to loved ones who dutifully swallow these adages and cliches and who consequently beat themselves up trying to replicate the success described there. It makes me want to scream: life is so much more complicated, ambiguous, gorgeous, mysterious, enlivening, tragic, passionate, cruel, and dare I say “sacred?” than this. Yes these ramblings have a tinge of truth to them – but I still smell snake oil!

Re Moratto trendit — very sweet light read

Andrea Colson as5landa90 — Book one of the DeGranville trilogy. Great historical fiction set in the Crusades including a wonderful horse who ends up with more than one owner.