Vladimir Ashkenazy - Bach, J.S.: The Sıx Partıtas itibaren içinde LIT biçim

Iva Stoeva _vanilla — I loved this book, seemed hauntingly possible in its glimpse of the future. Onto the sequel Parable of Talents...

Mike Legan _ike_egan — Extremely boring... but gives some good pointers.

Allison Cho chogumjica57 — This is a really quite fascinating study of those enclaves of "hip" that tend to appear in urban areas, and whose activities I disavow (occasionally with contempt), in part because I know that I'll always be like the writer of this book: an outsider whose status within that world is practically nonexistent. Although I'd like to write more about this book here, I don't want to put in the effort, so I'll just keep it short. My only real complaint is that it could have been longer. There are sections (especially toward the beginning--the ones on the developments of modernism and bohemia in particular) that could have been expanded without hurting the overall flow of the book. Not that the current thing is lacking in detail--far from it. I just found myself wanting to learn more about these two topics because they were so interesting. But, I suppose that that is what a bibliography is for.

Ana Gamda monan5275 — this is probably one of my favorite books. it's just so well executed, succinct, epic. rending. wrenching. incredibly dark and disturbing. and absolutely unforgettable.

Nottingham Web nottinghamwebdes — This book is worth a read. I'd recommend it for something light for a plane journey or perhaps a boredom-buster on holiday. It has lots of mini-stories and intertwined relationships between the MANY characters who we have narration for. It is, at times, hard to keep up with who's who, but it does get easier and narrowed down as the story progresses (thanks, in the most part, to all the killings!). I don't think the novel is as deep and shocking as I expected it to be and actually guessed pretty early on in the story what the two big 'twists' were (baby and who the killer was). I also don't think it's fair to class it in the same league as the thrill-tastic Karin Slaughter, as per the blurb (haven't read any Tess Gerristen yet, but on my to-do list); it's more hairy house-spider than Black Widow. I also think that the prose was a little sloppy in places, like when the characters had to keep mentioning things in conversation which the other character they were talking to would have known all about but we, the audience, wouldn't, so they would have to give a strange, unrealistic, advertisement-esque description after mentioning it so we were up to speed too, e.g.: "...I'll get the door. It could be FedEx delivering my birthday present." Catherine smiled indulgently. "We just ordered that new set of golf clubs two days ago..." Things like that grate on me. This book is the first I've read of this series or, indeed, from Ms. Barton and I think that the quality is good enough for a series continuation. The side-plot doesn't really develop at all throughout Silent Killer and I'm assuming, as others have, that it makes sense to people who devoutly follow the series. These two things considered prevented me rating it any higher; even though it is a series continuation and the side-plot is probably a 'gift' to the fans I think the quality could have been a great deal higher as a novel in itself, as I have read from authors of other series novels. Worth a read, a page-turner, but more tea and biscuits than chocolate fudge cake.