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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları
I loved reading the background stories to Ender's Parents, but was sad when their story stopped so abruptly. They barely have one good day together, and it's like Paul Harvey steps in with his famous tag line, "and now you know the rest of the story". I wanted more, and felt robbed. Then the story quickly jumps (no transition) to a portion that seemed to have come straight out of Ender's Game, only there were discrepancies. There's a discrepancy with Graff's character and his age(within this book, not even considering the other stories), and also with who was in his "jeesh" for the final battle. The next story that's told is of Jane's existence. I enjoyed readying the background story for her and Ender, but when finished I simply wanted more. The stories were well written, but had I not been familiar with the Ender Universe, I wouldn't have had the slightest idea what was going on at the start of the short story Ender's Game in the book. I expected First Meetings to be a fun stand alone story about Ender's parents, somehow fitting in an introduction to Jane. Instead, I read about 70 really fun pages of the parents, then was jumped into Ender's Game for a bit, and then brought into Jane's world for the last part. This book should've been focused on Ender's brilliant parents and their journey to love and parenthood. I would've loved reading about them as young parents of overly bright kids. Jane's story should've been another seperate tale. There's so much depth to that character, 70 or so pages couldn't do her justice.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kodlab Yayınları
Not her best. Have to admit to myself that Patricia Cornwell is not writing the same as her earlier books.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cinemaximum
My friend Chris Dufort LOVES this book. He is has every bit of Princess Academy merchandise that he can find. He told me that he has read this book 5 or 6 times. I took him up on it and I liked it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kawai
This is good for any hopeless romantic. Note: hopeless.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İhtiyaç Yayıncılık
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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pinhan Yayıncılık
Funny book ! Keeps thing spicy and humerous
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi
LOVE.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
This has been the weakest of Ligotti's collections that I've read so far, I believe it is also his first. A large part of the last section (of which I don't remember the subtitle) was actually disappointing; the story "Masquerade of a Dead Sword" was actually awful, and this is certainly the first opportunity I've encountered to say that. However, there is good stuff in here too: -Dream of a Mannikin This is solid Ligotti that really is demonstrative of his major talents. It also provides a very stunning example of how to provide the exposition of dreams without slipping into boring solipsism or unintentional ellipticality. -Eye of the Lynx This is a good example of Ligotti entering the sort of "fuck up"/abstract "area" of narrative that he occasionally does. It's not as strong as in later stories (lots of this kind of story is available in Grimscribe, my second favorite collection of his), but still interesting and disorienting. -Journal of J.P. Drapeau This is a perfect example of Ligotti playing the creator of an apocryphal artist, and he does it very well. The fragments here are just present enough to inspire further thoughts, though I do wish there were more. "Notes on the Writing of Horror" is also very excellent, but I had read it before and did not re-read it this go-around, so have no new comments for it. However, aside from these four stand out stories, I feel like this collection is utterly lackluster.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kapı Yayınları
The third book in Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series, after "The First Man in Rome" and "The Grass Crown", begins just a few years after the latter. Sulla gets back to Rome, the beauty of his early days giving way to a toothless self with a hideous wig and an addiction to wine, and true to character, wreaks terrible vengeance on his enemies - Young Marius, Cinna and Carbo- and becomes Dictator of Rome. The seeds of Rome's Republic days were probably sown that early as Sulla changes laws that had persisted for years. But what he also aids is the rise of the two other "Fortune's Favourites". He gave enough room to Gnaeus Pompeius, who, very early in life gave himself the title Magnus and sought to play down the other moniker Kid Butcher, and was the wealthy provincial whose military machinations and continuous search for military glory finally made him senior consul without being a member of the Senate. Though not easily, Sulla also helps free Gaius Julius Caesar from the position of flamen Dialis, the yoke that a bitter Gaius Marius had hung on his neck before he died. And then, true to his promise, Sulla makes an exit, on his own terms. In this book, through the later years of Sulla, and the early years of Caesar and Pompey, the author brings to life the character of Rome and its citizens. The presence of other familiar characters like Cicero, Spartacus and Mithridates add to the excitement. With a few eventful campaigns, the author also gets to pace the book well, allowing the characters to build slowly. Pompey's supreme confidence in his own abilities, his showiness, the ignominy he suffers at the hands of Sertorius, and his tantrums when things don't work his way all give us a glimpse of his character, a stark contrast to the confident yet subtle-when-required Caesar, whose diplomatic and military coups at an early age showed that he was destined for greatness. The brilliance of Caesar's mind is on display as he brings a truce between Crassus and Pompey, uses his aunt's death to show Romans that he is indeed Gaius Marius' true successor and explains how time was his greatest ally all point to him indeed being the "greatest prime mover of them all"
I enjoyed the movie more than the book -- but either way the topic is a little far-fetched for me. However, it did a good job of keeping me on the edge of my seat and for the most part it was a fast read.
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