Alini Laube itibaren Locust Dale, VA , USA

alinilaube

11/02/2024

Kitap için kullanıcı verileri, yorumlar ve öneriler

Alini Laube Kitabın yeniden yazılması (10)

2018-06-20 19:40

Notre Dame’ In Kamburu-Victor Hugo TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Epsilon Yayınları

John Reader has an agenda. He loves Africa, a continent that has been misunderstood and misused by Westerners for centuries, and he wants you to love it, too. Reader approaches his “biography of a continent” with unbounded ambition and intelligence, gracefully synthesizing academic arguments from disparate fields to construct a portrait of humanity’s first homeland that is insightful and reverent. The scope is staggering, with detours into geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, archeology, linguistics, economics, and, of course, history. It is a beautiful journey through the story of how we came to be us, and how African countries came to suffer the tragedies they experience today. Reader does an excellent job of avoiding the romanticization of African traditional ways of life that many sympathetic westerners fall into. Nature is heartless, and life could be brutal. Starvation was—is—a constant threat, and none of our modern notions of human rights applied. But he tries to show that far from being backwards, African cultures achieved something the West never has: homeostasis in cooperation with the environment. Technology evolved locally inasmuch as was needed to adapt to changing conditions, and cultures developed to allow groups of people to live symbiotically without a coercive state. Westerners mistook balance for backwardness, and thus, Reader shows, their (our) influence has been malevolent from the first. From time to time, it is clear that Reader is writing beyond his expertise. In a book of this scope, that’s inevitable. His economic analysis sometimes leaves something to be desired, and occasionally he pursues his sympathetic agenda at the cost of intellectual honesty—but only in small ways. You can’t just accept everything Reader writes, but I don’t think he’d want you to. The story he is telling is too complex to have only one truth, and even this tome doesn’t have space to present every perspective. But Reader does give you a story that is fresh and compelling, an analysis of humanity’s relationship to Africa which takes you pretty damn close to the heart of what it means to be human.

2018-06-20 22:40

El Arabiyatül Lil Hayat 3 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cantaş Yayınları

This author is very good at creating an exciting plot, and hot alpha male characters. Her main guy, John was really fun to read, and I liked him immediately. Her female lead character, Suzanne, was just a little to quick to comply with everything John wanted, but somehow the author made it work. I pretty much loved everything about this story except that it was about 100 pages too short and the bad plot twist at the end that didnt work for me. The plot twist she created concerning the decision made by the female lead character didnt seem realistic to me, and so only recieved 4 stars. I felt that the plot twist was a devise used to end her book . Ms. Rice used her clever writing skills to fix it, but it made the ending anti-climactic for me. Like she only had a few pages in which to finish the story. I was still trying to work out in my head the implausibility of Suzanne's decision to choose a life without everyone she knew and loved just to testify against a mob boss. Her parents? Her future husband? With barely a thought? For some "higher" moral ideal? Not. It was beyond belief for me. If there had been more pages in which to write, Suzanne could have chosen to go with her man, and they could have worked out details later. Creating a more fulfilling book. Still, overall it was well written and I would recommend this book if you love hot alpha male characters, and a sexy ride.

Okuyucu Alini Laube itibaren Locust Dale, VA , USA

Kullanıcı, bu kitapları portalın yayın kurulu olan 2017-2018'de en ilginç olarak değerlendirdi "TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi" Tüm okuyucuların bu literatürü tanımalarını tavsiye eder.