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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çelik Yayınevi
Although this is a classically great book, the end is kind of bizarre and abrupt.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yapı Kredi Yayınları
This is the book before A Darker Justice, which I read last year. In this one, Atlanta assistant DA Mary Crowe is returning to the scene of her mother's murder for the first time in fourteen years. In the North Carolina mountains, she and her friends come across unexpected danger. I picked this author because she sets the stories in an area not far from here, but I've grown attached to the main character (Mary) and how her upbringing contrasts with her current life.
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There's Mark, who awakes from a coma following a freak accident with the more than nagging feeling that things around him aren't quite right - especially his sister, who has been replaced by someone very closely resembling his sister, his dog, who has been replaced by a very similar dog, and his house, which seems exactly right except for a few details. There's Karin, brought back to her hometown as a result of her brother's accident, bewildered and distressed by her brother's condition, convinced that she's only making things worse. Her identity, fragile to begin with, is negotiated throughout the novel as she becomes a foil for her brother's paranoia and the very different needs and personalities of two former lovers. There's Weber, the famous neuro-somethingsomething, drawn to the case out of curiosity but also out of a need to redeem his flagging career and to find an anchor as his own identity - Famous Gerald the writer, solid husband and respected researcher - starts to crumble around him. There's also the land, and the water, and the cranes that visit twice a year in huge numbers, drawn by an ancient remembering, dancing because it's always been done, and it always will be done. Powers takes these characters and their questions of identity, fidelity, memory and forgetting and weaves them together with a deftness that I don't remember from his previous work. Although it took me the better part of a year to finish the book, I thoroughly enjoyed it. A couple of years ago I told friends that Rick Powers was a damned good writer but that he had problems with endings. I think he's gotten past that with this one.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Nafisi had a great idea, but it just didn't pan out. The book was too much of a literary thesis on literature and was not about her girls. And it certainly does not tell the story of women in that country. It tells of her witnessing her country from an elitist perspective. We only see the girls in passing, from a distance.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
This book rewards a close read. The writing is superb and there are some very subtle themes and analyses in it - more than normal in a popular novel. For me, the issue with the book is a familiar one - can I care about the characters? In this case, I could care about the oldest character, Libor, and what he was going through after losing his beloved wife of many years. But I cared little about the Jewish philosopher, Finkler, and his English friend, Treslove. These men are preoccupied with themselves, and the fact that this gives Finkler more to be preoccupied with is the reason for Treslove's jealousy of him. That and the fact that Finkler is Jewish and Treslove isn't. The Finkler Question is really the Jewish question, because Treslove has taken to calling all Jews Finklers. An ambiguous and ingenious exploration of purpose, love and jealousy, and the place of Jews in modern English life, the novel is in my view let down by the fact that many of the characters in it are unsympathetic. Just like in real life.
the other side of the science/religion family feud. survey says?!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çantay Yayınları
This book is worth reading just for the hypothetical questions in the intros to the main essays.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları
This was a good snapshot of Jacques Cousteau. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as another picture book about him that I read last year. I did like that there were Cousteau quotes on every page. He was an amazing man.
Reading a Gothic horror novel of the 18th and even 19th centuries can be jarring. Characterization in these novels tends to be stereotypical because the primary concern of the author is horror and all the gruesome and often exotic trappings that can attach to it. In the end, we are given a classic and often physical struggle between Good! and Evil! without a lot of worry about motivation and the hero's psychological state. And what isn't struggle is usually a good deal of to-ing and fro-ing as characters move from one place to another to do or fight evil. I say all this because Paul Feval's "Vampire City" is an extraordinarily difficult book to rate. To the 21st century mind -- one familiar with the vampire heirs of Bram Stoker, the man who truly was the father of the modern vampire -- this novel might seem flat and even silly. But Feval is in on the joke. He writes with a light and often intentionally comic touch, and pokes some gentle fun at the conventions of the genre. Consider this amusing aside towards the end of the novel: " ______ was no longer to be feared, so the journey across the fertile but little-known fields of Bosnia -- where the women dressed very becomingly -- was perfectly agreeable." Certainly that's in the nature of a wink from an author who had enough cheek to use as his heroine, Ann Radcliffe, who is commonly thought to be the mother of the Gothic novel. Still, this sort of pastiche is only as good as its ability to engage readers. Unless you're a fan of the genre, you'll be tempted to say "He's just making all this stuff up as he goes along!" Well of course he is, this is fiction. But we're used to fiction where we are able to suspend our disbelief across several hundred pages, so that we aren't aware of the author's hand. In Gothic fiction the questionable motivations, inexplicable rescues and the impossible situations can be difficult for a contemporary reader to accept. There's a good deal of the deus ex machina to this novel, particularly when the characters are in such dire straits as to be on the verge of almost certain (horrible) death, and then they are miraculously saved by an agent of the divine. A 19th century reader might have accepted the event on face value; a 21st century one will be tempted to roll his eyes and wonder why, if God was going to save them anyway, He didn't just keep the events from occurring to begin with. But again, Feval has the wit to provide an answer which at first seems hackneyed but in the end is rather clever. He's a 19th century author who knows how to manipulate the conventions of his genre and that is what makes "Vampire City" so engaging. If you can put your analytical mind on hold and step back a bit from the silliness of the events, you'll probably enjoy "Vampire City." Brian Stableford's adaptation is deft and clever, and he makes it easier for the reader to give himself over to the genre and truly enjoy the story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kapı Yayınları
I met Jack Riggs, soo that made the novel even better...
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