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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İsabet
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy is one of the best books I've ever read in my entire life. It's a long book. But it is very engaging; I managed to read it in one stretch, with a break to sleep, while I awaited the movers to take me and my belongings across the counry. To my chagrin I had completed it before my flight, and when it finished I didn't want the book to be over, I wanted to go back and re-read it from the beginning. It is one of the best books about life in India I've ever read, it is the anti-Kite Runner book. There is nothing trite or stereotyped about the characterization; it believably describes elements of society that are even oblique to people with the mainstream of modern Indian society; the plot is not simple, nor is it a convulted mystery story. Writing this up I think I should go get it and read it again. Like most of my favorite books I gave it away a long time ago.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tonylee
Nothing I had cursorily remembered hearing about this book prepared me for the fantasy elements! It was difficult the first 100-200 pages when I kept trying to make everything make sense in a strictly historical-realist framework. Once I was able to let go of that, thoroughly enjoyable... Best long-distance ice-skating scene EVER.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cenevre Fikir Sanat
I loved loved loved the alternate history of this world: the horde, the bugs, the frenzies, the personal history of the main character. It was a completely excellent concept. With that said, I am just not a fan of books in the Romance Genre. Though the sex scenes in this were less "Flowery" than some, something I appreciated; but still I found it hard to keep from rolling my eyes. The hero determined he was going to make her his, forever, the first time he met her? Really?!?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: D'Addario
I liked this book a lot! I didn't know much about it when I put it on my wishlist but am glad I got a chance to read it. It definitely is similar to Flowers For Algernon. I enjoyed the book but didn't love the ending...I'm looking forward to hearing what other people think! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! I wish he had kept up with fencing and his friends!!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi
We hear so much about war but not about WWI; this is a wonderful, poignant individual story of a pilot and his war experiences; this one should not be missed!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Planet Waves
HOT AND HOLY Jennifer Cognard-Black Review of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics By Dagmar Herzog Basic Books There is a new sexual revolution in the United States, one initiated and perpetuated by none other than the religious right. An evangelical sexual revolution? Surely that’s a contradiction in terms. Yet historian Dagmar Herzog exposes precisely how the religious right has co-opted popular discourse on Viagra, Internet porn, female orgasm, adultery, HIV and STDs to revise its abstinence only, anti-abortion, homophobic, sexist and racist proclamations on sex and sexuality into a sizzling and seductive self-help package worthy of Sex and the City. To begin with, the religious right has coined a provocative new term: the “soulgasm.” Since the mid-1970s, evangelical sex writers have promised that as long as readers engage in heterosexual, married sex, they can expect incredible God-given orgasms. And while there is some debate about the appropriateness of oral sex or vibrators, marriage therapists Melissa and Louis McBurney deem doggie-style sex and mutual masturbation just fine, while pastor Charlie Shedd touts anal sex as a healthy part of marital bliss. The Christian sex industry coaches husbands to become wild men of a passionate God, while wives are urged to clad themselves in black lingerie and be available for Christian quickies. Herzog points out that these bits of amorous advice are mired in cognitive contradictions. Husbands should be sexual stallions yet buy books such as Every Man’s Battle to curb their extramarital fantasies. Wives pray for their own orgasmic ecstasy and yet are told to have sex even when they don’t want to. As Herzog writes of authors of evangelical self-help books, “They rail against porn even as they perpetuate porn.” It’s these contradictions that reveal the religious right’s actual agenda: to keep its constituents sexually anxious and to limit sex to the Christian bedroom. Homosexuals are “insecure heterosexual wannabes.” Singles should buy bikini briefs that read “I’m saving it!” Even teenagers who fooled around before finding God are encouraged to become members of True Love Waits and take a “secondary virginity” pledge. Over the past 15 years, these insidious strictures have come to impact the entire American populace— as well as those living in developing countries. Herzog details how evangelicals have successfully co-opted feminist discourse on reproductive rights—particularly the right to say no—for the 50 percent of American high schools that have adopted abstinence-driven sex-ed courses, which, not incidentally, often provide inaccurate information on condom failure rates. In turn, this misinformation is promulgated to the wider world. NGOs fighting the global AIDS epidemic are hamstrung by George W. Bush’s “Abstinence-Be Faithful” requirements, and health organizations have sued the U.S. government for its insistence that condoms encourage sin rather than save lives. Sex in Crisis is a must-read for any parent wishing to influence a school system’s sex-education curriculum, any advocate for the reduction of HIV infections and any feminist who wants to influence the national conversation on sexual orientation, sexual practices and self-determined sexual consent. --- JENNIFER COGNARD-BLACK is a professor of English and coordinator of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Program at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is coeditor of Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865–1925 (University of Iowa Press, 2006).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ötüken Neşriyat
i thought foer did an outstanding job of creating the multi-dimensiona characters, all of whom have been so deeply affected by the Holocaust and are all trying to come to terms with theirs (and their families) pasts... and also revealing what each character is driven by and searching for: no one is who they immediately seem at the onset. i loved the play between the "interpreter" in the Ukraine and the main character. i thought it was expertly written, original, and moving.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mikado Yayınları
Largely couched in dramatic post-9/11 language, but entirely inspiring nonetheless. This collection of essays works as a table book to flip through and be re-inspired by one of the contributors' thoughts on family, international affairs, the environment, solitude...read it.
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Gives me chills knowing what it was like back then. This book was amazing and hard to put down, I am happy to know I don't live in a world where this is a daily routine. I am excited to see what Stockett comes out with next.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
great, fine conclusoin to the ender saga, illuminating discourse on humanity and fine disposition f some beloved characters
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