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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Savarez
Dreams of the Compass Rose by Vera Nazarian is a wonderful collection of intertwined stories that explore humanity, godhood, what is right, and what is illusion. It drew me in with a strong storytelling voice, sometimes using an overt narrator and sometimes just the tale unfolding. In a way, the style reminds me of the older fantastical fiction like Tales of the Arabian Nights, at least in the beginning. This isn’t a modern fantasy where the magic has its own physics, and yet much of it follows conventions and laws within its own world, whether it’s demonstrating the dangers of acting on too little information so though your intent is good the results are bad, or the risks of letting arrogance make you believe yourself smarter than gods. It’s a world where horrible acts have consequences, and horrible suffering sometimes offers a faint reward. At the start, the characters are all strangers, but as the book progresses, some of those strangers become familiar, even welcome. The narrative style changes too from an account of distant times brought to life by a storyteller to a tale unfolding before your eyes through the lens of a first person actor within the events. The choices made are ripe with conflict and often not what the character deserves, and yet as the stories come full circle, it works out. Things make sense, and even offer elements of happiness. This is a skillful, complex world peopled with compelling, three-dimensional characters that offer their dreams and nightmares in the hope that you, the reader, will walk away changed. My only regret is that it took me so long after getting the book to read it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
Read this back in my interpretative communication class. Loved the storytelling.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nüans Publishing
Three interesting stories woven together to tell the humorous tale of three seemingly unrelated characters.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilfen Yayıncılık
Glad I only spent $1 for this book on clearance... Couldn't get past chapter 3.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
It's the most compelling case for abridgment I've ever encountered. It's also kind of an affront to anyone who ever went for a degree in the humanities, I think. There are elements of the story, though, that could have been rewritten into something promising.
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This is a touching story, a good read. Overall a little sad, but well written and intriguing story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Manuel Raymond
Was a good but depressing read. It made me think which is always nice. I don't know that I would recomend the movie. I also felt thankful for the sane lifestyle I lead and the good people that surround me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çizgi Kitabevi Yayınları
As a lifelong agnostico-atheist who once tried very hard not to be, it's no small thing for me that this and Madonna's hit single "Like a Prayer" (not to mention bitchin' video) are the closest I've ever come to having a religious experience. I like the constant interweaving and separating of the mundane and the profound, the idea of a journey with no destination, and definitely the point that, if there is a point, it's not going to stab you in your spiritual brain-heart and grok it. Very short read. I recommend reading it in the spring. I dunno, something about the aesthetic.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Vatan
Fifteen-year-old Jem has a gift, although she would never call it that. When she looks people in the eye she can see the date they are going to die. She's been able to do this for as long as she can remember and has tried to keep people as far away from her as possible - which isn't as hard as it sounds considering she has been shunted from foster home to foster home since she was seven. Things start to change when she makes friends - against her will - with Spider, a boy from her school. Together they witness a terrible event, which they would have fallen victim to if it wasn't for her special insight, but although it saves them from immediate danger it also places them under suspicion too. I found Numbers difficult to get into initially. Not because of the pace - which is blistering - but because of the main character, Jem. She has a very distinctive and authentic voice but she is filled with anger and bitterness which simply made her hard to warm to. I could see why she behaved the way she did, it was understandable (to a point) and realistic but it made it a somewhat depressing read. (view spoiler) Thankfully Spider, who was full of energy and a touch more optimism, managed to balance it out and the good thing about her prickly attitude was that it gave her room to grow; her character development was skilfully handled. As I mentioned before, the pace was great and nearly every single chapter ended on a cliff-hanger. The voice was very consistent, showing you the world through Jem's eyes, but although there was enough there to point out that it isn't all as grim as she assumed, at the same time I think it might have been a little too subtle for younger readers to pick up on. I also found that some of the plot points strained my credulity. (view spoiler) However, this was a good book, written from a refreshing perspective with an interesting premise.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hayat Yayınları
i haven't reread this to see if my 5-star review would still stand, but I LOVED THIS BOOK!
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