Rob Wahl itibaren Kamalwelli, Maharashtra, India

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2018-08-18 03:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı

This is a dual review as i couldn't rightly separate the two books. Feast for Crows \ Dance with Dragons… Let me just cut to the point on these two novels. Regardless of how much I liked the books, I didn’t really enjoy reading them. They felt like absolutely nothing occurred plot-wise. Hold up there Hoss. I didn’t say that nothing DID happen, just that it felt like it. There were a couple hundred plot points that are important to the story development and moved characters forward, but all of the are small in presentation thus minimizing the feel of them. Hobbit steps to Mordor. I think this is just the by product of having to give pages to so many characters. In the View Askew movie Clerks 2, Randal Graves (foul mouth extraordinaire) describes the Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies and I think that his statements mirror (in part) my thoughts on both of these books. Randal Graves: “All it was, was a bunch of people walking, three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano… Here’s the first movie…” [Walks in a straight line, doped] Randal Graves: “… And here’s the second movie…” [Walks in a straight line] Randal Graves: “…” Randal Graves: “…You ready for the third movie?” [Walks in a straight line again, and, at the end, pretends to take a ring off his finger and throw it away, then shrugs] [...] Randal Graves: “If Peter Jackson really wanted to blow me away with those ‘Rings’ movies, he would have ended the third one on the logical closure point, not the 25 endings that followed.” ______ Replace walking with talking and you have these books pretty well described. Now, don’t get me wrong. I found both books fascinating, enthralling, and impossible to set aside for other reading. I am pleased with the outcomes of each book. Heck, Feast is my second favorite in the series so far and the Song of Ice and Fire series is of the best fantasy reading I have ever had the pleasure to consume. Unfortunately, I do have to be a little bit negative. No matter how great these novels were, they left me feeling unsatisfied. The next two books had better be incredible. The back story and build up to feed them with said incredible-ness is in place (five books worth). Lets get to it now. Lets have a book that is enthralling AND fast paced for once. This series is HIGHLY SUGGESTED, don’t let my nay-saying dissuade you, its worth it.. every stinking page. In a nutshell, George should keep up the great work, but damn it, I hope that there is more movement in book six! I am glad that I only started reading the series last year. Folks who have been waiting half a decade or more for Dance to be released, are worse off than I am by a long shot. -- xpost RawBlurb.com

2018-08-18 06:41

Rapunzel TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Polat Kitapçılık

This novel is a rather different look at the life of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, famous (or infamous) friend and ally of the famous (or infamous) Earp brothers. The shootout at the OK Corral is epilogue, not centerpiece. After telling the tale of Holliday's upbringing in Georgia and his education as a dentist on the recommendation of his doctor uncle, who felt that medicine was becoming the realm of quackery while dentistry was becoming ever more scientific, the book focuses on what is presented as his one happy summer as an adult: the summer he met the Earp brothers in Dodge City, Kansas. The new-minted dentist John Henry Holliday begins a promising young practice in Atlanta, but before too long comes to the painful realization that he's suffering from the same consumption (tuberculosis) that killed his mother. His uncle, Doctor Holliday, recommends that he move to the hot, dry southwest, and helps him locate a practice to join in Texas. All is well for a few, brief months--and then the Panic of 1873 happens. The dental practice can barely support its owner, and Holliday is out of a job. He gradually starts to support himself by gambling, and after a few years of sinking deeper and deeper into this life, he meets Kate Haroney, a smart, educated, former minor aristocrat who lost her entire family and position and is now supporting herself as a whore. This is a partnership that will last, off and on, for the next decade, and it's also what brings Doc Holliday to Dodge City, where he meets the Earp brothers. And this is the meat of the story that Russell is telling, the story of the summer when Doc thought consumption might be loosening its grip on him, starts up a dental practice again, and forges a friendship with the Earp brothers, especially Morgan and Wyatt. It's the summer when Morgan and Wyatt get a painful education in politics, and the summer that another figure who will someday be famous, Bat Masterson, is also in Dodge and starting to fabricate the stories that will be the cornerstone of his fame. Russell gets us convincingly inside these heads, especially Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, and builds a compelling account of how and why they made the choices that led them to that fateful thirty seconds in the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. We also see the beginning of Bat Masterson's myth-making about them, especially Doc Holliday, and the great distance between reality and myth in the story of Holliday's career as gambler and gunslinger. One of the most touching strands in this story is Holliday's commitment to the positive good that professional dentistry can make in people's lives, freeing them from pain, even while it's clear to him that he'll never support himself with dentistry. In fact, it's his gambling that enables him to support his dentistry. Another, almost equally touching thread is Wyatt's rehabilitation of the horse Dick Naylor. While there are gunfights and brawls in Doc, this is not a story of western gunslinging derring-do. This is a thoughtful and compelling look at some major icons of the American west, before they were famous and when they never expected that a gunfight would become the central event of their lives. Highly recommended. I received a free galley of this book for review from the publisher.

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