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2018-08-24 13:41

SEHER GİTTİ TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Berfin Yayınları

"The Best of Michael Moorcock" is a brand new collection of the legendary author's best short fiction, containing several of his classic stories, as well as one previously unreleased story. The collection, lovingly edited by John Davey with Jeff and Ann Vandermeer, is nothing short of excellent. There are really no bad stories here, and some that are simply stunning. As someone who has read many of Moorcock's novels but barely any of his shorter work, I was amazed at how well the author's skill - so much better known for the long, sweeping epic - translates into the much more concentrated short form. Also amazing is the ease with which Moorcock switches tones and styles, from the light-hearted to the overwhelmingly deep, from fantasy to SF to non-genre fiction, from the joking staccato prose of "London Bone" to the lyrical sadness of the Elric story "A Portrait In Ivory". It's easy to see why this man is a legend. One of my favorite aspects of this book are the subtle typographical touches added to each story's title - e.g. the words "Behold the Man" are placed in the shape of a cross, and "London Bone" looks like a tube sign. Each one is different and somehow relevant to the story, and they give the book an old-fashioned - in a good way! - and almost playful air. SF fans have been lucky this year, with two excellent best-of short story collections so far: first Tor released a brilliant Gene Wolfe collection, and now there's Tachyon Publications' Michael Moorcock collection. If, like me, you weren't very familiar with these authors' short works yet, getting these books is practically a must.

2018-08-24 16:41

Hello Kitty - Doğum Günü Hediyesi-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık

If you know me at all, you know I read a lot. So I don't take these reviews lightly. Here goes: What is the What is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read! The story of Valentino Achak Deng, a so-called Lost Boy of the Sudan, is so moving that after reading the book I went to his web site and signed up for information on how I can help the cause. Dave Eggers, who is easily one of my favorite fiction writers, has donated the proceeds of the book to a foundation co-founded by he and Valentino (www.valentinoachackdeng.org). The writing is brilliant and the story is compelling...but I think what makes the book so great for me is the sheer tragedy of this boy's life and the unbelieveable sense of courage and optimism he showed throughout a life that would have caused most people to simply give up. Valentino's courage is beyond belief. As his story unfolds, it's unimaginable that he could have survived and it's heartbreaking how at each turn things continued to get worse. His survival is a mystery that will never be solved...yet here he is as a young adult doing everything he can to help the world learn from his experience. The book was also a great history lesson about Sudan and Africa in general and gives the reader great insight into the troubles in Darfur today. If the world does not learn from this story then perhaps we are doomed as a species. Finally, though the story is Valentino's, the writing is all Eggers. He could have easily played the story as a straight biography, but instead Eggers weaves Valentino's life together in a beautiful way -- going back and forth between his time in Africa and his new life in Atlanta. And while his life in Africa was indeed a horror, his life in the U.S. is not much better and perhaps the biggest lesson of the book -- we have tried to help these Lost Boys but we are far from perfect and have made many mistakes as a society. It's ironic that this morning I awoke to a front page story in the Arizona Republic about a birthday celebration for Arizona's Lost Boys (there are about 500 Sudanese boys living in the Valley). They all celebrate their birthday on Jan. 1 because they have no idea when they were really born. It's also ironic that I finished this book around the same time as I saw The Kite Runner. When I read The Kite Runner, and even Hosseini's second novel A thousand Splendid Suns, I thought life was terrible for the Afghans -- but Valentino's real story makes the fictional story of the boys in The Kite Runner seem tame by comparison. But together these stories make me feel both lucky to live in America and at the same time ashamed that the world can let things like this happen. As I sat reading Valentino's story on my sofa, I thought here is a boy who has experienced things I couldn't even imagine, while I sit in my 2100 square foot home with a fridge full of food, two cars, a happy and relatively healthy family, casually spending $4 for a cup of coffee and throwing out more food each day than Valentino ate in a month. It reaffirms my political views and teaches me to be thankful for what I have -- and more importantly that I have a profound responsibility as a citizen of the world to help those who are less fortunate. If you think that makes me a bleeding heart liberal than I'm proud to wear that badge. Read this book. It will change your life.

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