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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kitsan Yayınları
The novel begins with Kathy reminiscing about her time at Hailsham which the reader soon realizes is a boarding school. Kathy brings the reader through her childhood at the school where she met friends, is educated by slightly odd teachers, and prepares for the next stage in her live. As Kathy gets older, she becomes more perceptive of the oddities at Hailsham and begins to question what is really ahead for the school's students. Suddenly, school traditions such as "the sale" (in which students sell their work to each other) takes on a completely different meaning as the students realize the Madame of the school is purchasing their work for her own "Gallery". Eventually, they realize that their lives are predetermined and Hailsham is just schooling them on becoming "carers" and "donors". In the first chapter, Kathy mentions that she's a carer for those who are donors. It is clear that the donor is a person who donates their organs and their carer is just that, a person who cares for the donor. The narration then seems to follow Kathy's train of thought. I was nervous because this is usually an interesting though confusing narration style. However, her train of thought stays on the logical tracks and moves fairly chronologically. Whatever preconceptions I had of this narrative style, flew out the window as I devoured page after page without looking up for hours. As I was reading, I thought the ideas in the novel were incredible and though I had heard of such a scenario in a book before it still felt fresh and new. Yet, once I finished it and started to think about the great issue in the book it started to seem a bit hackneyed. The writing is beautiful and reminiscent of Margaret Atwood but nothing extraordinary. www.iamliteraryaddicted.blogspot.com
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Roof
I have to say I very much enjoyed this book. I'll also admit that I am highly biased as an undeniable salsa fanatic. What touched me about this book is that way that Samantha Dunn perfectly captured so many aspects of the dance, how it can become part of you and shape you as a person. She accurately describes salsa as more than just a hobby, but also as a subculture with it's own set of rules, archetypes and societal structure. An excellent read for any lover of salsa.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mb Yayınevi
Loved the individual characterizations/stories and how everything came together at the end.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Lastvoice
Hmm. Where to start on Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story? A potentially interesting concept marred by annoying characters and a poor execution. Lenny Abramov, approaching forty and obsessed with his own mortality, a lone book reader in a Media/Retail/Credit obsessed future, falls in love with an Asian-American woman, Eunice Park, of the younger generation that has easily assimilated into the new way of communicating and consuming. Communicated in his diary entries and her messages to friends and family on a Facebook like website known as GlobalTeens, we follow their relationship against the backdrop of massive scale revolt outside of Lenny's secure apartment. For me, Lenny's love for Eunice never really seemed to move beyond his own projected image of her and so he is as much a part of the surface social world as her. I struggled to believe the ease at which so many men seemed to fall in love with her. The writing, in both Lenny and Eunice's chapters, is a little too self-aware, too pleased with the supposed "cleverness" of the ideas presented. For Shteyngart, it seems that vaguely predicting where our current culture is heading with a level of satrical wit is enough. I think I wanted the story to be more politically and socially engaged. I wanted to be in Tompkins Square Park, not stuck in the confines of Lenny's apartment and their relationship. So, while the future dystopia of a post-literate, image and consumer driven society presented in Super Sad True Love Story is a recognizable one, ultimately Shteyngart succumbs to the very superficiality that he purports to critique. Read Ballard instead.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Remzi Kitabevi
I couldn't put this book down!! Carl also writes for the miami herald. He's a florida native! I could identify with all the floridian type characters. Quite FUNNY. I laughed outloud a few times reading this book in public places..OOPS>
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sözün Özü Yayınları
Anyone who has read McCarthy's other work won't expect birds, flowers and sunshine here. The Road is set in a bleak, apocalyptic landscape where the world has become gray ash. A man and his son are on the road, heading south, scavenging from the poor remains left, and defending themselves against humans surviving as cannibals. Think of Abraham and Isaac meets Mad Max. Early in the novel, the man's suicidal wife tells him: "The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who has no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body." In the godless world McCarthy creates, the man's heartbreaking love for his son is the only engine that drives them on. McCarthy asks moral questions that may be unanswerable, but at least he asks them. What separates "the good guys" from "the bad guys" when survival is at stake? Why is love the greater part of hope, and is it enough? This is a beautiful and haunting novel. It may take you to a place you don't want to go, but for me, the journey was worth it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ephesus Yayınları
Ein guter Thriller, nicht mehr und nicht weniger, und bei der Masse an Büchern dieser Art, die in letzter Zeit erscheinen, nichts besonderes. Ich kann den Hype nicht verstehen.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: CTT
Alice erlebt den Tod von fünf Menschen, die ihr nahe stehen. Für jedes dieser Erlebnisse schreibt Judith Hermann eine eigenständige Erzählung, dennoch hängen sie zusammen, so daß ich nur raten kann, die Erzählungen direkt hintereinander zu lesen. Anfangs hat mich das Buch gefesselt. Die Worte, die Alices Gedanken darlegen, Worte, die weniger gewohnte komplette Sätze sind als viel mehr Fetzen davon. wie eben Gedanken kommen und gehen. Das ist Judith Hermann zweifelsfrei gelungen. Allerdings hatte ich nach der Hälfte des Buches das Gefühl, daß da nichts neues mehr kommt. Neue Umstände schon, aber die Stimmung ist immer dieselbe, genau dieselbe. Es kann sein, daß genau das die Trostlosigkeit des Todes nahestehender Menschen ausmacht, Dennoch denke ich, weniger wäre hier mehr gewesen.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
1975. This is perhaps my favorite book of all time. The young protagonist, nameless, is a gay man who is living in an abandoned warehouse on the docks in New York City near West 11th St. Most of the book is his journals. He remembers his now dead lover, Lance, the "Living Nigger on Ice", a former figure skater. So beautiful. Get a copy if you can.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kuzgun Kitap
Went through a period in high school where I tried to read all the classics... this is one of the first that I actually enjoyed.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Marmara Çizgi
Harika değil.
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