Mark Adina itibaren Reighton, Filey, North Yorkshire , UK

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2018-10-06 12:40

Zaten Herkes Bir Denizdir Doğuştan TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tekin Yayınevi

With about a 80 pages left in this book, I started to become a little impatient. Here’s what I scribbled down: He's stalling (he being the narrator, John). We're all waiting for Owen's fate, but he's just continuing to reveal how uninteresting of a person he is—his asexuality is actually becoming creepy, and his delusional excuse for why he was not demonstrably anti-war smacks of a weak attempt at self-exoneration for doing jack shit besides reading the newspaper and whinging. Ok, we get it, you weren't into protesting, but do you really want to hammer home the point that doing nothing but bitch is better than trying to put together an anti-war movement, even if it's highly flawed and mostly ineffectual? But I'm mostly just annoyed that he's been putting off the ending for the last 100 pages or so. The juvenile humor, the book's secret weapon, was KIA about the same time Owen enlisted in the army. Let’s talk about the humor for a second though. The first 2/3 of the book are full of these moments where you don't really want to laugh because it's jejune and often bodily humor, but it's just too damn irresistible. So I end up giggling and smiling like a buffoonish idiot on my T commute, rather than my preferred practice of smarmily grinning at my own “cleverness” for recognizing wit (rather than actually responding to the wit itself) that anyone with a post 10th-grade English background can appreciate. John Irving can flat out write though. The story hums (at least pre-2/3rds and post-4/5ths) with a smooth and easy flow, the characters are believable—except maybe adult John. You’re no longer interested in SEX? Come on—and mostly likeable, and the politics are comfortably left-wing without being too radical. Ok, this makes it sound boring, but it was a joy to read. As far as overall “feel” goes, this book reminded me a lot of The Brothers K by David James Duncan. So if you like one of these books and haven’t read the other one, then that other one is a safe bet for a good time. Structurally, the story is oddly reminiscent of War and Peace, despite the very different ending styles. Both Irving and Tolstoy decided that writing a lush human drama wasn’t enough for them. They wanted it to be more. The most obvious similarity is the apparent need to interweave war narratives that mostly distract the reader from the shit they really want to read about—Owen’s penis size, for example, or Natasha’s first appearance at a fashionable ball. They also single out famous, powerful figures (Napolean for Tolstoy and Reagan for Irving) and brutally dismantle the recent and ongoing hagiography that was in effect during their respective writing periods. I am very ready to forgive Irving these grand ambitions and prolixity because, let’s be honest, I agree with most of his berating tirades and who doesn’t like to be on the receiving end of some agreeably abusive rants from the pulpit every once in a while?

2018-10-06 15:40

Öğrenciler İçin Etkili Çalışma ve Öğrenme Rehberi - Turan Çabuk TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Galata Yayıncılık

Book Report During the spring break vacation I read the book New Moon. It is the sequel to the book Twilight. In the begging of the story Bella is having her birthday party.She was celebrating it at the Cullen's House witch is wear Edward the guy she likes lives. Well it is all going great when suddenly she gets a finger cut and Edwards brother Jasper try's to get her even though he is trying to ignore the scent of blood. To protect Bella Edward takes drastic measures and he and his family leave Forks. All alone Bella goes with Jacob and they become close friends. Bella then rebels because she cant stand it. Later on she discovers that Jacob is a werewolf! Jacobs werewolf friends protect Bella from Victoria witch was James girlfriend until the Cullen's killed him. She seeks revenge. Bella then try's cliff diving and is saved by Jacob. Alice witch is Edwards sister can see the future and tells Edward that she jumped of the cliff, then she went looking for her. Rosalie tells Edward that Bella has died. Edward goes to the Volturi in Italy. Alice finds Bella and take her to Edward before he asks them. They get there just in time.Before they get back to Forks the Volturi tell them that they have to kill or turn Bella into a vampire because she knows of their existence. When they get to Forks they vote on turn her into a vampire when she graduates.THE END

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