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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları
I never thought that a book based on real events, mostly based on investigation reports, letters and newspaper articles, would be so engaging. I was a little bit sceptical when I started reading, as I found the language a little bit clunky with all the quotes and detailed information. But it didn't take long before I was hooked. The style takes a bit of getting used to. The book is strictly speaking non-fiction and bases itself strictly upon fact, but it is also written to engage and excite, and it is nearly impossible to put down once you get into it. The author gives you plenty of background information, and it's interesting to learn all those small facts about Victorian daily life. The ending is a little slow given that the excitement is really over before you actually get to the end, but I think the last chapters were still necessary. All in all a very good and chilling read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Çocuk Yayınları
This was well written. This whole World War II era is something that is hard for me to contemplate. but I think it is good to know more about it. but I liked how she presented it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilge Kültür Sanat Yayınları
This probably would have made an excellent short story, but the longer the book went on, the more cliched the characters became and the story completely lost focus, and the end was a mess. I don't think characters necessarily need to be likable, or find redemption, for a story to be satisfying, but I do think there needs to be a reason for crafting a story around them, other than that the fact of their wealth, which certainly doesn't automatically make them worth writing about.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kastaş Yayınları
Loved it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nubihar Yayınları
in all reality...i love this series yes its way over the top and not well written and the hype is crazy but really its fun and i enjoyed it...and if other people do t like it thats ok too...but really i personally enjoyed it...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
I should start by saying that I'm not even close to the target audience for this book. I happen to have met the author, however (and teach her kids!) and I thought it would be an interesting experience to read the work of someone I actually know, and whom I could probably call up and talk about the process with. So I opened up to the first chapter with a certain amount of hedging, almost expecting to not like it at all. What followed was an interesting, if light jaunt through a genre I'm pretty foreign to. The big picture is this: the associate pastor of a Houston mega-church gets his girlfriend in a family way, and is unceremoniously invited to leave. After getting married, the pastor and his wife experience a horrible tragedy, which leads them both to not only leave the big city for a new job at a smalltown Baptist church, but also forces them to reexamine their relationship and lives. A few things that I liked: * a friend of mine assumed I wouldn't like this because they said it was 'religious fiction.' I was actually kind of surprised to see that this really isn't the case. There are definitely religious overtones. I mean, the protagonist is a Baptist preacher! But the work never proselytizes, and I appreciate that. * There is a workmanlike determinedness to how this book smashes from one plot point to the next. Coleman seldom lingers on moments or crises long enough for them to wear out their welcome. Most of the parts of the book I actively disliked were gone so fast I barely remember them. And while the plot is very straight forward, the author still managed to jump around to different people's perspectives and create a few well-earned moments of illumination that I didn't necessarily manage to anticipate. That may sound like faint praise, but the amount of predictability in a book can drastically decrease its enjoyability. While "Potter Springs" isn't going to win any Pulitzers, I actually had to keep reading it to see what would happen next. * Hurricane Megan and Doppler Dan. Cute. And then there were the things I didn't care for so much: * The plot moves along brisky enough, but I think sometimes at the cost of introspection. There were several chapters and sequences that I think almost would have worked more effectively as short stories, given a little room to breathe on their own, without the pressure to give way to the next event or chapter. * The ending was a little too tidy for my tastes. I think it would have been far more interesting territory to explore for Mark and Amanda to find a way to live with their personal tragedy. I'm pretty sure most of Ms. Coleman's audience preferred it the way she wrote it, though. * The book jacket touts a cast of memorable and quirky characters, but most of the supporting cast are mere outlines of stock small-town inhabitants who never really earn any kind of real uniqueness. There's the interchangable church women full of nosiness and wisdom, the bumbling head pastor who seems simple except when he needs to be wise, and the spiteful deacon whose cartoonish gossiping is not so believable as necessary to move the plot forward. * Probably my biggest problem was with the pastor's wife, Amanda. I liked her as a character, but she drove me crazy in her inexplicable devotion to her jerk of a husband. Mark is redeemed somewhat by the end of the novel, but for most of the work, the only thing we see of Mark is how thoughtless and self-centered he is. Yet every time Amanda finds herself pushed away and marginalized by her husband, she begins fondly recalling the warm and loving husband that we the reader have never actually ever met. I'm all for dedication to your spouse, but Amanda started driving me crazy about halfway through, right up to the end. And honestly, there were other little things that niggled me, but I chalk most of that up to me not being the person Britta Coleman wrote this for. I like things to be ambiguous and rough around the edges; to show how ugly the shadowy mundane can be when you shine a bright light on it. "Potter Springs" deals with some dark secrets, but when it shines its light, things are full of hope and faith. The antithesis of my world-view. In a perfect world, her next novel would be a more dour and cynical look at the same character-types, but I have a feeling that her audience wouldn't take too kindly to that. Her audience would greatly enjoy another "Potter Springs" and I'll enjoy the next "Empire Falls", and the world will be a happy place.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gerekli Şeyler Yayıncılık
A good, light mystery.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Metis Yayınları
Bowden's another one of those authors I'll pick up regardless of what the book's about. He tells a compelling, if mostly one-sided tale here, but it feels like that's more from access problems than bias. Killing Pablo and Black Hawk Down are better books, but this one's worth looking at.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İz Yayıncılık
The main character, Lucinda is a lovely, whimsical character. I enjoyed the story's fun nature, but was shocked when Ms. Sawyer threw two dramatic (even shocking) tragedies into the end of the story. I am not sure how the murder actually fit. The growth of an unwanted child was lovely as she found many who found her loveable while her parents did not.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hız Yayınları
Read April 2007 Read 2008 Read June 2010
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Yayınları
İlk 3/4 için iyi. Sonra bitmeyen kitap oldu.
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