David Kramer itibaren Knott End-on-Sea, Lancashire, UK

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11/04/2024

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2018-11-09 13:40

.NET ile Mobil ve Gömülü Sistemler - Aykut Taşdelen TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pusula Yayıncılık

The author's creatvity fascinated me.

2018-11-09 14:40

İlk Kelimelerim-2 Taşıtlar TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çamlıca Çocuk Yayınları

Readers of Abraham Merritt's first four novels--"The Moon Pool," "The Metal Monster," "The Face in the Abyss" and "The Ship of Ishtar"--may feel a little surprised as they get into his fifth, "Seven Footprints to Satan." Whereas those earlier fantasy masterpieces featured exotic locales such as the Pacific islands, the Himalayas and Peru; extravagant purple prose, dense with hyperadjectival descriptions; and living light creatures, metallic sentient cubes, a lost semireptilian race and battling gods, "Footprints" takes place, for the most part, in good ol' New York City and its suburbs, and tells an almost realistic tale of kidnapping and crime in direct, almost blunt prose. Indeed, although "Footprints" first appeared in "Argosy" magazine in 1927, and in book form the following year, it almost reads as if it had come from the pages of one of the crime pulps, such as "Black Mask" or "Crack Detective Stories." In this fast-moving tale, we meet James Kirkham, an adventurer/explorer (and, with a name like that, future candidate for Star Fleet Academy!) who is kidnapped off the streets of downtown Manhattan by the minions of Satan, a crime lord/supervillain/evil genius. Kirkham is forced to play a game in Satan's lair, during which he is made to tread on seven glowing footprints, four of which are "fortunate" and three "unfortunate." Depending on the steps he lands on, he will either be killed, serve Satan for a year, be given a fantastic fortune, etc. I am not giving away too much by saying that Kirkham winds up a bond servant to Satan, and is compelled to commit various fantastic crimes while in his service. He is housed in Satan's mazelike chateau with dozens of others, and falls in love with a fellow prisoner, Eve. (I suppose having Kirkham's first name be "Adam" would have been forcing things a bit!) Grotesque in appearance, vast of intellect, profound lover of beauty, and sadistic in the extreme, Satan makes for one terrific character. With his strain of Chinese background, he is reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, but also of the supervillains of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. Indeed, for much of the novel, it is unclear whether Satan is or isn't the actual article; Old Scratch himself. The scenes in which he is present are quite riveting. Merritt keeps things barely on this side of reality; nothing that transpires in the book--the museum theft, the slaves kept in bondage by the mind-altering kehft drug, the worldwide criminal organization, the high-seas piracy--is beyond the realm of credibility. And, suiting style to story, Merritt, as I mentioned up top, writes in spare, wonderfully controlled, crime-pulp prose. Thus, we get a line such as "I shot from the floor, and ...drilled [him] through the head." The dropping of the aforementioned purple prose makes the book seem lean and streamlined; it really does move, and keeps the reader turning the pages. The finale of the book is thrilling in the extreme, and concludes most satisfactorily. I have read that "Footprints" was turned into a 1928 film starring Thelma Todd as Eve, but from the plot synopses on imdb.com, it would seem that this film is a very loose adaptation, at best. I'd love to see it one day, just for comparative purposes, but can't imagine it equalling the suspense and excitement of the book. "Footprints" may have been a change in direction for A. Merritt, but it still makes for marvelous entertainment.

2018-11-09 15:40

Yavuz Çetin - Satılık TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından:

this book, along with the sequels by Daniel Quinn changed the way i look at the world and what it might take to go about changing it.

2018-11-09 16:40

Cumhuriyet Kazanımları-Metin Gören TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi

I picked up this book because I have enjoyed Tracy Chevalier's other work but if I didn't know who the author was, I would not have guessed that she wrote it. Although I enjoyed her earlier books,this one is completely different. Narrated by two characters in alternating chapters and loosely based on historical characters, the writing is clear and lovely. I liked everything about this book, including the chapter titles and design.

2018-11-09 17:40

Okul Yönetiminde Yeni Yapı Ve Davranış - Ziya Bursalıoğlu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık - Akademik Kitaplar

I honestly needed to finish at least a book this summer, and this one happened to keep my interest.

2018-11-09 18:40

İstanbul TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Babıali Kitaplığı

Huge, enthralling sci-fi masterpiece. 1000 pages ending in a cliffhanger -- traditional sci-fi set in 2380, with fantastic technology and aliens (both inscrutable and malevolent). A large cast of character, including one we haven't even met yet... A can't-put-it-down page-turner with a fascinating mystery. All to be resolved in the sequel, Judas Unchained (not out yet... arrrgh). And Peter F. Hamilton usually uses the titles to tell us something about the content...

2018-11-09 19:40

Sosyolojinin İlkeleri TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İletişim Yayınevi

This started out to be interesting. I enjoyed getting her opinion and hearing about the wines she liked to drink, but abour halfway through she started to get a bit self-righteous and hypocritical. It became more of "the wines I like are so delicious and wonderful" and "what Robert Parker prefers is disgusting and evil." I began to almost hate her because she wrote off those who also like wimes that Parker would prefer as being midless drones who drink what they are told is good and/or has a high rating. Her message was that it's crazy for an entire indusrty to create a product to please the palate of one man, however, she muddies that up with her snooty value judgements. She should have stopped halfway. What an arrogant snob.

2018-11-09 20:40

Kâtip Bartleby-Herman Melville TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi

The novella is only alright, but there's a short story in here called "Smoke" that's a precursor to "Brightness Falls" that's his best work.

2018-11-09 21:40

Badem Operasyonu (Ciltsiz) - Melek Çe TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uğurböceği Yayınları

Marco is reading this one for school.

2018-11-09 22:40

Cars 2 Kum Boyama Kartları TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Egem Grup Organizasyon

I read this in German so I could forgive Stephen his shitty diction. He's really got quite a handle on his wild and perverse imagination. I love the weird growing-up nostalgia he creates in me. This odd longing for a 1960s youth I never had, the one where I would play in the junkyards and meadows with my friends and ride my bike to the cinema. This book was generally fantastic, much better than that B-movie it inspired.

Okuyucu David Kramer itibaren Knott End-on-Sea, Lancashire, UK

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