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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
Significantly better than "Everything is Illuminated"
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hayat Yayınları
I started to get a little tired of the series by this point, but its still very funny.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
I really loved this book. Being a fan of U2's 90's output in particular, it was great to get a feel for where the band was creatively during this critical period in their career. You really get a feel for these four friends who just happen to be the biggest band in the world. You get to learn each band member's distinct personality, so much so that you feel as if you've known them your whole life. In a way, the book is almost too revealing - after reading End of the World, you can never really look at U2 the same way again; to their credit, each of the four seem to be up-standing folks.
Having read Bray's Printz-winning Going Bovine, I was sure this was going to be another crazy and wild ride. And, yes, Beauty Queens is crazy and wild. As a group of Teen Dream beauty pageant hopefuls crash land on a seemingly deserted island with nothing but their straightening irons and wits to save them, all seems lost. After all, beauty queens are a frightfully witless bunch, right? I admire the genius behind the premise here; a satire designed to destroy preconceived notions of beauty, intelligence, and femininity. However, the satire, for me, fell too flat. The social commentary came off as preachy, silly or just overreaching. While Bray wants us to believe that young women can rise above the caricatures society makes them, she herself fails to really breathe life into them and make them real and sympathetic people. By the end I did want to know what would happen to these queens, but having finished the book just four days ago, I'm sadly already foggy on the details of characters since they never seemed to be more than a sketch.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akıl Çelen Kitaplar
I’d heard good things about Thomas’ The End of Mr. Y, so when I saw PopCo at the library I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m glad I did, although I found a lot about this book unsatisfactory. The story combines two narratives, the first about Alice, an “idea” person for a British toy company, going to a company-sponsored retreat/brainstorming session, and the second about Alice growing up with her cryptoanalyst grandfather and mathematician grandmother. There’s a lot of stuff about code breaking and making, and coolness with prime numbers, and that’s all a lot of fun. Alice’s attempts to fit in with her peers as a teen and how that relates to her obstinate uncoolness in her adult life are also explored in a really interesting way. But the underlying mystery(ies) of the book—who is sending Alice secret messages at the PopCo retreat, and why? Does it have anything to do with the famous code her grandfather claimed to have cracked but never told anyone the solution to?—have sadly dull conclusions, which also involve rather too much preaching about the virtues of vegetarianism. This was still, for the most part, a really engaging read, but the build-up was better than the follow-through.
Aristocrats is a biography of the four Lennox sisters - Caroline, Emily, Sarah and Louisa, the daughters of the second Duke of Richmond, and prominent members of the nobility in eighteenth century England and Ireland. One married a duke and later an impoverished tutor, and had twenty two children; one married one of the most famous politicians of the eighteenth century; one married the richest man in Ireland; one divorced a baronet, and ended up happily married to an impoverished Scottish soldier. All four of them had extraordinary lives. In her well-written narrative, Tillyard manages to balance the sensationalism and the drama of the lives of the sisters and their vast extended family with a sensative and objective examination of their personalities and of the times in which they live. The experiences of the four women, their marriages and their travels, also allow her to explore issues such as the role of women in that period, and the complicated relationship between Ireland and England. The research is, for the most part, impeccable, and she manages to summarise the confused and confusing events of the '98 Rebellion with clarity and succinctness. The only mistake I could only really see was her description of Tipperary as being a neighbouring county to Kildare, when they are in fact separated by Laois; references to King's, Queen's and Londonderry county also irked me, but I fully own to the fact that that is more because of my own little tics and biases than because of inaccuracy. Highly recommended.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kardelen Yayınları
Re-reading. I love this book! It's like chicken noodle soup.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Eks Libris
It seems the reviews here are either "I liked it" or "I liked this the first time I read it when it was called The Virgin Suicides". I've never read the Virgin Suicides so I fall into the "I liked it" category. I'll be sure and read that at some point for comparison sake, but I really enjoyed the use of the first person plural, the envisioned fate of Nora by her male peers after her disappearance, and their various struggles with life as they grew older.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları
Very sweet story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yuka Kids
There were a few neat little paragraphs that I liked: the guy with the yellow butterflies, the massacre and the train of corpses and a few others. For that it gets two instead of one star. As a novel, though, this book was just boring. There was nothing driving the story; things would happen, the author would describe them for a paragraph, and then it would never be mentioned again. It's as if Marquez went through a library, selecting random paragraphs from random books and strung them together. Except for Ursula, all the characters were indistinguishable. At first I tried to keep track of who was doing what with the family tree at the beginning. But it got to the point where I just didn't care. It didn't matter anyway since anything that happened had no impact on what happens later in the book. One of the most disappointing books I have ever read, especially considering he is a Nobel laureate and the the reviews that I have heard from friends. Oprah, how could you let me down?!
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