José Miguel itibaren Pustomyty, Volyns'ka oblast, Ukraine

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2018-12-31 10:41

Kida Yayınları Lys 5 Li Deneme Seti Fizik Kimya Biyoloji TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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From the folks who now bring you Mcsweeney's. My favorite magazine of all time and a cause for celebration. I loved every issue I was fortunate enough to read (even if you had to wait 3-8 weeks between issues). Read on for a better description of what you've missed: This collection of essays from the late, lamented Might magazine deserves a place on any post-boomer's bookshelf. Shiny Adidas Tracksuits bristles with interesting thoughts and novel turns of phrase; most pieces are short (fewer than five pages), and all are well written and precisely observed. Referring to Might's editorial principles, the editors write: "One rule was that every issue of Might had to have a lot of swearing in it, ideally in the headlines. Another rule was that, even though we had about a month or two to put each issue together, the magazine had to go to press with somewhere between thirty and forty egregious spelling and grammatical errors. But the one rule that really got us into trouble, the one that basically doomed us from the start, was this one: We would not publish anything we didn't care about.... In observing this rule, the one that said we had to like the things we printed, we were precluded from publishing the sorts of things that might have kept the magazine afloat: namely articles about celebrities, clothes, electronics, makeup, cars, video games, beer, nightlife generally, and beer." Instead, the writers in Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp describe quirky personal quests, examine pop-culture doodads, and spout crackpot theories. The book, like the magazine, somehow avoids the creeping contagion of irony and remains absolutely fresh, vigorous, and friendly. Apart from David Foster Wallace, most contributors aren't national commodities (which is sort of the point), but they deserve to be, and deserve your attention. This book is a fitting epitaph to a sparkler of a magazine.

2018-12-31 17:41

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Apparently, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published nine volumes of Sherlock Holmes mysteries during the course of his lifetime. Four novels and fifty-six short stories in five collections. Over 1,300 pages. And after reading all of them, I can positively state that at no point does Sherlock Holmes ever actually say, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” But that didn’t spoil the book for me. I’d been imagining Sherlock Holmes mysteries to be at once cornball and arcane, a cross between Clue and The Once and Future King: —“Colonel Mustard in the atrium with a candlestick, declaiming, ‘It was Court Hand and Summulae Logicales!’” But actually I’d say they’re more like the cocaine in which Holmes himself occasionally indulges. (Who knew?) I couldn’t quit turning pages; as soon as I finished one story, I was on to the next one. With titles like “The Crooked Man” and “The Red-Headed League,” who could resist? And although according to pop culture, Holmes is a genius and Watson a bumbling idiot, their real characters are more complicated than that and the interplay between them fun fun fun to read. Footnote: When I first read the preface, “In Memoriam Sherlock Holmes,” by Christopher Morley, I thought it was asinine—like something a fan club president would put at the top of his monthly newsletter. However, about a third of my way into the book, I began consulting it for information on Doyle, his works, and his life; and by the time I got halfway through, I thought it was the most useful, spot-on introduction I’d read, possibly ever. I wish all books had such prefaces.

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