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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nux
I was so excited to finally get my hands on the rest of this series after loving the first book, Immortal Beloved. As middle books go, it was pretty good but did lag in a few places. By the end though, it was full of action, suspense and terrible choices that should make the 3rd book really fantastic!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Karekök Yayınları
The survival story of Hugh Glass is as close to mythic as is possible in reality. Several novels (WILDERNESS; REVENANT), an atrocious film (MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, which turns the Glass character into a 19th century McGyver) and an excellent biography by John Myers Myers attest to the interest Glass's story still holds 190 years later. Frederick Manfred's LORD GRIZZLY is a fine fictional account of the legendary ordeal, but it is also an accurate and loving portrait of the Mountain Men of the 1820's who trail-blazed (the already blazed Indian Trails I might add) the mysterious American West. Manfred has written the dialect of the mostly illiterate (with minor exceptions such as Jedediah Smith) Mountain Men quite accurately, which at first can be confusing or off-putting to the reader, but soon becomes a direct reflection of the mindset of these uneducated, adventurous individuals (there is a collection called "Voices from the Wilderness: The Frontiersman's Own Story" which contains first & second hand accounts of famous mountain men that reads like a streamofconsciousness James Joyce novel; these men used punctuation and capitalization arbitrarily and spelling is, for the most part, phonetic; it is a fascinating glimpse at the western man's self-expression in the early 1800s). The language and descriptions Manfred uses are at times lyrical and flowery, but I found this appropriate to the setting (a seemingly edenic wilderness not yet sullied by industrial man), and it was in my opinion the finest aspect of this novel. My only problem with the novel is the writing of Glass's great 'crawl' back to safety. This is supposed to be the high-point of the novel; it is the moment that makes Glass's story legendary, and Manfred treats it as a plodding repetitious day by day almost-diary entry. Roger Zelazny handled this scene better in WILDERNESS with a hallucinatory quality to the writing, and he used it as a time for Glass to reflect on his past more fully than does Manfred. Some may say Manfred wants the reader to struggle through these 100 pages in order to 'feel' Glass's struggle to crawl back to civilization; however, I would rather read a succinct paragraph that relates that same struggle than to be bored for 100 pages; the 'experience' of reading can never relate, no matter who the writer or reader is, the harrowing experience of Glass's crawl. Other than that LORD GRIZZLY was a fine read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pyramid International
Somehow I went through the first four books of the Series in no time, reading eagerly, expecting the story line and the characters to get better, to develop, to get deeper... That didn't happen and let to a mild disappointment. But after all, these are books for teenagers, perhaps I shouldn't have expected too much.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Domingo Yayınevi
Just not what I expected.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Koridor Yayıncılık
While this book was not as good as 'Running With Scissors', it is still a good read... and a must for fans of this author.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Benim Hocam Yayınları
Pretty much my favorite book ever. I think it had a lot to do with discovering my sexuality in high school. It will likely hook you on Erica Jong, which is a good thing because pretty much all her stuff is good.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Vişne Çocuk
Only reason this book got 4/5 stars is the sort of disordered, jumping around in the beginning when Azoth was a boy that almost made me stop reading and question how good this book was going to be. 110% glad I stuck with it. Weeks is a master.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
I liked this novel. What was satisfying for me was that at the end, the loose ends are if not tied in a bow, introduced to each other. While the lives detailed were often sad and hopeless and confused, there was some sense of order and grace at the end that was reassuring. Hoffman is an exquisite writer, and while I could have done with less of the practical magical realism here (was the ghost actually necessary?), I thought her point of learning to let go to move on was clear and well rendered.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
Hilarious, touching and raw
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Teas Press Yayınları
At present, I would consider Martin and Friedman the best living authors of Fantasy. Both are capable of rendering deeply 3 dimensional characters, endearing them to the readers (and presumably themselves) and offering them to the rightful fates that their worlds require. That's no mean feat, when it's far more palatable to pad their worlds in the name of story-telling, keeping them in gilded adventures, with only a shadow of true risk. That's a beautiful thing. This book has many of CS Friedman's characteristic hallmarks -- strong female characters -- willful and hurt, as well as some of her typical male leads -- the noble and kind self-sacrificial males and the alien, detached ones who yet have some kind of compassion. The rules of her world are again as merciless as they should be... Which provides a wonderful backdrop to the drama that she sets in motion in this book. I look forward to watching as she weaves this skein to its conclusion. Bravo!
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