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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Yayınları
I really appreciate how Riordan keeps the main strand of the story-- Kronos' rising and the forces battling Olympus-- going, while having a completed storyline at the end of each book. This one kept my interest pretty well, but I had a bit of a hard time visualizing the characters and setting at the end. I think it would help if I were more familiar with Greek mythology! (How many kids have become "experts" because of Riordan?!)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kontrol Yayıncılık
** spoiler alert ** Wow. Wasn't expecting that ending. I'd seen the movie a year ago and I knew how that ended, and I had heard from a few people that they totally changed the story when they did the movie. The whole time I'm reading the book, I thought it seemed pretty similar. But, the last 10 pages or so really took me by surprise. And yes, I did cry. Terribly sad and unexpected that Anna dies, but I guess it goes to show you how completely unpredictable and unfair life is. I enjoyed this book. Picoult is a great author. I'm looking forward to reading more of her books.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Haktan Yayınları
Before you judge--I love Ayn Rand from a literary perspective. She's the ultimate sophist--it's impossible to feel any sympathy for or empathy with her villains, and even thought her heroes are unloveable, they're so perfectly righteous that you really can't root against them, only flip pages in fascination.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğu Yücel
One of my favorite books as a kid. I've read it more times than I could count.
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This book was a gift from my lovely roomie. Whoa. Downer. Beautiful, but JCO depressing.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dora Basım Yayın
Rosenberg, acclaimed thriller writer has now written an in depth non-fiction look at the current and past issue of Iranian-US relations at a time when the rhetoric is once again reaching a boiling point. ITR is filled with fact checked insights that will inform those that have thus far managed to avoid the subject. From the coup of the Shah, to the current nuclear weapons quest, Rosenberg depicts a regime that is bent on creating the conditions for their own apocalyptic visions. He then depicts the differences between the Radicals and reformers in Islam and just what they mean for a Judeo-Christian society. The book is a little out of the mainstream because it does rely so much on religion and theology, something that most middle-East commentators go to great pains to ignore or downplay. Rosenberg is an evangelical Christian himself, thereby explaining the themes on a level that matters to himself and his co-religionists. ITR is not something to be shunned so easily, as I may not agree with all of his points, Rosenberg has put in so much research that this is a book that compels thought and merits discussion. I find it difficult to explain the near absence of coverage, especially during our current entanglements.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Adeda Yayıncılık
Though the story picks up in the final 50 pages, Matched is a mostly bland novel whose conceits I found to be hugely derivative of both Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World . As a protagonist, Cassia is frustratingly passive, rarely taking action for herself and instead preferring to hang back and wait for life to happen to her. Exemplary of this is the number of times “not yet” appears in her interior monologue – even when there’s something she wants, she inevitably takes a step back, thinking it’s not time. Not yet. While on the one hand her attitude is a believable symptom of her upbringing in the Society, I can’t help but think she should have been given at least a little more agency, especially if we are to believe that she’s on a path to full-scale rebellion. And then there’s the obligatory romance. Set up as a love triangle, presumably to generate tension, it spits and fizzles but never really sparks. If anything, the relationship between Cassia and Ky is ironically predictable, given that it’s presented as somehow deviant from the Society’s carefully planned Matching procedures. Frankly, I would love to see Ally Condie go out on a limb and redirect Cassia towards Xander, if only to explore the implications of, say: 1. The impossibility of perfection in love, manufactured or organic, and/or 2. The possibility of more than one “true” love appearing in a person’s life, and/or 3. The complication of not getting your first choice, but still loving your second. However, I’m inclined to think that’s unlikely to happen. Ultimately, I’d put Matched is on equal footing with Veronica Roth’s Divergent (2011), which I read earlier this year: both show promise as far as world-building and imagination, but both leave me feeling underwhelmed and wishing for something new and fresh. My guess is this parallel will hold true for others: if you like one, you’ll probably like the other, etc. This is not to say that I won’t read the forthcoming Crossed (2011). I’m a completionist, someone who likes to see a story through to its end, and Matched is only the first part of a projected trilogy. There’s plenty of time and potential for Cassia to grow and take charge, for the romance to be fully realized, and for Condie to stake her claim as a truly original world-builder. I'm just not sure I'll be holding my breath.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
What? Is this the last book or not? I'm feeling a little confused about the ending if this is the last book. I have really enjoyed Eugenies story. Their have been ups and downs. She hasn't always made the decision I would have and at times made some obviously bad one. But I still enjoyed the whole thing until this book. I didn't not enjoy it, but there were lots of slow points. I mean drag it out until I was sure we would never get to anything interesting again. We did and things picked up. I was back on the bandwagon and ready to Eugenie some how pull through and save the day after all these centuries old fae could not ;) Sadly that hasn't ever been something that bothers me about this book. Sometimes it can in books. But Mead has never really played the fae as stupid or unable to find a way. Just that they respect her power and realize what she offers that is different than them. Eugenie kicks butt even when she doesn't want to. And in this book it's the same as expected. Eugenie and company fight the big bad. There are some ups and downs and LOTS of new information comes out. As usual I don't think Eugenie appreciates Dorian as much as she should. Totally agree with her on the fact that he isn't perfect and he totally screwed up. But she likes to have a different set of standards for herself than she does others. Or maybe different than she offers the full fae since she has always been able to forgive Kiyo a lot easier than Dorian. I also have to say I'm not at all happy with the ending. I hate the choice Eugenie made. I'm not sure I can fully respect it. I get it, but it isn't her choice alone to make. She is making that choice to pretty much have her cake and eat it to at least for a while. Not right. Not right at all. I can't go into to many details about the choice or combination and what parts I don't like and what parts make more since without giving it away. The end left things open to more conflict and me completely unsure if this story is suppose to continue? It was an ending I guess, but not right for the ending of a series at all.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Altın Kitaplar - Çocuk Kitapları
Recommended by a coworker who knew I'd read Twilight and been annoyed by it. I found the main character self righteous and the author was overly preachy about "naughty" teen activities like smoking pot or making out with your boyfriend. I wasn't a huge fan, but I may keep reading because I can't resist a series.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
What an amazing, precious and uplifting book. I bought this book hoping it might help resolve some of the unrest I’ve felt over the past years about my spirituality, and it far surpassed my expectations in this area and others. I feel it’s really opened my heart to my spiritual side again, and I am so grateful for that. The key things I’ve taken from this book are: * being aware of the sacred in the seemingly mundane moments of everyday life * living my life with the philosophy of ‘do no harm’ * feeling able to identify as ‘spiritual’ without having to lock myself into one specific religion * having confidence and trust in my intuition and inner voice. I’d like to thank Stephanie for writing this book. I’d recommend it to anyone who has a spark of interest in any of the above points.
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