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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kolektif
i interviewed Anne Fadiman for my Hmong Women's Book Club the year this book came out. our group was initially split between those who liked it and those who didn't. after the interview, everyone agreed, this book was a blessing. fadiman's sincerity always rang true to me, but upon meeting her and hearing of her passion for this story, i was able to convince everyone else as well. i am thankful this book exists and has received all the popularity and recognition that it has. it counters all the other books about the Hmong (written by non-hmong) that lack her compassion and wit.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pyramid International
10/09 I re-read this and might bump it up to five stars. Lovely. ---- 01/07 i started reading this over winter break and i have like... not very much left, but it's so good that i want to make sure i devote proper reading attention to the last bit and i haven't found the chance for that yet :O and by now i've probably forgotten the first half of the book. -- Finally finished it! I loved it, basically. Now I want to re-read it all together, without a big pause in the middle. But it's really less about plot and more about her careful, precise, beautiful prose. A good book to savor.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyan Yayınları
The imagination is amazing!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sufi Kitap
Even though I can say that the Kara Gillian series is "wordy", like my English teacher would say, it lets you enjoy every stickin' detail that the author could possibly squeeze out of this murder-mystery supernatural-romance. Indeed, it does contain more expletives and explicit sex scenes than I've encountered at such an early point of a series, but it adds so much to the southern Louisiana charm. As precisely outlined in book 1 and 2 of the series, Kara is thrown into completely new territory with the arcane powers running a muck in her small town of Beaulac. It's thrilling to go through the procedures of detective work right along with her because you can practically feel how she's finally getting the hang of being a homicide detective. Exhilarating though it is to watch her jump through hoops to catch the killer, Rowland doesn't let it interfere with the true gut-twisting roller coaster romance that Kara has between Rhyzkahl, the demonic lord and Ryan, an arcane-tainted FBI Agent. As I was saying about the wordy thing, it is something that a lot of authors--with their complex Urban Fantasy stories--fall into: repeating the previous books' details in a not-so-subtle way. Some do it magnificently, merely reminding you of details one might have missed in the book before, and others fall a little flat, as in "I knew that already, get on with the current happenings!" It drives me a bit batty sometimes because I feel like I have to skim most of the book in order to get to the real essence of it. However, with Secrets of the Demon--as well as Blood of the Demon--Rowland was able to keep me entertained immensely otherwise, with all the crime-solving and personal-life strife that Kara slugs through. This third installment really cleaned up a bit and was marginally shorter and more precise than the second. It definitely felt like Rowland answered some long overdue questions that were subtly present in both book 1 and 2, mostly speculations pertaining to the two FBI agents in Kara's life. Rowland does seem to follow a pattern with each installment in the Kara Gillian series, one that's vaguely noticeable if you read the book consecutively. It's an addicting thrill to find out who the murder is at the end, but I always seem to be skimming the final action scene because I would be too lost with all the baggage that surrounds it. It would definitely draw back from the initial punch I imagine is intended every single time that the murderer is confronted. Then, of course, comes the minute epilogue that Rowland concludes with at the very ending that leaves you craving for the next book in the series, because she does answer the last conflicting nuggets that are left tickling the back of your head, but it really leaves you with only more questions that could only be answered through the gradually growing series. I greatly anticipate the fourth book in the Kara Gillian series, if only to see where exactly the big unveiling at the end of Secrets of the Demons leads to. Grade: B-
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yetkin
very good. like his descriptions, the language. and i can't emphasize enough, that if i read something that long without pictures it must have been good. but by ready this review, or any of my reviews for that matter. what are really getting out of it? i would imagine not much. a good reviewer lets you the reader know what types of stories and books you like. that way you trust the reviewer's judgment. nobody really knows my taste. except maybe that you know i like graphic novels. but they can be all so different. this has been good. i'll try to accomplish that. but, of course, i'm sure i'll find that no one is really reading my reviews anyway.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dominguez
I loved this book and read it over and over again as a kid. Super creepy.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gergedan Yayınları
This was a pretty cool collection. Morrow has some very original/quirky ideas and most of the time he pulls them off. Some of them are on the absurd side and remind me of Frederic Brown. My favorites were -No. 31: The Covenant- and -No. 46: The Soap Opera-.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı
Great book, I love Malcolm Gladwell's voice. He can get a little carried away in the story but the lesson and great factoids are well worth it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu
Everyone should read this. Really. Okay, so it tells the story of the Holocaust using cartoon mice. Art Speigelman, I suspect, smoked a lot of pot in the sixties. This book is a deeply personal survival account, as well as a brutally honest depiction of a father-son relationship. The cartooniness makes it possible for Speigelman to tell a story about his father and himself that he otherwhise probably wouldn't be able to look directly in the face.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tekin Yayınevi
Takes a while to get going but is a fascinating glimpse into how forensic investigators do their work. Be prepared for plenty of descriptions of bloated, rotting corpses and people murdering their families.
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