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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kurmay Yayınları
As a never married LDS single adult, I feel we need more books like this on how to deal with being alone. It's hard. So picking up this book and making myself read it was a bit of a challenge. I wanted to NOT like this book, yet, Sister Edmunds writes with such affection, I couldn't help but feel she really KNOWS. She's not shy, either, in admitting that this is a tough topic to tackle and even gives the reader permission to "skip the silly stuff" which I did. The funny thoughts on page 96 made me laugh out loud, the scriptures and hymns she includes throughout are comforting and the stories of well known people who've known loneliness: President Hinckley, Joseph Smith, the Savior, all helped to remind me it's not time to start the pity party yet. All in all, an easy read and a good "handbook" to have around if you need a quick pick-me-up.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uçanbalık Yayıncılık
First, a compliment: This is likely the only book about Doctor Who out there that thoroughly considers the implications of DW through the lens of Cultural Theory, Foucault, Derrida, and their progeny. In other words, this packs more theoretical punch than most introductory college texts. However insightful and scholarly written and considered, I found Mills style to be irritatingly elitist by his heavy reliance on what I can only term “cultural theory-speak.” That is, nearly every idea of his is qualified by quotation marks – i.e. “high culture”, “cultured up”, “mutually exclusive”, etc. All of which makes him sound both pretentious and hesitant to commit to any of his ideas. (Yes, one can argue that he is simply following in a theoretical approach that is self-aware of signifying language. But honestly, it’s downright irritating to read. Ditch the quotation marks, I say, and stand for what you believe in.) One of the more interesting (and least irritatingly written) ideas that he considers is the precise genre in which DW fits. Whether time-travelling to the historical past or a wholly imagined, projected future, new Who would thus appear to be consistently coded as science-fictional…[Yet] new Who has added ‘pseudo-futurological stories to its ‘pseudo-historicals’; one recurrent fan complaint has been that depictions of a the future in the series have not been ‘proper’ science-fictional extrapolations from contemporary society. Instead, the far-futures represented have frequently been satirical, metaphorical versions of the present-day. Serious analysis aside, Hills does have a sense of humor – albeit subtle. If you read the following carefully, you’ll know exactly what I mean (which also includes the annoying, cloying cultural theory-speak): Resembling author-functions and generic functions, what I have termed the ‘text-function’ acts as an attempted discursive fixing of textual classifications, seeking to police and box-in specific textual identities…blah, blah, blah [my words]… Despite the ridiculousness of that passage as a whole, that little TARDIS joke was pretty darn clever, if I do say so myself. If you want to get into ideas behind DW, I would honestly tell you to skip Hills’ overwrought treatise, and pick up instead Russell T. Davies’ A Writer’s Tale. Not only is the latter more thrilling to read, but you were certainly get more bang for your buck (or pound, as the case may be), as it’s over twice the number of pages for almost the same price.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yuka Kids
Really good book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yediveren Çocuk
After his parents are killed in a car accident, Otto Ringling, a food editor in New York, plans to drive to North Dakota with his kooky, new-age sister, Cecilia to settle their parents estate - a 1,000 acre farm. However, at the last minute, Cecilia tells Otto that her guru, Volya Rinpoche is going in her place and she also wants to give him her share of the farm to start a center. What begins horribly is a road trip where Otto learns more about himself, and Rinpoche experiences American food, baseball, bowling and more.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Butik Yayınları
I hated this book. I hate overly religious novels to begin with, and the only semi-interesting story in this novel -- the subplot about the narrator's best friend's son -- doesn't even start to develop until midway through the book. When it does develop, it turns out to be incredibly lame, just like everything else in this novel. I found myself pitying the narrator's son, who will presumably grow up and one day read this incredibly boring "letter" that his father wrote to him (which barely even talks about the narrator's family history, despite the fact that, originally, the entire point of the "letter" was to teach the narrator's son about his roots). Poor kid.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları
Originally posted on At Home Between the Pages The number one thing I loved about this book was the way it was written from two different points of view: Amy’s and Elder’s. They each had their own distinct voice and I rarely caught myself having to flip back to figure out whose head I was in. As characters, Amy and Elder were both awesome. I found myself quickly feeling sympathy for them and their situations. Especially poor Amy. I just wish she would have looked on the bright side of things some of the time. The story was interesting, exciting, and kept me reading. I wanted to uncover more secrets about Godspeed. Actually, I really just wanted to learn more about Godspeed period, be it the secrets or how it has been operating as a community for a few centuries. I loved how the promise of new land was just beyond the horizon. But then there were the murders. Amy wanted so much to find the killer that she was almost too serious for me. However, the mystery and suspense of the novel made it pretty appropriate. The secondary characters were also really well written. Harley was my favourite, and I’m sure he’s loved by many other ACROSS THE UNIVERSE readers. I wish we’d had more of him. Doc and Eldest were both very interesting characters. Doc always seemed very conflicted, especially about following orders. Eldest was… well Eldest was a handful! He was menacing and confusing, but was really only looking for what was best for his people. I didn’t like him overall, but I kind if understand where he was coming from. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE is a magical science fiction novel that explores not only the promise of new life on a new planet, but also the intricacies of running a small city within a metal box. It looks mostly at the politics of life and what leaders have a right to do for, and to, their people. Mix that with mystery, suspense, and some romance, and you get a great novel that is hard to put down.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları
Il miglir romanzo di Duras
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Medya Yayınları
Happy, light, and a bit shallow. Very true to his image.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kaliteli Eğitim Yayınları
Pengarangnya terkesan menggurui karena terlalu banyak menyuguhkan kutipan, kata-kata bijak apalagi diskusi antara tokoh utamanya. Tokohnya tidak berkembang. Tidak ada konflik, alurnya tidak membuat penasaran. Menyisipkan lirik lagu untuk memperkuat suasana memang ide yang bagus, tetapi jika terlalu banyak akan membuat bosan, rasanya ingin melewatkan halamannya. Crap, truth be told. I did expect more from such highly recommended book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Valler
I read this book because everyone was telling me I couldn't. I was 12 in 1950. I thought it was hard reading, but exciting all at the same time.
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