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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Adeda Yayıncılık
I eventually dropped the course I was required to read this book in, but finished the book anyways. If you want to know a lot about the American Revolution in a very small amount of time, this is your book. It clocks in at around 250 pages, but packs in a ton of information on the Revolution, including its decidedly elitist ideological beginnings, which Countryman traces aptly. Short and simple; I imagine this is probably a required text in most college courses on the Revolution by now.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğu Batı Dergileri
It’s incomprehensible to imagine what Wilbert Rideau, and prisoners like him, went through during his incarceration in the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana. In an era where racial equality was non-existent, where 85% of the prison’s population were black – later that was reduced to an 80-20% ratio – and the prison run by “rednecks”, I find it miraculous that he managed not only to successfully educate himself but to rehabilitate to such a degree that made him the envy of many journalists and scholars in America. By 1988 and having served four times longer than the national average for prisoners it became clear to Wilbert, if he hadn’t realised before, that he was being singled out for killing a white woman. When he was sentenced to death in 1962 he was one of 13 prisoners on death row in Angola – of those he remained the only prisoner who had not been released. According to James Gill, a columnist for the Times-Picayune, Rideau was victimised – I have to say on reading his memoirs and recollections I wholeheartedly agree with him. “With probing intelligence but only a ninth-grade education, Rideau honed his acclaimed journalism skills inside Louisiana's notorious Angola prison. In 1961, at the age of 19, he killed a white woman in the course of a bank robbery. Sentenced to death, he was eventually given a life sentence after repeated appeals based on irregularities in his trial and national changes in policy regarding the death penalty. Rideau suffered years on death row and in solitary; once integrated into the broader population, he worked his way onto The Angolite, the prison publication. Eventually becoming editor, he earned the respect of the warden, prisoners, guards, as well as the broader journalism profession, with exposés of the politics and economics of the prison system, earning several prestigious press awards along the way. He struggled with journalistic principles in a highly charged environment in which all sides were hyper-partisan and often violent. After 44 years and scores of appeals lost to political machinations, Rideau was finally freed in 2005. This is more than a prison memoir; it is a searing indictment of the American justice system“ Full review on my blog - http://www.milorambles.com/2011/03/01...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
My book club decided to tackle this tale of a man who loved a woman over a period of 50 years and what happened to each of them over that time span. There was less cholera than I had anticipated, so I was disappointed (kidding). The characters and the situations are very colorful and reminded me why reading magical realism is so much fun. But I found myself feeling exactly how i did about 100 Years of Solitude (which, per my ceasing to read it, was more like 72 Years of Solitude) -- I liked it, but I didn't love it to death in the way that I'd expected to.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Evrensel İletişim Yayınları
Like much of HST's writings, the read is quick and gripping and then hopelessly musing. I can best describe it as reading like a drunken newspaper; there are moments of clarity, moments of intriguing story telling, then moments of self-indulgent pessimism on the state of culture, sanity and the combination thereof. All in all, its wonderfully honest and involved. No white lies in the gonzo journalists' typewriter. It's all collected, packed and shot out with the urgency of a front page headline that runs continuously into the classifieds.
An exquisite read." Full review on Sensual Reads http://sensualreads.com/?p=7394
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Yayınları
I enjoyed the book and I understand why it's popular; however, the characterization is bad and the plot line loses focus and sinks, especially at the end.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kolektif
I started reading this book three times before I really got into it. It's slow but develops into something interesting.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
It's funny that I only gave this book 3 stars, because I look back on it and really, really remember it fondly. I should give it a second pass.
another book that it took me a while to care about, but in the end I liked the overall lesson. and while I found colin kind of irritating, he grew, and hassan was epically charming and not a character I've seen before in YA or adult lit.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ötüken Neşriyat
I love this book, until I get to the final chapter. That where the excessive poeticism and philosophizing begins. The plot is still incredibly compelling, and Elphaba is a great protagonist.
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