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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Leader
I don't remember the last time I couldn't put a book down like this. I lay in bed last night reading and reading and telling myself "I can still get 4 hours sleep..." I am very tired this morning, but I still can't stop thinking about this book. Loved it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Esen
David Denby, a prominent film critic returns to the Ivy League classroom as a front-line correspondent on the culture wars. For this book, he spent an academic year attending Columbia University's famous ``core curriculum'' classes in the great books, Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. Denby recreates how he read, pondered, and discussed classic texts from the ancient Greeks (Homer, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Euripides, and Sappho) to Nietzsche, Freud, and Conrad, all the time maintaining and meditating on his intensely cosmopolitan yet family-centered life. When Denby reads Plato and Aristotle, or for that matter Austen, he contemplates how the ``media fog'' to which he contributes as a film critic envelops his fellow students; when he reads Woolf, or for that matter Virgil, he considers the transformations wrought in his own lifetime by feminism. He makes a sensible, if gloomy, argument that the great books are too hard for today's underprepared undergraduates. But I reject his epiphanies over a feminist critique of Aristotle's Politics. By recording his own intellectual experiences and glossing over his own cultural blindness he does a disservice to the texts he critiques. Rather than distilling some of the significant ideas of the great thinkers that he read he merely tosses off a rejection of "ideologues" in general with lines like this: "By the end of my year in school, I knew that the culture-ideologues, both left and right, are largely talking nonsense."(p 459) This conclusion may have a grain of truth, but I would rather hear what he learned about knowing and thinking, and what truths he discovered that our culture does adhere to with justification. While he does put himself on the line as a student and as a person by actually reading the classics, his humility should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. At the risk of being too skeptical, based on my own reading of these texts, I found this an unconvincing look at the classics. I would recommend you read the original classics with an open mind and then, if you choose to, consider Denby's book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mavi Çatı Yayınları
Excellent exploration of cultural conditioning of women which teaches them to place their power/worth outside themselves. Also interesting is that the novel fictionalizes the true event of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yasakmeyve
Pretty powerful stuff. I couldn't put it down.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kodlab Yayınları
A collection of short memoirs that people tell looking back on their lives from their deathbeds. I liked it, but I'm unclear as to whether or not it was about anything.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
This book reinforced my previous experiences enjoying the genre of "participatory journalism." (The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World anyone?) I learned more than I expected to and a lot more in depth than I expected about memory. It was a book that made me glad that I can highlight passages on my Kindle - something I don't often do. Beyond the nerdiness of the subject matter that I can appreciate, there were a lot of different components of this book that I think could make it appeal to a pretty wide, inquisitive audience. It made me think a lot about how I remember things, and, how I sometimes to tell my students ways to remember things. (Yes, I managed to think about my calc class and integrals while reading this book....it's time for summer!) I also learned a lot about the origins of memory - something I had never really considered before. I am admittedly not one that is much into history, but I found Foer's writing about the history of memory engaging enough to get into it - even the greek stuff, which I typically especially detest. I would recommend this book for anyone who's interest is peaked by reading the description on the back of the book. It was better than I expected.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi
Recommended to me by the director of our west coast office, I have to say, I might avoid any more of her recommendations. I got through it in about 24 hours and got pretty bored by that evil vine. Gory, a quick and easy read and really not worth the hype it received.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Adalet Yayınevi
Interesting that a story written in the mid-1800s has all the themes of current novels: adultery, lust, misguided love, power issues, self-esteem issues, and more. This is a new interpretation of Flaubert's classic. The prose is beautiful, but gets lengthy. Lots and lots of adjectives included to describe scenes. In today's light, it is a tame read, but one can see why it was such a stunner back then. I know it could be analyzed indepth for various bits of significance, but here I will simply say this is a story of a woman thwarted by her powerlessness in society who is married to a man who does not meet her emotional needs, and unfortunately she seeks happiness with one man after another who lets her down. Ultimately her reckless behavior ruins her family and ultimately it is her child who suffers.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yüzde Yüz Yayıncılık
a great collection of oral read poems that entertain young and old alike one of the first books i read to both of my children
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları
Started reading it did not like it will stick with the movie liked the movie better
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