Svetlana Pototskaia itibaren Ternivshchyna, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine

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04/29/2024

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2019-06-08 03:40

Hız ve Renk 11.Sınıf TYT AYT Biyoloji Sistemler Soru Bankası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hız ve Renk Yayınları

3.0 to 3.5 stars. Paolo Bacigalupi is one of my favorite SF writers working today and his first novel, The Windup Girl, is on my list of “All Time Favorite” books. So when I heard he was going to write a fantasy story, I was like: . . . Add to that wonderful piece of news that Paolo was going to team up and create a shared fantasy world with another of my favorite authors, Tobias Buckell, and all I could think of was… . . . . . . Well in the first of these shared world stories, Mr. Bacigalupi introduces us to a world in which magic exists but its use has been savagely curtailed as a result of the devastating effect that the use of magic has on the environment. As explained in the story, the use of magic has caused the growth and spread of a ubiquitous and fatally poisonous “bramble” that is slowly encroaching and choking off each of the cities in which magic was once a common occurrence. As a result of this deadly relationship between magic and the bramble, anyone caught using magic of any kind is immediately put to death by the “Executioners” axe. This description sets the stage for this novella and as usual Bacigalupi’s prose is excellent and his characters are engaging, especially the relationship between the main character Jeoz and his daughter, which is superb. In addition, Bacigalupi employs his gift for “environmental” fiction in showing a world slowly dying as a result of its own actions and the selfish refusal of those in power to take the necessary steps to explore solutions when it is contrary to their own selfish interests. However, to his credit, this “don’t destroy the environment” message is never heavy handed and its delivery never bogs down the story. With this story, I think it is safe to say that Bacigalupi has shown himself to be able to effectively write genre fantasy and I hope to see more from him in the near future. As for the 3.0 to 3.5 star rating, the reason I did not rate this story higher is really more the result of what I saw as a fundamental flaw in the use of the short fiction format for this story. I think this story would have been much better if the author had written it as a full length novel and taken the time to be able to further describe and detail the world. It is very good for what it is but I just felt like I never had enough of a sense of place to be fully engaged in the novella. Thus, good to very good but not quite as excellent as his previous work. Recommended!! Next Up: The Executioness by Tobias Buckell.

2019-06-08 04:40

Uluslararası Güvenlik TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beta Yayınevi

Wayne Dyer wrote one good book - this isn't it.

2019-06-08 05:40

Ari - Çiçek Sekban Tüfekçi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Medya Yayınları

I don't know where to begin. This took me a while to finish mostly because each page is packed with information, so it makes for some slow reading at times. Basically, the "War on Drugs" was first waged, and continues to be waged, for political reasons, getting presidents and various politicians elected because they vowed to be "hard on drugs". What that usually translated into was massive amounts of government money spent on law enforcement and prisons. And that's about it. Republicans thought that drugs was an individual ailment and those individuals should take responsibility, and Democrats basically thought it was a larger social responsibility, with issues of race and poverty coming into play. The reality is that it's both...which is hard for politicians to get elected on, so they have to choose one or the other. Baum is clearly biased, not towards drug abuse, but the blatant distortion of statistics and facts that was going on during this approximately 30 year period in American history. He doesn't try to hide this bias in any way, so it's not like he's trying to pull a fast one on the reader. His most obvious bias is towards marijuana, which he portrays as being the scapegoat for the "War on Drugs", mostly because all other users of all other hard drugs didn't really add up enough users to wage a war. So pot was painted the ultimate villain by Mr. Nixon, even though a a commission of Nixon's own choosing concluded that marijuana prohibition was not in the national interest and they recommended legalization. He obviously ignored this report. Nixon wanted to wage a war on the marijuana culture more than the drug itself, as he saw it as a threat to American ideals, something set a part from the mainstream. Again, to use it as a political weapon. So there's just too much to summarize, but basically the "War on Drugs", at the time, destroyed civil liberties, including most of the 4th Amendment, revamped the prosecutor's role to focus on drug enforcement, clogged up our judicial system without allocating proper funds, and massively distorted drug statistics to scare the American public into thinking their was a drug epidemic sweeping through the schools. And way way way more stuff that is ridiculous. Also, there is no statistical evidence that connects drug abuse with crime. A rise or decline in one doesn't mean squat for the other. Seriously. "While nobody was saying that drawing hot, psychoactive smoke into the lungs was good for one's health (except perhaps in prescribed medical circumstances), many researchers were saying that a society that tolerates alcohol, tobacco, and bacon-double-cheeseburgers cannot on medical grounds justify jailing people for smoking marijuana." pg. 150

2019-06-08 06:40

İlk Boyamalarım : Oyuncaklar TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları

Slow start..waiting for it to grab me. Maybe it never will..

2019-06-08 07:40

Müziğe Giden Yol TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İnkılap Kitabevi

This book is the reason I defend vampire books todayxD I'm obsessed.

2019-06-08 08:40

Kaderler Tableti - Mehmet Mollaosmanoğlu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Galata Yayıncılık

Way too slow and not enough details. went through it in about a day or two, but i really didn't learn anything i hadnt seen on shiachat.

2019-06-08 09:40

Laforizma Serisi Kupa - Oblomov TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Dükkan

Fighting a horde of bugs and lots of sex.

2019-06-08 10:40

Pinokyo (100 Temel Eser - Ciltsiz) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

Yesterday evening I finished reading Kate Kaynak's book Minder. As I wrote in one of my previous posts, I liked the beginning of the book very much. The author simply made an introduction that got your attention from the first page. Teenager girl Maddie finds out that there is something very special about her. When she is threatened in an unexpected and aweful way, she reacts.. and suddenly 3 people are dead. Thanks to a mysterious man, she ends up in a training facility which trains kids with special abilities. Maddie likes the Ganzfield School from the beginning, but finds out soon, that everything is not exactly as it could be. Socializing and finding friends might be dangerous affair in Ganzfield. Everything changes when she meets a guy of her dreams - Trevor. They start spending some time together and find out, that they can't be without each other. They are falling in love and strengthen their abilities by it. Not everybody in Ganzfiled likes Maddie's ability and Maddie soon finds out that being special can be very dangerous. I like the plot of the story and characters too. The story is well written; it is easy to read and has a quickly developing storyline. The reason, why I would give 3 stars (out of 5) is, that at one point in the middle of book, where you have already understood what kind of facility it is and you are introduced to the characters, the story makes a step backwards. Right after Maddie and Trevor realize that they love each other, the story gets slightly slow and goofy for my taste, too much of description of adoration and first love. I think the love story between Maddie and Trevor is sweet, but at some point I just wanted to see what is going to happen next. I loved the beginning of the book and the end of the book, but in the middle it got little too boring. My favorite character in the book was actually not one of the main characters, but Seth, who actually has a very small part to play in the story. Maddie seemed little too overprotective and weird in her attempts to protect everybody from the charms - her plotting and wish to change the charms and bring them over to the good side. It made me want to say: "Come to the dark side - we have cookies!!!!" You can't simply change everyone and everything. To sum it up - I will definitely read the next books of the series, because I liked the plot and I am interested to see, what is going to happen with Maddie, Trevor and Michael.

2019-06-08 11:40

Ibanez Grg170Dxl-Bkn Solak Elektro Gitar TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ibanez

We got some great tips on how to be money-smart. It was definitely an eye-opener as to how carelessly Americans spend their money. I was more than a little shocked. It was also comforting to know that these concepts have been taught by living prophets for years and years. I think with the way the economy is, people are starting to GET IT more and more. Great book!

2019-06-08 12:40

Modern Avrupa'da Ayaklanmalar Ve Devrimler TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İmge Kitabevi Yayınları

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber. These names conjure a mystique, almost a mythology: bad girls, notorious woman of the Roaring Twenties. What fresh hells (with apologies to Dorothy Parker) were behind these exemplars of the energy, freedom, and creativity of those years? Marion Meade chronicles the lives of these women, from the height of their fame through the self-destruction or disappointment of their lives. Since many of the high points and crashes have attached to these myths, many readers may believe they already know these women. I thought I did. I am a junkie for biographies of women writers, especially writers of the twenties. When two biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay were published within months of each other, I was ecstatic. I have read two biographies of Zelda Fitzgerald, and her novel, Save Me the Waltz. Meade's excellent biography of Dorothy Parker, What Fresh Hell is This?, was thorough, evoking both admiration and compassion for this brilliant, brittle woman. (I confess to little knowledge or interest in Edna Ferber.) I wonder whether this book would hold the interest of a reader who was not, already, an aficionado of these women. Meade's narrative is not biographical or thematic, but chronological. Each episode of each life is presented piecemeal as the decade progresses. The advantage of this approach is that the reader is shown how these lives intertwined, and their social context. The disadvantages to this episodic approach is that the reader never learns enough about any of the women to engage the imagination. The book ends in 1930, but not for any narrative or biographical reason. Brief end notes follow the lives of the main characters (both the writers and their friends, male and female). Honestly, familiar as I am with these women and their times, I was not sure who some of these people were. If you're looking for a shallow overview, this is the book for you. Otherwise, invest the time in full-scale biographies. These women are worth it.

2020-04-26 14:21

Fanny And Alexander (Fanny ve Alexander) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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İncil üzerine ilginç bir bakış! Ayrıca süper yaratıcı ve eğlenceli.

Okuyucu Svetlana Pototskaia itibaren Ternivshchyna, Poltavs'ka oblast, Ukraine

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