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11/02/2024

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2019-07-07 13:40

Vahşiler Futbol Takımı 2: Fırtına Felix - Joachim Masannek TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Epsilon Yayınları

*minor spoilers* First of all, I will never forget this book for two reasons: the title, and how it was so hard to get my hands on. That said, Keturah and Lord Death had a plot I really wanted to read about, since I'm a sucker for romance in doom and gloom situations. Now, after reading it, I can't decide on how I feel about the book. It's lyrically written, sweet, gentle, poetic et cetera, and contains plenty of very quotable lines, both romantic and deathly, but beneath all that I found the story somewhat a cop-out. I wasn't expecting Keturah to tell a great love story ... about herself. Because what the heck, that's just narcissistic. And no matter how beautiful or sweet or gentle she is, I just don't like narcissistic characters. Lord Death here seems too naive or spellbound for someone who's been here for eternity (or as long as the first living cell, I guess). Might have been because I already had a personal idea of how this Lord Death should act, and it fell very far away from how he was in the book. I imagined a cunning, bittersweet guy, sardonic on the surface yet heartwarming deep down, but Lord Death here didn't pack a punch, you know? He was quite the flaccid character to have so easily fallen for Keturah, not for her wit, or charm, but for her self-absorbance. I get that the setting's vintage and that there's this fairytale aspect to it, but I didn't like how this supposedly great heroine shuddered and ran away in relief after the Eye decided some ugly, old dude wasn't meant as her true love. Because - shallow much? I guess at the end of the day I just didn't like Keturah. It also didn't help that I felt she wasn't deserving to be Death's true love. I mean, of ALL people Death has come across, he falls for this? I wanted to like this book. I do like the circumstances. I just wish the characters had more OOMPH in them. Also, it doesn't help that I feel somewhat cheated by the promise of a great love story that didn't turn out so fantastic after all. Disappointed! Edited: Maybe I missed the point but apparently the entire book is about Keturah telling a story starring herself so all of the above is as real as fiction. I wish it didn't start out saying, "ALL THIS IS NOT REAL", because that just ruins the charming, fantastical part of it - the part I liked. Still, meh.

2019-07-07 21:40

Psikanaliz TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yasakmeyve

What can I say about this book that hasn't already been said? I read this book because Reza and I decided that we needed to read the books we already should have. I think I faked a book report on it once in junior high or high school. I was too busy reading (and trying to understand) the Iliad and such to worry about Brave New World back then. Now I wish I had. There are so many themes that you could easily pump out 10 different books reports on this book that is less than 200 pages long. It's hard to remember how long ago it was written, since it is still so relevant today. Here are some quotes I marked: 1. "People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then (after the Nine Years' War). Anything for a quiet life." (155) How can we not consider this so extremely relevant to current life in the U.S.? I find it amazing how this book appeared to be a warning for the future, yet despite how widely it is read still today, it seems we ignored the warning. 2. "Success... completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up till then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good". (105) I have to identify with this quote on a personal level. I consider myself to have succeeded in a couple of arenas I have argued are unsatisfactory, and this reminds me that just because I succeeded, it does not automatically make them satisfactory. So I will take this quote as a warning to me directly to never forget that.

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