Maria João itibaren Poroj, Macedonia (FYROM)

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2019-08-04 21:40

Global Ekonomide Bütünleşme Trendleri - Bölgeselleşme Ve Küreselleşme TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık

Oddly, this is packaged as a collection of stories, although it's quite obviously a novel. I suppose that's because some of the chapters were published separately in various literary journals, and presumably all of them might stand alone as short stories. The main character is Margy, a gifted professional violinist, and I picked up the book largely because of my own interest in the violin and music in general. To my surprise, music has very little to do with the story. Much is made of the politics involved inside orchestras and quartets (where she must associate with some dreadful people), and obligatory schmoozing, but nothing is given to show why Margy is drawn to music or what she gets out of it. (The Soloist is a novel that gets this right, and I guess I was hoping for more of the same.) That was a disappointment for me. By contrast, Webster, who shows up after about the first third of the narrative, is very clear about what motivates him. He's a marine biologist/ecologist and pretty nutty (but in a likeable way). When he meets Margy and hears her play, the music affects him far more than it ever seems to affect her. They marry -- and then troubles begin. The thing that is ultimately important to Margy, it turns out, is having babies. Webster, obsessed with the damage billions of people are doing to the planet, sees no reason to add any more. And out of this disagreement proceed a series of truly terrible events. I grieved to see so many ways in which two high-strung but basically good people could make themselves utterly miserable. I should also mention Margy's friend Calvin, another good soul, who may be the most sympathetically drawn homosexual in literature.

2019-08-04 22:40

Gül Bekçisi TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi

Years ago, following the discovery of corporate spies who were stealing his secrets while working in his chocolate factory, Willy Wonka fired all of his workers and closed the gates of his factory to the public. Since then, no one has been allowed in, and no one knows what goes on inside—until now. A letter appears in the newspaper, written by Mr. Wonka, telling readers that he will be allowing five children and their guardians to visit his factory and see how he makes his chocolate; moreover, each of these children will receive from Mr. Wonka’s factory a lifetime supply of chocolate. But to be among these five children, one must find one of the five golden tickets, each of which has been packaged in one or another of Mr. Wonka’s delicious products. While every child in the world (and probably many of the adults as well) would like to have a chance to visit the famous factory and meet its mysterious owner, one child for whom such an experience would be particularly exciting is Charlie Bucket. Charlie and his family are poor, so Charlie only gets chocolate once a year; moreover, he and his parents eat boiled cabbage at most of their meals because it is all they can afford. To make things worse, Charlie has to walk past Mr. Wonka’s factory every day, and as he passes, he smells the smells coming from there and they make him think of the chocolate he enjoys so much, but has so seldom. Unlike some of the other children in the story, Charlie is patient and polite (and perhaps the alliterative possibilities are intended to suggest that these personal qualities are related to Charlie’s poverty—the other children, significantly, are rich, rapacious and rebellious), and it seems to be because of his strong impulse control and his ability to delay gratification that Charlie avoids making some of the mistakes made by the other children. But Dahl’s book is not all serious moralizing. The exaggerated representation of poverty, the caricatured characters, the fantastic interior of the chocolate factory, and the unreal volubility of the factory owner himself, suggest that in this narrative Dahl is more interested in humor and fun than in communicating standards of good behaviour to children. A satiric work, and just the thing for a still-developing sense of schadenfreude.

Okuyucu Maria João itibaren Poroj, Macedonia (FYROM)

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