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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
Any number of dubious and desperate individuals dwell in the shady underside of the Tokyo megalopolis, and one of the more desperate of his kind is a burned-out former hacker named Henry Dorsett Case. Case was once a top-notch 'cowboy', a talented hacker who was skilled at using a delicate computer interface to directly connect his brain to the global 'cyberspace' network...but his luck ran out when he attempted to skim a little too much off the top of one of his business dealings. His employers retaliated by drugging him with a powerful toxin that fried his nervous system -- leaving him literally burned out, physically incapable of accessing cyberspace. Unable to find a treatment or cure, deprived of the work he enjoys, and increasingly addicted to drugs, Case scrapes together a living as a street dealer and secretly hopes that one of his shady associates will eventually put him out of his misery. Yet when he is approached by a well-dressed man named Armitage and a cybernetically enhanced hired killer named Molly, he receives an offer he'd never thought possible: in exchange for a cure for his damaged nerves, he'll be hired to perform a series of complicated and extremely dangerous hacking jobs with information given only on a need-to-know basis. Case accepts, and is soon back in cyberspace and carrying out the orders he's been given. But Case has been recruited for a purpose that is far more complex than he could have ever imagined, and he soon starts to realise that his efforts are only a small part of a much grander plan that could shake the very foundations of cyberspace as he knows it. I haven't read any of Gibson's other books before, so my first foray into his world required some adjustment. It strongly reminded me of the first time I tried to read A Clockwork Orange: the slang, speech patterns, and other terms used to tell the story were all but incomprehensible to me at the outset. I had to keep going back and checking to be sure that I hadn't missed something crucial. Gradually, though, as I found myself more at ease with the jargon of hackers and 'street samurai', the story increasingly caught my interest (even if I still found myself baffled at times and not always certain of what exactly was going on). That said, I can see why William Gibson's Neuromancer won the science-fiction "triple crown" (the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award) after being published in 1984. The book vividly illustrates a dirty, seedy fictional future, far removed from the glittering sterility of many sci-fi worlds, where the right price can buy you everything from a new pancreas and liver to a rewired nervous system to an evening with a 'meat puppet', a prostitute who is renting out her body in the most literal of terms (with the help of a computer programme that can induce a trance-like state). The line between human and machine has blurred to such an extent that there is actually a need for an intergovernmental and autonomous organization to keep tabs on machines that have artificial intelligence, just to keep them from becoming too powerful. I really began to get into the story when I started to look at Gibson's characters and consider their various and often fascinating degrees of 'inhumanity', whether physical, emotional, psychological, or moral. It's particularly interesting to read Neuromancer and see where Gibson's ideas have shown up in other things I've seen or read -- the anime series Ghost in the Shell and Bubblegum Crisis, to start. The book is definitely a sci-fi classic, and I do hope that I haven't betrayed my near-complete ignorance of the genre in this review. ^^;;
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Omega
love this book... although the facts about geishas aren't completely true, it's a good story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dikeyeksen Yayın Dağıtım
Wow. This book is intense! The story is about a girl named Sam who's life is turned upside down when she and her friends get into a car accident and she is killed. Instead of passing on she repeats the same day over and over again, learning from her mistakes and attempting to change the present. This book delves into bullying and 'means girls' better than anything I have ever read or seen. At first you hate Sam and her friends. They're cruel with little regard for anyone but themselves. But as the book goes on you gain a new understanding of them. They go from being cruel to pathetic. You learn that they attack other's to hide their own insecurities. Sam also grows and begins to see the importance of being kind, realizing (with shock) how mean she used to be. The story is well written, interesting and profound. I loved every minute of it until the end. The thing is though, I don't know how I would have changed the end, it just left me a little unsettled and wishing for something different. I wish I could write more about it and what bothered me but then this would have to be hidden for spoilers. Anyway, I would recommend this book! I'll probably have my own kids read it to help them gain a deeper understanding of bullying and it's consequences.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Remzi Kitabevi
I read this after hearing about it in reviews of The Hunger Games (which I loved.) I had a hard time getting into this one, though. I just never got the point of why this story was written and what it said about humanity (it seemed like it was trying to say something.) There were some nicely-written parts, even in translation, and some interesting characters. But to me, it read overall like an excuse for a lot of blood and violence.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Psikoterapi Enstitüsü
Rhiannon Davies, known as Non, the main character in this novel, is a wonderful creation. A fascinating character I thought, a strong character, she seems almost ahead of her time. She copes with the two children of her husband’s first marriage, lovely Wil and more difficult Meg, plus another child, the mysterious Osian, who her husband brought into their home and asked Non to accept with no questions asked. On top of this her kind father in law is unwell, and most difficult of all, her husband Davey, recently returned from fighting in World War I, seems to be suffering from what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder; she finds him each morning in some sort of terrible waking dream, reenacting some wartime shooting incident and hiding under the kitchen table. He does not speak of this to her. Non is desperate to have the man back that she loved before, and feels that she must find out what exactly happened to change him. A letter from someone Davey claims to have fallen in love with provides a clue that Non follows. As well as these concerns she struggles with her own particular health issues and curious gift that have impacted on her life thus far, and also juggles the relationships with her sister Branwen, and her nephew Gwydion, and her difficult mother in law Catherine. Further, she has cause to question what she knew about her late father, as she learns more about him. The author effectively adds to the heaviness that weighs on Non by incorporating the details of the weather at that time, hot and stifling, a heat that Non cannot escape until the end of the novel, when it finally cools down, in tune with the story. It is an interesting time period; just post World War I, with several in the locality mourning the sad loss of their men. We get a real sense of domestic life then, the heat of the range when cooking, the novelty of having a kettle, the procedures when doing the washing, all add to the authentic period setting of the novel. Additionally we learn a little about alternative medical practices, and the novel brings in some of what is happening around them in the world at the time, such as the rights of women, and the events in Ireland. I think this is a beautifully written novel, thought provoking, intelligent and enjoyable to read. The characters are so well drawn and believable, and I felt like I got to know them. I would recommend it and I would read more by this author.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kök Yayınevi
A young orphan girl grows up to be a chess prodigy in this novel. She's not the most endearing character, but she's real and strong and smart. I like to read about smart girls. This book was a great read too, and I hope I can encourage others to pick it up.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arı Sanat Yayınevi
برف میبار به روی خار و خارا سنگ
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Wordsworth Classics
This is the 3rd in a series and much more fun then the first two. You can read this as a stand alone.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilim Teknik Yayınevi
This book is a little shallow in that it only looks at the biological aspects of love and totally ignores the spiritual aspects. It also downplays friendship. While friendship is mentioned as one of the seven types of love, it is not mentioned in the three phases of love. This may be the way a most relationships actually happen but it is also the problem with most relationships. When there in no real friendship in the beginning than there is nothing remaining after the passion is gone. I did, however, like the fact that where willing to tell the real differences between men and women when it comes to love and sex and where not afraid to contradict the politically correct thought police. They just don't give the traditional stenotype for men and women, as some other reviewers suggest, but give scientific studies to shoe how men and women are different. I think the people who are offended by books such as this one are because to them equality means being the same and they can therefor not accept any differences no matter how much scientific evidence there is to show it. We should celebrate the differences between men and women and not try to hide them.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pearson Yayınları
Freakonomics is an incredible thought provoking read. Interesting, funny, confronting....Excellent!!!
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