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2019-09-02 23:40

Genç Werther'in Acıları - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Yayınları

Sensational book. I'm not really a religious person, but this book spoke to me. Beautifully written and epic in both it's sadness and hope. I'll be honest, I cried several times. Sensational book for even those who are not believers.

2019-09-03 00:40

Baudrillard’ı Okumak TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tekhne Yayınları

Buenos poemas... pero no es de mis poetas favoritos.

2019-09-03 01:40

Derviş - Kırmızı Beyaz Nağmeler TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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I loved this book. It gave historical background, as well as cultural practices that helped me understand the scriptures better. I truly came to know Jesus Christ as I read this book, and helped me know him better as I studied the scriptures. I LOVE this book! Highly recommend it to anyone!

2019-09-03 02:40

Seni Sevmek İstemedim - Fatih Murat Arsal TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ephesus Yayınları

The True Value of Monopoly Money Capitalism tends towards monopoly. No capitalist welcomes a competitor or rival. Having attained wealth, the desire is to retain it, not to concede it; to increase it, not to share it. A competitor is perceived as a threat, and will be treated like a virus invading an otherwise healthy, but vulnerable, body. The Great American Dream "The Great Gatsby" is often described as a paean to the Great American Dream. This Dream supposedly sustains the average American. It offers the opportunity to achieve success, prosperity and happiness, regardless of class, status, background or wealth. It contains a promise of upward social mobility, a reward that will be ours if we work hard enough. We all have an equal opportunity to transcend our current circumstances. Implicitly, if we fail to transcend, we have only ourselves to blame. We didn't take sufficient advantage of our opportunity. Everybody is responsible for their own failure. The Great American Dream isn't far from the Objectivist Philosophy of Ayn Rand. Stars and stripes and silhouettes and shadows. Jay Gatsby Most readers think of Jay Gatsby as someone who took advantage of his opportunity, and made it. In that sense, he's the epitome of the Great American Dream. He has amassed enormous business wealth. He owns a colossal mansion on West Egg, Long Island. Every week, he holds a lavish party attended by all and sundry. The parties are the ultimate in Jazz Age glamour. Gatsby has achieved everything material an American could want. He has realised the Long Island real estate mantra, "Vocation, Location, Ovation". The Green Light So what's Gatsby's problem? Every night, Gatsby looks across the sound to a green light on a porch, where Daisy lives in her more prestigious East Egg mansion with her husband, Tom Buchanan. Daisy is the one thing for which Gatsby yearns. She is the one thing he has sought after since he met and fell in love with her five years earlier at age 25. "The Great Gatsby" revers that small green light. What we never see is what Gatsby's mansion looked like from Daisy's perspective at home. We aren't expressly offered a vision of Gatsby's fully-lit mansion as a counterpoint to Tom's, but that is what it is. The point is Gatsby's achievement of the Great American Dream was not the end, as it is with most Americans, it was the means to an end, and that end was winning the hand in marriage of Daisy. The most important thing about Gatsby's mansion, from Gatsby's point of view, is what it would look like to one woman across the sound. Love's Labours Retrieved Gatsby has already lost Daisy once, in 1917, when as a destitute young officer during the war, he was unable to marry her, because he could not offer her a financial security that was acceptable to her wealthy mid-west family. Since then, he has acquired wealth, by whatever means necessary, to win her away from Tom and marry her. The wealth was nothing to him, the parties were grotesque bonfires of vanity, designed with one thing in mind: to attract Daisy's attention and bring her, curious, within his reach. Then, having got her within his sphere of influence, he could win her back. "The Great Gatsby" is really about the love a man had for a woman, how he lost it and what he did to regain it. At one point, Gatsby talks about repeating the past. I don't see him as repeating it, so much as regaining it, making up for lost time, retrieving what he felt should have been his. "The Great Gatsby" is not so much about repetition, as it is about retrieval; not so much a remembrance of things past, as a resumption of a journey from a point in the past when the journey was broken. Carey Mulligan as Daisy (Courtesy: The Telegraph) The Pursuit of Another Man's Wife At its heart, Gatsby engages in adultery with Daisy, with a view to convincing her to divorce Tom and marry him. Many might find his conduct objectionable, except that he is young, elegant, good-looking, fabulously wealthy and, most importantly, in love with the slender Daisy. In contrast, Tom is a brute of a man, he is an ex-champion footballer, hard and cruel. Most importantly, he has cheated on Daisy many times and now has a mistress, the stout, but sensuous, Myrtle Wilson. Tom comes from an extremely wealthy mid-western family. Money is no object to him. Daisy might have the voice of money, but Tom has the demeanour and arrogance of not just money, but old money. When Tom learns of Daisy's infidelity and Gatsby's takeover bid, he goes into typical capitalist mode in order to defend his wife, his asset, his marital property. He researches Gatsby's past and theorises about how he has made his new money. He plans his counter-attack. The narrator, Nick Carraway, watches on, not just witness to a battle between Good and Evil, but in reality a battle between two degrees of bad. Black and white portrait of Isla Fisher as Myrtle Wilson Tom's Defence Strategy In the realm of love, as between two rival men, there can be no such thing as a friendly takeover bid. There is no suggestion that Tom can allow Gatsby to have Daisy, so that he can settle for Myrtle. The latter is just a plaything, something he spends time on, because she is available and he can have her without effort. All Myrtle ever wanted from her own husband was a gentleman with breeding. He turns out to be a mere mechanic and car salesman. He doesn't have the right status. Equally, although he is content to have her as his mistress, Tom doesn't see Myrtle as having the right status for marriage either. Ultimately, the role of marriage is not to perpetuate love and happiness. Tom's task is to bond together two wealthy establishment families and their riches. A merger of two capitalist families moves them that much closer to monopolistic power, in the same way that the intermarriage of royal families once cemented international power. Tom's goal is so important that it can accommodate his cruelty and infidelities, at least in his eyes. Moreover, it allows Tom to prevail over Gatsby, who, despite his war record, his partly-completed Oxford education, his wealth, his glamour, and his apparent achievement of the Great American Dream, is not "one of us". Ultimately, coincidence, accident and fate intervene on behalf of Tom, almost comically if it was not so sad, and he resists Gatsby's takeover bid. Nick, the observer, the witness, the audience of this tragedy, is left disgusted. Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker The Great American Paradox "The Great Gatsby" is a short novel. At times, there is more telling than showing. At times, the description is too adjectival or adverbial for the dictates of current style manuals. Take away the mansion, the parties and the glamour, and what remains comes close to the dimensions of film noir like "Double Indemnity". While the novel is perceived as hailing the Great American Dream, the paradox is that it highlights how great are the forces that are lined up to resist the efforts of a man who aspires to the Dream, especially if that man is a trespasser who covets another man's wife, even if he loves her and she loves him. There are flaws in Fitzgerald's writing, but they are tolerable. The story is magificent, even if, when laid out methodically, it might appear cliched. The characters, while realistic, are detailed and larger than life, certainly detailed enough to withstand the scrutiny when they are projected onto the silver screen. They are portrayed acting out their emotions in exactly the same way that we might in the same circumstances. However, in the long run, what makes "The Great Gatsby" great is Fitzgerald's ability to both adulate and perpetuate the Great American Dream, while simultaneously subverting it.

2019-09-03 03:40

İnteraktif Çince Eğitim Seti (8 Kitap, 8 CD, 8 VCD) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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Este libro, a diferencia de otros de la misma autora, me ha parecido facilón. Explic en forma de cuatro "cuentos" o historias breves la experiencia de 4 inmigrantes en Italia, pero me ha parecido que es un libro forzado, que podría explicar más cosas pero que está confeccionado de manera provisional, como si fuera encargo de la editorial, por ejemplo. Tiene poca profundidad, es un poco superficial a mi entender, como si sólo abriera las puertas, pero no acaba de dar forma.

2019-09-03 04:40

Kaşağı - Ömer Seyfettin TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi

a landmark record and still my all time fave. exciting to know about its creation.

2019-09-03 05:40

Kitleler Psikolojisi - Gustave Le Bon TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tutku Yayınevi

Now that I've finished this book, I think I might have to change my tune a bit. This is more of a history of restaurants in America than a history of how we as Americans eat and relate to our food. I would have liked this book better if the author had left the restaurant and explored the home cook's kitchen and how it's changed since 1955. That said, it IS still interesting to learn how we got to where we are and how we eat.

2019-09-03 06:40

İş Değerleri Ve Çalışma Hayatına Yansımaları-Mine Afacan Fındıklı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beta Yayınevi

It's as if Harper Lee has written a new novel!

2019-09-03 07:40

Kayra ile Kivi - Bir Bilim Macerası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

I thought this was a really beautifully written book. It wasn't until I was nearly through it that I took the time to realize that it was written by a man, yet the first person voice of the teenage girl was so well done and seemed so true to a real 15 year old girl! This was really a lovely story, but it was unfortunate that there were a couple of inappropriate scenes.

2019-09-03 08:40

Kare Karalamaca 11 TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ekinoks Yayın Grubu

What a fun and quick story this was! I read about it on Jen’s blog Not Now…I’m Reading! and was immediately drawn to the idea behind the story. You have Stephanie, recently divorced and looking for a few non-vanilla nights in bed. Basically, she wants some wild and raunchy sex. She feels that Parker would be the perfect candidate for this. Why does she feel that way? Because she’s witnessed his previous ‘encounters’ and these ‘encounters’ have been very um…vocal. No, she’s not a voyeur or anything creepy like that. You see, Stephanie’s apartment is right next door to Parker’s apartment…and their bedrooms are back to back. Parker was Stephanie’s ex-husbands best friend. They are no longer buddies because just as the bastard was deceiving Stephanie, he was deceiving Parker. Stephanie and Parker turned to each other for support and friendship. They eat breakfast together almost every day, they work together and they even go out together. But it has all been strictly platonic…until now. Stephanie doesn’t feel as though she wants a relationship with Parker – she just wants fun sex. But Parker has other things in mind. He’s been patiently waiting for Stephanie to be ready to date again because he wants her. But he wants more than just sex – he wants all she has to offer. Yeah…right there…awkward situation. But it all plays out very well. I really enjoyed how Keri Ford wrote these two characters. Through the Wall is a very short little story yet I felt a connection to these two. And there is a little scene in the kitchen at breakfast time that had me giggling the whole way though. Really really funny. Through the Wall is the first in Keri’s ‘Uninhibited in Apple Trail Arkansas’ series. The series’ name makes me grin…and this book makes me want to check out the rest of the series. Only three books available so far though. The second book, On the Fence, was released in February 2011 and In the Hay was released this week! I quite enjoyed Keri’s writing voice, the story was cute and the lovin’ was steamy. Overall a good read when you are in the mood to read an entire story in one sitting…and *blush* a little while you’re doing so.

Okuyucu Stefan Zimmermann itibaren Rantasalmi, Finland

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