Angel Gomez itibaren Váchartyán, Hungary

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2019-09-05 20:40

Tonguç 7.1 Akıl Notları TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tonguç Akademi Yayınları

Contact by Carl Sagan is one of the better works of science fiction dealing with extra terrestrials. I remember being fascinated reading Sagan's earlier work Cosmos. Flying past the planets of our solar system, a chapter at a time, had excited me as it did the entire world. When I noticed another book by Sagan at the local library, my expectation rose instantly. As I read the back cover and learned that the book touched the topic of extra terrestrials, I had a vague feeling that Sagan would do justice to it. I was tired of the worthless depiction of aliens by popular movies. The best I had liked was Robin Cook's Invasion. Would Contact be even better? Sagan's plot starts at a facility of SETI project Argus. The radio telescopes at Argus — in their attempt to scan the skies for non-random radio sources — hit upon a signal from the star Vega purely by chance. An international consortium is created so that the continuing Message from Vega could be received round the clock. After years of dedicated work, scientists manage to decode the Message: the Message is a manual with the blueprints of a Machine. Despite scores of hurdles and sabotage, the Machine is eventually built. Sagan's description of the eventual tête-à-tête of a selected few humans with the extra terrestrials shines in its elegance and disarming simplicity. For a fiction debut, Contact is not bad at all. The plot is good. Sagan's arguments are balanced. But the thing I liked the most was the way he intertwines religion in the storyline. The only complaint I have about the book has to do with Sagan's writing style; it seems strained, and the effort to add "difficult" words is plainly visible. It is not difficult to see Norman Lewis in the book.

2019-09-05 22:40

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Like House of Leaves, but NOT good. Well, it's pretty accomplished, I guess. But I had serious problems with it. Where to begin? When you have several different narrators, they're usually different characters with distinct voices. In this, Erickson has three female narrators (Kristin, Angie, and Louise) who are all pretty similar: they're hardened, secretive, empowered loners who can take care of themselves except when there's literally any guy around. When there's a guy around, they all have a weird submissive streak that, to be honest, totally reeks of authorial fantasy. And on a related note, I realize this is an alternate universe to some small degree, but since when do all women go around nymphomaniacally raping men in their sleep? I'm not buying it. I was also promised Swiss-watch levels of complexity in the plot. Apparently, though, they don't make Swiss watches like they used to. A. is actually B.'s father? C. is actually D.'s daughter? Now, I'm no real writer, and I don't mean to belittle Erickson's accomplishment as a whole, but I do think pulling out conspicuous coincidental meetings between long-lost relations is a pretty cheap trick, most often seen in canonical (and also lesser) fantasy novels. And Star Wars. Not to mention the fact that all these little seemingly-random meetings basically undermine what I'd understood to be the central premise of the book, which I won't spoil, although really, it shouldn't even matter. For me at least, there are two ways a book can be difficult. The first is in its language, e.g. Ulysses or The Recognitions. It's pretty difficult to read pages and pages, but if you can understand each individual page, you can understand the whole book. This is usually rewarding. The second is in ideas, e.g. Kafka on the Shore. You can be reading along just fine, understanding what's going on, but at the end, you say, well, that was kind of an interesting story, but what was it actually about? This is often not as rewarding, and T.S.C.i.a.M is totally guilty of it. Like I said above, the theme or premise that was being harped on for the first third of the book seems to be totally dismantled by the end, and doesn't get replaced by anything. And what even happens at the end is anyone's guess. So why did I even read this? For the sordid descriptions of sexual deviance (the world's first snuff film, whorehouses featuring blindfolded semiconscious women dangling from hooks, Stockholm-syndrome exhibitionism, etc. ad naus.)? For the cold cerebral challenge of interpreting a chaos-based calendar whose very premise is a contradiction in terms (if chaos determines everything, what good is trying to keep track of anything?)? For the cheap thrills associated with deducing a relationship between two minor characters that will probably be stated explicitly later on anyway? I don't know. You tell me.

2019-09-05 23:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ritter

Secret Life of a Scandalous Debutante by Bronwyn Scott. ISBN- 978-0-373-29658-3 The Viscount Claims His Bride precedes this book. They are stand alone but it may help to read this one first to understand more about Valerian & Philippa. As this story is about Beldon Stratten who is Valerian's best friend and Philippa's brother. Beldon Stratten, the fourth Baron Pendennys, his life is all mapped out. He had worked the last ten years to restore the estates and get his affairs in order. Now he was wife hunting. He had a list of the type of wife he needed and he was at the beginning of the London season to find her. He would not be distracted by the alluring luscious back he was looking at. Such perfect shoulder curves and her raven black hair along with that beautiful neck. What a fantasy his mind went to. Then she turned and he recognized her as his brother-in-laws ward, Lilya Stefanov. She was not on his list and could not be. He could not take a dowry from Valerian and he did need a wife with wealth to help keep the estates in order. Yet he needed to go and see her. Lilya saw Beldon coming towards her. His kiss to her hand sent feelings through her that none of these other men did. And when they waltzed together it was wonderful. She had a secret to keep though and she would not risk love or marriage. She seen all her family murdered for the secret, all but her baby brother Constantine and herself survived in the escape from Negush. Too many lives depended on her as the keeper, she would not fail it was her duty. She could still enjoy Beldon for awhile though. Beldon set his eyes on an Earl's daughter. She would be trained to be a good mistress for his home and she had the dowry. Even if she did not boil his blood as one exotic young woman did. Beldon tried to stay away from Lilya but it seemed that was not so easy. Christoph Agyro, a member of a secret society, had a plan. He was sure Lilya had what he was sent for. He would woo her, marry her and take the prize for himself rather then return it to the Filiki Adamao. Women did not refuse his dark good looks and he established with her they were fellow countryman who both lost families in the war back home. Only she seemed to have eyes for the Baron more than she did him. That would not do. A story of dangerous secrets, plans gone awry, greed turning into madness, unexpected love and what one would give up for such love. Contains sexual situations Received from NetGalley for review

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