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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Manuel Raymond
This is fantastic follow up to the flawed opening of the Sandman saga. It's got some pacing issues, but even during these dull moments there are some interesting concepts being explored. The ability to have so much variety while maintaining a mostly stable whole is remarkable. The dry humour, some truly shocking moments of horror and a brilliantly conceived, thought provoking finale stand out as the highlights of the volume.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Masterwork
We were reading a chapter a day, and every was loving it....saying it was so funny and such. Then last week the two older boys (ages 11 and 10) said they felt it was too "baby" and could we PLEASE stop reading it. The younger two (ages 7 and 5) won't hear of stopping the book so we are now having Uncle Wiggily Wednesday and will read one chapter each Wednesday. The stories are quaint, with a moral lesson. They do start sounding the same after a bit so it's probably a good idea to spread them out some. You can definitely tell it was written 'back in the day'. Updated February 2013 - We're done! We stopped reading for a while but finally picked it up again and finished. The youngest two (now 9 and 6) told me they want to keep the book forever and asked me to read their future kids stories from it when they came over to visit. The older boys (both 12) stopped listening a long time ago.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
This book gives me shivers - because I suspect I am a mediocre writer at best. And this is a book written by a mediocre writer. He tries. He mines traumatic (sort of...) family history but then the way it is spun out and milked out and overblown and becomes frankly, unbelievable is minorly cringe-worthy. Also, his friend did the cover and I remember thinking when I picked it up at the library - "wow, his book designer did him no favors with this cover!" Do not let your friends meddle with your cover is my new mantra. Because it was inappropriate and ugly.
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Fantastic book - what has me set on goign to CIA for my sabbatical at some long-away time.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Boyut Yayınları
A continuation of "The Road from Coorain" -- the author transitions fully into adulthood and describes her path, making a career and a life for herself. Interesting for me to read about her experiences adopting Toronto as her home, as I find myself doing the same thing (many decades later).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ekip Yayınevi
I really enjoyed reading this book. The continuation to Firelight. Although I feel the Firelight was better in some ways better. Probably because it was the first book in the series. but this this definitely explain some thing to me and I loved being able to see the pride more. althought now I'm left hanging til the next book comes out. I can't wait for that.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Esen Yayınları
** spoiler alert ** The Jack Reacher series was recommended to me by a couple of people and was also referenced in a book that I had just finished reading, so I thought I’d better check it out. I read book #1 in the series and, although it was pretty fast paced, thought it was like reading an old Steven Segal movie. I thought maybe the books get better as they go along, so I skipped forward to 61 Hours: Jack Reacher # 14. It was so hard to convince myself not to quit the book 1/3 of the way in… then ½ way in… then 2/3 of the way in. It took me almost three weeks to finish the damn thing because it just couldn’t hold my interest. Winter is cold in South Dakota. There’s lots of snow. Lots of down parkas. Cold wind that hurts your face. It’s cold. There’s snow. Jack Reacher is a mysterious super tough, super cool drifter. Child reiterates at least 50 pages of the same descriptions as the previous Reacher book. I guess I can assume this description is repeated in every book of the series? Blah. It’s cold. Very cold. Beyond that, the plot seemed slow and predictable, and had almost no depth or complexity. I knew Holland was the killer. I knew Reacher was going to kill Holland and Plato at the end. The pseudo-romance between Reacher and Susan just seemed out of place and kind of stupid, really. And the ending was a huge disappointment. A one-dimensional plot featuring one-dimensional characters. Blah. I sure hope Reacher was able to return Kim’s parka.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ibanez
Set in South Africa and told through the eyes of a little white girl. The backdrop of the story is set in times before and after apartheid, but it concentrates on ordinary relationships between black and white people. Because it’s told through a child’s point of view, the language can be playful (and for this reason sometimes annoying). But more often, descriptions are thorough and comment on the social dynamics of that period. There are better novels out there about apartheid issues.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Yayınları
Read this in high school, but didn't remember anything about it except the end. I'm really glad I read it again, as I didn't appreciate it as a sophomore as I do now.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The second book and sixth story in the Neveryona series, and the first novel length story. It is the story of Pryn who leaves her northern smalltown life and world on the wings of a dragon. Her adventure takes her through the intricacies of Kolhari [the capital of this country] where she meets a powerful merchant and Gorgik the Liberator. From there she heads south, travels with smugglers, finds herself in a new small town, which she quickly leaves, to find herself working at a brewery, formerly owned by a noble family, which she then encounters and must flee from. More than her physical journey is her mental journey, which we take with her. The world expands to an unimaginable degree, only for her to realise that nothing's different, no matter how far she goes. Like the previous story, it is very much concerned with power and the interplay of those who have and those who do not. It is about language, but mostly it is about the nature and power of stories. Everywhere she goes, she finds people who want to impose a life upon her, to make her who they want, whether it be rebel, slave, lover, whore, or more or less. She finds, here, on her journey, the ability to define herself and choose which version of her is the one she wants to be, is the one she actually is. There are some truly mindblowing passages in here that make you question so many things, from life to words to knowledge itself. It is the most cohesive book of the series, I think, but it meanders widely and is low on action, so if that's the kind of fantasy you're looking for, you're in the completely wrong series here. It is concerned with ideas most of all, and with the nature of stories at the center. It's about maps and mirrors, what these signs mean, as metaphors, as actual objects, and what the relation between the two is. And that interplay, that relationship, the significance of the signs, is not at all a simple answer. Highly recommended.
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