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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Murat Açıköğretim Yayınları
Imagine eating four pounds of 'shrooms and writing your life story. Read it just because.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Boğaziçi Yayınları
Offers a look into the life of Catherine of Aragon and her unexpected marriage to he who would become Henry VIII. An interesting topic for history buffs, although not as strong a novel overall as other of Gregory's works.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Koray Varol Akademi
its very funny you should read it
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Planet Waves
Stories that inspired me to finish my marathon!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
"Alice, I Think" is Susan Juby's first novel. It is also the start of her Alice series (not to be confused with Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Alice series). Before going into the details of plot and why I love this book, I want to address some of the issues I saw in negative reviews by saying this: The book is fiction and it is in the vein of satire. Juby uses hyperbole, sarcasm, and caustic wit to create this story. That doesn't always create realistic situations or accurate portrayals of "real" people. But it does create a good novel. As long as readers go into this novel with what the film industry would call a willing suspension of disbelief, I genuinely believe most of them will be able to find something to like about this book. So, why am I saying all of that? Because Alice is awesome of course. Alice MacLeod, our intrepid Canadian hero, read "The Hobbit" when she was very young. This led to a strong desire to attend her first day of school as a hobbit which is well and good creatively, but doesn't work out so well in actuality. In fact it works out so badly, that Alice's non-conformist parents decide to pull her out of school and teach her themselves at home. Flash forward to the present. Alice is fifteen and talking her new therapist Death Lord Bob at the Teens in Transition (not trouble) center in town. In a misguided attempt to cheer Bob up, Alice finds herself agreeing to return to "normal" school among but one of many items placed on a "Life Goals List." As Alice leaves the shelter of her home, she embarks on a search for a new haircut, new clothes, a boyfriend and lots of other things. These hunts lead to hilarity of a high degree along with not a little bit of mayhem. In the end, Alice comes out maybe a little worse for wear but no less enthusiastic about checking items off of her list in the future. As Susan Juby suggests on her newly designed website, Alice shows that sometimes oddballs make the best characters. As I started reading, I was surprised that I liked "Alice, I Think" as much as I did. (Although I am not alone in my enthusiasm. The book inspired a Canadian TV series as well as the entire trilogy receiving heaps of praise and award nominations.) The novel is written in a diary style, which usually doesn't appeal. But Juby handles the style creatively, not letting it limit Alice's narration or how events are conveyed to the reader and, most importantly, Juby still includes lots of hilarious dialogue. Juby's characters are also amazingly handled. Yes, a lot of them might sound more like cartoons than true-to-life people. But that's okay. In a novel this funny, a lot of things have a cartoonish exuberance to them. Aside from that, the characters are endearing no matter how silly they might be. As Alice works through the issues inherent to starting at a new school and tries to find new friends, readers watch her simultaneously learn how better to engage with the world at large (a revolution that continues in this novel's two sequels "Miss Smithers" and "Alice MacLeod: Realist at Last"). Then there's the fact that it's literally a laugh out loud funny book. Definitely worth a look for anyone who wants a good, funny, entertaining novel.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hosa
I gave up. I made it to page 150, and still wasn't invested at all in anything except finding Heathcliff annoying, and the main character trying and naive. I was debating trying Jane Eyre, or Pride and Prejudice, but now I don't know...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
I really liked this book. The writing was lyrical and descriptive, the setting sparse and magical, and the love story bitter and sweet. Pretty much the perfect formula for a modern fairy tale. I agree with other reviews that the prose bogged itself down toward the middle, but I thought the characters were strong enough to pull through. The heroine was an actual heroine with admirable qualities and Midas was a perfect portrayal of a sensitive male character. I especially loved the chapters of back story that filled in the motivations for the main characters' actions in the present day story. Well written and imaginative. I look forward to another novel from Ali Shaw.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları
I only got halfway through this, and then it had to go live under the towels in the linen closet. Hate evil clowns!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Maya Kitap
What a damning portrayal of war. Happily, the author keeps politics out of it for the most part.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Yayınları
4.5 stars. A very nice read. หนังสือเก่าปี 1996 พิมพ์ใหม่ค่ะ ถึงแม้พล็อตจ้างมาเป็นคู่หมั้นนี้จะเคยอ่านมาหลายเล่มแล้ว (ปัจจุบันในตลาดนิยายเป็นล้านๆ เล่มนี้คงหาเล่มที่พล็อตไม่ซ้ำได้ยากเต็มที) แต่รายละเอียดคาแรกเตอร์ทำได้ดีมากจนสมจริง น้อยนักที่นักเขียนจะเขียนตัวละครศิลปินอย่างเดซีได้ดี ใส่ใจกระทั่งว่า ภาพที่เธอวาดเป็นอย่างไร ใช้เทคนิคการวาดอย่างไหน เป็นภาพอะไรสีอะไร เรื่องราวในภาพมีอะไรบ้าง จนคนอ่านแทบวาดภาพในใจตามได้ การแต่งตัว วิธีมองโลกของเธอ ทำให้รู้สึกเหมือนตัวละครมีชีวิตขึ้นมาจริงๆ หรือแม้แต่ตัวพระเอก ก็ไม่ใช่แค่เล่าคร่าวๆ ว่าเขามีอดีตอย่างไร แต่ตัวตนปัจจุบันของเขามันสะท้อนอดีตของเขาออกมาด้วย ในนิสัย ในความชอบ เรื่องก็น่ารักดี อ่านแล้วอินไปกับตัวละคร รู้สึกว่า....จริงนะ การที่คนเราจะประสบความสำเร็จอะไรสักอย่าง มันต้องพยายาม เสียสละบางอย่าง(หรือหลายอย่าง) อดทนมุ่งมั่นอย่างจริงจัง เช่นเรื่องงานวาดภาพของเธอ ที่ต้องการพัฒนาสู่แนวทางใหม่ที่ดีขึ้น และชีวิตครอบครัว ที่ต้องมองอีกฝ่ายแล้วปรับเข้าหากัน โดยตั้งใจปรับจริงๆ และตัวละครทำให้ดูด้วย ไม่ใช่แค่สูตรสำเร็จ ฉันคลิ๊กกับเธอ ไม่มีอะไรต้องปรับแล้ว รับกันได้ไปหมด แม้ตัวละครจะมีเวลาที่กลัวขึ้นมา หรือขัดใจกัน ก็เดินต่อไปโดยไม่ท้อถอย ไม่ใช่เจอเขาพูดคำเดียวแล้วน้อยใจทิ้งเขาไป แบบน้ำเน่าทั่วไป แต่เอามาคิดในมุมของเขา (หรือเธอ) ก่อนแล้วปรับหากันครึ่งทาง จากคิดว่าไม่รัก กลายเป็นรักอย่างแน่นแฟ้น มีตอนเบาๆ ทำให้ยิ้มได้ และมีตอนจริงจังที่ทำให้ตื้นตัน ซาบซึ้งใจ ชอบค่ะ
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