Angela Cortez itibaren Majdany, Poland

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12/22/2024

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2019-11-05 21:41

Denizler Altında Yirmi Bin Fersah - Jules Verne TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arkadaş Yayınları

Fun and easy read - finished it in a weekend. The movie wasn't too bad either. Not a literary masterpiece, but it was entertaining.

2019-11-05 22:41

Bilgi Hazinem Dizisi-07: Tarçın ve Şekiller (Türkçe-İngilizce) - Ahmet Altay TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayınları

I was expecting more from this book given how many people loved it. I was waiting for a major storyline twist that never happened.

2019-11-05 23:41

Kainatın Sahibi Kim? TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Nesil Yayınları

Hysterical! And what an intimate glimpse of New York City. Which I miss...

2019-11-06 00:41

Çubuk Manyetik Schaller 216BK Hot Stuff Pickup TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Schaller

** spoiler alert ** Another one of my all-time favorites. I tried to read it for the first time at about 12 years old and hated it. I'm glad I picked it up later when I could relate more to grown-up Jane. I have read it several times, and usually find myself bawling so hard by the end that I can't even see the pages anymore! One of the best love stories ever! And the writing- oh the glorious, well-crafted writing that feels like decadent fine chocolate for your brain!

2019-11-06 01:41

Altın Avcıları Plajda - Miyase Sertbarut TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tudem Yayınları

I guess I am not an existentialist.

2019-11-06 02:41

Çocuklar İçin Her Yönüyle Astronomi-Sheryl Racine TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mavi Kelebek Yayınları

I loved it!!!

2019-11-06 03:41

Evcil Hayvanlar-Kolektif TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk

Disappointing given the accolades. The pieces were there, a small town college girl hired by a couple as a nanny to a yet to be adopted biracial child, the mysterious boyfriend who turns out to be a terrorist?, the unspoken secret of the couple, etc. But it comes off in a meandering way, with lots of self-indulgent dialogue/narrative. Kept hoping it would improve. It didn't.

2019-11-06 04:41

Alice A803 Cello String Çello Teli TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alice

How to describe a classic? I feel like anything that I say won't do the story justice. At the time that he wrote his story, 1984 was set in the future. This is about as dystopic (is that even a word?) as it gets. Everything is controlled by the government, and this story is where the monumental phrase "Big Brother" came from. It's kind of amazing to think that one story created a term that is now so commonly used and understood by people that have no idea what 1984 was. Anyways, Big Brother is always watching you, unless you manage to escape from civilization or go into one of the really old prole homes where there isn't a tv screen. These cases are rare. This is a world where children are encouraged to denounce their parents. It is remniscent to Nazi germany in that way. The children are brainwashed into violence towards the enemy and adoration of Big Brother. It is sad. There is almost no hope for them. Hardly anyone in the society remembers what it was like before the reign of Big Brother, and thanks to the ironically titled Ministry of Truth, people are only able to read what Big Brother wants them to read. What really stuck with me about this story was the power of words. There was one passage where the characters were talking about newspeak and the new edition of the dictionary. If you can control the dictionary, you can control how people think. At first, one might think that this is impossible, but just think about it. What if you went your whole life and the word "freedom" never existed. It wasn't in the dictionary. Nobody every used it. You had never heard it referenced or mentioned in any way. Even if there was some part of you that thought that maybe there was something that you were missing, that maybe something had been taken away from you that ought never be taken, you wouldn't be able to express it because you wouldn't have the words. Sure, there would be the feeling of resentment and incompleteness within, but what good is a feeling when there is no way to put it into words? What can a feeling really do when you can't communicate what you want to attain? It's a scary thought. It makes me glad that the dictionary continues to grow larger, rather than the other way around. This book made me think. It took me a little bit of time to read it because I needed to digest what I read. I needed to ponder and contemplate; definitely not a quick read or a bus read, but definitely something worthy of the fame and attention that it has recieved over time. I plan to read more of Orwell's stories.

2019-11-06 05:41

Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Tesfiri 16. Cilt TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bayraklı Yayınları

The Intuitionist is an odd little novel. The copy on the back cover does its best to make the story and tone of the book sound extra weird, while at the same time remaining fairly vague. And I suppose that's a fair representation of what you find inside. The novel's themes and even its setting make for a good jumping off point, but Whitehead continually does things in half measures. The setting, obviously NYC but pointlessly vague, reminded me quite a bit of Quinsigamond, from Jack O'Connell's similarly weird-noir Word Made Flesh. It's all grays and silvers, skyscrapers and tarmac, dirt and grime. In nearly all of the book's scenes the reader is given the briefest sketch of the surroundings and then buried under pages of back and forth dialogue--most of it exposition. The characters are similarly flat, particularly the heroine, Lila Mae Watson. At 100 pages I was hoping for some kind of picture of who she was. At 150 pages I was still waiting. By page 200 I'd given up hope. There are flashes of personality beneath the blankness, but not many. This is sort of endemic to first novels--the crutch of writing a character who is a mirror for his/her surroundings, who doesn't have a bold personality, who is reactive rather than proactive. I lost count of the number of times someone said "you don't talk much, do you?" in regard to Lila Mae. This can work, but only if the surroundings rise to the occasion. The period is also vague--something I often like--but here, in combination with the other vaugenesses, it again feels like a crutch. It's post-war, but we're not told which war. Socially it feels like the 50s, technologically it could be anywhere from the 30s to the 60s. While this is a neat idea, in the end it feels half-baked. The big hook, the battle between the factions of the Guild, never really gets going. Lila Mae is kept at several removes from the real players and so the reader is yet another layer removed. Empiricism and Intuitionism are never well enough defined to feel like anything more than Group A and Group B--it could have been Liberals vs. Democrats, Yankees vs. Red Sox, paper vs. plastic. Maybe this is the idea, but the concept of Intuitionism is one of the big draws of the novel and since it is never explored in any meaningful way I felt very let down. Writers like Borges, Wolfe, or PK Dick would have at least evoked a sense of wonder and tangible weirdness through the concept, but Whitehead settles for "yeah, I just FEEL it." Unconvincing and uninteresting. The racial allegory is present but muted and half-baked like everything else. The flashbacks to Lila Mae's youth and her interactions with the "Uncle Tom" other colored maintenance man play like Morrison-lite and don't bring anything new to the table. The notions of passing brought up toward the end of the book are briefly interesting but it's like holding up a match in a cavernous darkness. I'm interested to see if Whitehead's later novels rebound, but based on this one I'm not rushing out to get them.

2019-11-06 06:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Aspendos Yayıncılık

I really enjoyed this book. I have always enjoyed research and information regarding the brain.

Okuyucu Angela Cortez itibaren Majdany, Poland

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