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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Remzi Kitabevi
Having read some reviews on here I have discovered that this was a second book. I didn't know this and haven't read the first one. I thought this book was fantastic. At least, the story was. I was gripped right through to the end. I was distraught with some of the turns of events. I cared for the characters and their plights. I particularly liked how the plot didn't portray anyone in particular as wrong and left the reader trying to work out what was best to do for everyone as well. Either way, someone was going to get hurt and in the end, everyone did. Such a sad story. This may be a problem with editing or translation but I did get a little annoyed at the quite regular spelling mistakes and glaring grammatical errors. Usually if this was happening over and over again, I would put down the book because I would get too frustrated. I think the fact that I managed to overlook this and finish the book pays testament to how much I enjoyed the story. Another problem was the continual use of foreign language in dialogue (I read this a long time ago and have forgotten where it was set and what language it was in - sorry!) This is an example that I have made up but it gives an idea of what I mean "Where is your *insert foreign word*, your honour?" People don't speak like that - in English the sentence reads where is your honour, your honour? It is very frustrating. Either leave the reader to work out your meaning from the context or put it in English. I don't mind the odd hint and I am happy with the foreign words to be there but I found it happened over and over again and it became quite frustrating. I have since seen this happen in other books (the author that comes to mind at the moment is Khaled Hossieni).
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilim & Gönül Yayınevi
WHY: exactly the old-fashioned novel I like. But then, I like Anthony Trollope and Henry James, so my tolerance for novels in which the "action" is often interior is high. One reviewer gave a quote from the book which is typical of Whipple's writing: "She painted in oils. Not mildly as befitted a maiden lady of fifty-three years, but boldly and badly." I can tell I'm going to love it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
Yeah, it's perversely inventive and gleefully dystopic, but, like: “Lapin headed for the entrance. He entered. Went up to the second floor. Walked through the empty smoking room. Walked through the open door of the men’s toilet.” I hope he had a little more energy when he wrote the book about the clones of Stalin and Khrushchev getting it on.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 1001 Çiçek Kitaplar
Where should I even begin with this book saga? One of the most glaring problems with this book is its writing -- it's just bad. There were a lot of grammar mistakes -- simple mistakes that a good editor would easily catch. Plus, the plot is extremely predictable and one dimensional -- there was no major plot twists, and you pretty much knew how each book would end. Then, there's the whole issue with the protagonist -- she's very bland. After reading the four books, I still don't know what Bella is like personality wise -- she's devoid of a personality. The term "Mary Sue" is often thrown around, but in this case, it's well-warranted. Everyone at the school is head-over-heels in love with Bella Swan, all the hot guys are jealous of her, and everyone wants to be her friend. Yet, we get no explanation of WHY everyone likes her. It's lazy writing. But my main problem was with the message of the book. It seemed as if the author was telling us that girls aren't complete unless they're involved with a guy, which, as an asexual, really bothered me. When Bella started going out with Edward, her entire life and thoughts revolved around him -- no one else. Then, when he left, she was almost unable to function. Now it's one thing to be completely in love and be devastated when the love of one's life leaves. But with Bella, it just reached an extremely unhealthy level -- she became extremely clingy. And Edward -- the stalker. In the first book, he broke into Bella's house, and watched her while she was sleeping. Ladies and gentlemen, he is what society would consider a stalker, not some extremely romantic guy. The fact that Bella was okay with this is just *shudder*. Anyway, bottom line: if you want to read a good series, Twilight is not for you.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
So not sure of how to review this book. It’s slow paced, lingering on the scents and odors of everyday life in every minute of it. And yet it’s so much more than that; in many ways it’s amazing. A perfectly normal, everyday human being is born lacking one tiny, non-visible element of human composition (smell) and because of this he’s shunned, unloved, reviled and unnoticed throughout life, setting him apart from everything. He becomes (of course) a despicable being without any concern for others. Yet he has an overly sensitive and accurate sense of the very thing he lacks: smell. This sense leads him to what he considers perfection and ultimate goodness; something he wants to possess and have and keep. That thing? Love, innocence, complete acceptance. And only smell can give him this. So he gets the scent through despicable acts….but finds that the scent doesn’t give him what he craves. Susskind gives us a character we both hate and feel compassion for; we almost root for Grenouille and want him to find his way to normalcy. I don’t imagine that’s an easy thing for an author to do. A very odd story of Devil/God, good/evil, need/austerity, aloneness/community. Well worth it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kamer Yayınları
It's a pretty good light read, but as Sley says, it's another one of those books that highlights how wacky those rich people are...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Donizetti
I finally realized I can now use goodreads to replace the defunct 'reading' section on my blog. Awesome. But, I did actually have some short comments on books up on my blog. This was what I had up about this book right after I read it: I really enjoyed this; in fact, I sort of forgot at moments that it wasn’t fiction, because Nafisi’s writing is so literary, at times a bit whimisical, and what is happening in Iran is so tragic and in a way unbelievable, that it seems quite a bit like fiction. I guess I mean to say that it’s a really good story. It’s also really informative, at least for someone like myself who really didn’t know much about what happened in Iran at the end of the ’70s and throughout the ’80s. It made me think about going to bookstores, libraries, and other similar places in a different way (I went to Chicago’s Printers Row Book Fair just a few days later - hundreds of thousands of books all piled together and people just plunging into them); I suddenly appreciated anew the access to so many different types of writing, and to literature in particular.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İthaki Yayınları
Oh, my! The writing -- superb! The story -- fascinating! The lessons, the philosophy -- the descriptions of so very much previously unknown -- this is an A-1 book. I've been in Mumbai (Bombay) and have seen the slums. I have read much about India and Afghanistan; no other book could "put" me there as Gregory David Roberts did with "Shantaram." More than 900 pages and if I didn't have other books waiting to be read, I would re-read this immediately -- a "perfect" book!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Müptela Yayınları
*** THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS *** For a long time I have been wanting to read a novel by Octavia E. Butler. Her last book, Fledgling, somehow seemed to be the right first choice for me, as I've always had a thing for vampire-stories. I ordered the book from a local book store and waited for days in eager anticipation for it's arrival. The book arrived and I read it. The first few pages seemed promising, for its premise was different than most other vampire books that I have read. The book quickly became a disappointment to me (to put it mildly), as it touched on a subject that I find both disgusting and distracting. The main character, Shori, is a 53-year old female vampire that suffers from amnesia. Shori is however not like other vampires, she is black (which for me is pointless as I have always been racially unbiased - she could have been purple for all that I cared), she is not "undead" or some fantastical strange mutation. She belongs to a different species that developed side by side with the humans. She does not look like other vampires of her species, for she physically looks like a 9-11 year old human child, although she certainly doesn't act like one. I can accept that, for who's to say that the physical development of a vampire child follows that of a human? Shori has several symbionts that she shares her life with and whom she feeds from, for her species is not a merciless bloodthirsty killer. What I could not accept, enjoy or even tolerate, was the fact that Shori is a sexually active child. She is not sexually active with children of her own species (that, to a certain extend I could have "understood"), but she has sex with adult men and women of the human species, with individuals who seemingly have no qualms and troubles of having sex with what (appears to be) a human child. It's bizarre at best, utterly disgusting and perverted at worst. I don't get the point of this pseudo-paedophilia, I really don't see where Butler wants to go with this. Because I enjoyed other aspects of this book I continued reading; I had an expectation that Butler had a larger plan with this pseudo-paedophilia, that there was some point that she was trying to make, but frankly I never saw it. IF there even was a point with it, for Butler herself has been known to have said that this book was meant as a lark, a joke. But sex with children, even if consensual, is no joke: it's just plain wrong. Frankly, I am amazed how any publisher would chose to publish it in the form that it is today. I hope that her other works are better than this.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Final Yayınları
I find Barbara Michaels novels a challenge to start and to finish. There is enough mystery to become engaged, but a great deal of family history to read and understand in order for the reader to have sympathy with the character. Sometimes it is barely worth it to struggle through the explanations in order to move the plot forward. However, hope springs eternal. Sometimes I think that Barbara Michaels needs to work harder to achieve that "willing suspension of disbelif" with her readers so that the action can not be dragged by the explanation of so many background details.
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