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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hayrat Neşriyat
I'm listening to this because I love to hear Frank McCourt's Irish brougue (sp?). Love it so far.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Teas Press Yayınları
I had a little mix up with this one and the second one but in the end it didn't really mattered because both of them can be read alone. Interesting, funny, sweet and sexy. I really enjoyed these characters and how their story developed, really like the author's writing, is easy to read and it just... kinda flows. Don't usually notice this but since I just read an awfully written book, it was pretty clear.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Siyah Beyaz Yayınları
“We're just being neighborly. Everybody's a neighbor.” - Larry Green Sara Crimson finds herself pregnant and moving in with the baby's father Max Pharaoh. aside from struggling with her latest WIP and facing the ups and downs of a first pregnancy, Sara believes something is very wrong with her new home and neighbors. when people start disappearing, nothing could be further from the truth. this novel is a creepy look into what happens to good people who happen to be in a wrong place at the right time. all of the characters are well fleshed out and the setting is eerie enough to draw goosebumps as the story unfolds. i like how Sara is portrayed as a young woman facing an uncertain future with a man she hardly knows. Max appears to be dorky and sometimes insensitive to her but he is really a good person, sincerely loves Sara and looks forward to being a dad. the neighbors are described well. their distinct personalities and habits contribute to the forbidding atmosphere and paranoia that Sarah feels. my favorite is Cory, a kid who befriends Sara and becomes her ally. readers who are a little faint of heart but still enjoy a good fright might find some scenes gross so be forewarned. author Brian Rowe has definitely kept me reading (and guessing!) way past my bedtime and it was worth it! Disclosure of Material Connection: a copy was provided by the author. i did not receive any payment in exchange for this review nor was i obligated to write a positive one. all opinions expressed here are entirely my own and may not necessarily agree with those of the author, the book's publisher and publicist or the readers of this review. this disclosure is in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255, Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bilgi Yayınevi
** spoiler alert ** Mountolive Have finished the book. The characters in the entire quartet are sensual and erotic but I think this chapter epitomizes the basis of the sexual desire for each other. Justine is a type of Lilith, a succubus. Justine and Nessim's marriage is a sexual passion based on dominance and control; a power based lust. Melissa is the needy character in all the books thus far. The erotism in the books seems to have no basis in traditional ideas of romance. This is what makes the Alexandria Quartet a fascinating series of stories. The internal plot or agenda behind all the seemingly mindless sex is revealed. Also it all unravels for Justine, Nessim, and Narouz. Pursewarden and Melissa are die or are already dead. They are just brought back in Mountolive's memory to fulfill the convoluted plot. As always keeping track of the characters in the series is a challenge within itself. The first two books of the Alexandria Quartet were the foreplay, lovemaking and orgasm, these last two books; Mountolive and Clea are the climax, then the limp, flaccid state in which one reflects. By this time WWII is raging and the remaining characters are either rendered powerless or spent.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Üniversiteli Kitapevi
Usual vince Flynn book
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Destek Yayınları
Devastating, and strictly for the most daring reader. Uncompromising, stark, bleak, unremittingly repetitive, gruesome, sickening and despairing -- The Room is perhaps not as great as Selby's more narratively interesting masterwork, Last Exit to Brooklyn, but it is no less accomplished a novel. The story, if one can call it that, is a mixture of incomplete biographical memories and revenge fantasies as imagined by a prisoner in a cell who is apparently awaiting trial for a petty violent crime (or maybe he has already been convicted), but we're never sure because the prisoner is one of the most unreliable narrators ever committed to the printed page. His life, in the little snippets we get, is unremarkable, marked by poverty and hints of a path leading to a life of crime. Back and forth he bats around obsessions in his mind -- the grayness of his cell (which reminds him of a toy model battleship he built as a kid), the cracks in the walls, the crappy prison food, the nausea in his gut, a zit on his face that drives him even more insane because it refuses to come to a head. But his most elaborate fantasies revolve around the officers who arrested him. As the book proceeds his obsessive desire for revenge against them (even though we never really know their side of the story) takes on the proportions of a self-righteous, self-aggrandizing crusade to abolish abuse in the entire justice system. He imagines his case being taken on by the best lawyers and newspapers and going all the way to Senate hearings -- all unfolded in minute detail. Of course, this all puffs himself up into a hero in his self delusion. Adding layer upon layer in his fantasies, he demonizes the cops as vicious rapists, and then imagines the most disgusting forms of revenge against them -- treating them like dogs in training and submitting them to the most explicitly brutal cruelties one can imagine. There are parts of this book (including the rape of a female motorist) that will make you queasy, I promise you. Along the way, Selby exhibits total mastery of stream-of-consciousness thought patterns. The ways Selby describes masturbation, or the ritual of popping a zit, or the inability of coughing up a knot of phlegm in the back of the throat or removing an ingrown hair are as astonishingly real and true as they are grotesque. Needless to say, this is not the feel-good book of the century, although there is one passage describing a memory of a hand job session between the man and his girlfriend in a movie theater that is an incredible turn on. It's one of the few explicitly sexual passages (and there are many) in the book that is not sick and violent. Written in 1971, it is one of the most angry, misanthropic examinations of one-man's totally hopeless view of the universe as you will encounter. "There's always something fucking you up," is sort of the guy's mantra. Rap has nothing on this book as a cop-hater's manifesto either. Having said that, it's view is anti-authoritarian, but in its place it offers no solutions, just the complete angry resignation of a man confined to a 6 x 9 cell. If you can take the book's challenging repetitive elements and the utterly barbaric fantasies, then you will be rewarded with a reading experience not to be forgotten. Again, not for everyone, to say the least, and hard to take even for me, but undeniably a formidable work of literary art. (KevinR@Ky, slightly amended and corrected, 2016)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Gruv Gear
From arrows to bombs- an eye-opening composition on military myths from ancient times to Vietnam. Secrets of Warfare is a book written by William Weir. Inside the 228 pages, Weir walks through 29 myths of warfare through the ages. Using a combination of theory and factual account the author dispels many of the myths ranging from western military superiority in ancient times through the Vietnam War. The book, while not for everyone, could appeal to a wide variety of people, even if only for some sections. Are nuclear weapons really the ultimate weapon? His accounts of the effects of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as compared to other bombing campaigns on places like Tokyo, will give a new perspective on the attacks for the casual historian and how you view the effects of nuclear weapons. Other sections describing weapons like the long bow and what really happened at Constantinople will appeal to the more hardcore reader looking for facts on military history. Two chapters in the book could cause a stir for some people I would imagine. Most of us have heard of General Douglas MacArthur, but was he the greatest military hero of the United States? After reading the thought provoking chapter on General MacArthur, you may change your mind. From one great leader to another leader who's sanity was questioned, the chapter questioning whether Hitler was a military moron could answer a few questions. While many of us, including myself, considered Hitler a raving madman, this chapter goes to show that he wasn't a terrible military leader, and, in fact, had he listened to other German military minds, he may have lost some battles that they won. Overall, I liked the book. I was pleasantly surprised as I really didn’t expect to enjoy reading a book on warfare through the ages. I credit that to Weir, who seems to understand what sections needed more explanation than others and didn’t drag parts out that didn’t need to be explained in greater detail.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Puza Yayınları
I ended up reading this collection of Mafalda comic strips for a Spanish book club, and it was wonderful. Humor reveals so much about a culture, and this comic takes it a step further with strong political and socio-economic themes from 1970s Argentina. I've been trying to come up with an English equivalent for more advanced English learners, but the closest I've come is Calvin and Hobbes. Any suggestions?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uysal Yayınevi
I learned a little something about myself in this book. For that reason I enjoyed the read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Star Picks
Even if you don't have a boy scout, every house should have a Boy Scout Handbook.
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