Henrik Wichmann itibaren Ocoale , Romania

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12/22/2024

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2019-12-20 09:40

Çapulcu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Togan Yayıncılık

I am always on a Quest to Read Great Literature, and back when I first decided to embark on this quest (in 2009), I found a list from The Guardian of books you absolutely must read as compiled by British librarians. One of the books was The Alchemist, by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. Finally, three years later, I got around to reading it, and I was incredibly disappointed. I confess, part of it was my fault. I didn't know going into it that the book was written as an undercover schmucky self-help book disguised as a fable/parable. We're introduced to a teenage shepherd who wanders around Spain with his flock of sheep. He has a strange dream about finding treasure at the Pyramids in Egypt and then meets a mysterious man who tells him that the only way to be truly happy in life is to realize his "Personal Legend" (one of the things that irritated me more than it should have was the constant capitalization of "Personal Legend", like it's some big important proper noun. Ridiculous), and his legend is to seek this treasure he dreamed about. What ensues is the said journey, full of discovery and wisdom and knowledge, and the whole thing is just irritating. Several times on the journey things happen that force the shepherd to stop; he gets robbed, there's a war in the desert, etc. Every time an excuse comes up for him to avoid fulfilling his Personal Legend, he tries to take it. Which is perhaps the point, but most infuriating is that his Personal Legend isn't one that's necessarily difficult to achieve: show up to the Pyramids, get treasure, be rich. I'd understand if he kept quitting because his PL is difficult, like climbing a big mountain or building a home for every homeless person on Earth. But it's not particularly challenging, so our shepherd hero just comes out looking wimpy and whiny. But he isn't the only annoying character. The girl that the shepherd meets and falls in love with at the oasis camp is aggravating. He tries to use their relationship as an excuse not to leave for the Pyramids, but she says something about how she's a "woman of the desert" and women of the desert must wait for their men. Why doesn't this girl (I think her name is Fatimah?) have her own Personal Legend where she breaks the mold of the anti-feminist society she lives in and go with her lover? There's also the Englishman (that's what he's called: "the Englishman"), the Alchemist, and the mysterious man I mentioned earlier who may or may not have been king of the angels or something similarly ludicrous. The Alchemist fails as an interesting novel and simultaneously doesn't even manage to be a good self-help book. There's a lot of talk about omens and the "language of the universe", and how the universe conspires to allow all of us to reach our Personal Legends if only we pay attention to the signs all around us and learn to speak the unspoken language of the world. It's irritating and stupid. The message I took away? You should pursue your dreams and your destiny but should also rely on arbitrarily-determined signs in nature (there's a part where the shepherd sees birds flying above him and mysteriously knows that it's a sign that the oasis camp where he's staying is going to be attacked the next day...yeah right). I thought the point of self-help books was to motivate you to make an effort in your life, but I felt like Coelho wanted us to rely more on chance than ourselves. This was a very disappointing book, and I rolled my eyes too many times to count. Rating: 1/5

2019-12-20 13:40

Dilde Birlik-Ahmet Bican Ercilasun TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akçağ Yayınları

In the two years since he was rescued from a mundane life among ordinary mortals, at the end of The Magicians, Quentin has realized his childhood dream of becoming a king of Fillory, the neo-Narnia of a series of children's novels. But all is not well. Quentin is restless. Like many young adult's before him, the realization of a childhood goal has not brought him complete satisfaction. Quentin's yearning for something more launches him, and fellow ruler Julia, on a voyage that begins as an entertaining vacation, but evolves into a quest to save Fillory (and many another world) from destruction at the hands of the old gods who seek to rewrite reality to take magic out of it. It is a quest that will ultimately explain a great many unanswered questions from The Magicians as to the origins an nature of magic. On this quest the reader will learn the history of Julia, whose road to magical prowess was far darker than Quentin's. Devastated by her discovery of a world of magic she was barred from entering, Julia learns her skills on the streets, in an underground of amateur wizardry that the scholars of Brakebills scarcely know exists. Quentin's story was that of the bored, affluent Ivy League bound nerd delighted to discover magic and magic schools really exist. Julia's is that of the depressed, angry goth who works for her magic in shabby safe houses and on the streets of New York. Her path ultimately takes her among overly-daring wizards who would attempt things that the academically trained scholars of Brakebills never would, in a story linked to the catastrophe that looms over Fillory. This is a dark book written for adult sensibilities. Grossman clearly loves the genre, and is not afraid to take up its conventions and turn them on their heads. He is writing for an adult audience who grew up loving it as he did, who might be delighted to discover that magic is real. But the reality turns out not to be quite like it is in the books. There are no perfect heroes, merely flawed and messed-up human beings. There is not great war between good and evil to provide moral guidance. Instead, we find magically enhanced echoes of the kinds of issues everyone faces. As in The Magicians, a broad streak of humor runs through the book, though in this volume it has evolved into something more wry than snarky. The change rather befits Quentin's maturation from troubled teen into an adult seeking his life's direction. Direction he does find. By novel's end the ever-yearning Quentin has grown into a responsible hero Quentin. But along the way Quentin discovers life's lessons can be difficult. The closer you come to understanding cosmic mysteries the less interesting things may become, and there is a price inherent to being a hero. At some point he'll discover that as unsatisfying as the realization of a childhood dream can be, they can also be something one does not wish to leave behind when the time comes.

2019-12-20 16:40

İki Beden Tek Ruh TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İkinci Adam Yayınları

The more I read books of this nature, the more I realize how little I know about the phenomenally varied history of this nation. I suspect the majority of you are far less deficient when it comes to your knowledge of history. That said, I have to tell you that this book fascinated me. Think of Mexico, and your first thoughts probably include the idea that a heck of a lot of people want out of there these days—legally or otherwise. I was fascinated to read that at the end of the Civil War, there were a significant number of confederate soldiers who refused to believe that they were defeated and who made the choice to enter Mexico as a result. This book details the migration of between four thousand and five thousand Americans into Mexico at the end of the Civil War. Days prior to his death, Mr. Lincoln apparently expressed concern over the possibility of Americans emigrating to Mexico, pointing out that he was perfectly fine with them leaving the country, but suggesting that he wanted to make darn sure they actually got there and stayed or something along those lines. This book details the exodus of several groups of disillusioned soldiers and their families, and it covers the establishment of several colonies in Mexico. You’ll read about the deceptions and treacheries of the puppet French emperor of Mexico, Maximilian, and his willingness to invite the Americans into Mexico, but then to never really allow them to assimilate into the country and culture. Of course, he had problems simply holding onto his throne, and he would eventually be deposed, which caused even greater problems for the Americans, who were thought to be friends of his. In fact, none of the confederate colonies established thrived; there’s nothing left of them today. There were a few citizens who stayed and eked out a living somehow, but predominantly, the bitter defeated exiles ultimately realized that they were better off to come home under even the worst of circumstances such as imprisonment than to stay in a country where they weren’t ultimately wanted, where they were considered occupiers and invaders, and where the weather didn’t generally cooperate with their ability to grow the crops they were used to growing as sons of the South. This is a highly readable little history, and it helped me better understand the mindset of the defeated confederate soldier—especially those more militant ones who would rather bake and toil in a land whose language and culture they didn’t understand than to deal with the vanquished and conquered communities they left with such promise at the beginning of the conflict.

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