Lionel Serre itibaren Veneküla, Harju County, Estonia

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11/04/2024

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2019-12-22 17:40

Çikolata Köpek - Holly Webb TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

This book was doing the rounds amongst my older cousins in about 1983 when I was about 11 years old. I read it at that point and then later watched the tv series starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward when it hit South African screens about a year or so later. I reread the book when I was in my 20's. I decided to put down a few words about it on a whim as I came across the book while browsing the site. Please bear in mind that I last read this book over a decade ago. While the thought of a celebate Catholic priest loving a woman and fathering a child with her was considered scandalous at the time, recent admissions from factions within the Catholic Church have lessened the degree of shock somewhat. Indeed there are those of Catholic upbringing who might be forgiven for whimsically thinkiing "If only...". I for one, who experienced Catholicism first hand for 8 years at a school founded and run by Brothers, if forced to, would certainly have chosen a scandal about sex between consenting adults than one in which it emerges that randy priests have preyed on children for many years. That said, the book is well written and presents an interesting study in a subject seldom tackled in fiction, viz. the political machinations engineered by an attractive man to woo favour from a wealthy woman - favour which he was able to use to get to the very top of his industry. Froma technical perspective, there were some questions left unanswered. For example, what did Fr. Ralph do to get him transferred to the town where Meggie's childhood is set; or, did he consciously engineer his relationship with Mary Carson. Of course these could have been strategic oversights to enable a sequel (Thorn Birds - the Missing Years?), or perhaps a desire to leave some questions unanswered to force the reader to think about the book. Perhaps the latter is so, as many years later, I still seem to have remembered enough of this book to be able to write about it without having to read other reveiews or google names or places. People have referred to The Thorn Birds as one of the greatest love stories of the modern era, while others have pointed out its paedophilic undertones and portrayal of child seduction. Yes, sometimes people can get a bit too deep. I suggest that you give it a read - even an atheist will find some joy in Meggie's anger with God - and judge for yourself. Writing about it has made me nostalgic so I'm going to go home and fish out my old dog eared copy. I may amend this review after this 3rd reading.

2019-12-22 18:40

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Peter Handke

I have to say I liked this book. IT really offered a good look into the history of campaigns into Afghanistan. It did drag in some parts but the story itself was still fascinating and it really puts in to prospective how one wages war in Afghanistan. Now according to the history of warfare in this country (according to the author) there was really only one group that had any coherent success in Afghanistan. You see, while invading the land of the Afghans was easy occupying and leaving it is where everyone fucks up. Only one group manged to go in and rule Afghanistan with relative ease and they were the Mongols. The Mongols had a very simple strategy that did not require the whole occupy strategy. Nope these guys simply did genocidal blitz's of the country and went on about there business. Simply a mass slaughter of as many as they thought needed and then they would tell the Afghans were to send the tributes and grains. Oh, and don't make them mad, Genghis Khan is not a nice fellow when mad or even mildly annoyed he will wipe-out whole levels of civilization. So yeah total scorched earth warfare with no regard to any human life seems to work and anything less than that is failure. Many people talked after the 9/11 of Bombing Afghanistan backed to the stone age but they had been living in the stone age since Genghis Khan annihilated there society (of the time), the Afghans have simply never recovered from the repeated sacks and brutal dominations of the Mongols. So that is it as far as I got from strategy. Decent book overall

Okuyucu Lionel Serre itibaren Veneküla, Harju County, Estonia

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