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2020-01-13 22:40

Primo Türk Çocuğu - Ömer Seyfettin TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Genç Timaş

Holy crap, was this book bad! Like 'terrible' bad! And the strange thing is, is that it really didn't start out that way. I remember being 30% into the book and being extremely mad that my bus wasn't a bit later since I had to put it down. Cut to me at 60% and I started thinking "Why am I STILL reading this?!" In fact, the only reason I finished it was because by that time I was already 60% in and thinking "What the hell. I need a long-ish book to up my page average..." My main gripe with The Dark Tide was that it was boring. After the first initial 30%, it just started going downhill. I seriously didn't want to pick the book up after that. I kept thinking "And I care why?" Yes, it was incredibly snarky of me, but my God, I was bored! That should excuse my snarkalicious behavior shouldn't it? Speaking of snark: the romance. Sigh. By the way, that wasn't a good "OMG, they are incredibly cute" sigh, but rather "WHY is a romance even being written in this book!" sigh. I have seen many a mystery ruined because the author thought it was imperative to put a romance into the mix just so the book blurb could read "Intrigue, Espionage, and ROMANCE! This book has it all!" And normally, what it has isn't good. Sure, there are exceptions. Dennis Lehane's Kenzie & Gennaro series is fantastic (the romance is actually my favorite part of the series) and Jennifer Lane's With Good Behavior did the whole romance suspense thing beautifully, but those are about the only ones. The Dark Tide didn't. At all. These two are madly in love after seeing each other like three times throughout the year she's supposed to be mourning her husband and they're already in love. In fact, she gives him that part of herself that she's always kept hidden even from her husband of 24 years. Blach! What is that part supposed to be? Shallowness? Annoyingness? Seriously, I'm dying to know. Only I'm not. Not really. Needless to say, I did NOT like The Dark Tide. It was superficial, cliche, and oh my GOD was it BORING! I'm just so incredibly happy that it was a free Kindle pre-order and I didn't waste any money on it. Besides that, SKIP IT!

2020-01-14 01:40

Ben Ne Olacağım? TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Uçanbalık Yayıncılık

This is a story about indefatigable spirit inside all of us.... It's the kind of book you want to give anyone who has complained about having to endure the pain of sitting in economy class on an aeroplane - (oh no!!) Two men perform an incredible feat and climb the previously unclimbed Western face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes... this in itself makes for an incredible read.... I'm a sucker for stories about people living large, and doing incredible things in incredible places.... but the kicker in this story -- spoiler alert -- (and for me it didn't come as a surprise, as I knew the story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates from a climbing mate, and this took nothing away from the power of the story), was that at the top of this huge mountain (where the base camp is at an altitude higher than Mont Blanc), Joe fell and smashed his knee. At the end of a massive 5 days on the mountain, unable to climb, out of food and water, with bad weather closing in, nothing to kill the pain except for panadol, and a long long way from safety (and much further from medical attention). Joe thinks he is a dead man walking... and worse that his injury will result in the death of his friend Simon. In an incredible one man rescue attempt Simon slowly lowers Joe down 3000 feet of sloping powder snow, one rope length at a time. By this stage most mere mortals would have caved in to the lack of food, lack of sleep, extreme cold, frostbiten fingers or just succumbed to dumb luck and slipped off the mountain. But Joe and Simon were doing it... they were going to make it... and then it happened... they ran out of luck... As Simon lowered Joe in the dark, and in a storm, he was unable to see the ice cliff he was about to lower Joe over... Once Joe went over the cliff, his full weight came on the rope. Simon and Joe were stuck, just like two kids of equal weight on a see-saw, with neither of their legs being able to push off the gound to regain momentum. Unable to communicate in the howling winds and blowing snow... all Simon could do was to sit and wait and hope that Joe could somehow get his weight off the rope before his precaious position on the side of the mountain gave way. 60 minutes later sitting prone in freezing conditions with not a single sign from below that Joe was conscious, Simon remembered the knife in his ruck-sack and made the hellish decision to end the impasse by cutting the rope!! The story then follows Joe's miraculous survival and how against all the odds he got himself down off the mountain. It is incredible how much pain the human body can put up with... I guess the instinct to survive at all costs is an irresistible urge. Read it be amazed. Then go see the movie... it's breath taking.

2020-01-14 03:40

Sorular ve Cevaplar Yıldızlar ve Gezegenler - Robin Kerrod TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları

One of the books they made us read in film school way back when was Christopher Vogler's book THE WRITER'S JOURNEY: MYTHIC STRUCTURE FOR WRITERS. Vogler has come out with a third edition, so I thought I'd take a read. Vogler is coming at story structure out of the Joseph Campbell HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES tradition. Campbell theorized that hero stories have a similar structure across all human cultures, and that there are archetypes that we always see in them: the refusal of the call, the mentor, the inmost cave, etc. Vogler attempts to relate Campbell's character archetypes to successful movies. Who is the Shadow? Who is the Shapeshifter? Who is the Mentor? He also outlines a basic structure for the story: 1. Ordinary World 2. Call to Adventure 3. Refusal of the Call 4. Meeting with the Mentor 5. Crossing the First Threshold 6. Tests, Allies, Enemies 7. Approach to the Inmost Cave 8. Ordeal 9. Reward 10. The Road Back 11. Resurrection 12. Return with the Elixir When you try to apply this formula to some movies, it works quite well, e.g. STAR WARS. Bear in mind, though, these often seem to be movies written by writers who are consciously trying to apply Joseph Campbell to screenwriting, as George Lucas was. Back in film school, I tried a bunch of times to relate these steps to stories I was trying to tell, and I had trouble telling what step I was supposed to be on. Lisa pointed out that many of the steps applied to the series I'm working on (Natural World, Refusal of the Call) but later on it gets difficult to say which part is "The Road Back" and which is "Return with the Elixir". When Vogler tries to fit stories that aren't intended to be epic hero tales into his formula, the results aren't so neat. It can feel like he's shoehorning the facts into the theory, as when he looks at PULP FICTION. No "Shapeshifter" character? Claim that Vincent Vega and Mia's dance moves "reflect the SHAPESHIFTER archetype, as they try out various masks and identies in the APPROACH to love" (p. 275). Uh huh. I'm not a big fan of formula, myself. I'm agnostic about Blake Snyder's formula (see my earlier post on SAVE THE CAT!) because I can see how it might work. My problem with Vogler is that while it is an interesting way to look at movies, and to understand what they're doing for the audience, I don't see how it helps me write one. It looks like a way to analyze what is going on in a movie, rather than a way to write a movie. I should note that Christopher Vogler is not a professional writer, but a professional story analyst (if I understand his resume right). He shares credit on one German movie. Mostly, my impression is, he works with writers that the studio feels could use someone with a deeper understanding of story structure. In that case I would imagine that his approach, actually applied by him, might work. But if you want a mythic perspective on screenwriting -- and how it fits into the grand epic tradition of storytelling -- then you might well check out THE WRITER'S JOURNEY.

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