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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pyramid International
this is an awesome first novel by a young british writer. overall, it is about the current state of culture in England. specifically, it traces the lives of 3 families over a number of years and how their lives intertwine. it raises questions of religion versus science and tradition versus society. zadie smith writes incredibly down-to-earth using very intellectual and biting narration. white teeth is about the roots that all of us have planted and the struggle with accepting them.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Remzi Kitabevi
Nice One!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dost Kitabevi Yayınları
Nikolai Tesla and Mark Twain join together to save the world from Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. Oh yeah. Beautiful art from Steven Sanders and Matt Fraction writes the best fake Mark Twain I can imagine! SCIENCE!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hagop Baronyan
A beautiful translation that remains true to both the poetry of Shir HaShirim and the Hebrew language.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ataç Yayınları
Princess Academy was not a good book. It started way too slow. There wasn’t any action until the end. The ending was also not very good. It felt like… wait this is the end? What happens next though? I don’t get it. This book really needs a sequel. This book needs some help.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları
It is always curious to see fantasy authors who don't consider themselves to be fantasy authors. Case-in-point: Terry Goodkind. The former landscape painter has told us how he isn't a fantasy author in every interview he's ever given: "The books I write are first of all novels, not fantasy, and that is deliberate; I'm really writing books about human beings."(1) "To define me as a fantasy writer is to misunderstand the context of my books by misidentifying their fundamentals."(2) "The stories I'm telling are not fantasy-driven, they're character-driven, and the characters I want to write about could be set in any world. I'd like to address a broader audience."(3) ""What I have done with my work has irrevocably changed the face of fantasy. In so doing I've raised the standards. I have not only injected thought into a tired empty genre, but, more importantly, I've transcended it showing what more it can be . . ." Then the interview usually devolves into a discussion of Ayn Rand and 'the meaning of art', just in case you missed the pretension of declaring fantasy books 'not fantasy!' The guy certainly has a chip on his shoulder, but it makes me wonder whether he has actually read any fantasy. He doesn't seem to realize that the things he claims separate him from fantasy are fundamental parts of how modern fantasy works. A novel that's fundamentally about character interactions with a magical setting? How droll. Goodkind doesn't reinventing the novel; he doesn't even reinvent the fantasy novel, he just twists the knobs to get a little more steam out of it. Michael Moorcock critiqued Tolkien as a false romantic, which is rather apt considering that his love story takes place almost entirely in absentia (prompting Peter Jackson to infuse some extra loving with a hot, elven, psychic dream sequence). Most fantasy authors rectify this by having the girl come along for the journey. Goodkind likes to keep the separation for much of the story as our hero tries to seek her out across a continent (though she is often just in the next room! Oh! What a tragic coincidence!) Actually, after the first time it's just an annoying and painfully artificial way to try to hold off the conclusion for another hundred pages. It's a good thing Terry doesn't have to rely on magical or artificial means to keep his stories fresh! The rest of the time, the hero finds the girl and lovingly transfixes her on his mighty sword. No, really. I'm not sure why these authors always end up feeling as if they have to dump their sex fetish issues at this particular juncture: "Huh, I dig BDSM. Maybe I should confide my fantasies in a book for mass publication". I cannot think of a single female character in the entire series who isn't either raped or threatened with rape. If you want to give me an example of one, remember: I'm counting magical psychic blowjob rape as rape. I wish I never had the opportunity to qualify a statement with 'don't forget the psychic blowjob rape'. I don't mind actual BDSM literature, but I'd rather have my own reaction to it than be told "isn't it totally dirty and wrong!? (but still super sexy, right?)" Porn for porn's sake is fine, but remember, Goodkind isn't some escapist fantasy author, these are 'real stories about real people' so he has to act like his magic porn is somehow a reflection of real life. Goodkind's books are cookie-cutter genre fantasy, but the first few aren't that badly done, and if you like people narrowly missing one another, bondage, masochism, rape, and dragons, it might work for you, but the series dies on arrival part-way through, so prepare for disappointment. If you are enjoying the series, you should probably avoid reading any of his interviews, as he rarely misses an opportunity to claim that he is superior to all other fantasy authors, and never compare him to Robert Jordan, because "If you notice a similarity, then you probably aren't old enough to read my books."(4) Goodkind truly lives in his own fantasy world if he thinks his mediocre genre re-hash is 'original' or 'deep'. Then again, I've never met an adherent of Ayn Rand who didn't consider themselves a brilliant and unique snowflake trapped in a world of people who 'just don't understand'. The Randian philosophies are also laid on pretty thickly in his books, but at least he found a substitute grandmother figure to help him justify his Gorean sex-romp as 'high art'. All in all, he's just another guy who likes to hear himself talk. Despite what he says, nothing separates his work from the average modern fantasy author, and like them, his greatest failing is the complete lack of self-awareness that overwhelms his themes, plots, and characters. My Fantasy Book Suggestions
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
Great science reading by and for the non-scientist. I know I don't understand all of much, but, after reading it, I feel like I understand at least a tiny bit of everything. I applaud Bryson for branching out from what he usually does - fantasticly snarky travel writing - while staying true to his comic narrative voice.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parola Yayınları
I loved this book but can't give it 5 stars simply because it doesn't seem like something that should be a series. I would have enjoyed it much more if The Lying Games was a singular book instead of the first in a series. I'm not looking forward to being misled ten billion times by Sara Shepard, but I'll continue reading because I love her writing style and I'm curious to see if The Lying Games series will actually have a resolved ending (unlike Pretty Little Liars)
when i read this book i related so wellt to her
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çınar Yayınları
I'm a sucker for a good romance. This is one of my favorites. And Darcy is so upstanding.
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