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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Everest Yayınları
This book is one of my 9 year old daughter's favorites, so for Christmas she got the movie, which she and her siblings love. I have not seen the movie but have listened to it on many a car ride. So I thought I should read the book. I am glad that I read the abridged version; that way it didn't waste too much of my time. Though I hope that the unabridged version had more well-developed characters and action scenes, because this one was very much "we did this, then this, then that, etc." Nobody had any real learning experiences. I kept expecting pirates to show up, but no. Maybe now I will actually watch the movie because I gather that it might be more enjoyable.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
For quite a while I thought there was something special about long-time favorite books. Something like a block or a mental brick wall that kept me from being able to put words on a page and describe how I loved that story, and how much the reading and re-reading of it changed me. Well, there IS a special magic surrounding old, favorite and familiar tales, but I’ve worked myself around to being able to write about them (a bit). Robin McKinley is one of my most favorite authors, and her adult fantasy (paranormal? urban fantasy?) Sunshine is one of her best books. The other day I needed sunshine in my life, and I picked it up off the shelf for an extremely well-timed re-read. Sunshine is a young, perfectly ordinary (she thinks!) girl with a loving, messy, normal family. The only thing is, her world is full of the Others, including demons, Weres, and the Darkest Others, vampires. But you can get through life pretty well as long as you avoid the dangerous parts of town and have a modicum of good sense and luck. At least, that’s how it should be. It turns out that Sunshine’s life won’t be so simple after she decides to drive out to the lake one summer night. My friends know about my thing for zombies, but I usually protest that I don’t read about vampires. This is the book that proves me a hypocrite. It’s not that these are seductive vampires. No, they are the utterly alien, terror-in-the-night kind. But as Sunshine discovers, her destiny lies in a gray area, and she won’t get to pick the cut-and-dried human ‘side.’ She’ll have to live with impossibilities. The story that takes her on that journey is fascinating and (as I said) an all-time favorite. McKinley has created an entire world with unnamed Wars in recent history, a vampire menace, partblood discrimination, and a friendly coffee shop at its center. However, the story’s focus is Sunshine, and her first-person narration is what makes the book work. She’s self-deprecating, funny, afraid, and wants to cling to the normality she knows. At the same time, she finds that unnameable courage and strength needed to face evil, to keep on living, and to choose the right thing, even when it all seems bleak. She’s no perfect heroine, and that, I think, is one of the reasons why readers will fall in love with her. The thing that resonated most with me this re-read was the juxtaposition of Sunshine’s primal urge to make food and feed it to people (a metaphor for creation and nurture), and her mission/calling to do what she can to destroy evil (killing, getting her hands dirty). Sunshine also grapples with the questions of how to be a good person while doing something that she fundamentally disagrees with, how to keep the balance of light and dark in her life, and if there is such a thing as a visible taint of evil. I find that the best books will speak different messages to you at different points in time. I felt very adult this time ‘round, reading Sunshine. It was… interesting. In any case, it’s still a wonderful, immediate, funny, dark sort of pleasure, and I’m sure it’ll remain on the favorites shelf for years to come. Recommended for: anyone interested in paranormal and urban fantasy, fans of Emma Bull, Neil Gaiman and Sharon Shinn, and those who appreciate the full immersion experience in a character and fantastical world.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
Loved this book. Good contrast between good guy (Herbert) and bad guy (Eben). Shows very clearly how bad decisions lead to bad consequences. Also showed how Eben finally realized his errors and appeared to repent at the end of the book. Herbert showed compassion and welcomed him back into the community and his friendship.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Panama Yayıncılık
Got the young reader's edition by mistake, loved the children's picture book version, wish I'd read the original but this one gives the basic story. Interesting review in Ed Review online this week. It is very inspiring work, and an interesting juxtaposition with The Storyteller's Daughter which I'm reading now - I'm learning a lot about Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kodlab Yayınları
So I started this the other day, but life got in the way and I only made it to page 5. So at 11am today I sat down to read a few chapters and needless to say I didn't stop until the acknowledgments! (although I read them too and the shout out to Kiresten White was very sweet) I'd say I'm in love with Cricket as much as I am St Claire, but I've decided I'm just in love with Stephane Perkins ( in a non lesbian kind of way) seriously the lady can write not only male characters that you love, but female ones you root for till the very end! I wish Mr Scientific Cricket could build 52 Stephanie robots so we could have a new piece of her work every single week! Thank you Stephanie and Lola for making a bad week better. :)
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegasus Yayınları
So sensitive, so aware, so useful. This book has been a real resource for me over the years. Thanks, Mama!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tonguç Akademi
Very twisted... you will love it!!!
Not as good as the Inkheart series or The Thief Lord but not bad either. The story wasn't revolutionizing but I don't think that was the purpose, it is a quite simple story set in a bit more complicated world. Missed details about the world and the creatures that are mentioned in passing, also thought that the characters could have had a bit more flesh on the bones... But that is my personal opinion. I like books full with personal descriptions and page after page with scenery, some think the less details the better. The romance was way too soppy for my style too, even though the little twist there in the middle was rather nice. But then I'm just as fond of romance as of old cabbage, or less. Quite tricky to satisfy me on that point, to say the least. Sometimes it felt as the story was set in fast-rewinding, letting some things happen too fast. A short summary; I didn't fall in love with any of the characters, I wouldn't have cared if any of them died. Which is rather bad because one should feel SOMETHING when a character dies. I think that I'm perhaps too old for this kind of story, and that makes me sad. Still I think I will read the following parts out of sheer curiosity.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Metis Yayınları
vivid characters...excellent read. Great Author
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Say Yayınları
We read this book in a course on Analysing Science Fiction in college. While the instructor only covered the first chapter, and I was sorely disappointed that we didn't cover the rest of the novel.
Ses. İyi.
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