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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Akıllı Adam Yayınları
I'm a huge Star Wars fan but even I thought this book was only so-so. There were a lot of aspects of the Yuuzhan Vong that I though could have used some more explanation. Particularly, the ooglith cloakers. I had trouble envisioning what these things looked like once put on. The Vong must appear more human with them on since Yomin Carr used one to fool the scientists on Belkadan. Also, what do the Vong sound like? I imagine they sound pretty ferocious when not trying to masquerade as humans (somewhat Klingon, perhaps) but do they sound different while wearing cloakers? I felt that while Salvatore did a great job with action sequences in the book. He could have spent more time fleshing out this COMPLETELY new aspect he introduced to the Star Wars universe, the Yuuzhan Vong. Perhaps this was by design to give the reader the same sense of confusion that the characters in the book must have felt as they engaged the Vong. Hopefully, more will be explained in the subsequent New Jedi Order novels.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İz Yayıncılık
Ich weiß gar nicht wie ich es beschreiben soll. Hochgelobtes Erstlingswerk, interessante Ansätze, aber für mich total wirr und in keinster Weise fesselnd. Zugegeben es ist interessant die Hauptfigur über Nebenfiguren zu charakterisieren. Allerdings werden dazu immer neue Nebenfiguren mit kompletter Vita eingeführt um in zwei Sätze zu erklären, was die Hauptperson gerade macht. Das spannende ist, dass diese Nebenfiguren nie wieder auftauchen, und diese Art von Informationsbeschaffung wird bei der fünften Nebenfigur schon nervig. Hinzu kommen Zeitsprünge, zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, bei denen häufig erst nach vier oder mehr Seiten klar wird in welcher Zeit wir uns gerade befinden. Als letztes noch die Person die sich V nennt, aber an der Stelle höre ich auf, wer es ließt wird danach wissen was ich meine.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
WW@ historical ficton about the Japanese internment
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If it's as good as "...Russian Debutante's..." then you're in for a treat. So long as you liked his first book. If not, then maybe you've lost your sense of humor somewhere. Best to go look for it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Berfin Yayınları
"The Best of Michael Moorcock" is a brand new collection of the legendary author's best short fiction, containing several of his classic stories, as well as one previously unreleased story. The collection, lovingly edited by John Davey with Jeff and Ann Vandermeer, is nothing short of excellent. There are really no bad stories here, and some that are simply stunning. As someone who has read many of Moorcock's novels but barely any of his shorter work, I was amazed at how well the author's skill - so much better known for the long, sweeping epic - translates into the much more concentrated short form. Also amazing is the ease with which Moorcock switches tones and styles, from the light-hearted to the overwhelmingly deep, from fantasy to SF to non-genre fiction, from the joking staccato prose of "London Bone" to the lyrical sadness of the Elric story "A Portrait In Ivory". It's easy to see why this man is a legend. One of my favorite aspects of this book are the subtle typographical touches added to each story's title - e.g. the words "Behold the Man" are placed in the shape of a cross, and "London Bone" looks like a tube sign. Each one is different and somehow relevant to the story, and they give the book an old-fashioned - in a good way! - and almost playful air. SF fans have been lucky this year, with two excellent best-of short story collections so far: first Tor released a brilliant Gene Wolfe collection, and now there's Tachyon Publications' Michael Moorcock collection. If, like me, you weren't very familiar with these authors' short works yet, getting these books is practically a must.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık
Frequently brilliant, always stimulating exploration of myth, art, psychology, and oh yes, religion, for which Rank makes a clever case as a necessary stage in humanity's achievement of an individually oriented culture. A treat for your inner creator.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Asel Yayınları
If you want to give a high school/college graduate a useful graduation gift this spring… this book is it. Nothing about this book is false. Some of it is wrong and untrue, but not false; thus the contradiction(s): it’s all in the application. He even implicates himself with his words. As such, I say: Such is the fate of honesty, it’s always moving, hence the harsh rub from a distance.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
If you know me at all, you know I read a lot. So I don't take these reviews lightly. Here goes: What is the What is without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read! The story of Valentino Achak Deng, a so-called Lost Boy of the Sudan, is so moving that after reading the book I went to his web site and signed up for information on how I can help the cause. Dave Eggers, who is easily one of my favorite fiction writers, has donated the proceeds of the book to a foundation co-founded by he and Valentino (www.valentinoachackdeng.org). The writing is brilliant and the story is compelling...but I think what makes the book so great for me is the sheer tragedy of this boy's life and the unbelieveable sense of courage and optimism he showed throughout a life that would have caused most people to simply give up. Valentino's courage is beyond belief. As his story unfolds, it's unimaginable that he could have survived and it's heartbreaking how at each turn things continued to get worse. His survival is a mystery that will never be solved...yet here he is as a young adult doing everything he can to help the world learn from his experience. The book was also a great history lesson about Sudan and Africa in general and gives the reader great insight into the troubles in Darfur today. If the world does not learn from this story then perhaps we are doomed as a species. Finally, though the story is Valentino's, the writing is all Eggers. He could have easily played the story as a straight biography, but instead Eggers weaves Valentino's life together in a beautiful way -- going back and forth between his time in Africa and his new life in Atlanta. And while his life in Africa was indeed a horror, his life in the U.S. is not much better and perhaps the biggest lesson of the book -- we have tried to help these Lost Boys but we are far from perfect and have made many mistakes as a society. It's ironic that this morning I awoke to a front page story in the Arizona Republic about a birthday celebration for Arizona's Lost Boys (there are about 500 Sudanese boys living in the Valley). They all celebrate their birthday on Jan. 1 because they have no idea when they were really born. It's also ironic that I finished this book around the same time as I saw The Kite Runner. When I read The Kite Runner, and even Hosseini's second novel A thousand Splendid Suns, I thought life was terrible for the Afghans -- but Valentino's real story makes the fictional story of the boys in The Kite Runner seem tame by comparison. But together these stories make me feel both lucky to live in America and at the same time ashamed that the world can let things like this happen. As I sat reading Valentino's story on my sofa, I thought here is a boy who has experienced things I couldn't even imagine, while I sit in my 2100 square foot home with a fridge full of food, two cars, a happy and relatively healthy family, casually spending $4 for a cup of coffee and throwing out more food each day than Valentino ate in a month. It reaffirms my political views and teaches me to be thankful for what I have -- and more importantly that I have a profound responsibility as a citizen of the world to help those who are less fortunate. If you think that makes me a bleeding heart liberal than I'm proud to wear that badge. Read this book. It will change your life.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
A few months back this book was proposed as a possible choice for our book club. I read the back and immediately voted against it as the synopsis did not sound like something I would be remotely interested in reading. But months later after many friends gave it rave reviews I decided to give it a try. Glad I did - I had a hard time putting it down and actually read the second half of it in less than 24hrs. Hope the movie doesn't disappoint. Onto the second book...
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Martı Yayınları
This was another book that shook my world at the time I read it. John Piper makes it clear why God must be our supreme joy. He starts with the premise that we glorify God by enjoying Him. If we don't delight in Him, we are sinning because delighting in anything else above Him is idolatry. The subtitle, "meditations of a Christian hedonist," may throw some people off (becuase hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure), but that's just the point. The only true pleasure is in God, therefore pursuing Him is fulfilling the only proper form of hedonism. It's impossible to summarize, but Piper does a good job of unpacking it.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kemal Tahir
Oldukça iyi bir kitap! Sevmediğim tek şey Kyle / Adrian'ın ne kadar hızlı değiştiğiydi ve Lindy ve Kyle / Adrian'ın ilişkisinin duygusal olarak gerçek olduğunu hissetmedim.
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