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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İndigo Kitap
This book is pretty good,but it's one of those books that I wouldn't read twice.The theme of the book involves racial equality. To read this book involves concentration, because sometimes the author goes back to certain part in the book to bring out more details. Alan Paton doesn't use any quotation marks. He chooses to preface each line of dialogue with a dash. His style of writing is interesting, but at a certain point you'll think the character is talking (but the character is actually explaining something).
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** spoiler alert ** I loved reading this book. The imagery was spectacular. As to weather or not this is a good representation of what it means to be a Geisha and the entirety of the Japanese culture when it comes to that sect of life are unknown to me. The story flows nicely from one scene to the next for me. I have to say the extent to which the main character went to achieve a relationship with the another character was a bit much for me. The "it all worked" for her interests at least was also something I'm pretty sure would not have happened in actuality. If I were to take anything from this writing it would be the authors ability to give you the feel of him submersing himself fully into the culture and exhibiting it in the way in which he did.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İmece
Full review coming this week!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
The entire tone of this book is much darker than most of Card's other books.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Çocuk
After the apocalypse, a couple of hundred survivors hole up in a ring of barricaded buildings and fight off the zombiefied commuters that attack every night. But is the greatest threat from without, or within? The setup of The Kill Crew is far from original - we've seen much the same thing before in Day of the Triffids, 28 Days Later, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, and so on. In the early pages, especially, this book felt like a grab-bag of random elements from films - a mysterious mist, zombies, cars not working, etc - and they didn't seem to fit together all that well. The zombies, in particular, seemed rather underwhelming, and zombies isn't really the right word: they're people in office clothes who wander around crying. They aren't undead, and they don't eat people. With an author I'd read before, I'd probably have been more trusting, but in those early pages I felt very much as if D'Lacey had put the cart before the horses: he'd come up with the (rather worrying) image of people blasting commuters with shotguns, but struggled to come up with an actual reason for it happening. It felt a bit too contrived. But as it turns out, the book saves its originality for its second half. By the end the commuters have become extremely alarming antagonists, and the book's various elements come together very well. It was never quite clear why The Kill Crew - a team of monster slayers sent out to battle the commuters every night - (a) went out at night when the commuters were active, instead of hunting for them while they slept, and (b) went out at all, since the commuters were hardly bothering their community any more. It seemed like a really bad way to go about things - but then the book makes the point that these aren't soldiers, they're just everyday people struggling to cope. Perhaps it's just the human desire to "do something" asserting itself at a very bad time. Or maybe it's survivor's guilt, a deathwish. And the book would have been much duller if they hadn't left the compound: the sequences where The Kill Crew has to high-tail it back to the Station were exceptionally thrilling. There are a couple of editing glitches. For example, there's a passage where a guy called Lee stops talking, because someone's given him something difficult to think about. Sheri then explains to the reader that she's happy when everyone's quiet, because it means they are concentrating on the job - which makes little sense when we know Lee is quiet because he's thinking about something else. Commuters is capitalised or not fairly randomly. Apostrophes are up to their usual high-jinks: "Stopper's with this problem." "Load you're gun, babe." But those minor things weren't enough to spoil a very exciting and at times very frightening book - and in the end the publisher takes responsibility for those, rather than the author. I enjoyed it a lot. What's most interesting and impressive about The Kill Crew is the way it skips the actual apocalypse to focus on what it's like to be cooped up in an enclave fighting for survival. The book conveys brilliantly a sense of how thoroughly depressing that would be, of how such a life would wear a person down. Many post-apocalyptic books are about rebuilding, about beginning a new cycle, but this one is about attrition, about an apocalypse that won't give up until it has utterly destroyed us. And if it doesn't destroy us physically, it'll erode our humanity until we have no reason left to live. It may not be the most original book ever written, but it's very well done, psychologically very rich, and extremely efficient in its eighty pages. Anyone who enjoys survival horror will find this very satisfying.
I heard about this book years ago on BoingBoing, but never read it until now. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/08/... It was much more in-depth than I expected. I thought it would only emphasize how much America overeats and wastes. This book gave me a wonderful snapshot of what different families eat, how they cook, and how they live. I especially loved that the authors included a recipe for a dish that each family made. The photos are beautiful, and the family stories give a real feeling for each household. As the author Peter Menzel said, "none of these families is meant to be a statistical representation of the country in which they live".
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Schecter
Easy easy easy read. Pretty boring at first, but the ending got and made me want to read the 2nd book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kronik Kitap
One of those books that sticks with you long after reading it. Its 900 pages read like 200...I wanted more by the time I finished it!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arkadaş Yayınları
It took me two starts, but I finally got through this book. Not the type of book (or author for that matter) to read bouncing on an elliptical cross-trainer or treadmill -- the plot is laid out on several different levels. An interesting book for Le Carre -- on a new path at the end of the Cold War.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Egmont Yayıncılık
see my full review here: http://www.girlichef.com/2011/04/wisc...
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