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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Esster
Waugh is, as usual, rather acid and condescending. He doesn't take anybody seriously, himself included. That being said, I didn't start this expecting sensitive portrayals of cultures and people. However, IMO, if anybody ever needed a little historical cutting down to size (sorry, bad phrasing considering his height) it is Haile Selassie, and so far Waugh's description of Selassie's coronation is really funny. After finishing the entire book, I would say that if you are really interested in the regions he travels through, it's a funny book and will offer another view of many familiar East African characters. But his constant mockery does get a little grating by the end.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pyramid International
Good.
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this book was highly readable and clever... perhaps too clever at points and certainly dragged a bit in the middle, but the conclusion of the book was exciting and unexpected. pessl creates fantastic metaphors from high and low culture that were fun the whole way through.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Epsilon Yayınları
An excellent, humorous look at a guy who decides to start racing motorcycles. I read this book in a few hours, I couldn't put it down and I was sad when it ended. If you like motorcycle racing you will really enjoy this book; If you race motorcycles (esp at the club level), you HAVE to read this book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Örnek Akademi
Oh my god, this was so good. Better than Hunger Games, even. It helps that the foundation was laid in the first book, so this one, after just a little bit of recap, was able to build and build. The characters get deeper all the time, and the plot is so sneaky and fast and amazing. It had me gasping at points with its cleverness. And still there were parts that got me choked up and other parts that had me laughing. I am blown away by how much I love this story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Milenyum Yayınları
I found this book when I was still in high school. It was a bad time for me. At the time I was upset and confused. Mostly, I was angry at males and the patriarchal society. I didn't know how to relate as a trained under duress strong female who had suppressed submissive tendencies. I also thought there was something wrong with me. The title of this book caught my attention. Damage. How true. I read this book and I was horrified at how a seemingly perfect life could go terribly wrong. I could understand the desires and wants of the father. Yet I couldn't understand how he could do this to his family. His perfect family with the perfect son and daughter. Then the wife, what was wrong with her that she couldn't supply what her husband wanted? It was so baffling for me and once again validated to my young self that relationships and specifically marriage was a bad bad thing. There was a line in the book which meant a lot to me. "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." I felt that to my soul. I guess I've always felt I was damaged some how due to my perversions. When a movie based on this story came out, I saw it. It was just as devastating for me as the book. Then again, I'm a fan of Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche. This is a book with no happily ever afters or happily for now. Even 20 years later, I still remember this book vividly.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Bulut Yayınları
Wonderful twist on the old tale of Guenvevere, King Arthur's queen. She is a queen in her own right..in fact a daughter from a long line of queens of an old realm ruled by. Arthur's rule of Camelot was hard won and marrying Guenevere gave him credence to rule the people of the country.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırk Kandil Yayınları
Feeding on blood is a tough way to make a living. -- Bill Schutt, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures This novel is really five closely linked short stories, of which the second, third and fifth are very good; the fourth, barely mediocre; and the first, eye-rendingly awful. I recommend speed-reading, tinted goggles, and health insurance. (I hope your policy covers this sort of thing.) There is no magic in this book, no turning into bats, no unaccountable difficulties with running water or cloves or garlic. This book is the answer to a question: what would a vampire -- an obligate sanguivore of human appearance, requiring human prey -- be like, if it were a real species that had to make a living in the world as we know it? Charnas' answer is Dr Weyland. He is tougher, stronger and smarter than most humans; also cold, brutal, contemptuous. He understands our habits, and indeed our feelings, when he really has to. He finds empathy inconvenient (and in this, I suppose, he is as human as a West Bank settler, diamond trader or firearms lobbyist). He is moved by human music, and resents us for it. You probably won't like Weyland. (I doubt antelopes much care for cheetahs.) Don't read this book if that's important to you. But you'll miss out on something very special. I'll try to describe it, but I'll have to be a little abstract; to spoil it would be criminal, or at least uncouth. I've never read a detective novel with a solution I found satisfying. But if someday I do, I think it will feel like reading the last chapter of The Vampire Tapestry. With one difference: in this book, we're not told there's a mystery; I discovered its existence only at the moment that I glimpsed the solution. But it's there, hidden in plain sight and with the utmost fairness, from the very beginning. And it unfolds itself elegantly, inevitably, from this book's underlying question: what would a vampire have to be, in our world, to make a living?
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları
An unpleasant book, but I think important to read, for the way that people thought then. Few white writers now could be that honest about prejudice. They can condemn it with sickeningly violent examples, but seem to miss their own complicity, or avoid the hypocrisy that nurtured its existence in the first place. Herbert the author faces it head on, as an unapologetic white man of those times, and his appropriation of the voices of others is racist in itself. But he has laid it out for all to see and for this we can thank him.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Kitap
Maybe it was me reading this after all the hype, but I just didn't love this book. I didn't like that it took nearly 400 pages of exposition and complication to get to the climax of the plot, and about 150 pages of page-turning action to speed through the anticlimax and denouement. And despite the 400 pages of exposition, I really don't think the reader got to know Blomkvist's character all. Salander's character was better developed and likable, despite the fact that she wasn't supposed to be. The last 2 pages were the best part, not because it was simply the end of the book, but because it was unexpected and expected at the same time, and I appreciate that the ending was a little messy instead of wrapped up in a pretty shiny bow. Not sure that I'll pick up the next 2 in this trilogy. If so, I won't be purchasing them.
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