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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Armada Yayınevi
Eating well is a lost cause.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İkinci Adam Yayınları
I enjoyed this book quite a bit. Sure, not to the extent that I enjoyed "The Russian Debutante's Handbook," but that is to be expected (even authors can tend to suffer from the dreaded Sophomore Slump). That said, it is easy to understand how Aburdistan ended up on so many respectable book critics top ten of 2006 lists. It is biting satire, and by biting I mean teeth wrapped around your jugular satire. It's at times sweet, sentimental, hilarious, repulsive, and obnoxious. The main complaint I have is that the characters, aside from the rotund protagonist Misha, are rather flat and two-dimensional. This can be over-looked at times because the book isn't so much about the plot but more about the situations that it is satirizing, which it does exceedingly well. On the whole, the book succeeds as a tongue-in-cheek piece of socio-political commentary but fails as a novel. Still, well worth the read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kırmızı Kedi Yayınevi
Great book. I picked it up at the library while I was out of something to read. Easy read, but it's continued, probably a trilogy.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İtalik Yayınları
It took me a little longer to get into this than it did the Thursday Next or Nursery Crime series but I'm liking this new distopian thing Fforde has going on. He seriously is one of the most creative and imaginative authors out there. He brings the wonder of worlds from children's literature with the maturity and social themes from adult books to create fantastical dreamscapes that are also brilliant social commentaries.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ve Edebiyat Yayınları
What a beautifully depressing and delightfully hopeless story. If you're already depressed, or are susceptible to depression by reading an incredibly depressing story, this book isn't for you. It's an incredibly easy book to read. It took a few pages for me to get used to the style that the author uses. Once you've caught on, and should you decide to commit to such a downer-of-a-story, you might find yourself in the position I found myself in - midway through the book I couldn't put the book down. Love it or hate it, it's a powerful piece of depressing literature. Cormac McCarthy approaches the story with beautiful simplicity as he paints his words out upon the canvas. Each brushstroke carefully measured and calculated. His humble dialogue, almost a less-is-more approach, is sure to satisfy certain taste buds. The voice of the book is as much a character in the story as the story itself. One of my favorite lines from the book: "Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it." The authorship exhibits rich and beautiful textures that blossom from the pages. There exists a certain bitter tenderness to the story that sketches the most radiant shades of love, survival, and human emotion.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Parıltı Yayıncılık
It feels like reading the diary of Stockard Channing or Dianne Wiest's character from "Practical Magic" in a fun and quirky narrative.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Boyut Yayın Grubu
This book really touched my heart, and I had a hard time putting it away - and the ending really trigged my lust for more. It was over way too fast! "The Help" describes the everyday life of the colored help in the white household, and that very often the white people were oblivious to the fact that black and white people are the same. *more to come*
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Tutku Yayınevi
Gives a good shot of perspective to everyday life, our scramble to obtain things, and the requirements for true happiness.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yeditepe Yayınevi
From these short stories alone I'm willing to say that I thing Cordwainer Smith is the greatest science fiction author of all time. The writing, as in almost all great science fiction, can seem a bit stilted at time, however the stories and ideas paint the only future I could even begin to believe if mankind were to exist another 20000 years.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Puan Akademi Yayınları
As strange as it feels to say, this book reminds me a little bit of Milan Kundera's _Laughable Loves_. It's strange to say because Almond is a young guy who lives in Boston and doesn't share much of the formal writing style or the philosophizing that is characteristic of Kundera, and he lacks Kundera's level of cruelty in his sense of humor. Perhaps the resemblance is because this book is also about love, sex, and the risible failures that accompany preoccupation with them. As Almond's narrator (ahem, cough, a first person narrator named "David" appears in almost all the stories) says in the story "Run Away, My Pale Love: "What we want is the glib aria of disastrous love, which is, finally, the purest expression of self-contempt." I had a hard time deciding between 3 and 4 stars. When he's at his best, Almond gives riveting descriptions and makes me feel like I almost understand what it feels like to be a young liberal guy working on the Hill and dating a GOP staffer named Darcy ("How to Love a Republican"). The story "Among the Ik," about a man trying to fortify relationships with his adult children after his wife's death, made me cry. (If you've been reading my reviews, you can see crying scores big points here. Beware sentimentality.) At his worst, Steve Almond is posing questions about male romantic and sexual confusion that seem overplayed, and, as a woman, slightly irritating. "Geek player, Love slayer," the only first person story told from a woman's point of view, made brave attempts at flipping the perspective, resulting in a mixed bag of success and failure. I would like to see him branch out more and my understanding is that he has been. These stories are all pre-9/11 and maybe that has something to do with the (I-hate-to-call-it-this-but) triteness of the overarching theme. (Originally published in 2002.) However, I would completely agree with the Seattle Times blurb on the front cover: "The coolest and freshest collection of short stories I've read since the 1980s." Um, except that I read those '80s collections in the '90s or '00s. But, point being, he's an exciting voice. One to watch, for sure.
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