Chamson Aube itibaren Panda, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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11/21/2024

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2019-04-23 00:41

Nietzsche Ve Babaannem-Mustafa Ulusoy TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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"A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley is a revisionist's tale of "King Lear" set on the expanse of an Iowa farm. I haven't read "King Lear", but my husband summarized the play for me: King Lear has 3 daughters. He decides to give up his kingdom to his children. The two oldest daughters take the land and drive their father mad through evil and manipulation. The youngest daughter is banished when she refuses the kingdom and returns later to save her father from her villainous sisters, but it is too late and the whole thing falls apart. Smiley's version is narrated by the oldest daughter, named Ginny by Smiley. Like a lot of revisionist literature, when a classic villain gets the opportunity to tell her side of the story, the line between good and evil gets very blurry. In the beginning of the novel, Ginny explains how the wet, marsh land of their farm was transformed into rich crop land. She details the laying of miles and miles of drain tile, but she comments several times on the water lurking below the land. What is below the visible is a theme throughout Smiley's book. Loyalties, personalities, relationships, memories and more are not what the visible would make them out to be. It is the secrets, lies, and hidden sins that destroy everything. Not one single villain. Personally, I like Ginny more by the end of the book despite some terrible choices. I like her because she finally lets go of the need to live up to the expectations of the farming community. She tries to take control of her own life. She frees herself from the farm, her unhappiness, and she tries to let go of her tragic past. I do not think Ginny and Rose are the villains of this novel, like they are in "King Lear." They are too complicated to be given such a simple label. For awhile, I thought that all of the men in the book were the villains, but I can't call Pete and Ty (Rose's and Ginny's husbands) villains for being cowards. Nor can I call Jess Clark (Rose's and Ginny's love interest) a villain for sleeping around. No, if I were going to name the villain of the book, it would be Larry Cook, King Lear himself. What else but "evil" do you call someone who beats and molests his daughters. He is the secret holder, the shame-maker, and the tyrant. Unfortunately for his daughters, he goes crazy before he ever has to face his abomination and they are left living with the terror of their memories. Because of the past of the characters, I kept wondering if Smiley was going to discuss forgiveness. But she never does. After all, Ginny is telling the story of pragmatists not spiritualists. Ginny just wants to try to forget and move on, not forgive.

2019-04-23 01:41

Kolay Yoldan İngilizce TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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This 6th and final book in the Dune saga that Frank Herbert wrote before his death in 1986 stands as one of the best in the entire series. Many have complained that it doesn't "go anywhere" for the first 150 pages or so, but I think it does. There are all of these seemingly unrelated plot threads that slowly but surely converge such that by the time you're halfway through the book, it all makes sense. The last half of this book is a mixture of intrigue and action that left me breathless and unable to put the book down until I was finished. The story here continues from the end of Heretics of Dune, with the Bene Gesserit hidden on their base planet of Chapterhouse, hiding and regrouping from the rampaging Honored Matres who hunt and slaughter them across the galaxy. However, the Bene Gesserit soon deduce that the Honored Matres themselves are being hunted, driven back into the Known Galaxy from the outer depths of The Scattering...and who these mysterious hunters are is not known. A desperate plan is conceived and ultimately carried out, but nothing goes as it was 100% planned and the resulting outcome leaves the two orders in shambles, merged together by force, with factions resisting, including some of the major players, who make their escape into the unknown. Throughout all of this are glimpses of two mysterious and all-powerful watchers who try to gather the most powerful of the renegades in their net...what ends up happening? Read it to find out! Chapterhouse: Dune is famous for it's ending, which has been alternately called "cliffhanger" and "open." There has been raging debate over the intervening 25 years whether or not Frank Herbert intended to complete the saga with a 7th book, or leave it open-ended and finished with Chapterhouse:Dune. This is bolstered by two arguments...the short tribute to his wife that follows the final chapter (she died a year before this was published) and the fact that the mysterious watchers take the form of an elderly couple patterned after Frank and his wife Beverly. Further muddying the waters are the two horrendous "sequels" Herbert's son and his hack-writing partner Kevin Anderson published, supposedly based on an outline for "Dune 7," the supposed sequel and wrap-up to the saga, written by Frank Herbert and found in a safe-deposit box after he died in 1986. I won't get into any spoilers here, but suffice to say that the fact that the VAST MAJORITY of the "sequels" tie in characters created and introduced in Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's "prequels," written YEARS after Frank died, and it's clear that, even though the outline may very well exist, they did not follow it one bit. This becomes clearer after reading the "sequels," (and don't worry, I'll savage those books and reveal the lies from those two after I read them again and review them on here). Thus, we are left with an open/cliffhanger ending that is at the same time satisfying and frustrating. This is a testament to Herbert's imagination and talent, however...the final chapter of Chapterhouse:Dune is chilling and amusing and leads your imagination into a million "what-ifs" about what happened next. If only Frank could have lived longer and finished the saga (if he ever indeed intended to), but we still have his 6 Dune books and all of the imagination-spurring it provides, and isn't that really what we want out of the best fiction in literature?

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