Mark Van itibaren Sukh Chainpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

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11/21/2024

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2019-04-24 23:41

Yerli Kk Klasik Gitar Kılıfı TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yerli

First thought: this is a book that shouldn't work, but does. Why does it work so well? ...OK, I think I'm stealing that observation from another Goodreads review that I read and must have internalized way back when I was working at the bookstore, and I apologize for that if it's your opinion I'm aping. I read a ton of reviews of this right after the store first got it, occasionally stopping in Fiction while shelving to admire the texture of the jacket, wondering, what's the big deal about this book to warrant such a neat packaging? Cover love aside, I didn't want to read it until it recently started winning every award in history (or just the National Critics Book Circle Award, whatevs). Fiction about the lives of lapsed celebrities, big-shot producers, and the people around them holds no interest for me, in that the rendering of actual celebrity lives in print usually reads fake and inauthentic as is. If it's hard to write good nonfiction about celebrity lives (maybe I haven't read enough Truman Capote or Gay Talese), it's probably even harder to write good fiction on the subject. The combination of the speaking and thinking in platitudes that runs rampant in celebrity journalism are certainly to blame for its fake feeling. But there's also how similar and cliched many of the details of celebrity lives are -- addictions, regular people being stunted by their glow, hard work at a young age, connections. Who wants to read an imitation of an imitation? Like, I know that the film Crazy Heart and Jeff Bridges' performance in it was widely considered to be Pretty Good, but it was an imitation of an imitation and it felt that way to me, and I love Jeff Bridges so it pains me to say that. Having read A Visit From the Goon Squad, I agree that the book is both worthy of its jacket and absolutely would not have worked without Egan's talent for building real-seeming lives out of small details and earth-shattering moments equally. Egan's skills lie in the realm of being "humane" and "insightful." But I use those words whenever I am jazzed about characterization, which is 75% of what excites me about books I enjoy, and it's boring to keep repeating those words when what I mean is that if you are also a person with a deep, almost voyeuristic curiosity about other people, then you will enjoy this book. There are few observations about or attempts at deconstructing celebrity life, thank god. Even the ones that are here feel real enough to pass. Some of the best stories are about mega-producer Bennie's assistant Sasha and the people who dart in and out of her life. I am in love with how the first chapter finds Sasha in her 30s in NYC on a date with a random guy, taking him back to her apartment for sex and him seeing a picture of "her friend, Rob, who drowned in college" and then nine chapters later, you get the story "Out of Body" about this guy Rob Freeman, in college. You go through the rush of his feelings in second person, and Sasha's a character (and an important character to Rob) but you wonder where it's all going, and then he jumps naked into the East River at the end in a moment of catharsis and at this point in the book you've been through so many other people's lives, but suddenly you remember, oh my god the first chapter. Really, the interconnectedness of everyone in this book is brilliant. Egan flirts with the space of story, letting incidental characters have a full lifespan too; at the risk of sounding like a cornball, the book succeeds in reflecting real life so well partly because in life, too, there's no such thing as a "secondary character." Before I start talking about Buddhism (in an uninformed way, even!) or pass out from thinking about how every single person I walk by has a full life of experience and feeling, has been loved or treated like shit by someone else with a full life independent of the person I've just passed!...here are my favorite parts of the book: - 4, "Safari" - 10, "Out of Body" - 6, "X's and O's" - The PowerPoint slide on page 191, "What Lincoln Wants to Say/Ends Up Saying" Also, I googled the Minoan octopus design of Bennie's wife's tattoo. It's cool.

2019-04-25 00:41

Sözün Özü 2. Sınıf Matematik Dıt Test (30 Adet) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Sözün Özü Yayınları

This book really puts the reader in his or her own world.

2019-04-25 01:41

Kongo'ya Ağıt - Jean Christophe Grange TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Doğan Kitap

i just might name my first born son aragorn.

2019-04-25 02:41

Tapınak Şovalyeleri : Görünmeyen İmparatorluk TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Vega

"Kleiner Bruder Namenlos" ist wohl eines meiner Liebsten Kinderbücher gewesen. Bin gerade verzweifelt auf der Suche nach meiner Ausgabe und hoffe das ich sie doch noch irgendwo unter meinen Schätzen finde. Denn zu kaufen gibt es das Buch scheinbar nicht mehr. :( Schade.

2019-04-25 03:41

Dünüyle Bügünüyle Kıbrıs Türkleri TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Hamle Yayınevi

Funny, self-effacing. Human!

2019-04-25 04:41

Nowhere Boy (Sınır Tanımayan) TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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This started out well, but I had to return it to the library before finishing.

2019-04-25 05:41

Matilda - Roald Dahl TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Can Çocuk Yayınları

I wrote it... [http:www.healthyfastandcheap.com]

2019-04-25 06:41

Canavar Peşinde 35: Ormanın Laneti Terra - Adam Blade TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları

liking this book was not helped by an excruciatingly anticlimatic review in lit class.

2019-04-25 07:41

Ben Robot - Isaac Asimov TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İthaki Yayınları

Screamingly funny, but you do have to know your history to fully appreciate it.

2019-04-25 08:41

Zaman Yolcuları - Eski Mısır’da - Peter Dennis TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: 1001 Çiçek Kitaplar

A very quaint, sweet, entertaining novel that follows the path of one relationship, all the while examining how/why people come together and fall in love, and how/why they separate, all the while including entertaining bits of philosophy. It's a dissection of a relationship that amuses, and never feels like overkill. Just right. It's a nice quick read, too.

Okuyucu Mark Van itibaren Sukh Chainpur, Himachal Pradesh, India

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