Luis Arturo itibaren Silhouette, Seychelles

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2019-07-19 16:40

Haydi Sayalım: Elmalar (1.Baskı) - Joan Holub TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: TÜBİTAK Yayınları

I wanted to like this book, but couldn't. I guess I had higher expectations - these characters were just typical college students who just wanted to party and behave irresponsibly, just give in to their desires, and didn't want to follow any 'rules' - Islamic or otherwise. There were plenty of complaints about the Qu'ran, the Prophet (s), hadiths, hell and heaven, ICNA conferences, imam and mosques and MSAs, Islam's treatment of women, etc. While I was sympathetic towards a good number of their complaints, reading the same angry rants over and over got very repetitive and tiresome - especially since I didn't find any of the characters appealing, or the plot interesting. Now, maybe that's because I don't like punk music. I was expecting much more of a political slant - how about throwing rotten sandwiches at the gleaming car of that corporate executive? How about spitting in the face of that slimy politician, or harassing that military recruiter? Where were the complaints about the unfairness of the global economy? Where was the concern for human rights? And the anger against lies and hypocrisy we are fed on a daily basis by the media? Na, these kids were totally focused very much on themselves, which is why they won't cause any real changes - within Islam or without. Most likely, they'll grow out of their 'punk' state and become responsible citizens (horror of horrors!!). If not, they will just waste away in irrelevance.

2019-07-19 17:40

Yedi Güzel Adam - Cahit Zarifoğlu TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyan Yayınları

It may seem a bit early for a book about them, but the Libertines story already involves so much drama it was inevitable. This is basically a collection of interviews with Carl, Pete, record label people, and photographers all put together by some buddy of their's. So it reads like a really long magazine article, which is exactly how I wanted it to be. As silly as it may seem, I've been kind of moved by a couple NME articles about them. I love their music and it's so sad how totally fucked-up they are. Especially Pete. Jesus, the guy is a disaster. Before any of their drug stuff came out in the press, a sales rep at their record label was telling me about Pete being driven somewhere by the reps in Seattle. He asked if he could smoke in the car, to which they said yes. Next thing they know there's a strange smell and they see that he's smoking crack in their car. Smoking to him means smoking crack. The non-interview parts in the book aren't particularly well-written or anything and I kind of get the feeling the guy is a bit of a name-dropper/chancer. Also, this isn't really about the Libertines. It's about Pete and Carl. It's like, I guess if I read an Oasis book it would really be about Liam and Noel, but I would still want to know what the other guys in the band had to say. There is this one photo of Pete holding his new baby (by this friend of Sadie Frost's who also has a kid by Liam Gallagher) and he looks so wasted and so fucked up. I can't really stand it. I had to put it down a couple of times during descriptions of crack dens and Pete in prison for robbing Carl's flat. But the most disturbing thing about this book is that things have gotten worse and worse and more full of drama since last year where the book leaves off. Usually when you read a biography of a drug addict they are currently either cleaned-up or dead. The fact that he's not makes this so depressing.

2019-07-19 22:40

Tekstil Kimyası TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Adana Nobel Kitabevi

These essays are of a more personal nature than I expected when starting this book. They are thoughtful, often insightful, and sometimes rambly, all of which is excellent and makes for a good read in my world. Because they are often unflattering to the first-person narrator, they also come across as honest, another thing that helps keep us firmly on the side of the narrator--it's hard to walk away from all that juicy disclosure. A couple of D'Ambrosio quotes that caught my attention: "The whisper and hiss and cranky dyspeptic sputter of a Coleman is as distinct and holy a music as the rev of a Harley. I like the celestial quality of the light, Venusian and green, the rounded simplicity of the mantle, the paint job, of course, and the way one sounds when swung by the bail." "In fact he was an emphatic person the way other people are tenors or baritones, and because I had the window seat and felt trapped I began to get buggy. Everything he said stuck to my skin." "The Crime That Never Was," "Orphans," and "Documents" stood out as my favorites of the bunch, although "Mary Kay Letourneau," "Whaling," "Hell House," and "Biosquat" were all good, too. There are a few other essays here that are already fading for me, but I don't remember any of them being dull while I was reading, so this probably just means they didn't strike me as much as the ones I do remember clearly, not that they weren't also good essays themselves. There's a lot of isolation in these, explorations of different ways of being alone in the world. "Documents" in particular is heartbreaking, partly a view into strained father/son relationships and partly about how families deal with a tragedy that has affected the family as a unit and each member individually and how the different stories each person involved has to tell themselves to move through the tragedy can't always coexist. My one sticking point by the end of the collection is that the tone and voice and cadence is similar between all of these essays (with the possible exception of "Documents," which has a slightly different format and that may be one reason it left such a strong impression on me) so that, by the end, they start to sound too much the same.

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