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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İşrak Yayınları
This is an enjoyable story. Although I wasn't familiar with a number of the references, it still made for interesting reading--albeit a little difficult, due to unfamiliarity. Because the book is entertaining, it's worth the effort to be lost in the references simply to enjoy the story.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Masterwork
Great book! Characters are so well-developed, I could feel their pain.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Açılım Kitap
Thomas looks at the transition point from a medieval world to the more modern version as it relates to religion and magic in England. He provides some contrasts to information from the continent, but England is the focus. It is remarkably detailed and examines the reasons that religion and magic were once almost inseparable, but became antithetical. That process came from the nature of change in the reform of Christian religion and was manifest in official pronouncements long before there was much effect on the way the people understood either religion or magic. The modern world assumes that there is a fundamental gap between the two. Thomas examines how that gap developed and how it was manifest in public and private practice. I began reading for some basic research, but it caught my attention and I'll finish the whole book rather than simply use it as reference.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Final Yayınları
This is like the brother book to a book I read last year, The Last of Her Kind. I say this b/c the 2 novels are really similar- young person with working-class background makes friends with filthy rich young person with a very strong personality- but this one is about male characters instead of females. Both the rich characters have this very negative attitute towards the status quo, their families, and a disdain for their money, which is sort of understood but not really by the working-class characters. And they are both kind of crazy and obsessive, she about social inequity and race (easier to empathize with) and he about gnosticism and wilderness. The stories are each written after the relationship has ended (for reasons I will not divulge) as a kind of tribute and an effort to understand the other person. I liked The Last of Her Kind better, but this one was OK, too. It's just so funny that both of them came to me kind of randomly and almost exactly a year apart- it gives me a feeling that there is some unexplainable force of symmetry at work.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Özyürek Yayınları
A true story of a courtroom battle between 2 large polluting corporations and bereaved families regarding the deaths of children.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Oda Yayınları
I read this book in high school and then in college. I have always liked this little book. It's deep but the meaning rings true for me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Ephesus Yayınları
I am sorry, but I could absolutely not stand Holden Caulfield. I kept wanting to shake him and tell him to grow up. And I was even supposed to identify with him, being all confused and adolescent. Also, the word "crumby" drove me up the f-ing wall.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Manuel Raymond
I found myself anxious reading this book, but it all turned out okay in the end. The characters are interesting and I really enjoyed Per and Keith. An easy and rather quick read.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beyaz Balina Yayınları
This is a commentary on the life of Abraham that I used as a study guide while reading through the middle chapters of Genesis (it's one of a series of three commentaries on Genesis). Unlike the typical commentary that takes you through verse-by-verse, Wiersbe has a sermon-like approach to each chapter with insight and applications. I look forward to using more of his commentaries as study guides in the future.
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This isn't a review, just some of the notes I made while reading this book last Fall: "The thing that strikes me so profoundly about all of these goofy hippies' negative homesteading experiences is that they ultimately couldn't shed their middle class values and that's why they couldn't make it work. They failed to adapt to an alternative lifestyle because they weren't of that persuasion before they moved out to the land. They had straight jobs where they were generally upwardly mobile, marriages, kids, credit cards, car payments, etc. It's not like they were living in a way that was against the mainstream, or that they even had non-mainstream values. They were kind of being cultural tourists and didn't have any context for what they were trying to do. Examples: One informant's unwillingness to table dive from her work where she was a waitress, despite being hungry all the time due to her martyr-like poverty. And, wow, whining about how hard it is to not be able to use paper towels and still have a clean environmental conscience. The arc of the book's narrative is predictable: young straight married white folks tire of their normal lives, discover the Whole Earth Catalog, become convinced that homesteading is the answer, move to rural New York or Maine or some other place that's most inhospitable in the winter, try to live the way they did in the suburbs and have the same expectations of each other, become totally disillusioned and dismiss alternative lifestyles as a result, tell the story 25 years later as successful middle-aged straight re-married white folks. This book really made me think about how necessary it is to have a really strong belief in your reasons for trying to live independently and sustainably. I wondered if, superimposing this experience onto those of my generation, those of us who are deeply invested in DIY or radically alternative lifestyles are going to necessarily stay that way well into middle age. The ex-hippies interviewed for this book were left with no faith in things like participatory economics, collective ownership, consensus-based decision making. They just wrote it all off completely because they couldn't make it work."
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