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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Cumhuriyet Kitapları
this book was harder to get through than the others. It finally got good when the tension got really thick between Edward and Jacob. It ended up being ok I hope she wraps it up well
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yissi
sad sad . but cool .
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İthaki Yayınları
In many ways very similar to Atlas Shrugged, but I was less impressed with this version. It had more the feel of a manifesto, and the story simply was not as intriguing. The characters were indescribably bland, although quite articulate. Since one of the main themes of this book is architecture, I wish Rand had included descriptions and terms but she glossed over things so quickly it led me to believe she, in fact, knows nothing about the subject (which might be true, I don't know). Her precise, well-paced style is really the only thing that saved this one for me.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Kitabevi Yayınları
A poignant story about WWII in Russia. It was interesting and heartbreaking and heartwarming.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Eno
Loved it
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Delta Kültür Kitap
Forged from his soul some less obscure version of the Great American Dream; felt the call of grace deep within; saw destiny before him always clearly as the sky; watched as Southern son and Northern boy stained field after field with one another's blood. Who would deny that 600,000 dead bodies is the want of democracy, not its achievement? Yet I still believe that America's Democratic Futures will result from some more obscure portion of his greatness. Do not become enamored of Lincoln, for if we can learn from him, what we must then learn is that idolatry credits certainty and certainty credits violence unspeakable. It is his words that are the counterweight insofar as the attain, from time to time, that beauty unspeakable. Here is your prose of destiny and grace and grass fields and that Great American.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Yediiklim Yayınları
LOVED the beginning... the middle was slow.. couldn't put down the ending, sitting on edge of my seat. Can't wait for The Twelve.
(All quotes are from stories in this book unless otherwise noted.) “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell.” Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar In John Haskell’s first book, I Am Not Jackson Pollock, he presents various characters from movies, the actors thereof, and other actual people and their attempt at mitigating the opposing forces upon their lives. It is called a collection of stories, but the book can be read as one long essay with nine parts, each part having interwoven facets. So the whole can be seen as a weaving of lives, an attempt to synthesize the fractured psyches of people tearing themselves apart. Of Jackson Pollock, Haskell writes: “Two opposing impulses dominated his life: the desire to reach out into the world and touch some thing, and the desire to keep that thing away.” (“Dream of a Clean Slate”) “The greatest enemy of art and of suicide is the world’s indifference, though, in another sense, this is precisely what drives a person towards both.” (“Suicide Watch” by Quentin S. Crisp) Jackson Pollock didn’t commit suicide in the traditional sense, but he did kill himself. He drove himself into a tree. He wanted both art and death and he achieved both. “The heaviness comes when she thinks of doing something, of acting on the world, because having an effect on the world is impossible, or seems impossible.” (“Capucine”) Capucine ended up jumping out of her window to her death. She wanted to change something about the world’s indifference, but she couldn’t. So instead of trying to affect the world, to risk rubbing up against what Glenn Gould might call the “contaminating world,” a world that he both hides from and wants, what does one do? “He keeps his own desires in, or down, or away from the world, preferring to want what someone else wants him to want.” (“Crimes at Midnight”) But what is it that John Haskell wants? “[Joseph Cotton in The Third Man] would like to be as strong and vital and passionate as Harry Lime,” (“Crimes at Midnight”) but his imitation of Harry Lime can not distinguish his positive traits from his negative ones. John Haskell wants to be as vital and passionate as Jackson Pollock, but he is not. He wants the positive attributes of Jackson Pollock, but not all of his rage and neuroses. He wants to be able to affect change upon the outside world without the world contaminating him. Winona Ryder is given the definition of two different words in two different movies. The first word is from Girl, Interrupted. “Ambivalence” is the coexistence of two opposing feelings. And the second word is from Reality Bites. “Irony” is basically a kind of ambivalence because the external expression is opposed to the internal intention. And so when John Haskell says that he is not Jackson Pollock, he is being ironic. Not because he is Jackson Pollock, but because he wants to be. Haskell confuses the actors with the roles they play because it symbolizes the confusion of outward expression and inward intention. There is a dichotomy of who the person is versus who the person wants to be or the role they are playing. “It’s not that he wants to be himself, he wants to lose himself.” (“Narrow Road”) John Haskell wants to lose his self, much like he will do again in Out of My Skin where he will become Steve Martin. He wants his intention and expression to fuse. “His plan was to empty himself, to radiate out into the world and then let the world flow into the vacuum… He sent his attention out to the world, but nothing came back except an echo, nothing but himself.” (“Narrow Road”) “He can now let go of that effort and pressure and striving, and be, finally, who he was afraid of being.” (“Crimes at Midnight”) If you read the nine stories as one story, you see Haskell’s progression from his very first line of opposition: “I am not Jackson Pollock” to his acceptance of the fact that he is not Jackson Pollock. He has had to tear himself apart and let many people tear themselves apart in order to have a thesis and an antithesis from which to create some new, other thing. “After a while he creates this thing, and it’s not Harry Lime, and it’s not exactly Joseph Cotton either.” (“Crimes at Midnight”) By the end of the book, John Haskell is neither John Haskell nor Jackson Pollock but some synthesis of the two. “Presume not that I am the thing I was,” John Haskell writes, quoting Chimes at Midnight quoting Henry IV. He once was John Haskell, not Jackson Pollock. And now he is no longer himself, or at least not the self he thought he was. In an interview with Poets and Writers, Haskell talks about his influences and he mentions Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata and this quote: “Resist what resists in you. Become yourself.” Which is to say that the you who you think you are is not your self. By saying “I am not Jackson Pollock,” John Haskell identifies the ambivalence of his desires. He is not whom he wishes to be. And in order to resolve this dilemma he creates a labyrinth of personhood in which he loses not himself but the self that wanted to be something other.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: EMI
This book is a good tool to help kids empathize with each other. Have them anticipate characters reactions to the grouchy lady bug and have them ole play various alternative scenarios.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Dorlion Yayınları
So many years later and I still remember this book - it starts out with a stunning scene and never lets up until the end. One of Pike's best thrillers.
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