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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Almira
Another one that could be 3.5 stars. I really have mixed emotions about this one, part of me likes it and part of me is deeply disturbed.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Timaş Yayınları
Stephenie Meyer's first attempt at adult fiction leads to a lot more introspection than we found in the Twilight series. As others have noted, emotions run deep, and the audience gets a very real feel for who the characters are and what they are trying to accomplish. I would encourage adults who enjoyed Meyer's other work but are also looking for a more complex reading experience to pick up The Host.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Alfa Yayınları
"The New Space Opera" is a somewhat deceptively titled but otherwise very good collection of short stories by what the editors refer to as "new space opera" authors. I put "somewhat deceptively" because, in my opinion, most of the stories don't really qualify as space opera. Space opera is a sub-genre of SF, consisting of over-the-top, galaxy-wide adventure stories, often with larger than life heroes, usually containing lots of space ships, dealing with a numbers of planets or galaxies or even universes. It's adventure, romance and violence. Galaxy-wide intrigues. Multiple societies on multiple planets. Aliens, if at all possible, should be included --- ideally many different kinds of them. Also, space opera doesn't pay too much attention to science - as a matter of fact, I'd go as far as saying that it doesn't count as space opera if it doesn't have some form of faster-than-light or hyper-speed or phase space or whatever else the author comes up with that allows ships to shoot from galaxy to galaxy in a few hours or days. So anyway. The stories in this collection all range from good to excellent. There are really no clunkers in there (although strangely enough, the very first story - by Gwyneth Jones - comes closest). The odd thing is that many of the stories just aren't space opera. One of them is set entirely under the ice on one of Jupiter's moons. While it's a thrilling story, it's really not space opera. Others are confined to a single city. Kage Baker's story, loosely connected to the "Empress of Mars" novella (and I just figured out this is actually connected to her Company series) deals with someone setting up a theater company on a Martian colony. It's great, but it's just not space opera. Of course, the short story as a format by definition doesn't lend itself to the epic narrative form you'd expect for space opera, but if you're willing to concede that some of these stories offer slices of a larger epic, a snapshot of a longer story, then they could work as space opera. In fact, some of the stories are presented as part of an author's established SF universe. E.g. Peter F. Hamilton's story appears to be set somewhere between "Judas Unchained" and "The Dreaming Void" (and explains some of the new concepts that popped up in the 1500 year gap between those 2 novels). Other stories are part of a series of short stories that tell a larger story. There are some great stories in this collection. The final story, "Muse of Fire" by Dan Simmons, is simply excellent. "Minla's Flowers" by Alistair Reynolds is also great (and reminded me of "Tuf Voyaging" by George RR Martin). I'd recommend this anthology to anyone who is looking for new authors to try, and to people interested in the genre. However, if you're new to space opera, you're probably better off trying something by Iain M. Banks (who is missing from this collection, unfortunately) or Peter F. Hamilton.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İndigo Kitap
I thought after reading so many books set in England, both past and sometimes present, I should find out how an American viewed living in Britain. I learned that we may speak the same language (mostly), but we are definitely not the same. Since I read this soon after reading The Guernsey Literary, etc. which showed how hard it was in England after WWII, it was interesting to see how long the effects of this war lasted. Well, it was just all interesting and made me glad I'm American. Again.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Eksik Parça Yayınları
not my thing
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Karınca Yayınları
The Bat Book
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Büyük Doğu Yayınları
Read it in one setting! Funny, as usual. Loved the scene w/ Lula sticking out of the car - had tears in my eyes!
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık - Akademik Kitaplar
Great book. Read this a few years ago and really didn't know too much about Arthur Ashe. What a wonderful and humble man and a surprisingly good writer. I would highly recommend this book.
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Beta Kids Yayınları
Start reading it: 20-ago-2011
Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Vicfirth
"Blindness was written by Green in the early 1920s when he was a young man, and as such stands as a good companion piece to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise." http://superfastreader.com/blindness-...
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