Mikko Kautto Kautto itibaren Nawada, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan itibaren Nawada, Uttar Pradesh, Hindistan

Zinn'e ve Amerikan tarihi ve politikasına dair bilgeliğine kişisel bir bakış.

Adrik kara koyun vahşi çocuğudur. Karanlık tarafıyla savaşmak yerine, onunla oynuyor, çok yakın, ama çizgiyi tamamen geçmiyor. Bu tür bir hikayede olduğu gibi, onu kurtarmak için iyi bir kadın gerekir. Bu Karen olurdu. İkisinin eğlenceli bulduğum biraz bagajlı ilişkisi var. Bu benim için başka bir hızlı okuma oldu.

Originally read 4/13/09

here is my review: http://orkuns.blogspot.com/2009/04/bo...

A FINALIST FOR THE TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD AND A GLOBE AND MAIL NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. As a migraine sufferer of 32 years myself, I found this story very interesting and unique. From cover: "On a quiet June day, Toronto cartographer Claire Barber learns her sister Rachel has vanished from New York. As Claire disrupts her orderly life to follow news of her sister to Montreal, to Amsterdam, to Italy, and, ultimately to Las Vegas and Mexico, she is haunted by fears that Rachel's worsening migraines may have finally pushed her beyond her limits. Struggling with her own headaches, Claire embarks on what becomes an emotional journey, one that brings to the fore long-held secrets from the past, the difficult memory of her parents' sudden death years earlier, and the unique, irreplaceable bond that exists between sisters. What Claire discovers will set her life on a new course. Engrossing, psychologically charged, Clair's Head explores how we live with pain - how much we can bear and what we're willing to do to free ourselves from it."

I am done and I am vexed. Vexed and irritated. More anon. ***** Okay. Anon is now. *MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD* GRRM certainly knows how to tell a story. He did that with the first three books in this series. He even did it to an extent with the fourth book. This one? Can best be described by a phrase that pops up way too many times in this book: "Words are wind." I don't know how better to say it than to say that GRRM appears to be suffering from Robert Jordan Disease. Namely, that the later books in a series suffer from lots and lots of words that lead... nowhere. The overall plot advances very little. I don't mind lots and lots of words. I like lots and lots of words. Provided they are used well. This book doesn't do that. It feels like the author is... lost. Doesn't know where he wants to go. Maybe he knows where he wants to be by the end of it all, but not how to get there. This book feels like he was stuck and didn't know how to get himself out of it. And so the characters meander. Get stuck. Get lost. We stay in Meereen for-freaking-ever, and for what? The author could have combined this book and A Feast for Crows, chopped them down to the size of just one of them, and greatly enhanced the overall result. He could have at least realized that A Dance with Dragons as it stands is perhaps the sort of muddled stuff you write as you figure out what you're doing, but that you then cut. It's lots of fat and little meat. It's not the book it could have been. The title is misleading. It's not a dance. It's more of a trudge. The actual dragons don't get to do very much. The Targayens don't fare much better. (Perhaps that explains why "with" and not "of" was used.) A minor note, but an annoying one nonetheless: far too much repetition of certain phrases. I've already mentioned "words are wind" -- some other ones are "much and more", "little and less", "Where do whores go?", "s/he was not wrong", "You know nothing, Jon Snow." The occasional use of them can enhance the story. The 998th time you read "You know nothing, Jon Snow" -- well, that just moves you to roll your eyes. I hope that GRRM can get back to what made the first three books in the series so great. He had such a sense of mastery and control. The pace was fantastic. His ability to keep several plotlines going at once was impressive, and the way he could weave them together and surprise you was terrific. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the next five or ten or fifteen years. 2-1/2 stars.