Sarah Gless Gless itibaren Lobachivka, Volyns'ka oblast, Ukrayna itibaren Lobachivka, Volyns'ka oblast, Ukrayna

Ve şimdi, son derece suçlu zevklerim. (Yüzüne doğru yayıldığını hissettiğin ısı aslında benim, utançla beyaz-sıcak) İşte gerçek: Robin Hobb'un evreninde kaybolan acele saat bedenlerinin tahtına bastırılmış metro köşelerine çökerdim. Duraklarımı özleyecektim. Tüm Farseer üçlemesini, tüm Canlılık kitaplarını, tüm Tawny Man serilerini okudum. Bilim-kurgu / fantezi okumalarının temel kuralımı kırdım ve aslında Tawny Man serisindeki son kitabın 1. baskısını, sert kapağını aldım. İmzası için gönderdim. Burada olan geekdom seviyesi. Fantezi dünyaları çok büyüleyici, karakterleri çok büyüleyici ve güçleri çok eğlenceli - siz de kancalanacaksınız. Yani, benim gibi patolojik salaklıktan muzdarip olsaydın.

Bir kişi olarak Pound hakkında ne yapacağınızı söyleyin; Pound'un tercüme ettiği dillerden hiçbirine çok az şey bildiği için bu kitabın bir çeviri eylemi olarak değeri hakkında ne yapacağınızı söyleyin. Bu "çeviriler" kendi içlerinde şiirler kadar harikadır ve bu şekilde okunmalıdır. Pound'un Çince'den tercüme edilip edilemeyeceği benimkinden daha büyük zihinlerle tartışılabilir, ancak renderları güzeldir.

I wanted to love this book, but I only liked it. Having read John Green's latest novel, An Abundance of Katherines, last month, his first book was a bit of a letdown, especially considering that Alaska won the Printz Award. (Katherines came in second for the Printz this year.) At the same time, Alaska is a glimpse of John Green's future genius. I mean, for God's sake, he was 27 when he wrote this novel, and he won the Printz. I hate that/love that. The characters in Alaska are complicated but likeable, especially the central female (the titular Alaska), and just weird enough to draw in young people who feel like semi-outsiders. I also appreciated how the book was organized into "before" and "after" portions around the central tragedy, which is a heavy one indeed. The grief of the friends affected by the crisis and the unexpected swiftness with which it occurs is one of the most well-crafted elements of the story, although that makes it difficult to read at times. Overall, however, Alaska lacked the spark that made me love Katherines. I'm positive I would've adored this book as a teenager, but there were parts that seemed overwrought or simply unlikely to me as an adult. It's no "Catcher in the Rye for a new generation," as some critics have called it, but it's a solid read nonetheless. Could I travel back in time to my sophomore year of high school, I would recommend it to the brainy literary freaks I was friends with, all of us seeking the Great Perhaps.

I have a love-hate relationship with Kundera! He seems to know too much about the psychology of the characters of his stories and he sounds obnoxious at times. I tolerated (and truht be told, at times even enjoyed) Laghable Loves (the English translation), but I couldn't finish his The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. I recently read two chapters of his The Unbearable Lightness of Being and had to take a break. Laughable Loves was also too "heavy", but the stories were more or less independent. Kundera is deep!

Witty, absurd with barbs that hit in all the right places. The apocalypse has never been so much FUN!

This is only the first in a series that I think gets better as it goes. I know other people think differently. Some think the first books are better, and that the series just gets old. I don't! Part of what I love about the series is that you get to know the characters. You get to feel for them, and love them. You also get to admire the intricacy with which Jordan interweaves his world. This first book starts off slow. It took me ages, the first time I read, to even get through the first chapter. However, by about midway through, you just can't wait to see how it ends. Rand and Mat and Egwene! I think Mat has to be one of my favorite book characters of all time! This book isn't going to change your life. The series is not meaningful in the same way that books of C.S. Lewis or Orson Scott Card or even Michael Crichton are. However, if you're looking for something that will provide hours of entertainment and a universe eventually full of old, comfortable friends, then this is a book for you. As a side note - while this series is excellent in both audio and text, I recomend starting it in audio. It helps get through some of the rough parts more quickly.