4/5 Stars (%78/100)
God, I forgot how tiring reading e-books can get (especially when it's hard sci-fi like Liu Cixin's stories). However, I liked most of the stories in the collection (some more than others). Overall, it is good and this could also be a good starting point before you dive deep into The Three-Body Problem trilogy. I'll briefly talk about the stories in the collection without spoiling too much.
1-The Village Teacher:A touching story about a village teacher and it emphasizes the importance of knowledge and sharing it. As a teacher, I was able to relate to the teacher to a certain point and it moved me. However, the whole alien thing felt a bit forced in my opinion. 3/5.
2-The Time Migration:People are put to sleep to wake up 120 years into the future. When the ambassador wakes up, the world is not as they hope. So, this continues for a while. A good representation of humanity's greed and their fight against nature. Pretty good. 3.5/5.
3-2018.04.01:The discrepancy between rich and poor, longing for eternal life, and so on. Overall, it was fine. 2.5/5.
4-Fire in the Earth:Another man versus nature story. A man's father dies working in a coal mine so he tries to "tame" the fire. You know how all man vs nature stories end right? 2/5.
5-Contraction:Very ambitious and interesting. The universe is expanding constantly but what if it contracted? The ending was brilliant. 4/5.
6-Mirror:Quite long but interesting nonetheless. String computers and creating universe models...This one reminded me of that building a computer from people scene in The Three-Body Problem. 3/5.
7-Ode to Joy:Pretty good. An alternate story about Sophon (you know the one from well, you guessed it, The Three Body Problem trilogy). The idea of music is woven beautifully and reminded
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⚫️The first 2 books in this series were translated into Turkish; but unfortunately the last book and the novella weren’t. I was curios about meeting Q and Tess for a long time and I finally met this couple. It was mostly a difficult adventure to read their pain and suffering; especially when they’re tortured by their kidnappers. It is definitely a dark series with lots of blood and torture, violence and horror. Apart from the highly detailed and unconventional sexual scenes, there were also parts that could disturb a lot of readers. So, if you can’t read about violence, rape, phyical and psychological torture, don’t even start to read!
⚫️Tess Snow is kidnapped in Mexico by human traffickers; she is humiliated, branded and tagged like a merchandise, almost raped before she is sold to a handsome, French billionaire. Q Mercer is a cold, fearsome man living with a constant fight within himself. His father was a sadistic man who bought, tortured and raped women: and Q hated him for all his childhood. But his experience under the same roof with his sick father made him a man who gets turned on by inflicting pain. He never gives in this violent urge until he meets his fifty-eighth ensclave Tess. He is known to be a coldhearted twisted man like his father but he buys women slaves only to heal and free them. But Tess, who has dark desires and pain-related fantasies makes Q’s live change forever.
⚫️The master and slave relationship between Tess and Q can of course disturb some readers. But everything happening between them, the harsh sex, the blood, the bondage, the whipping were consensual. Tess loved and even begged for Q’s monster to take over and give her pain. So I have no problem with that. Before I began the series, I thought maybe Q was like Christian Grey,
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Sahilde Kafka, Haruki Murakami
İngilizce olarak başladığım bir değerlendirme. 20180708 16:59
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1. Kafka Tamura
2. Your servant Nakata
3. Entrance stone
4. Colonel Winston
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Kafka Tamura
A fifteen-year-old boy. His mother left home when he was 3 years old and he was living together with his father. But the father was so busy with his own life and he was not aware of his son. One day he decided to escape from home. He prepared his bag, took some money from his father's valet.
He did not have any idea where to go. He did not have any plan. He just wanted to leave home and live alone in an unknown place, far away from all his relatives and friends. He did not only left home but he also left the school. He was studying at a middle school and he was to finish it because it was compulsory for anyone to finish at least middle school.
This story is an interesting affair for any teenager. Leaving home and school. Packing his suitcase putting some underwear and t-shirts. One hand in the pocket and the suitcase on the shoulder, sun glasses on the eyes... Money enough to live for a few days... Later... No problem... Solutions are to be explored... Experience is to be tested.
I want to travel now in the cells of his brain. What kind of expectations or which reason is to be handled as the key word of this travel desire... leaving all his life behind, for a new but an unknown life considering that on that time he was only fifteen years old. No mother. No brother and sister. Father, yes, but just a name, he was outside of this sight, busy with his job, not aware of his son, even he was at home or not he never thinks...
He generates his own wish to travel with his bag as a companion. Why? How does a human, a teenager feed his wishes for such a travel?
This is the question
