First of all, it was an easy and comfortable book to read, and it had everything you would expect from a romance novel. The characters constantly running into each other, the male main character always being the one who saves the woman, those moments where the female character is like “I don’t depend on a man, look, I’m strong too,” and the fact that they immediately fell for each other from the very first moment they saw each other — it had all of those things. The girl loving luxury but also having those “I’m not like that” moments was there too. Even the way they acted like teenagers experiencing love for the first time was included.
I was expecting something more interesting, especially since the main character was supposedly bisexual, but she basically fell for the first handsome and rich man she saw. I didn’t like any of the characters. Honestly, it was obvious how the ending would go. They were either going to get married or he was going to propose, and that unnecessary breakup scene the author added just to create some drama was so pointless.
It was nice to read something that reflected Armenian culture, and the book has an English level that flows easily and doesn’t make the reader struggle too much. But aside from that, I feel like something was missing. It could have been much better.
It’s readable, but I don’t think it’s a book that should be taken too seriously. In my opinion, it was just a very light, “snackable” read.
İlk olarak okunması rahat bir kitaptı ve bir romantik kitapta bulunacak her şey vardı. Karakterlerin her daim denk gelmesi, çoğu zaman ana erkek karakterin hep kadını kurtarması ve arada benim kadın karakterim bir erkeğe bağlı değil, bakın o da çok güçlü denilen anları ve birbirlerini gördükleri ilk andan itibaren hemen birbirlerine
In Amis’s famous novel, London Fields, the witty language is used and highlighted in the book repatedly. With the use of wit and pan (word play) Amis creates one of the most intelligent written novel ‘London Fields’. These uses of high elevated language and word plays also gives us the hints of postmodern fiction. As the novel is considered one of the best novel representing postmodernism, one can appreciate it due to the style that the novel is written, by means of wit and language. To give examples from the book;
-It was fixed. It was written. The murderer was not the murderer. But the murderee had always been a murderee.
The quote from Samson Young foreshadows that the real murderer is not the one we think, it will change. However the murderee ‘Nicola’ will always be the victim, not be affected by the inconstant murderer.
- I know what his poetry will be about. What poetry is always about. The cruelty of the poet’s mistress.
In this quote we can also sense the metaphor that is made to Nicola. Here Samson , as a writer, claims that the poets are writing poetry due to the relationship between their mistresses. It is known that Young also writes a novel about Nicola, creating the same plot with the poets he criticizes.
-I close my eyes, trying to see a way- how do writers dare do what they do ? – and there is just chaos. It seems to me that writing brings trouble with it, moral trouble, unexamined trouble. Even to the best.
-When God got mad he was a jealous God. He had other planets, thanks, and in better parts of the universe. He promised plague, famine mile-high tides, sound-speed winds and terror, ubiquitous and incessant terror, with blood flowing bridle deep. He threatened to make her old and keep her that way forever… Cross that firebreak and then cross that
8/10
'go deeper!
go for the jugular.'
this made me want to read ovid's metamorphosis as soon as possible. even though i put it in my reading lists so many times, because i know i will like it too much, i wanted to have it in my hands first, for writing on it some stuff definitely will be necessary. but buying the book will take more time, still it will be one of my priorities. also d. h. lawrence will be waiting only a little more i presume, this book effected me on these parts.
it was really well written, it had me with the beauty of the abnormal because... the beauty of the abnormal... yes. but in what way? in exactly the way dorcas always sees it. only when you make it sexual and vicious like an animal. the animalistic side of the humans. always dangerous, always unpredictible, vicious, vigorous, violent, passionate, even crazy.
there's not much to say without ruining the beauty of the book, it feels like talking about what's happened inside the book will take away all the gothic and dreamy air it has inside like a living being loses air while opening its mouth, and breathing. careful, read this book, and close it gently before the words escape from the pages. the diffusion force would want to make that happen but be careful, don't allow it to happen. it is very dense inside.
The Memory Police give me a dystopian vibe. If George Orwell were Japanese, he might have written 1984 like this book. Having a memory disease is different than living with the memory police. When you have a memory disease you could write notes/letters. (which the Professor chose this way) But the memory police make you forget and stuffs vanished, if you remember them, you will vanish too. That's such a terrible thing.
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zeynep, başından sonuna kocaman sarılmak istediğim biri oldu. korkularımız, hayata bakışımız o kadar benzer ki. içindeki insanları siyah beyaz olarak ayırma isteği, kırılıp üzülme korkusundan geldiğinden hep o gökkuşağı renklerinden kaçışı olsun, insanlara ne kadar yakınlaşırsa o kadar kırılacağı korkusu olsun... hele aşk. toplumun baskılarına, kadınlara yüklediği sorumluluklar listesine bir savaş tekniği olarak baktığı evlenmeyeceğim nidaları. kocaman sarılmak istedim kendisine. zeynep'in kişisel gelişimi ise ne kadar güzeldi bir yandan da. tam olarak o bahsettiği murakami'nin, o kum fırtınasının içinden geçeceksin ve nasıl geçtiğini anlamayacaksın, nasıl hayatta kaldığını hiç anlayamayacaksın alıntısının zihninde dönüşleri. öyle değil mi hayat? içinden geçtiğimiz kum fırtınalarına şimdi olduğumuz yerden bakıyoruz, ben mesela diyorum ki ben nasıl geçtim bundan, nasıl hala ayakta durabiliyorum? zeynep de öyle bir acıda kavruldu ama kendi yolunu o geçmişindeki korkulara bağlayarak durdurmadan çizmeyi başardı. hayatın içinden birini okumak isterseniz kesinlikle tavsiye ederim.
zeynep has been someone i wanna hug tightly from beginning to end. our fears, our outlook on life..so similar. her tendency to see people in black and white, her avoidance of rainbow colors, all stemming from a fear of being hurt and broken. the more she gets close to people, the more she fears being hurt. and love, especially. her cry of “i won’t get married” as a form of resistance against societal pressure and the list of responsibilities imposed on women - it’s her way of fighting. i truly wanted to embrace her.
and then, zeynep’s personal growth was something so beautiful in itself. it was exactly like that murakami quote she mentions: “you’ll go through the storm, and you
My next read was 100 Quotes That Will Change Your Life
Since the book is made up entirely of quotes, it’s very easy to finish in one sitting. I really enjoyed reading it because it made me pause and think. Many of the quotes felt meaningful and relatable, so I noted down the ones that affected me the most.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
Only staying active will make you want to live "a hundred years."
If it isn't a clear yes, then it's a clear no.
Always say less than necessary.
We suffer more in imagination, than in reality.
Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
When a person dies, he leaves his belongings at home, his family at the graveside and the only thing that accompanies him are his deeds.
A friend to all is a friend to none ...
