Reading witcher in english is fascinating. Even though its translated directly from Polish, English sometimes flattens the raw, gritty Slavic wit, but the dark atmosphere still punches through. I love how this book tears down pretty fairy tales. It shows a magical world ruined by ugly human realities such as injustice, racism, and violence. It proves that no matter the universe, human nature always brings the same disgusting problems. Since I’ve played all the games, I didn't have to build this world from scratch. I felt like I was returning home, totally immersed from page one. Plus, every character is so distinct you instantly adopt them. Dandelion, especially, is brilliant, his dramatic bard energy perfectly balances the grim reality. The core of the book for me is Geralt. He acts like a heartless mutant who only kills for coin, forcing himself to believe he has no feelings because society expects him to be cold. But underneath, he is incredibly soft hearted. I related to him deeply. People often call me emotionless too. But I know how much I actually care. When it matters, sometimes I act way more thoughtful and genuinely considerate than the people who constantly brag about how sensitive they are. Like Geralt, being guarded doesn't mean you don't feel. Some dislike that this is just a collection of scattered short stories, but I think it’s the perfect, low pressure gateway into the universe. It’s a fun, easy read that makes you feel both the darkness of the world and the hidden warmth of its hero.
Kitabın başlangıcı bile Türk’ün ne kadar medeni ne kadar ileri görüşlü ne kadar ince fikirli olduğunu gözler önüne sererek ilerliyor.alparslan’ın Diojen karşındaki tutumu onun onurunu incitmemek için yanında çadır kurdurması fakar ülkesine dönen diyojenin kendi tarafında gözleri oyulması ve ölmesi melikşahın zaferi kardeşine nasip olsun diye dua etmesi takvimin yenilenmesi avrupanın ise 1582 de takvimi düzeltmesi bakın durun daha başlamadık
I haçlı seferi 1096-1099:
Günaha bulanan hristiyanların tövbe etmesi zengin günahkar için 4 ing altını fakir için 9 şiling bununla da yetmeyip 300 yıllık bir günahkar cezası çıkıyordu din buna bir kılıf buldu ve haçlı seferine katılacak olanların günahlarının affedileceğini duyurdu hatta ölenlerin cennete gideceği Papa II urbanus fransa’ya dönerek Clermont Konsilini topladı fransanın en önemli lideri Tolulouse kontu Raymond de Saint Gilles ve başpiskopos Adhemar de MOnteil talip oldular oluşan haçlı ordusuna katılım büyüktü kadınlar çocuklar herkes içindeydi ( nede olsa günahları affedilip cennete gidecekler ) Bizans imparatoru I Aleksios bu büyük kalabalığı istemedi çünkü geçtikleri yerleri talan edecek çok zarar vereceklerdi ki öyle de oldu .bunun üzerine Aleksios haçlılara refakatçi ordular verdi .
Ağustos 1096 yılında 4 esas haçlı ordusu avrupanın değişik yerlerinden yola çıktı .
1.ordu Fransalı Franklar ordusu Vermandois kontu hugue le grand robert courteheuse ve robert flndralı loren kaynaklı orduyu gecikmeyle takip edecek
2.ordu Loren kaynaklı ordu almanyayı geçip balkanlara kuzeyden girecek aşağı loren dükü godfrey de Bouillon kardeşi Baudouin de Boulogne ve kuzeni Bourglu Baudouin
3.ordu Güney Fransalılar ordusu Toulouse kontu IV Raymond veya Raymond Saint -gilles kuzey italyadan balkanlara girip Sırbistan ve Makedonya
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
İndiyə qədər oxuduğum ənnn maraqlı kitablardan biri oldu. Çoooooooooooooox bəyəndim. Belə kitabların daha çoooox yazılmasını tövsiyə edirəmmm. Hərkəs oxumalıdır...
Angela's Ashes is a memoir that reads like a novel. Starting in America at the time of the Great Depression, it follows the life of the author, an Irish lad named Frank McCourt. When the McCourt family can not make ends meet, due to the inability of Frank's father to keep a job and to keep drinks out, they have to move back to Ireland. They have lost two children in the meantime to, well, poverty.
Scorned by Angela's (Frank's mother) family since Malachy (Frank's father) is from Northern Ireland, the family keeps struggling, especially since Malachy frequently spends all the earned wages in pubs and leaves them to starve.
The book covers Frank's life until he turns nineteen and goes back to America. It is a moving narrative but it is so grim that at one point one thinks there may be some exaggeration in it. Although, when considering the conditions in Ireland before and after the 2nd World War, the suffering may have been realistically depicted. The poverty is striking and McCourt has some sharp humour within the narrative, but for some reason I did not enjoy it as much as I should.
There's also a critically acclaimed motion picture based on the memoirs and I2ve seen positive feedback about it.
Kitabı ikinci okuyuşum olmasına rağmen ilk defa okuyormuş hissiyatı ile cümleler hiç sıkmadan su gibi akıp gitti .Sımsıcak bir baba kız ilişkisini tekrar okumak içimi ısıttı.Bunun yanında kapitalist sisteme bu kadar güçlü ve etkili bir eleştiri getiren en iyi kitaplardan birisini okuduğunu bilmekte yazarın kelimeleri nasıl ustaca kullandığını kanıtlıyor. Günümüz dünyasını güçlü bir kalem ancak böyle etkili anlatabilirdi.Kitapta anlatılan Merkez hiç yabancı gelmiyor biz okurlara , aslında her birimiz Merkez'in sakinleri olduğumuzu farkediyoruz. Yaşadığımız dünyayı sorgulatıyor .Platon'un mağara alegorisine yapılan göndermede bunun tuzu biberi diyebiliriz hepimizin kendi mağarasında zincirli bir halde, duvara yansıyan gölgeleri seyrettiğimizi farkettiriyor. Evet o mağaradakiler biziz.
