I like not knowing about some things. Yes. I like it. Because it feels comfortable to me. I take refuge in the comfort of saying "I don't know." I read the Elephant Man story for the first time in this book. But I didn't know it was a famous story and based on a true event. Absolutely. So I'm glad I read it without knowing anything about it. Because it didn't affect my feelings.
I did a simple reading and I have simple feelings. Not exaggerated. The Elephant Man was a human and never a creature. Monster or creature. He was human. What about the other people? They are prejudiced. As always. I think the real creatures are the other people. Because they wounded a wounded person again and again. That evil requires having an evil heart. Right? Clear... Apart from that. The book is very easy to read because when I didn't know a word, I looked up its meaning on the next page. It was very comfortable. I didn't use a dictionary. Besides, this was a first-level reading. Beginner level. I will watch the movie. Of course, I will watch it in English. Because I made a promise to Professor Akif. Just like he promised Fuat Sezgin.
I know I'll always be grateful to him. That's it. That's all I know.
I had a crazy idea today. I've been reading Harry Potter for 23 years. It's time I started reading it in English. That's real magic!
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A Critical Review of Humankind
Rutger Bregman’s book Humankind is one of the books that questions negative ideas about human nature and makes readers think. For many years, many people believed that humans are naturally selfish, bad, and only care about themselves. However, Bregman does not agree with this idea. According to him, human nature is not as dark as people think. Instead, people are more willing to help each other, understand others’ feelings, and do good things. In the book, the author supports these ideas with many examples from wars, psychology experiments, history, and biology. One of the best parts of the book is that it gives hope about humanity. Still, when I finished the book, I did not only feel admiration. On one side, I was happy to read it because it made me think differently. On the other side, some of the author’s ideas felt too optimistic to me. Because of this, the book was both interesting and questionable for me.
One of the strongest parts of the book is that it makes people question ideas about human nature that many accept without thinking. Today, we often see violence, murder, wars, and fights on television, social media, and in the news. After some time, people start to believe that the world is full of bad people. At this point, Bregman asks an important question: If humans were really bad by nature, how could societies survive for so many years? A big part of human history was shaped by helping each other, working together, and surviving together. From this side, the writer’s ideas are important and meaningful.
His ideas against the belief that humans are naturally wild are especially interesting. Today, when someone behaves badly, people sometimes say, “Did you grow up in a cave?” However, Bregman says that hunter-gatherer societies were not as violent as many
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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
The tales of Beedle the Bard was mainly written for the Harry Potter series.The book was inherited from Professor Dumbledore to Hermione Granger in the course of the story. Later, Jk Rowling decided to write the book apartly. Therefore, we have a chance to read it rather than just being a mentioned book.The story "The Tale of The Three Brothers" is placed in the movie and the main book. But in this book , there have been four other stories except for it.
*The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
*The Fountain of Fair Fortune
*The Warlock's Hairy Heart
*Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump
In the book , also Albus Dumbledore's notes are given after the stories.The notes answer the questions in our minds such as "Where does the story come from?" , "What is the subtexts in the story?" or "What do people think about this story in Wizard world?" and goes on.In my opinion, the note parts have been like a milestone of the stories. They have enriched all of them.
What the most influential thing is that in muggles' fairy tales, good people are good because they are powerless while evil ones always have power. When we think of the Snow White and her evil stepmother, it could be more clear.But this is not the main point.On the other hand, in Wizard fairy tales, a person who has power in his/her hands can use that power in a good way or a good person doesn't have to be powerless.Starting from this point of view, even if you have the power,the important thing is to use it for good.
Lastly, thanks to the book I have decided to add.more fairy tales in my reading adventure. Because they reflect not only the story itself but also the culture they belong to. We can see sometimes the other side of the world, sometimes the Wizard world...
Bir sanatçı,hayatım boyunca kalbimde taşıyacağıma emin olduğum başka bir sanatçıya yol açtı bu kitapla. Evet yazar değil sanatçıya diyeceğim du Maurier için çünkü bence yaptığı şey bir kitap yazmanın çok ötesinde. İlk çıktığı zaman replay tuşuna basıp üst üste defalarca dinlediğim, benim için kıymeti çok büyük olan bir şarkının yazılmasına vesile olmuş bu kitabı elimden bırakmam mümkün olmadı,okumaya başlamamın haftasonuna denk gelmiş olması büyük şans. Rebecca'yı okurken sadece kitap okumuyorsunuz sanki Mrs. de Winter ile birlikte Manderley'nin koridorlarında, sabah odasında, kütüphanede, deniz kıyısında onunla birlikte geziniyor gibi hissediyorsunuz. Fazlasıyla sinematik bir kitaptı, filmini de büyük bir merakla izleyeceğim.
Nasıl tarif edilir bilmiyorum bu kitaba karşı hissettiklerim. Adını asla bilmediğimiz, sadece Maxim de Winter'ın ondan yaşça küçük eşi olarak tanımlanan kitabın ana karakteri kalbinizde bir yeri sızlatıyor. Maxim'e olan aşkı, onun hayatında ve Manderley'de sürekli kendine bir yer bulma çabası, varolma çabası da diyebiliriz hatta buna, o kadar yürek burkucu ki. Maxim'in gülümsemesini bile bir ödül olarak değerlendirmesi özellikle.
"Maxim için çok genç, çok toy ve daha da önemlisi onun dünyasına çok yabancıydım. Onu bir köpek ya da bir çocuk gibi hastaca,umutsuzca, kendime zarar verircesine seviyor olmamın hiçbir önemi yoktu."
Böyle bir sevgiyi okurken Maxim'e kızmamak, Mrs. de Winter'ı neden bu hayatın içine sürüklediğini düşünmemek mümkün olmuyor tabi. Ama du Maurier sizi o kızgınlıktan uzaklaştırıp, her sayfada tahminlerinizin çok ötesindeki olaylarla şaşırtıp okumaya devam etmenizi sağlıyor. Rebecca'ya çok aşık sandığınız adam aslında bambaşka duygulara sahip biri olarak çıkıyor karşınıza. Kızıyorsunuz, sonra acıyorsunuz, bol bol
A Dictionary of Tolkien was written in celebration of this aspect of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world. It was compiled and designed as a compact and easy to use guide to Tolkien’s world. The purpose is to inform and entertain those readers who wish to use A Dictionary of Tolkien to help them in their personal exploration of the extraordinarily complex invented world and mythology of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands.
This book is a complete dictionary of all flora and fauna in Tolkien’s writings. It describes every species of flower, tree, plant, all birds, beasts, insects and every kind of spirit, spectre, ghost, demon and monster.
It is also a complete guide to all the races, nations and tribes of Men, Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Ents, Maira and Valar that ever populated Tolkien’s world of Arda.
Furthermore, A Dictionary of Tolkien serves as a selective biographical dictionary and geographical gazetteer. It is “Who’s Who?” of the major characters of his epic world, and “A to Z” of all the prominent cities, countries, mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and seas of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands.
A Dictionary of Tolkien useful and a entertaining reference work for any reader interested in Tolkien’s epic world. 
David Day 
A Dictionary of Tolkien
David Day A Dictionary of Tolkien