I never thought that one day I would read and finish this book, but here I am — I read it, I finished it, and just as I expected, it turned out exactly that way. The Love Hypothesis is a book full of clichés but with the “I’m going to break the clichés” kind of attitude.
I’m not even sure where to start. I don’t know if I actually liked the book, but I enjoyed reading it. It flowed really well, so I can’t complain about that part. However, Olive constantly talking about how big Adam was started to annoy me. I wanted to tell her, “Yes, we get it, he’s a big guy. You don’t have to remind us every ten seconds!”
After that, their dialogues… I don’t know, they felt really ridiculous to me. It was less of a romantic comedy and more of a romantic nonsense kind of story. But it was the type of book that didn’t require much thought, was easy to read, and flowed nicely. I already know that once I finished it, I wouldn’t think about it again.
The movie adaptation is coming. I’m not sure if I’ll watch it, but maybe I will just to clear my mind and have something easy to watch.
Bir gün bu kitabı okuyup ve bitireceğimi hiç düşünmezdim ama işte buradayım, okudum ve bitirdim ve tahmin ettiğim gibi oldu. Klişelerle dolu ama ben klişeleri yıkmaya karar verdim havası ile love hypothesis kitabı. Nereden başlasam emin değilim. Kitabı beğendim mi, ondan bile emin değilim ama okurken keyif aldım, yani akıp gitti okurken. O kısımda bir sorun yoktu ama olive'in sürekli adam ne kadar büyük demesi sinir bozucuydu. Kendisine gidip evet anladık, o büyük biri. Bunu her on saniyede bize hatırlatmana gerek yok! Sonrasında aralarındaki diyaloglar, bilmiyorum çok saçma geldi. Romantik komediden çok, romantik saçmalıklar üzerine bir kurguydu ama kafayı yormayan, akan ve bittiğinde bir daha
The Darkest Night, aforizmalardan oluşan, alt yapısında nihilizm, felsefe ve varoluşçuk barındıran bir aydınlanma kitabı. Aydınlanma dememin nedeni, birçok cümlede kendinizi sorgulamanızı sağlayacak fikirler barındırması. Hani rahatsız edici kitaplar deriz ya, işte öyle birşey. Okuyup da geçilecek değil, uzun uzun düşündürecek türden.
Genel kabul gören kurallar ve tabular yer yer reddediliyor. İnsanın düşündüklerinden ibaret olduğu ve belki de kimsenin göründüğü gibi olmadığı yine Cem beyin aforizmalarının arasında sık sık karşımıza çıkıyor. Dozunda ve yerinde bir kullanım ile ünlü düşünürlerin alıntılarına da yer verilmiş.
Hayat denilen bu yolda belki de zaman zaman kendimizi sorgulamaya ve farklı düşünce yapıları ile karşılaşmaya ihtiyacımız var. Çokça altını çizdim, bazı yerlerde Cem beyin keskin edebi zekasını da hissettim.
Kitap şimdilik İngilizce basım. Ama okunması rahat, Türkçesi çıkana kadar merak edenlere söylemiş olayım.
Türü sevenlere öneriyorum.
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English
The Darkest Night is an enlightenment book composed of aphorisms, underlying nihilism, philosophy, and existentialism. I say enlightenment because many sentences contain ideas that will make you question yourself. You know how we say "disturbing books"? Well, it's one of those. It's not the kind you read and move on from; it will make you think deeply.
Generally accepted rules and taboos are occasionally challenged. The idea that a person is defined by their thoughts, and perhaps that no one is what they seem, frequently appears in Mr. Cem's aphorisms. Quotations from famous thinkers are also included, used appropriately and in moderation.
Perhaps, on this journey called life, we sometimes need to question ourselves and encounter different ways of thinking. I underlined
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İris ve Roman, rakip iki gazeteci, sadece birisi köşe yazarı olacak. İkisi için de bu pozisyon çok önemli, ikisinin amacı da aynı farklı dünyalardan gelseler de. Köşe yazarı olmak için her şeylerini ortaya atacakları bu rekabette hayatın onlara sunacağı sürprizden habersizler.
Serinin ilk kitabı İris'in abisi Forest'ın Tanrıların Savaşı'nda savaşmak için cepheye gitmesi ile başlıyor. Bu gidişin ardından ise İris ve annesinin hayatı eskisi gibi olmayacaktır. Okulu bırakmak zorunda kalan İris gazetedeki işinde çalışırken Roman ile köşe yazarlığı rekabetinde her şeyini vermeye hazırdır. Tıpkı Roman gibi...
Roman ise zengin bir ailenin çocuğu. Ancak zıtlıkların birleştirici gücü ikisinin de kaderini yazmaya başlamıştır.
İris, cepheye giden abisine ulaşmak için daktilosunda yazdığı mektupları evlerindeki gizemli gardıropa koyduğunda mektupların abisinin eline ulaştığını düşünür. Taa ki mektupların ulaştığı kişi kendisinin Forest olmadığını söyleyene kadar. Gelen cevaptan sonra ise aralarında zamanla kendi hayatlarını, duygu ve düşüncelerini kaleme aldıkları büyülü mektuplaşmalara dönüşür.
Tanrıların Savaşı'nı, Roman ve İris'in yaşadıkları ve aşkın gelişini kendisine has kalemi ile aktarmış yazar eserinde.
"Bence hepimiz zırh giyiyoruz. Bence giymeyenler aptallık ediyor, dünyanın keskin
kenarları tarafından tekrar tekrar yaralanmanın acısını yaşama riskine giriyorlar. Ama bu aptallardan öğrendiğim bir şey varsa o da savunmasızlığın çoğumuzun korktuğu bir güç olduğu. Zırhını çıkarmak, insanların seni olduğun gibi görmesine izin vermek cesaret ister. Bazen ben de senin gibi
hissediyorum: İnsanların beni olduğum gibi görmesi riskini göze alamam. Öte yandan zihnimin derinliklerinde bir ses var, bana sürekli, "Bu kadar ihtiyatlı davranarak çok şey kaçırıyorsun," diyor." ( I
What do we do when things go wrong?
Years ago, when I first spotted this book in a stationery shop, I decided to buy it without even flipping through its pages. On the cover, three men were being carried by the river's current toward an unknown destination. The title revealed little more than the image itself: Three Men in a Boat. Where they were going and why remained hidden between the pages.
For some reason, I never got around to reading it. The book sat forgotten on a shelf for years, quietly waiting for me. Then one day I picked it up and finally began. Soon, I discovered why these three men had embarked on such a sudden and peculiar boating trip. Tired of their daily routines and convinced that they were suffering from all sorts of illnesses, they believe an adventure will do them good. Instead, the following two weeks prove far more challenging than expected. They can never quite agree on what should be done or how it should be done. They blame one another, make a mess of simple tasks, and seem incapable of catching a break. Jerome narrates all of this with an exaggerated sense of humor and remarkable wit.
In the end, the three companions more or less accomplish what they set out to do. By the time they return to dry land, they are rather proud of themselves. But perhaps this book was written not only to amuse, but also to make us reflect. As we accompany these three friends like an invisible fourth passenger, we spend much of the journey wanting to step in and sort things out for them.
And yet, when things go wrong in our own lives, what exactly do we do?
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
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
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