Martin Lam Lam itibaren Kaleshwar, Uttarakhand 246159, Hindistan
Bradshaw, aile yapısı, sırlar ve ailenin bir bütün olarak genel olarak işlevsizliği hakkında bazı iyi noktalar ortaya koymaktadır. Bu kitabın açık bir zihinle ve HİÇBİR ailenin mükemmel olduğunun farkına varılmasını öneririm. Ama daha iyi olabilir.
JUDY ABBOTT .. Bu dünyada kimin Judy Abbott'a tapmadığını söylüyorum? :)
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I didn't really know anything about this book when I picked it up other than it was a bestseller and on every bookshelf at every store I walked by. I enjoyed this book immensely, and it made me laugh out loud at times. I highly recommend it.
This was a fun book that I enjoyed, but I didn't think of it as a masterpiece or as spectacular. First and foremost, it is a very unique world that Felix Gilman created, starting with some American history cliches, but moving to some fantastic imagery as the half-made part of the world becomes more explored by the characters. The characters themselves were well written for the location and the time period in which you would imagine the world to be. What I really liked though, is this book was about the characters, not about the landscape, or the religions, or the governments. Those aspects of the story are used only to shape the characters you follow. None of the characters are perfect or fit any mold, as though to say this guy is the 'hero' and this guy is the 'villain.' Everyone is equally broken. I also enjoyed the buildup of the Red Valley Republic, only to find out out they weren't so perfect either. There is no utopia, at least not yet. Things I didn't care for, probably the way it was written from multiple perspectives. There are really no surprises when this chapter is about what this character is seeing, and the next is from someone else, and then the response from the first character again, and so on. I tend to prefer 1st person narratives, but that is more a preference issue than a mark of bad writing. Secondly, I didn't care for the ending. It wasn't a cliff hanger, but it was unresolved, and you never find out what the 'weapon' they were looking for is leaving a sense of wasted time and pointlessness. It kind of drops off with possible expectation of a second book, even introducing a new character whom could be a primary player in a second work. When I think of a second book, I'm not sure I'm interested in it, even though I enjoyed the characters from this one. They have already traveled to the ends of the earth, the only mystery left is the 'weapon' they were looking for, and is that going to hold an entire new book? All in all, it was a good book that I enjoyed, but I probably wont reread, or pursue a sequel.
I had just turned 16 and I was assigned to read all of Gulliver's Travels over winter break. Unfortunately, this meant Gulliver hitched a ride to Disney World with me... my entire vacation/birthday celebration was weighed down by this lengthy book. Though I do admit that there's some wonderful bits to it... it just was handed to me at the wrong time!