Flp Gms Gms itibaren Enbek, Kazakistan
Gerçekten eğlenceli komedi romanı ve içeriden biri müzik endüstrisine bakıyor. Eğlenceli, hızlı bir okuma. (İlk baskı)
Başlığın dediği gibi, yazarın Zen deneyiminin bu ikinci kitabında bir yerlere girmeye başlar. İlham verici.
"1 Nolu Bayan Dedektiflik Bürosu" incelememi görün
Ever since her father drowned crossing a river the first time her family attempted to head west, twelve-year-old Willow has been terrified of water. And ever since her mother remarried and and the family headed west again, she has resented her new stepfather, Mr. Hansen. But nothing can prepare Willow for the challenges she will face in one short day. Swept out of the wagon during a river crossing, Willow is left for dead. Now she must make her way through a harsh, merciless wilderness in an attempt to find her family before they get to far ahead for her to ever catch up. Another good book from the American Diaries middle grade historical fiction series.
This is an "okay" book. I'm not that interested in romance, so it's not that great for me. This is a clasic tale of love. It actually proves that good things come in small packages. From the blurb it says: Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...
Bravo! Superb! A remarkable story told wonderfully. David Quammen is a skilled craftsman. He’s created an intimate portrait about a most reluctant and highly methodical genius, who ranks beside the likes of Copernicus, Newton and Einstein. Quammen tells the story of Charles Darwin from the time he ends his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle until and through the publication of his most famous work: "On the Origin of the Species." How the young bible-quoting ship’s naturalist noted for his piety comes to write the book that shocked the religious community, and goes right on shaking its foundation today is a story to be told. Darwin’s 180-degree about-face is made simply enough: he looked honestly at the evidence, both living and fossilized, he found all around him. But the writing of the book did not come easy; Mr. Darwin experiments, collects, ruminants, questions, procrastinates and ruminants some more. Over twenty years pass. He knew his theories would rock our notion of life on earth and our lofty place at its zenith, and he was most reluctant to do that. So reluctant, he almost let someone else introduce the idea of the mutability of species through natural selection, i.e. evolution. (A term Mr. Darwin never used although he did end his book with the beautiful sentence: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.") Wow. Quammen’s skill at storytelling makes Darwin's 20-year rumination a surprising page-turner. And that is no small feat. Excellent book about one of the most important episodes of science. I knew someday this would happen to me. I have given several books five stars, using that as my scale, this one really deserves six.
Algernon really knows how to write well and places you into a truly haunting atmosphere in this story. Two men venture during their expeditions in territory that is not the norm which encompass huge daunting malevolent Willow trees. I must read more stories of his. "The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or rejection. At first it may not always be apparent, because the busy preparations of tent and cooking prevent, but with the first pause-after supper usually- it comes and announces itself. And the note of this willow-camp now became unmistakably plain to me: we were interlopers, trespassers; we were not welcomed. The sense of unfamiliarity grew upon me as I stood there watching. We touched the frontier of a region where our presence was resented. For a night's lodging we might perhaps be tolerated; but for a prolonged and inquisitive stay-No! By all the gods of the trees and the wilderness, no! We were the first human influences upon this island, and we were not wanted. The willows were against us." "Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitation of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone. But this means a radical alteration, a complete change, a horrible loss f oneself by substitution- far worse than death, and not even annihilation. We happen to have camped in a spot where their region touches ours, where the veil between has worn thin-horrors!"