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Sadece şu anda biraz sarhoş olduğumu söyleyerek başlayayım ve geçmeden önce biraz ayılmaya çalışıyorum, böylece akşamdan kalmayı önleyebilirim. Bununla birlikte, biraz ilham aldığımı itiraf etmeliyim. Hollanda aşırı alaycı ve biraz fazla nostaljik olmasına rağmen, kitap hafif bir okuma olarak eğlendi. Satın almak için yolumdan asla çıkmazdım, ama ücretsiz olarak yakaladığım için hayal kırıklığına uğratmadım.
Mona Van Duyn'ın şiirini yıllar önce tökezledim ve o zamandan beri hayran oldum.
This is brilliant. Disturbing, but brilliant. Kristian Williams (author of Our Enemies In Blue) takes us through America's history of using torture. The initial chapters are seriously excellent, as they lay theoretical groundwork for what torture is and who does it, covering the Stanley Milgram's infamous Stanford Experiment and other explorations of human reactions to authority and brutality. I've known Kristian for years (full disclosure) and his scholarship and dedication to exploring issues of power and violent social injustice is unparalleled. His writing is good too; layman-comprehensible while being fairly thorough. His far-left bias isn't hidden, but it's pretty well-supported within the text, and as I share it, it doesn't bother me overmuch.
This was one of the 2007 RUSA Notable Books winners. For the complete list, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rus...
I thought I was going to like this more than I did. It's good, but it's lacking something in the writing. The weird, passive voice of the whole thing kind of sets an interesting tone and kind of makes it hard to feel like you know the character. Overall, I like the book. Very interesting variation of a familiar theme and interesting decision making. It has a similar feeling to me as Goose Girl. If you like that, I think you'll at least like this. And when one of my friends reads this, how in the heck does the prologue fit into the rest of the story? It makes sense at first, but then doesn't make sense. Read it and lets talk about it.