Muzammil Mahmood Mahmood itibaren Ait Marghad, मोरक्को
And as usual, I am backasswards! I watched movies 1-4; read books 5&6; watched movies 5&6; read book 7 THEN read books 1-4! I will tell you this.. it was Harry Potter that rekindled my love of reading. I couldn’t wait for the movies any longer, I had to know what was going to happen next! We start our story under the stairs. I tell you the life this poor boy had to live and endure in the beginning had a completely different affect on me via the books than in the 1st movie. Harry is dropped on his mother’s sister’s doorstep and thrust into a life where he is unwanted; they treat him cruelly and lie to him about his parents death, who were actually killed by a dark wizard named Voldemort. After getting an overwhelming invitation to Hogwarts via 500 Owls (!) he begins his journey and slowly unravels the truth about himself, his parents and Lord Voldemort. Rowling uses Harry’s story to reel in readers of all ages, enticing them with this magical world, beginning with his parents death and his neglected childhood. His story is so sadly relatable that I’m certain many people began reading for this reason; our wonderful world of Hogwarts being an added bonus. Upon boarding the train for Hogwarts, Harry not only begins a new journey but a new life where he matters and he gets to actually live and be a boy and have friends. Harry’s growth from a shy, neglected boy into a fierce and loyal friend and protector is so fascinating and engrossing I couldn’t help but fall in love with him and his cohorts (Ron and Hermione). Though slow in some parts of the novel, Rowling's use of imagery creates a suspenseful tale that had me anxiously awaiting what would be on the next page. Its simplicity makes sense in the end as it makes it an easy read, but it also allows the reader to relate with Harry's story as well as his friends and enemies alike. Can you believe she started this novel on a train on a napkin?!
The author worked with many interesting story lines, including the uncredited women designers at Tiffany's, Louis Comfort Tiffany, making the famous Tiffany lamp shades, labor unions, women's rights, turn of the century NY life, homosexuality, artists, friendships, love affairs, marriages, and independent women. Unfortunately, she awkwardly jumped from one idea to the next, never fully developing any storylines or characters. The constant insertion of facts about glass-making or poets or flowers became annoying rather than illuminating. This book just didn't work for me on any level.
Really unique perspective in the story. I felt that I was in a fantastic urban myth that started in the unlikely locale of a train station locker.
Good recent secondary text for Deleuze and Guttari's (anti-oedipus + thousand plateaus). Raunig develops and historicizes the development of machines and man-machine hybrids culminating in a dicussion on abstract machines, social forms and immaterial labor from an comtemporary operismo perspective . The chapter on Theatre Machines and 20's Russian theatre is interesting as is the roman conception of War Machines in the second chapter. The only weak point is his chapter on the identity of Precarity and specifically the development of the Euromayday protest movement in the 2000's.
a fast read, albeit a bit slown toward the end