Seif Gamal Gamal itibaren Delia, Ekvador
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Meh ... Bu kitabı tavsiye etmem.
Oldukça aptalca (iyi bir şekilde değil, ancak herhangi bir sınırın ötesine uzanan bir şekilde) ve sonunda kesinlikle duygusal. Yabancı ana karakterlerin öncülünü beğendim, ama onlar bana iyi ya da otantik görünmüyordu.
This book is pretty funny! Some parts, I laughed so hard, I cried, others were pretty disturbing. You definitely need a whacked out sense of humor to enjoy this one. Some of the stuff that happens to him is so far out there, you forget that you are reading a true story. You can't make that kind of stuff up!
#1 of Outside Magazine's "Books for the Well-Read Explorer"
After a great deal of research, I stumbled upon a neat book on quotes. Oxymoronica , a word coined by Dr Mardy Grothe , a psychologist, author of “Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you” , has come up with a book of same name, containing paradoxical wit and wisdom from greatest wordsmiths. Oxymoronica is a superset and mixture of paradox, oxymoron, chiasmus, as author says. I felt it also encapsulates irony, sarcasm and many other things. Author goes on to define oxymoronicas to convey deeper meaning than they mean superficially. Before I began to read, I wondered about the existence of so many quotes to fill the fat book. But after finishing I now will have to search for normal quotes. Paradox – A statement that looks false but is nonetheless true(Less is more OR The more the things change the more they remain same-Alphonse Karr) Oxymoron – Two contradicting terms (pretty ugly)..Oxymoronica is not just contradicting terms, but contradicting ideas (Free love is too expensive-Delvin) Chiasmus – Reversing the order of words. First I dream my painting , then I paint my dream –Vincent van Gough Infact may of all our favorite quotes (and e-mail signatures) could be categorized into one of these groups. Or they are our favorite only because they are oxymoronicas. Neatly broken into 14 chapters depending on interesting basis like “ancient oxymoronica�?(The half is greater than the whole-Greek poet Hesiod) , “political oxymoronica�?(“Your greatest enemy is your greatest friend) “oxymoronic advice�?(Never take anybody’s advice- George Bernard Shaw), “oxymoronic insults(and few praises)�?(she never was really charming till she died-Terence), “oxymoronica on stage�? (I just want to be normally insane) and the ultimate “inadvertent oxymoronica�?(oxymoronic quotes by accident). Inadvertent oxymoronica, where most of Bush’s quotes are found, is an ideal last chapter of the book. And I stil have my reserves about author’s decision to place many quotes in chapters other than “inadvertent oxymoronica�? and vice –versa. Most often , his definition of oxymoronica – any variety of tantalizing self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false /silly / illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true – fits the quotes. As suggested on the cover “as addictive as a bowl of peanuts�?, it made a fast read. If sometimes I would just laugh loudly at the quotes, other times I would take a break to understand and absorb the inner meaning. If in an effort to find the oxymoronica meaning in normal quotes, if one succeeds, purpose served is only less (Because “less is more�?). All my best thoughts were stolen by ancients- Emerson
The story starts with an elderly couple dying in each other's arms, of different causes. The rest of the novel brings together their friends and family for their joint funeral. Of course, their children are all adults and must be brought together from across the globe to not only face the fact that their parents are dead, but all the other personal demons that come with "home": old flames, past indiscretions, memories, old friends and nemeses. Not only that, but the quickly discover a family secret: their father wrote their mother a letter every single week. Since they were married on a Wednesday (who the heck gets married on a Wednesday, by the way?), and that's the day of his first letter, that's the day of the week he writes every letter to her, thus the title. The letters are not, in my opinion, in the book enough. They actually are not the focus of the novel, rather a plot device used to drive forward the plot that actually revolves around their black-sheep son, Malcolm. He quickly emerges as the main character, with all manner of plots following him around: unresolved business, criminal history, lost love, misunderstandings, hurt feelings, ego, the whole kit and caboodle. While much of his moping comes from exaggerated, adolescent Peter Pan syndrome, we find out that he does, eventually have a little something to mope about, and thus the crux of the plot appears. Most of the characters are flat, completely underdeveloped. They are like paper dolls acting out the story, though at least the story is sweet and interesting. There's one twist near the end that neither makes sense, is necessary nor completely resolved, but aside from that, it's a touching, sweet plot. I would *almost* qualify this as a "Christian" novel, but the Christian elements are so seamlessly blended into the story, that the feel completely natural, and I feel no need to label this as "Christian fiction." The couple who died were devout, and the funeral is held in a church. References to prayer, forgiveness, grace and the Atonement are all made, but it's never preachy. Overall: good, not great. Worth reading once, and it does give some very good food for thought on a lot of different topics: what are we required to forgive in others? in ourselves? what are the important things in our lives? how are we protecting those things? working towards those things? what do other people see when they look at us- is it who we are, or who we are pretending to be? All excellent topics, and all worth talking about. Parental advisories: Sex 2/5: A woman talks about a sexual attack in her past. She is discreet, but the assault is real, and probably not reasonable for very young readers. Language 0/5: I don't remember any; one almost-curse is interrupted by a pastor, and the offender apologizes, even though the word wasn't spoken. Violence 1/5: The sexual assault mentioned earlier, though it is not described in any detail whatsoever, and a man beats up another man to prevent a woman from being assaulted. Substance Abuses 2/5: One character is a recovering alcoholic, and his experiences are talked about in several places, one character is an ex-drug user, and describes an experience in which he was high, and talks briefly about shooting up.