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Bu, iPod'umda dinlediğim karmaşık bir teknik ve tuhaf bilim kurgu kitabı. Stephenson yıllar önce okuduğum Snow Crash'i yazdı ve ilk aklıma geldi. İnternet öncesi henüz bir kişinin kulağına bağlı avatarları ve cep telefonlarını tahmin ediyordu, henüz gerçekleşmemiş, ancak şimdi ortak bir yer. O bir vizyoner, ama kitabı çok katmanlı, çok karakterli, onu almak için basılı olarak almam gerekebilir. Güncelleme yolun 3 / 4'ünden vazgeçtim.
This is a fascinating book, a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the Crusades or Templar history.
I love this series! I want her to be with Tamani :)
Loved every second of it!
The axiom, that the closer words get to capturing it, the more elusive life proves to be, finds full expression here. I can't help but feel Bouvier is having his life and writing it, too: diary revisions under the power of such talent is a cheat. Such wordsmithery can't be bought with all the gold in Fort Knox, yet is so layered and nuanced here that an inescapable chill enters the prose. I recall an old flame taking me to task for revising letters I wrote her on the grounds that she wasn't getting my pure expression. I ignored her, confident that posterity would vindicate me. Nicolas Bouvier, these many years later, has provided that vindication, bittersweet though it may be. There is something to writing that has not been varnished to a sparkly finish, an organic quality that invites the reader by virtue of making them feel a sense of grip, of engagement; with Bouvier I felt rather that I was at the feet of the master holding forth on youth and wonder from the vantage of mature reflection, smooth and polished and sliding away like mercury. Beautiful expression, yes, but lacking that quality complained of so long ago. Odd how the past revisits us, isn't it? It never looks anything like you expect.
Probably closer to 4.5 stars. Starts slow like a lot of the other Armstrong books and packs a wallop with lots of stuff going on. And is a big set up for the finale that should be excellent. One minor problem, with Savannah having her "power outage", there's not much supernatural going on it the supernatural book.