Danilo Veronez Veronez itibaren Ebebiyín, Gabon
Fikir kitaplarını (merkez, görünüşte dar, tezini savunan kitaplar) yayınlama eğilimi, son on yılda Malcolm Gladwell'in Bahşiş Noktasından (ve diğerlerinden) Nassim Taleb'in Kara Kuğu'na Yapılması İçin Ucuz Heath'e kadar yükseldi. James Surowiecki'nin Kalabalık Hikmetine. Yapının yanı sıra, hepsinde ortak olarak savundukları fikir hakkında tartışma yaratma kabiliyeti var. (Bu, oldukça fakir akademik standartlarından ve nicel argümanlardan ziyade nitel niteliklerinden kaynaklanabilir.) Sizin için Kötü Her Şeyde, Steven Johnson, birçok Batılı insanın, yeni medya gibi yeni medyada ifade edilen, giderek aptal bir popüler kültür olarak algıladıklarını savunuyor. televizyon, internet ve oyun, aslında geçmişin ifadesine benzemeyen karmaşık sosyo-teknik yollarla ifade eden giderek daha karmaşık bir kültürdür. Johnson, bu yeni medya için sınıfın en iyisi “eski” medya (geleneksel yazı) ile eşdeğerden daha iyi olmayacak olsa da, ortalamanın çok daha iyi olacağını --- bu etkiyi “diyor” uyuyan eğri ". Son kırk yılda TV programlarının ve bilgisayar oyunlarının içeriğini göstergebilimsel olarak değil yapısal olarak (sistematik olarak) karşılaştırmaya karar verir ve bu gösterilerin karmaşıklığındaki bir evrimin varolduğunu anekdot kanıtlarla savunur. Ayrıca, TV şovları ve bilgisayar oyunları, bir defalık deneyimden ziyade tekrar edilmesi gereken ekonomik bir modele bağlı kaldıkça, 2000'li yılların yeni medyasının daha aktif olarak gerektirmesi gereken karar verme ve anlama becerileri olduğunu savunuyor. Kitabın geri kalanında, Johnson spekülasyon alanına girer ve pop kültür ifadesinin karmaşıklığındaki artışı, genel popülasyonun sorunları çözme kabiliyetindeki çok iyi belgelenmemiş artışlara bağlamaya çalışır (ortalama IQ artışları). zamanla) ve etkileşim kurmak için. Başka bir deyişle, artan medya karmaşıklığının, onunla çocuklarımızı ve ortalama Jo'larımızı bombalamasının, çocuklarımızı ve ortalama Jo'ların sorunları çözmede ve birbirleriyle etkileşimde bulunmalarını sağlamaktan sorumlu olduğunu iddia etmeye çalışıyor. Bu mümkün, ancak bu kitapta sunulan argüman yeterince alternatif hipotezleri araştırmıyor ve kabul edilebilir olmak için yeterince iyi değil. Bilgilendirilmiş bir okuyucu, bu kitapta formüle edilen argümanlar hakkında birçok konuyu gündeme getirebilir. Bu argümanların çoğu, kitaptan önceki eski (ironik, internet tabanlı) tartışmaların sadece bir ifadesi olduğu için, bunları belirtmekten kaçınacağım. Gördüğünüzde, bilgisayar oyunları karmaşıklık yolundaki evrimine devam etmedi; Aslında, 2010'daki en popüler oyunlar FarmCille ve Mafia Wars'dı, SimCity (Kötü olan Herşeyde Sizin için İyidir bölümünde ele alınmıştır) gibi önceki oyunların karmaşıklığını azaltan ve popülerleştiren iki sıradan oyun. The Big Bang Theory gibi diziler poli-yönlü karakterler ve beklenmedik arsa dönüşleri ile başlasa da, sonraki sezonları daha kalıplaşmış karakterlere ve parsellere dönüştü. Belki de yeni medyayı bir kenara bırakmaya tanık oluyoruz. Herher, en azından arkadaşlarımın IQ'ları hala büyüyor gibi görünüyor. Genel olarak, ilginç bir kitap ama konu ya da tartışmada yeni bir şey ortaya çıkardığından emin değilim.
Bu kitap lütuf hakkındaki görüşümü değiştirdi. Biz, biz Hıristiyanlar, her zaman zarafet hakkında konuşuruz - yine de gerçekten durup, Tanrı'nın lütfunun ne kadar radikal olduğunu düşünüyor muyuz? Bu kitap sizi üzerinde durmaya zorluyor.
Kuruş kısma için iyi ipuçları ve tavsiyeler; Ancak, bazı yerlerde benim için biraz aşırı. Harika kendine yeterliliği hatırlatma.
Imaginative. Just wonderful. The entire series is a must-read for any lover of literature.
I still enjoyed Brisingr, the third installment of the "Eragon" series. But it seemed to drag, and I felt Christopher Paolini could have completed the series in three books, instead of spreading it out into four. But it was still enjoyable to spend some time in Eragon's world. Looking forward to Book 4.
Book reviews make me nervous; I’m always worried I’ll give too much away. To avoid that, I have come up with some basic questions that I will answer as briefly as possible to give you a general idea of why I did or did not like the book. Q: Is the plot exciting and suspenseful? A: Yes Q: Does it have a fast start? A: Yes Q: Action, danger, humour, romance, mystery? A: Action – yes; danger – yes; romance - yes; humour – yes; mystery - yes Q: Do the characters (make you care)? A: Yup Q: Is it well written (good descriptions, well explained and believable)? A: Yes Q: Did it provide an emotional response and give you something to think about? A: Yes Q: Did it have a good ending with problems solved and characters getting what they deserve? A: Yes Extras (FYI): - Sexual content - Kissing - Profanity - mild - Violence - yes Pretty good end for a pretty good series. A little too "tied up in a nice bow" for me (a few lose ends are good for your imagination :D) but still a few unexpected twist and turns. If you've read the first two then what are you waiting for?! Pick it up!
Ah Jesus. This really is a beautiful, heart-wrenching story. My one piece of advice? If you do the audio thing, then that's how to do this one. Sile Bermingham is the perfect reader, her soft lilt a gorgeous accompaniment not just to the lyrical prose that will make you shudder when it's read aloud, but delivering on the Irish accent transporting you to a very particular time and place. It should have been the Irish history content of this novel that brought it to my attention (more on that later), but it wasn't. It was its author - Siobhan (pronounced She-von) Dowd. I discovered Ms. Dowd the summer of 2011 when I read A Monster Calls. That book shattered me on a cellular level. The author of A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness - describes his collaboration with Dowd this way: She had the characters, a detailed premise, and a beginning. What she didn't have, unfortunately, was time. Dowd was diagnosed with breast cancer and succumbed to her disease in 2007 at the age of 47. Ness courageously took on the project and the completed novel is both exquisite and a lasting tribute to its progenitor. So I went looking for something else to read by this woman and came across Bog Child. There was a time in my life when I was marinating in a stew of Irish history. I took an interest in it at University and it became my declared major. My BA Honors essay was on the IRA's guerrilla tactics during the Irish War of Independence. By the time I hit grad school I was practically obsessed. I knew my next step was an even bigger research project and a trip to Ireland, hence my Master's thesis which you can read here if you're ever really desperate for reading material or have a love of the subject yourself. Even though my subject area was late 19th, early 20th century Irish history, it was unavoidable that I would become consumed by the on-going Troubles that exploded again in Northern Ireland in the 1960's. I eventually did get myself to Ireland on a work/study visa in the fall of 2000 lasting until April 2001, which by pure coincidence coincided with the 20th anniversary of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. I witnessed a candlelight vigil along O'Connell Street and listened to Gerry Adams (and the sister of Mickey Devine) speak at a public gathering. It was an emotional affair, but at the same time I remember feeling removed from the entire experience. It felt too raw and personal for me to be looking on like that, a Canadian girl who was only seven years old when ten young Irishmen starved themselves to death in political protest. It's easy for anyone on the outside of any event to have opinions of it one way or the other -- whether those young men really knew what they were doing, or were just desperate and confused by dehumanizing prison conditions, or whether they had been brainwashed and/or intimidated to "the cause". Some consider their actions a waste and abhorrent, while others see their deaths as an important political event worthy of commemoration as we do for soldiers who die in battle. For me, it isn't the Strikers I think about (as sad and frustrating as their stories are), but their families. How excruciating and traumatic must the whole process have been to watch a son die slow like that. The worst part? It's within your power to take them off the Strike, against their will, so that the doctors hook them up to an IV saving them from certain death. How does any parent make that choice? It seems easy, right? Of course you would save them. It would be mad to let them die. But ten families made that choice. Other families did not, and ended their son's hunger strike. I've always wondered how each family survived the very different choice they made. Is there bitterness? Doubts? What about the men taken off the Strike by their families...did they forgive them? Did they suffer from survivor's guilt for living when others died in their place? Or was it relief? Relief that they were saved from themselves and the insanity that had taken hold of the times. For a cinematic portrayal of what the families faced I recommend Some Mother's Son. I haven't thought about Irish history in any shape or form in years. I left grad school in 2005 and I was done with all of it. I had been supersaturated, I had overdosed on it. No more! I cried. Then this book. In Bog Child, the late Siobhan Dowd is not romanticizing the Hunger Strike. It's not a political book, for or against the Strikers. It's just a simple story of an eighteen year old boy facing manhood. His final exams are in full swing and his dreams of becoming a doctor have never been so close, yet so out of reach. He's falling in love for the first time. He's getting pressured from the local IRA goon to run packets across the guarded border. But most devastating and confusing of all, his older brother Joey is on Hunger Strike in Maze Prison and it's tearing his family apart. Fergus stole and then broke my heart. All he wants to do is the right thing, but in a messed up world during a messed up time what the right thing is isn't always clear. It's not all doom and gloom. There's light and laughter and hope in these pages too, and an abiding love for the affirmation of life and all the joy and pain that living brings.
Book #2 in my current reeducation quest...it's long and thorough, and pretty practical; however, it doesn't speak to me the way "Where to Start and What to Ask" did. I like the atheoretical orientation, but I also feel like it's more of an effort to drag myself through this one. Update -- okay -- now I've finished it. Overall, my first impression still stands. The writing was okay but not great, which made the book a little less accessible than I would have liked. I really liked the practical exercises and examples; I found them very illustrative. I don't know whether it's possible to write counseling exercises for the budding therapist that will translate into real life (especially if you don't have a partner to practice with), but if it is, these are good candidates. I felt like the skills they were teaching and having me practice were very relevant and useful. I guess the true test will be once the internship starts...
I enjoyed reading more about the life of Audrey Hepburn. I had previously read other biographies about her but this one is more speculative. It is based on extensive research about her life through archives and interviews with her friends and family. I found myself relating to her on a personal level in ways that I hadn't previously.