Nazım’ın Bilinmeyen Mektupları Adalet Cimcoz’a Mektuplar / 1945-1950 pdf olarak indir

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*minor spoilers* First of all, I will never forget this book for two reasons: the title, and how it was so hard to get my hands on. That said, Keturah and Lord Death had a plot I really wanted to read about, since I'm a sucker for romance in doom and gloom situations. Now, after reading it, I can't decide on how I feel about the book. It's lyrically written, sweet, gentle, poetic et cetera, and contains plenty of very quotable lines, both romantic and deathly, but beneath all that I found the story somewhat a cop-out. I wasn't expecting Keturah to tell a great love story ... about herself. Because what the heck, that's just narcissistic. And no matter how beautiful or sweet or gentle she is, I just don't like narcissistic characters. Lord Death here seems too naive or spellbound for someone who's been here for eternity (or as long as the first living cell, I guess). Might have been because I already had a personal idea of how this Lord Death should act, and it fell very far away from how he was in the book. I imagined a cunning, bittersweet guy, sardonic on the surface yet heartwarming deep down, but Lord Death here didn't pack a punch, you know? He was quite the flaccid character to have so easily fallen for Keturah, not for her wit, or charm, but for her self-absorbance. I get that the setting's vintage and that there's this fairytale aspect to it, but I didn't like how this supposedly great heroine shuddered and ran away in relief after the Eye decided some ugly, old dude wasn't meant as her true love. Because - shallow much? I guess at the end of the day I just didn't like Keturah. It also didn't help that I felt she wasn't deserving to be Death's true love. I mean, of ALL people Death has come across, he falls for this? I wanted to like this book. I do like the circumstances. I just wish the characters had more OOMPH in them. Also, it doesn't help that I feel somewhat cheated by the promise of a great love story that didn't turn out so fantastic after all. Disappointed! Edited: Maybe I missed the point but apparently the entire book is about Keturah telling a story starring herself so all of the above is as real as fiction. I wish it didn't start out saying, "ALL THIS IS NOT REAL", because that just ruins the charming, fantastical part of it - the part I liked. Still, meh.

2020-08-11 20:17