Lucky Per – Book Review

Enes Talha Coşgun translated this article from Turkish to English. When I read this book last year, I had so much literary pleasure that I immediately felt the urge to sit down and write a review. However, I kept postponing writing it because I wanted to write a long and detailed review, and during this time, a whole year passed. So let’s start this review now, which will probably be a quite long one. ✵ The Danish naturalist writer Henrik Pontoppidan‘s book Lykke-Per, published at the beginning of the 20th century, was adapted into a film by Bille August in …

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Johnny Got His Gun – Book & Movie Review

“Suppose your eyes are blind, your ears are deaf, and your limbs are so numb that they can not feel the contact of the place they touched, just like a frozen finger… Now, for you; the world is like a void. It is space’s very self. You don’t step on the ground because your feet can’t stand. Your eyes don’t see and your ears don’t hear. Walk like you are walking in the air! A wall came in front of you. Hit it! Who is to say that you hit? You won’t hear the crash, so the wall couldn’t block …

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