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Mixed bag of short essays--full review at Blogcritics.
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I really like this revelatory, dangerous, humble, entertaining, moving collection: like wandering through an art gallery of male nudes as seen from the inside out...
I was very excited to read this book after seeing it on a shelf at my local bookstore. The idea in practice sound appealing, even the idea of getting writers to contribute. This book may have broad appeal, but was overall quite disappointing as the content did not appear to ascribe in the least to the title of the book. This book does contain some beautiful and pertinent essays. Yet, it also include a range of essays to which the writers are either indulgent, unclear, or vague. Some essays near
I read this while sick in bed, so my full faculties may not have been engaged. I found many of the short (some very short) pieces completely inscrutable. Weird book.
Like most anthologies, this is a mixed bag. There is some beautiful writing in it -- some that sticks to the theme, some that doesn't -- as well as a couple of tiresomely showoffy pieces, which fit those same descriptions. Interesting to see what the writers do within the constraints of space. See also the wonderful website The Good Men Project: more to the point and often quite well-written.
80 yazar,80 öykü, tek konu: erkek’lik algısı..Baba,eş,evlat,arkadaş,kardeş..Hangi sıfatla adlandırılırsa adlandırılsın; içinde yaşadığımız toplumlar tarafından yüklenilmiş ve tanımlandırılmaya çalışılan roller mevcut. Kadın-erkek olarak değil, kadınlık-erkeklik üzerine koyulan her isim aslında birer tuğla omuzlarımıza yüklenen.‘Erkek isen çalış ve aileni geçindir.Erkek isen arkanda evlatlar bırak.Erkek isen ağlama.Erkek isen baskın ol.’Yap-yapma temelli dayatmaların sadece kadınlar için değil er...
An interesting collection of writing by eighty different writers (both male and female) about "how to be a man". Some of these were really good, but most of these were just ok. Some of them I even actively disliked.Here's what I really liked:- the essays that sum up a feeling really well (David Gilbert and Khaled Hosseini)- the essays that are one paragraph, but end up somehow being better than the long, vague ones (Ron Carlson's was my favorite)- the ones that make sure you remember that being
Dünyanın her bir yanından, içinde bir çok ünlü yazarında olduğu çeşitli kısa hikayelerin derlemesi. Bazıları sizi yumruk yemiş gibi sarsıyor, bazılar ise güldürüyor. Ortaklığı sağlayan tema ise 'erkeklik' üzerine; ama dünyanın çeşitliliği, kültürlerin farklılığı düşünüldüğünde bununda çok muğlak kaldığı, insanlık hali üzerine olduğu görülüyor.Özellikle kısa hikayeleri seviyorsanız, mükemmel bir derleme.
I simply love the idea of the book and enjoy reading small pieces of writing from different authors with different backgrounds. It is probably weird for the readers as it is hard to be coherent reading writing pieces with different style and tone, but it's definitely a new experience and I look forward to more of its kind.
This is a clever grab-bag of essays, flash fiction, and slices-of-life, most of them no more than a few pages, perfect for travel. If you're expecting a self-help manual, look elsewhere. Good writing. Illuminating. Disturbing. Witty and weird and wild.
This book contains many short stories, written by eighty contemporary writers, with the theme of what it means to be a man. The stories are written by both men and women and there are a lot of different interpretations. Overall it was a good collection but some of the stories were a little too short so that I didn't even really know what was going on. Some were very cliched because of the short length and there were a few abrupt endings which felt awkward. My favorite story was definitely Ian M
This book to me just really wasn't my taste. It may work for others but not for me. It is supposed to be a collection of great writers about how to be a man but ends up being self indulgent essays with more fluff than content.
Great concept but patchy and uneven collection of stories.
