![]() ![]() I guess it’s clear she could stop him if she wanted to, but it felt a little weird to me. When she experiences a romantic advance from one of the other pirates, it’s not clear whether she wants him to behave like he does. She arranges for herself to be captured and makes it clear (to the reader) that she can come and go from her cell pretty much at will. Once I understood how that code worked, I was a huge fan of him. ![]() But he’s also a pirate, so kind of unpredictable, definitely living by his own code of ethics. He’s so conflicted, so caught between what he wants and protecting people he cares about and doing the right thing. She’s fierce and smart and knows how to bide her time and wait for the right moments to do what she needs to do. I really enjoyed a lot of things about this book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even better is "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" (#248), a hero-meets-young-fan type short story that cranks the melodrama up to eleven – and succeeds beautifully. Organized chronologically, the book starts out with "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut" and "Hyde & Seek" from Roger Stern & John Romita Jr.’s acclaimed run (the selected issues are 1982’s The Amazing Spider-Man #229-32), and both stories turn out to be great Silver Age-style fun in the Lee-Romita Sr. ![]() This is a sampler of some of the most popular Spider-Man comics of the 1980s, complete with a (not particularly informative) Bendis introduction and a rather fanboy-ish (but slightly more informative) foreword to each story arc. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the original title, Heba-which means “waste” in Turkish-foreshadows, Ziya’s inner turmoil, suffering, and angst will follow him everywhere, and his move to the Edenic village of Yazikoy will not save him.Īs a prolific and versatile Turkish writer, Toptas is known to cultivate his own style as a novelist, but this does not mean his craftsmanship is comparable to Tanpinar, Pamuk, or Yaşar Kemal, and structurally and stylistically, the novel presents the reader with challenges. Toptas’s compelling narrative of trauma depicts the silent erosion of Ziya’s soul in a chaotic world governed by mob mentality, poverty, ignorance, and a cruel, hypermasculine military culture.Īt the center of the novel is Ziya’s final and tragic attempt to find peace in life. It tells the story of a middle-aged Turkish antihero, Ziya Kül, who is haunted by the tragic death of his wife and unborn child and the terrorizing military experience on the Syrian border. Reckless is the latest novel by the award-winning Turkish writer Hasan Ali Toptas and the first of his books to be translated into English. ![]() |