en-US Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:33:04 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 7235533 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.

Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths:

Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.]]> 1007 Brandon Sanderson 0765326353 Ahmed 5
Brandon very rarely indulges himself, almost everything feels like it is happening for a reason or an intention for a future reveal - that’s why so many people complain about the slow start, but very quickly the mystery is just too big to stop.

The rise of conflict to a crescendo at the end is worth the long read, I don’t remember reading such an enjoyable novel since Harry Potter! ]]> 4.66 2010
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.66
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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It is not easy to write a 1000 page novel that so many people like. I expected some trick somewhere that kept all those readers happy - but no trick found, just a thoroughly enjoyable piece.

Brandon very rarely indulges himself, almost everything feels like it is happening for a reason or an intention for a future reveal - that’s why so many people complain about the slow start, but very quickly the mystery is just too big to stop.

The rise of conflict to a crescendo at the end is worth the long read, I don’t remember reading such an enjoyable novel since Harry Potter!
]]> 34466962
Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.

When Swedish-born Linda McGurk moved to small-town Indiana with her American husband to start a family, she quickly realized that her outdoorsy ways were not the norm. In Sweden children play outside all year round, regardless of the weather, and letting young babies nap outside in freezing temperatures is not only common—it is a practice recommended by physicians. In the US, on the other hand, she found that the playgrounds, which she had expected to find teeming with children, were mostly deserted. In preschool, children were getting drilled to learn academic skills, while their Scandinavian counterparts were climbing trees, catching frogs, and learning how to compost. Worse, she realized that giving her daughters the same freedom to play outside that she had enjoyed as a child in Sweden could quickly lead to a visit by Child Protective Services.

The brewing culture clash finally came to a head when McGurk was fined for letting her children play in a local creek, setting off an online firestorm when she expressed her anger and confusion on her blog. The rules and parenting philosophies of her native country and her adopted homeland were worlds apart.

Struggling to fit in and to decide what was best for her children, McGurk turned to her own childhood for answers. Could the Scandinavian philosophy of “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes�� be the key to better lives for her American children? And how would her children’s relationships with nature change by introducing them to Scandinavian concepts like friluftsliv (“open-air living��) and hygge (the coziness and the simple pleasures of home)? McGurk embarked on a six-month-long journey to Sweden to find out. There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather is a fascinating personal narrative that highlights the importance of spending time outdoors, and illustrates how the Scandinavian culture could hold the key to raising healthier, resilient, and confident children in America.]]> 304 Linda Åkeson McGurk 150114362X Ahmed 4
The book was strongest when it encouraged outdoors play and accepting that kids will get dirty (middle of the book)

The ending was very underwhelming for me - it was nicely written but not very related to the book’s thesis.

]]> 4.10 2017
author: Linda Åkeson McGurk
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2017
rating: 4
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Very enjoyable light read! Reminded me a lot with “Hunt, Gather, Parent��, but more solid. Lots of interesting new ideas, I never heard before of “forrest daycares��, and the “rain or shine�� mentality def makes sense.

The book was strongest when it encouraged outdoors play and accepting that kids will get dirty (middle of the book)

The ending was very underwhelming for me - it was nicely written but not very related to the book’s thesis.


]]> 196848596 A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future.

What if depression, anxiety, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, cancer and many other health conditions that torture and shorten our lives actually have the same root cause?

Our ability to prevent and reverse these conditions - and feel incredible today - is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create "good energy," the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.

If you are battling minor signals of "bad energy" inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here's the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.

Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, Good Energy offers an essential four-week plan and explains:

�� The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.
�� How to use inexpensive tools and technology to "see inside your body" and take action.
�� Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you're carnivore or vegan.
�� The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism.
�� A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities.
�� How cold and heat exposure helps build our body's resilience.
�� Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health.

Good Energy offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. It will help you optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.]]> 400 Casey Means 0593712641 Ahmed 4
I took one star away because the book tries too hard to blame all ailments on metabolic disease. At the very least, that’s a stretch that’s not supported by science, “Ageing�� could be an independent process related to entropy, and I don’t think we have any proof pointing otherwise - nor did the book tackle that. The book gets a bit cringe/hippie-dippie at points, so be warned. There is some dancing between personal experience to published research that makes it confusing at times at which level of authority the general tone is. ]]> 4.15 2024
author: Casey Means
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/08
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One of the few books that got better as I kept reading! It starts off a bit slow trying to convince the reader that vegetables are good for you - I don’t need convincing about that. As it went on - it got to the techniques and suggestions for improving metabolic health. It ends with a very concrete plan and even some “Good Energy�� recipes to put previous suggestions into action. I love the practicality and I know for sure I will be coming back to check it out.

I took one star away because the book tries too hard to blame all ailments on metabolic disease. At the very least, that’s a stretch that’s not supported by science, “Ageing�� could be an independent process related to entropy, and I don’t think we have any proof pointing otherwise - nor did the book tackle that. The book gets a bit cringe/hippie-dippie at points, so be warned. There is some dancing between personal experience to published research that makes it confusing at times at which level of authority the general tone is.
]]> 544079 Konstantin Monastyrsky 0970679645 Ahmed 2
Probably my first conspiracy theory text? :)
I have lots of respect for the effort it takes to write a public education text, but this one comes off short.

The weird stuff:
- He talks about fiber as if it is one thing. soluable vs insoluble fiber is not discussed at all, although they are both digested very differently
- Claims that Japanese diet has no fiber in - he has not heard of edmame
- Lots of hyperbole that “fiber is the enemy��, summarized by “fiber makes your poop big�� & doctors are not smart enough to notice. Let’s ignore thousands of studies on nutrition science, it is all paid for by big fiber.

My theory based on author’s background is that he’s a recovering diabetic who fixed his diabetes by decreasing his carb intake but then realized his GI issues improved as a by-product. That makes sense - but
1. It does not mean fiber/carbs are bad given that we evolved to be omnivores
2. Does not mean that his health is in tip top shape otherwise.
One can go on a no food fast that fixes their GI maladies but that does not food is a menace.

That being said, I found the parts about gut microbiome and dysbiosis quite interesting, and so his detailing of GI anatomy. I also completely agree with his criticism of medicine-dependency for GI issues, and using diet and lifestyle instead, but that’s mainstream at this point.

You know what? That was a refreshing read! ]]> 3.81 2005
author: Konstantin Monastyrsky
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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2.5 stars

Probably my first conspiracy theory text? :)
I have lots of respect for the effort it takes to write a public education text, but this one comes off short.

The weird stuff:
- He talks about fiber as if it is one thing. soluable vs insoluble fiber is not discussed at all, although they are both digested very differently
- Claims that Japanese diet has no fiber in - he has not heard of edmame
- Lots of hyperbole that “fiber is the enemy��, summarized by “fiber makes your poop big�� & doctors are not smart enough to notice. Let’s ignore thousands of studies on nutrition science, it is all paid for by big fiber.

My theory based on author’s background is that he’s a recovering diabetic who fixed his diabetes by decreasing his carb intake but then realized his GI issues improved as a by-product. That makes sense - but
1. It does not mean fiber/carbs are bad given that we evolved to be omnivores
2. Does not mean that his health is in tip top shape otherwise.
One can go on a no food fast that fixes their GI maladies but that does not food is a menace.

That being said, I found the parts about gut microbiome and dysbiosis quite interesting, and so his detailing of GI anatomy. I also completely agree with his criticism of medicine-dependency for GI issues, and using diet and lifestyle instead, but that’s mainstream at this point.

You know what? That was a refreshing read!
]]> 25744928 One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.

In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world.]]> 296 Cal Newport 1455586692 Ahmed 5
I might be wrong but this one prob started the following barrage of anti-technology books, maybe 4 hour work week as well was as early.

The recommended techniques has stood the test if time IMO and def worth a read for anyone struggling with productivity in a distracted world. Being available 24-7 is a sure way to become insane. ]]> 4.16 2016
author: Cal Newport
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2016
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I keep coming back to this one. I have read several of Newport’s books but this one is definitely on a new level. The essence of the book is that work that can be done in a distracted state is 1. work that soon will be done by machines, and 2. Less rewarding.

I might be wrong but this one prob started the following barrage of anti-technology books, maybe 4 hour work week as well was as early.

The recommended techniques has stood the test if time IMO and def worth a read for anyone struggling with productivity in a distracted world. Being available 24-7 is a sure way to become insane.
]]> 54493401
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?]]> 476 Andy Weir 0593135202 Ahmed 5 4.49 2021
author: Andy Weir
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.49
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Andy Weir knows how to write entertaining Sci-Fi for sure! I have read lots of alien stories but this one hit different. The premise of the story, the way it was told and progressed up to the ending, it was all just great. New favourite author!
]]> 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error�� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills �� and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit �� he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 Ahmed 4 4.41 2011
author: Andy Weir
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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Extremely entertaining! Such a fun listen on audible as well. One star missing because there is zero character development going on.
]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.95 1872
author: Jules Verne
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1872
rating: 0
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]]> 2240092 An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe.
An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last.

A fascinating and absorbing thriller -- perfect for history buffs, conspiracy nuts, puzzle lovers or anyone who appreciates a great, riveting story.

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion -- an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others.

In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret -- and an explosive historical truth -- will be lost forever.

The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion.]]> 18 Dan Brown 0739374664 Ahmed 4 3.93 2003
author: Dan Brown
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> 36489454
Why won’t he/she eat? This is a question parents ask numerous health professionals while searching for a solution. Babies are typically diagnosed with one, two or three medical conditions to explain their aversive feeding behavior during brief appointments. Consequently, many parents don’t receive an effective solution from the health professionals they consult. This is why this book is so necessary.

Rowena Bennett is an Australian nurse who holds professional qualifications in various nursing fields including pediatrics, midwifery, child health, mental health and lactation consultant. She has over 20 years experience advising parents how to resolve infant feeding and sleeping problems. Rowena has helped over 1000 babies get over their aversion to bottle-feeding and enjoy feeding once again. Parents claim the relief is life changing.

In Your Baby’s Bottle-feeding Aversion, Rowena describes the various reasons babies display aversive feeding behavior, explains how the reader can identify the cause, and describes effective solutions. Included are step-by-step instructions on how to resolve a behavioral feeding aversion that occurs as a result of being repeatedly pressured to feed - the most common of all reasons for babies to become averse to feeding.

Your Baby’s Bottle-feeding Aversion provides practical professional feeding advice that not only makes good sense, it works!
]]> 226 Rowena Bennett Ahmed 5 4.61
author: Rowena Bennett
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.61
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]]> 39899253 Scattered Minds explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder as genetically based �� and offers real hope and advice for children and adults who live with the condition.

Gabor Maté is a revered physician who specializes in neurology, psychiatry and psychology �� and himself has ADD. With wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds is a must-read for parents �� and for anyone interested how experiences in infancy shape the biology and psychology of the human brain.

Scattered Minds:
- Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental delay
- Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy �� and why
- Shows how ‘distractibility�� is the psychological product of life experience
- Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviours
- Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
- Presents a programme of how to promote this development in both children and adults]]> 368 Gabor Maté 1785042211 Ahmed 0 to-read 4.28 1999
author: Gabor Maté
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 251633 The Invincible (Polish: Niezwyciężony) is a science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, published in 1964. The Invincible originally appeared as the title story in Lem's collection Niezwyciężony i inne opowiadania ("The Invincible and Other Stories"). A translation into German was published in 1967; an English translation by Wendayne Ackerman, based on the German one, was published in 1973.

An interstellar 2nd-class cruiser called Invincible, lands on Regis III which seems bleakly uninhabited, to investigate the loss of sister ship, Condor.]]> 223 Stanisław Lem 0283979623 Ahmed 0 to-read 4.15 1964
author: Stanisław Lem
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.15
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]]> 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Ahmed 0 4.38 2005
author: Markus Zusak
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2005
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]]> 8935689
Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.]]> 467 Iain M. Banks 1857231384 Ahmed 4 3.86 1987
author: Iain M. Banks
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 43306206
The Courage to Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of 19th-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, the authors explain how we are all free to determine our own future free of the shackles of past experiences, doubts and the expectations of others. It’s a philosophy that’s profoundly liberating, allowing us to develop the courage to change, and to ignore the limitations that we and those around us can place on ourselves.

The result is a book that is both highly accessible and profound in its importance. Millions have already read and benefited from its wisdom. Now that The Courage to Be Disliked has been published for the first time in English, so can you.]]> 288 Ichiro Kishimi Ahmed 0 to-read 3.89 2013
author: Ichiro Kishimi
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> 6265984 418 عبد الوهاب المسيري 9770710016 Ahmed 0 to-read 4.31 2003
author: عبد الوهاب المسيري
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 41881472 242 Morgan Housel 0857197681 Ahmed 0 to-read 4.27 2020
author: Morgan Housel
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 42104087 446 أحمد مراد 9776386849 Ahmed 4
نفس نمط الرومانسية المتنتورة في كل قصصه، بس الخلفية التاريخية القوية اديتها شوية عمق خفيف

بس حاديله انه كتبه دايما مسلية

update:
البوست بتاع الفيسبوك بتاع الشاب الجدع الي بيشوف ولد فقير فيدخل المطعم و يزعق للمدير و يجيب للولد اغلى حاجة، تقريبا احمد مراد عمله شير 300 مرة عالفيسبوك ان مكانش هو الي كتبه، لان الشاب ده هو بطل كل كتبه لحد دلوقت

Merged review:

احسن حاجة قريتهاله

نفس نمط الرومانسية المتنتورة في كل قصصه، بس الخلفية التاريخية القوية اديتها شوية عمق خفيف

بس حاديله انه كتبه دايما مسلية

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البوست بتاع الفيسبوك بتاع الشاب الجدع الي بيشوف ولد فقير فيدخل المطعم و يزعق للمدير و يجيب للولد اغلى حاجة، تقريبا احمد مراد عمله شير 300 مرة عالفيسبوك ان مكانش هو الي كتبه، لان الشاب ده هو بطل كل كتبه لحد دلوقت]]> 3.67 2014
author: أحمد مراد
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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احسن حاجة قريتهاله

نفس نمط الرومانسية المتنتورة في كل قصصه، بس الخلفية التاريخية القوية اديتها شوية عمق خفيف

بس حاديله انه كتبه دايما مسلية

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البوست بتاع الفيسبوك بتاع الشاب الجدع الي بيشوف ولد فقير فيدخل المطعم و يزعق للمدير و يجيب للولد اغلى حاجة، تقريبا احمد مراد عمله شير 300 مرة عالفيسبوك ان مكانش هو الي كتبه، لان الشاب ده هو بطل كل كتبه لحد دلوقت

Merged review:

احسن حاجة قريتهاله

نفس نمط الرومانسية المتنتورة في كل قصصه، بس الخلفية التاريخية القوية اديتها شوية عمق خفيف

بس حاديله انه كتبه دايما مسلية

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البوست بتاع الفيسبوك بتاع الشاب الجدع الي بيشوف ولد فقير فيدخل المطعم و يزعق للمدير و يجيب للولد اغلى حاجة، تقريبا احمد مراد عمله شير 300 مرة عالفيسبوك ان مكانش هو الي كتبه، لان الشاب ده هو بطل كل كتبه لحد دلوقت
]]> 6358962 The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever.]]> 4797 Anonymous 9771800868 Ahmed 0 to-buy 4.01
author: Anonymous
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 5948927 698 عبد الرحمن منيف Ahmed 0 to-buy 4.14 1984
author: عبد الرحمن منيف
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1984
rating: 0
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]]> 368593
Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:
- How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want?
- How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs?
- How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist?
- How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"?
- What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income?
- How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it's beyond repair?
- What automated cash-flow "muses" are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks?
- How to cultivate selective ignorance-and create time-with a low-information diet?
- What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are?
- How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50-80% off?
- How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office]]> 308 Timothy Ferriss 0307353133 Ahmed 4
In its essence tho, if you can ignore all the get-rich-easy maneuvers, this book is about personal freedom and living life to the fullest. It will get you thinking about those things, and that’s enough for a book.]]> 3.93 2007
author: Timothy Ferriss
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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I recommended this book to a lot of my friends - but this recommendation always came with the warning: “just forgo the getting rich bs.��

In its essence tho, if you can ignore all the get-rich-easy maneuvers, this book is about personal freedom and living life to the fullest. It will get you thinking about those things, and that’s enough for a book.
]]> 23282062
A Year of Living Danishly looks at where the Danes get it right, where they get it wrong, and how we might just benefit from living a little more Danishly ourselves.]]> 304 Helen Russell 184831812X Ahmed 4
I mean, they don’t taxes. That’s heaven. ]]> 3.92 2015
author: Helen Russell
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2018/10/08
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A heartwarming account about immigration to Denmark. On one hand, as an immigrant myself, I connected with the writer on what a new immigrant faces - especially that it sounds like both of us immigrated “up�� the happiness ladder. On the other hand - Denmark sounds like a truly fascinating place every place should try and imitate.

I mean, they don’t taxes. That’s heaven.
]]> 25205438 Geography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...

All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture.

If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obsessed with Crimea, why the USA was destined to become a global superpower, or why China's power base continues to expand ever outwards, the answers are all here.

In ten chapters and ten maps, Prisoners of Geography looks at the past, present and future to offer an essential insight into one of the major factors that determines world history.

It's time to put the 'geo' back into geopolitics.

Ten maps; ten chapters:

Russia * China * United States of America * Latin America * the Middle East * Africa * India and Pakistan * Europe * Japan and Korea * the Arctic]]> 290 Tim Marshall 1501121464 Ahmed 4
China and India share one of the biggest borders of the world. However, they never really mingled or went into war. Why? One word: the Himalayas. Geography can contribute a large effect to a lot of today’s politics and even much of the nationalist dogma. ]]> 4.16 2015
author: Tim Marshall
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2018/12/08
date added: 2019/02/08
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Opened my kind to many of the contemporary issues I was not aware of - and my most interesting recent trivia:

China and India share one of the biggest borders of the world. However, they never really mingled or went into war. Why? One word: the Himalayas. Geography can contribute a large effect to a lot of today’s politics and even much of the nationalist dogma.
]]> 37976541 ومع ذيوعصيت "(ثيرانوس)، بدأت بعض الوقائع بالتكشف عن عدم جهوزية، بل عدم صلاحية، الأجهزة المنتجة، رغم أن إليزابيث قد فتحت قنوات تسويقية كبيرة مع كبيريات الشركات الدوائية (نوفارتيس)، وسلسلة المتاجر الصيدلانية الكبرى (وولغرينز)، ومتاجر الأغذية متعددة الفروع (سيفواي)، ومع تسرب أخبار تؤكد أن الأجهزة مزودة ببرنامج يظهر نتائج عشوائية لعينات الدم، الأمر الذي قد يودي بحيوات أناس كثيرين، وعلى الرغم من أن مجلس إدارة الشركة قد استقطب مجموعة من السياسيين والعسكريين المخضرمين في أعلى هرم السياسة الأمريكية، مثل جورج شولتز وهنري كيسنجر وروبرت مردوخ وجيمس ماتيس، وحتى أوباما، الذي استقبلها في مكتبه البيضاوي- على الرغم من ذلك، وفي حقل مليء بالتهديدات والألغام، بدأت رحلة الصحافي الكبير جون كاريرو في وول ستريت جورنال، إثر معلومة وصلته في ٢٠١٥، في تحري أسرار (ثيرانوس)، من أفواه الشرفاء الذين قدموا استقالاتهم من الشركة، وعلى رأسهم تيلر شولتز، حفيد جورج شولتز، والحصول على الوثائق والأدلة التي تثبت تورط الشركة في أسوأ عملية غش طالت المرضى قبل المستثمرين ومالكي الأسهم في ثيرانوس.
يفضح هذا الكتاب الذي استغرق إنجازه ثلاث سنوات ونصف السنة، رؤوس الفساد في قلب المؤسسة السلطوية الأميركية منجهة، ويشير إلى الظمائر النبيلة التي قدمت الأدلة الدامغة على تورط ثيرانوس من جهة أخرى، الأمر الذي قاد إليزابيث هولمز، السايكوباثية بحسب تعبير كاريرو، مع أزلامها، إلى قاعات المحاكم، لتنتهي أسطورة شركتها التي بلغ رأس مالها تسعة مليارات دولار.]]> 339 John Carreyrou Ahmed 4 4.38 2018
author: John Carreyrou
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2019/01/15
date added: 2019/02/08
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A great cautionary tale about the dark side of Silicon Valley, following a very similar plot line to “Fyre��. Another personal takeaway is how innovation in Health Care is a tough line to walk. Lives are what’s on the line, and “Move Fast and break things��-kinda culture cannot be the paradigm over there.
]]> 6346975 The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory

An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.]]> 307 Joshua Foer 159420229X Ahmed 3 3.86 2011
author: Joshua Foer
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2019/01/25
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An entertaining simple read on memory and what on Earth is a mental athlete. My main takeaway is how powerful guided training can be - author went from nothing to world champion in one year, and that’s nothing short of amazing.
]]> 29580 256 Isaac Asimov 0553803735 Ahmed 5
Foundation is more than just a novel - at times it felt like an actual prophecy for what the future ahead can hold. Asimov manages to amazingly mix attainable science with human nature and the output is beautiful.

My only turn off is the overwhelmingly male dominance in characters/plot. I think in part one there is not a single female main character. ]]> 4.27 1953
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1953
rating: 5
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Absolutely loved the trilogy. When I read the first part I had to cancel what I was doing for the day - the book was better.

Foundation is more than just a novel - at times it felt like an actual prophecy for what the future ahead can hold. Asimov manages to amazingly mix attainable science with human nature and the output is beautiful.

My only turn off is the overwhelmingly male dominance in characters/plot. I think in part one there is not a single female main character.
]]> 29581 256 Isaac Asimov 0553803727 Ahmed 3 4.23 1952
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1952
rating: 3
read at: 2019/01/22
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]]> 29579 The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.]]> 244 Isaac Asimov 0553803719 Ahmed 5 4.18 1951
author: Isaac Asimov
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1951
rating: 5
read at: 2019/01/08
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]]> 5898591 287 Naguib Mahfouz Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.86 1947
author: Naguib Mahfouz
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1947
rating: 0
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]]> 18050143
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.]]> 195 Peter Thiel 0804139296 Ahmed 4 4.15 2014
author: Peter Thiel
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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A must-read for the status of tech and a bit of hostory into tech bubbles. My only pet peeve is that Peter Thiel makes too many unfounded statements about the state of things and time (for example describing Europeans as indefinite pessimists). He’s Peter Thiel tho, so we gotta give those opinions some weight.
]]> 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Ahmed 3 4.10 1997
author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2018/09/11
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]]> 1274
Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relationships. Now viewed as a modern classic, this phenomenal book has helped men and women realize how different they really are and how to communicate their needs in such a way that conflict doesn't arise and intimacy is given every chance to grow!!!!]]> 368 John Gray 0060574216 Ahmed 4 3.59 1992
author: John Gray
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.59
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2018/08/29
date added: 2018/08/29
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]]> 18774964
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents' association to their very foundations.]]> 337 Fredrik Backman 1476738017 Ahmed 5
"A man called Ove" has successfully come across full of humanity and love. It didn't really matter for a minute that it took place for Sweden. It talked about men, women, life and death. It talked about principles, and coming of age. All in a deliciously simple manner, a 5-year old would probably understand.

I will probably come back to this book later, when I am in need for a sweet laugh.]]> 4.35 2012
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2018/08/16
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I absolutely loved this book. I listened to it on Audible and the amazing performance only brought it closer to my heart. Throughout the book, I found myself trying to stop laughing hysterically in the middle of the elevator or standing in a crowded bus. When I succeeded, I was left with a docile smirk. No regrets.

"A man called Ove" has successfully come across full of humanity and love. It didn't really matter for a minute that it took place for Sweden. It talked about men, women, life and death. It talked about principles, and coming of age. All in a deliciously simple manner, a 5-year old would probably understand.

I will probably come back to this book later, when I am in need for a sweet laugh.
]]> 40389527
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.]]> 455 A.J. Finn Ahmed 3 3.94 2018
author: A.J. Finn
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2018/08/01
date added: 2018/08/01
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]]> 30257963 What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising, and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.

What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant, and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure, and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith, and human nature while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its listeners.]]> 409 Jordan B. Peterson 0345816021 Ahmed 3
Jordan talks a lot. Like a good friend who usually has good points, but sometimes he just stops making sense. It does not help that he switches on a moment’s notice between abstract philosophy and deep Christian theology, leaving me empty handed wondering what just happened.

Loved the lobsters and skateboarding parts. Also his hypothesis on pain as both an argument for and against nihilism (“chaos��, referred to in the title).

Would recommend reading but personally I’d skip big chunks if I were to re-read it.

]]> 3.90 2018
author: Jordan B. Peterson
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2018/07/16
date added: 2018/07/16
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One of the rare 3-stars worth reading books.

Jordan talks a lot. Like a good friend who usually has good points, but sometimes he just stops making sense. It does not help that he switches on a moment’s notice between abstract philosophy and deep Christian theology, leaving me empty handed wondering what just happened.

Loved the lobsters and skateboarding parts. Also his hypothesis on pain as both an argument for and against nihilism (“chaos��, referred to in the title).

Would recommend reading but personally I’d skip big chunks if I were to re-read it.


]]> 34273236
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned �� from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.

Enter Mia Warren �� an enigmatic artist and single mother �� who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother–daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.

When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town �� and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost . . .]]> 338 Celeste Ng 0735224293 Ahmed 4 4.05 2017
author: Celeste Ng
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2018/07/06
date added: 2018/07/06
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انا قريته من شهرين بس لسه فاكر قد ايه كان قصه جميله. يمكن اكتر حاجه لمستني هي الام الي كانت عايزه كله حاجه تمشي "صح"، لان ديه حياتها، و كرهها لفكره ان في طرق تانيه ممكن الناس تعيش بيها.
]]> 12609433
Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.

An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.

What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.

They succeeded by transforming habits.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.]]> 375 Charles Duhigg 1400069289 Ahmed 5
شارليز دوهيج بيحاول جدا انه يثبت اي كلمه بيقولها ببحث منشور، و ديه لازم تحترمها في زمن ترمب. و الموضوع جاي في وقته جدا]]> 4.13 2012
author: Charles Duhigg
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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من احسن الكتب الي قريتها السنه ديه، و تقريبا مبيعديش اسبوع الا و باتكلم عنه بقصد او بدون

شارليز دوهيج بيحاول جدا انه يثبت اي كلمه بيقولها ببحث منشور، و ديه لازم تحترمها في زمن ترمب. و الموضوع جاي في وقته جدا
]]> 33574273 It was a dark and stormy night.

Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.

Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet.]]> 218 Madeleine L'Engle 1250153271 Ahmed 3 لطيف، بس محستوش قوي 3.91 1962
author: Madeleine L'Engle
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1962
rating: 3
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لطيف، بس محستوش قوي
]]> 63697 243 Oliver Sacks Ahmed 4 4.08 1985
author: Oliver Sacks
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1985
rating: 4
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]]> 2767 Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”]]> 729 Howard Zinn 0060838655 Ahmed 0 to-read 4.07 1980
author: Howard Zinn
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> 33507 269 Jules Verne 076072850X Ahmed 2 3.92 1869
author: Jules Verne
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1869
rating: 2
read at: 2018/04/04
date added: 2018/04/04
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Gets too boring and dry on too many occasions.
]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Ahmed 5 4.21 2011
author: Ernest Cline
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2018/03/24
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It is another Harry Potter! Non stop 300 pages of excitement.
]]> 1303 Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control �� from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling�� and “fascinating,�� Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master��), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness��), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally��). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.]]> 452 Robert Greene 0140280197 Ahmed 4 4.11 1998
author: Robert Greene
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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A pretty evil book, but also damn entertaining.
]]> 4671 The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.

This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published by Scribner in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald 0743273567 Ahmed 3 3.93 1925
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1925
rating: 3
read at: 2018/02/25
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]]> 12935037
Above all else, I want you to think for yourself—to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it. I want you to do that in a clear-headed thoughtful way, so that you get what you want. I wrote this book to help you do that. I am going to ask only two things of you��1) that you be open-minded and 2) that you honestly answer some questions about what you want, what is true and what you want to do about it. If you do these things, I believe that you will get a lot out of this book. If you can’t do these things, you should reflect on why that is, because you probably have discovered one of your greatest impediments to getting what you want out of life.]]> 106 Ray Dalio Ahmed 5 4.10 2011
author: Ray Dalio
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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]]> 12505 667 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0679642420 Ahmed 4 4.22 1869
author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1869
rating: 4
read at: 2017/03/25
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]]> 1842
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.

In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed writing, technology, government, and organized religion—as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war—and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal]]> 498 Jared Diamond 0739467352 Ahmed 4 4.04 1997
author: Jared Diamond
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Ahmed 3 3.86 1859
author: Charles Dickens
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1859
rating: 3
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]]> 3553839 168 Tayeb Salih 6000080328 Ahmed 5 ثيم عمره ما بيفشل

جاية من نفس عالم
good will hunting]]> 3.53 1966
author: Tayeb Salih
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.53
book published: 1966
rating: 5
read at: 2012/07/23
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"Obsession"
ثيم عمره ما بيفشل

جاية من نفس عالم
good will hunting
]]> 16076787 في الصفحات التالية سوف نقوم بعمل بطولي. نحاول أن نعرف سر اختفاء المدعو عصام الشرقاوي. هذا يقتضي أن نبحث كثيرًا جدًّا إلى أن نجد خيطًا، وربما لا نجد.]]> 266 أحمد خالد توفيق 9992195746 Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.25 2012
author: أحمد خالد توفيق
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.25
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> 865 197 Paulo Coelho 0061122416 Ahmed 3 3.85 1988
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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Frankly I started reading the book with a predisposition that I will hate it, but I might as well check it out. I was surprised to find it a sweet well-written novel. My favorite part is how it dances pretty well on the line between a real and an imaginary world. It may be too wholesome for my taste, but I will read it any day over "Eat, Pray, Love".
]]> 36072 372 Stephen R. Covey 0743269519 Ahmed 2 Meh 4.16 1989
author: Stephen R. Covey
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1989
rating: 2
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Meh
]]> 38447
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> 311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X Ahmed 3 4.15 1985
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1985
rating: 3
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Not my favorite narrative style, but some parts hit too close to home.
]]> 25666050 A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind

All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.

In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.]]> 368 Brian Christian 1627790365 Ahmed 3 4.12 2016
author: Brian Christian
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> 7723542
Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog.

But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose?

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.]]> 319 W. Bruce Cameron 0765326264 Ahmed 3 Cute book 4.34 2010
author: W. Bruce Cameron
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2010
rating: 3
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Cute book
]]> 34118167 ولهذا السبب بالتحديد اخترت أن أترُك النوم يبتلعُني، كي أنسى ما بداخلي، كي أظلّ مغمضة العينين، وتصبح جفوني هي الغطاء الذي يمنع أي إحساس بداخلي من الظهور جليًا أمام من أحب، أمام من أخشى أن يدرك أن وراء هاتين العينين أكثر من مجرد لون فاتح يهوى النظر إليهما.
من سيعلم يومًا أنني لستُ أنا."]]> 98 Nema Al-Araby Ahmed 0 to-read 4.40
author: Nema Al-Araby
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.40
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]]> 5978729 أتلو رسائلنا فتضحكني... أمثل هذا السخف قد كنا؟
عندما تقلب في أوراقك القديمة تجد الكثير من الهراء...
لكنك كذلك تجد بقايا أفكار ولمحات من خواطر فيها بعض اللحم.
عندها يخطر لك أن هذه القصاصات تصلح لشيء ما.]]> 128 أحمد خالد توفيق Ahmed 4 3.67 2007
author: أحمد خالد توفيق
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Ahmed 3 4.28 1813
author: Jane Austen
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1813
rating: 3
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More entertaining than I had thought it to be. I quickly need some feminist material tho. 1700s does not sound like lots of fun for girls.
]]> 1202
These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much heralded scholar who studies the stuff and riddles of everyday life -- from cheating and crime to sports and child rearing -- and whose conclusions regularly turn the conventional wisdom on its head. He usually begins with a mountain of data and a simple, unasked question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics.

Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives -- how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they set out to explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world, despite a surfeit of obfuscation, complication, and downright deceit, is not impenetrable, is not unknowable, and -- if the right questions are asked -- is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. Steven Levitt, through devilishly clever and clear-eyed thinking, shows how to see through all the clutter.

Freakonomics establishes this unconventional premise: If morality represents how we would like the world to work, then economics represents how it actually does work. It is true that readers of this book will be armed with enough riddles and stories to last a thousand cocktail parties. But Freakonomics can provide more than that. It will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.
(front flap)]]> 268 Steven D. Levitt 0061234001 Ahmed 4 4.01 2005
author: Steven D. Levitt
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 38501 288 Charles Bukowski 006117758X Ahmed 3 4.17 1982
author: Charles Bukowski
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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]]> 7613
The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

One night, all the animals at Mr. Jones' Manor Farm assemble in a barn to hear old Major, a pig, describe a dream he had about a world where all animals live free from the tyranny of their human masters. Old Major dies soon after the meeting, but the animals �� inspired by his philosophy of Animalism �� plot a rebellion against Jones.

Two pigs, Snowball and Napoleon, prove themselves important figures and planners of this dangerous enterprise. When Jones forgets to feed the animals, the revolution occurs, and Jones and his men are chased off the farm. Manor Farm is renamed Animal Farm, and the Seven Commandments of Animalism are painted on the barn wall...]]> 129 George Orwell Ahmed 3 3.90 1945
author: George Orwell
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1945
rating: 3
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]]> 21 544 Bill Bryson 076790818X Ahmed 3 4.21 2003
author: Bill Bryson
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 5759 218 Chuck Palahniuk 0393327345 Ahmed 4 4.19 1996
author: Chuck Palahniuk
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 5470 328 George Orwell Ahmed 5 4.15 1949
author: George Orwell
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> 28257707 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062457738

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited��"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.]]> 212 Mark Manson Ahmed 4 3.87 2016
author: Mark Manson
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 16981 Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.

As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]> 581 Ralph Ellison Ahmed 4 3.91 1952
author: Ralph Ellison
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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]]> 6216385 قصص من التاريخ العربي 365 محمد المنسي قنديل 9770708062 Ahmed 3 4.10 2001
author: محمد المنسي قنديل
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2014/04/30
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]]> 5936848 هذه الرواية تصوّر لنا سعي العجائز المصابين في رغباتهم . داخل منزل غامض ، يأتون لقضاء الليل إلى جانب مراهقة نائمة ، لكن الفتاة لا تستسلم لنوم طبيعي بل تنام تحت تأثير مخدر الليل كلّه دون توقف ،يدخل هؤلاء العجائز الغرف السرية للنائمات كأنُّهم يدخلون إلى معبد بعض الكاهنات .
و هناك إلى جانب الدمى الحيًّة ربما يستعيدون وهم شبابهم ، وهم حيوية ضائعة و مغامرة أخيرة .
بالنسبة لايغوشي ستكون الليالي الخمس التي أمضاها في غرف النائمات فرصة لتذكّر نساء حياته و الغرق في تأمّلات طويلة .

***

ترجمة : ماري طوق]]> 140 Yasunari Kawabata 9953893969 Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.16 1961
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.16
book published: 1961
rating: 0
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]]> 13724634 304 Gabriel García Márquez Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.62 1967
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin 0553588486 Ahmed 4 4.44 1996
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1996
rating: 4
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]]> 2347744 حيث صعد الى أعلى الدرجات أقل الناس شانا وانهار أبناء الطبقة الارسطقراطية و لم يبق الا اجترار الماضي سجلت هذه الرواية ما وقع و يقع في مصر من فساد و انحلال و رشوة ابتزاز و تكاد تشير الى أشخاص بعينهم تعرفهم بسيماهم من أفعالهم]]> 348 علاء الأسواني 9772083949 Ahmed 3 اسلوب مسلي بس ركيك 3.60 2002
author: علاء الأسواني
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2002
rating: 3
read at: 2012/07/14
date added: 2015/01/22
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اسلوب مسلي بس ركيك
]]> 5781034 234 يوسف زيدان Ahmed 0 to-buy 4.06 1180
author: يوسف زيدان
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1180
rating: 0
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]]> 20317106 ذلك العالم الذي رغم تكرار قصصه ورواياته إلا أن الجميع فيه يقع في نفس الأخطاء، ويعيد نفس الأحداث، و يتألم نفس الألم ..
خلال محاضرة مدتها ست ساعات يأخذنا (أسامة) المحاضر إلى حالات نادرة ..
ورغم ندرتها لن تستطيع إلا أن تجد نفسك فيها ..
في عالم الحب والأمل والألم .. من خلال حالات نعيشهم و نفهم منهم تلك المراحل السبع التي لخصت كل القواعد .. قواعد الـ"��يبتا" ..]]> 223 محمد صادق Ahmed 3 3.72 2014
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name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> 10603239 Nous sommes à une étape nouvelle de ce parcours, s'efforce-t-il ensuite d'établir. La sortie de la religion se poursuit. C'est paradoxalement ce recul continué qui ébranle l'idée de la politique qui s'était forgée pour répondre à son défi. Ce n'est pas le retour, mais l'éclipse du religieux qui oblige la République à se redéfinir et à reconsidérer la place des croyances en son sein. Une redéfinition qui représente une rupture profonde pour la tradition française, tant la confrontation de l'Église catholique et de l'État y a été formatrice.
Ce tournant dans les rapports entre religions et politique, s'emploie enfin à montrer Marcel Gauchet, nous introduit au cœur des transformations de la démocratie. Il offre un observatoire privilégié pour en saisir le principe et pour en dégager les principaux caractères. Il permet aussi d'éclairer les difficultés qui l'affectent et ses avenirs possibles.
Que peut vouloir dire le gouvernement des hommes par eux-mêmes quand ils sont pour de bon émancipés de l'emprise des dieux ?]]> 175 Marcel Gauchet Ahmed 0 fakes 3.52 1998
author: Marcel Gauchet
name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1998
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]]> 5986636 فالفكر، الذى أبدع الحضارة، هو أعظم إنجازات الإسلام والمسلمين.. بل إنه هو صانع السياسة، والخلفاء، والسلاطين!..
ولن ندرك حقيقة تاريخنا الحضارى، إلا إذا أدركنا حقيقة التيارات والمدارس والمذاهب الفكرية، التى صنعته.. والتى تصارعت فيه!
بل إننا لن ندرك تيارات «الصحوة الإسلامية» المعاصرة، إلا بإدراك جذورها فى هذا التاريخ..
فمن: «الخوارج».. إلى تيار «الجامعة الإسلامية» الحديث.. وعبر: «المرجئة» و«المعتزلة» و«الزيدية» و«السلفية» و«الأشعرية» و«الشيعة» و«الوهابية» و«السنوسية» و«المهدية».. إلخ.. إلخ.. يقدم هذا الكتاب خريطة التيارات الفكرية التى صنعت حضارة الإسلام.. محددا فيها: «طاقات التقدم».. و«قيود التخلف والجمود»!..
إنه «نافذة» للوعى بالتاريخ.. وسبيل لاستشراف المستقبل الإسلامى المنشود!]]> 406 محمد عمارة 9770900354 Ahmed 0 fakes 4.09
author: محمد عمارة
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]]> 3550243
هل يحكم الجيش ؟

هل يحكم الإخوان ؟

هل يحكم جمال مبارك ؟

هل من طريق لمرحلة انتقال سلمى من حكم العائلة إلى حكم الشعب ؟

كلها أسئلة معلقة برسم نهاية وشيكة لنظام انتهى إلى الإفلاس التام . بنجدة الأقدار . أو بيقظة الناس . أو بالإنزلاق إلى انفجار اجتماعى . و بتكلفة دم لا يريدها أحد لهذا البلد . كيف ستكون النهاية التى لا تبدو صورها فى سعة من أمرها ؟ . فزحمة المقادير تبدو فى سباق مع عجلة الزمن اللاهث . و العد التنازلى لنظام مبارك بدأ منذ زمن . مات النظام إكلينيكياً . مات النظام سياسياً . و لم يعد غير انتظار مراسم الدفن , وكل الأمل ألا تكون النهاية حريقاً لبلد . فالنظام يبدو مصمماً على دفن البلد فى ذات اللحظة التى يدفن فيها .]]> 224 عبد الحليم قنديل Ahmed 0 fakes 3.63 2008
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name: Ahmed
average rating: 3.63
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]]> 7227655 واليوم إذ يعود ورثة المعلم يعقوب، ودعاة المدرسة الاستعمارية، فيسيطرون على وسائل الإعلام، وينتهزون مناسبة الاحتفالات بالثورة الفرنسية للترويج من جديد لمفاهيمهم، فيخلطون عن عمد بين إنجازات الثورة الفرنسية وجرائم الاحتلال في بلادنا، تأتي هذه الطبعة الجديدة المزيدة من الكتاب الذي كان علامة فاصلة في دراسة وتفسير تاريخ الحملة الفرنسية بل وعلاقة الشرق بالغرب.
لتحميل الرواية من هذا الرابط :
]]> 527 محمد جلال كشك Ahmed 0 fakes 4.16 1990
author: محمد جلال كشك
name: Ahmed
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1990
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]]> 9532084 المستشار طارق البشري

الشخص والفكــرة واللحظـة التاريخية، هي ثلاثـة عناصر تجعــل من شــهادة عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح على تأسيس الجماعات الإسلامية في سبعينيات القرن الماضي واحدة من أهم الشهادات على مصر المعاصرة.

فلأنه عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح أبرز القيادات الطلابية الإسلامية في جيله، ولأنها حركة تأسيس الجماعات الإسلامية في الجامعات التي تمثل واحدة من أهم مراحل العمل الإسلامي الحركي في تاريخ مصر، ولأنه جيل السبعينيات أقوى أجيال الحركة الطلابية المصرية وأكثرها حيوية وما زالت - إلى اليوم - تضخ الدماء في حياتنا السياسية التي تنازع الحياة؛ لأجل هذا كله تبدو هذه الشهادة مفتاحًا مهمًّا لفهم مرحلة مهمة في تاريخ مصر مازلنا نعيشها أو نعيش بعض آثارها وما تركته فينا من تغيرات بعضها يبدو جذريًّا لم يعد ممكنًا تجاوزه؛ وأعني بها ظاهرة «الصحوة» الإسلامية التي تركت بصماتها على وجه مصر]]> 144 عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح Ahmed 0 fakes 3.72 2010
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هذه مذكرات «سليمان حافظ» (1968- 1896 ) وهو واحد من رجال اللحظات الحساسة في التاريخ المصري الحديث، فقد كان المرشَّح لخلافة علي باشا ماهر على رئاسة الوزراء في ثاني حكومات الثورة، وعندما رفض المنصب عين وزيرًا للداخلية ونائبًا لرئيس الوزراء، وهو المنصب الذي تولاه بعده جمال عبد الناصر.. فأصبح سليمان حافظ المستشار القانوني لرئيس الجمهورية اللواء محمد نجيب. لكنه كان من الأساس محاميًا ومستشارًا بمجلس الدولة وأحدَ الذين أوقفوا هذه المؤسسة القانونية العريقة على قدميها.. وكان من بين أربعة مدنيين انضموا إلى مجلس قيادة الثورة في بداية عهدها.. كما كان ضمن اللجنة الثلاثية التي كتبت وثيقة تنازل الملك فاروق عن عرش مصر، وهو حامل هذه الوثيقة إلى الملك بتعليمات علي باشا ماهر رئيس الوزراء في تلك اللحظة. وفي أواخر نوفمبر عام 1956، عندما أذاع عبد الناصر خبر العدوان الثلاثي، توجه سليمان حافظ إليه ليكون أول مَن طالَبه بالعودة إلى موقعه العسكري للجهاد ضد المحتل]]> 152 سليمان حافظ Ahmed 0 fakes 3.55 2010
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تحاول هذه الدراسة أن تزيل بعض الغموض المحيط بمصطلح "العلمانية" الذي أصبح واحدًا من أهم المصطلحات في الخطاب التحليلي، وأن تصل إلى تعريف مركب له يتسم بمقدرة تفسيرية عالية.

إذ يفرّق المؤلف بين ما يسميه "العلمانية الجزئية" (فصل الدين عن الدولة مع التزام الصمت بخصوص القضايا النهائية) وبين "العلمانية الشاملة" (فصل القيم الإنسانية والأخلاقية والدينية عن الحياة في جانبيها العام والخاص، ونزع القداسة عن الإنسان والطبيعة بحيث يتحول العالم بأسره إلى مادة استعمالية يوظفها الأقوى لحسابه).ـ]]> 344 عبد الوهاب المسيري 9770908320 Ahmed 0 fakes 4.18 2002
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]]> 593458 366 Paul Zeitz 0471789011 Ahmed 0 fakes 4.59 1999
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"An excellent text ... The postulates of quantum mechanics and the mathematical underpinnings are discussed in a clear, succinct manner." (American Scientist)

"No matter how gently one introduces students to the concept of Dirac's bras and kets, many are turned off. Shankar attacks the problem head-on in the first chapter, and in a very informal style suggests that there is nothing to be frightened of." (Physics Bulletin)

Reviews of the Second Edition:

"This massive text of 700 and odd pages has indeed an excellent get-up, is very verbal and expressive, and has extensively worked out calculational details---all just right for a first course. The style is conversational, more like a corridor talk or lecture notes, though arranged as a text. ... It would be particularly useful to beginning students and those in allied areas like quantum chemistry." (Mathematical Reviews)



R. Shankar has introduced major additions and updated key presentations in this second edition of Principles of Quantum Mechanics. New features of this innovative text include an entirely rewritten mathematical introduction, a discussion of Time-reversal invariance, and extensive coverage of a variety of path integrals and their applications. Additional highlights include:

- Clear, accessible treatment of underlying mathematics

- A review of Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics

- Student understanding of quantum theory is enhanced by separate treatment of mathematical theorems and physical postulates

- Unsurpassed coverage of path integrals and their relevance in contemporary physics

The requisite text for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Second Edition is fully referenced and is supported by many exercises and solutions. The book's self-contained chapters also make it suitable for independent study as well as for courses in applied disciplines.]]> 700 Ramamurti Shankar 0306447908 Ahmed 0 fakes 4.24 1980
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كتبت حرم الفريق سعد الشاذلى السيدة "زينات السحيمى" فى إهداء هذا الكتاب فى الصفحة الأولى منه "إلى شباب 25 يناير الذين صنعوا أعظم الثورات والتى لولاها لما رأى هذا الكتاب النور"

نعم هذا الكتاب ظل منفياً بعيداً عن وطنه طيلة أكثر من ثلاثين عاماً.. مطارداً كصاحبه الذى رفض الصمت على حساب الحق ووطنه و الحقيقة؟ فضحى بمنصبه ورغد عيشه وقال كلمته الحين رغم أننا السلطان الجائر.. فكان نصيبه النفى و الهروب من الملاحقة و أخيراً تسليم نفسه ليقضى عقوبة بالسجن بدلاً من تكريم عن حرب شهد لها الجميع بأنها معجزة حربية بالحقائق لا بالكلمات والعبارات الإنشائية.. ولكن هل يستحق هذا الكتاب كل ذلك؟ نعم.. فهو فيه فضح لكل الأكاذيب التى روجها السادات وحاول إخفائها عن حرب أكتوبر, فقد وضح وأجاب فيه "الفريق سعد الدين الشاذلي" عن أسئلة فاصلة ومحورية فى تلك الحرب بل فى ذلك الصراع العربى الإسرائيلى فيقول الفريق سعد الدين عن كتابه فى مقدمة طبعته الأولى (على الرغم من صدور كتب كثيرة عن حرب أكتوبر 1973 بين العرب و إسرائيل, فما زال هناك الكثير من الحقائق الخافية؛ التى لم يتعرض لها أحد حتى الأن كما أن ثمة حقائق أخرى قام بعضهم بتشويهها, أحياناً عن جهل, وأحياناً أخرى عن خطأ معتمد لإخفاء هذه الحقائق, ومن بين الموضوعات التى مازالت غامضة تبرر التساؤلات الأتية:

لماذا لم تقم القوات المصرية بتطوير هجومها نحو الشرق بعد نجاحها فى عبور قناة السويس, ولماذا لم تستول على المضائق فى سيناء؟
هل حقاً كان من تصور القيادة العامة للقات المسلحة المصرية أن يقوم الدو بالإختراق فى منطقة الدفرسوار بالذات, وأنها أعدت الخطة اللازمة لدحر هذا الإختراق فى حالة وقوعه؟ وإذ كان هذا حقيقياً, فلماذا لم يقم المصريون بالقضاء على الإختراق فور حدوثه؟

كيف تطور أختراق العدو فى منطقة الدفرسوار يوماً بعد يوم, وكيف كانت الخطط التى يضعها العسكريون تنقض من قبل رئيس الجمهورية ووزير الحربية؟ من هو المسئول عن حصار الجيش الثاث؟ من هم القادة العسكريون أم القادة السياسيون؟ كيف أثر حصار الجيش الثالث على نتائج الحرب سياسياً وعسكرياً, لا على مصر وحدها بل على العالم العربى بأسره؟

عندما قررت أن أبدأ فى كتابة مذكراتى فى أكتوبر 76- أى بعد ثلاث سنوات من حرب أكتوبر 73- أم يكن هدفى هو كشف أكاذيب السادات التى عمد تأليفها جزافاً أن وضعت الحرب أوزارها, بل كان هدفى الأول هو إعطاء صورة حقيقية للأعمال المجيدة والمشرفة التى قام بها الجندى المصرى فى هذه الحرب. إن من المؤسف حقاً أن السادات ورجاله لم يستطيعوا تقديم هذه الحرب فى الإطار الذى تستحقه كعمل من أروع الأعمال العسكرية فى العالم. ولقد عمدوا إلى الكلمات الإنشائية و البلاغية دون الإستعانة بلغة الأرقام والتحليل العلمى للعوامل المحيطة بها. لقد أنحصر همهم فى إخفاء وطمس دور الفريق سعد الدين الشاذلى الذى كان يشغل منصب رئيس أركان حرب القوات المسلحة المصرية لمدة إمتدت من مايو 71 "29 شهراً قبل بداية الحرب" وحتى 12 ديسمبر 73 "سبعه أسايبع بعد وقف إطلاق النار", ولم يعلم السادات أنه بهذا الحقد على الفريق سعد الدين الشاذلى قد أساء إساءة بالغة للقوات المسلحة المصرية).

لم يكن "الشاذلى" يكذب فالكتاب شهادة تقذف الباطل فتدفعه تصيبه فى مقتل رغم كل السلطة و الإعلام وكل من حاول إخفاء الحقيقة عن الشعب المصرى و العربى والعالم أجمع.. ولكن بعد هذه السنوات والقيود خرجت الحقيقة من قمتها وكسرت الأغلال والقيود عن الشعب المصرى وقالت الأيام كلمتها وبودلت الأماكن فصار الكتاب حراً طليقاً وصار سجانيه أذلاء فى حياتهم و موتهم.. فلنرى فى قصة هذا الكتاب وما كتب فى سطوره عبرة الأيام فى الأكاذيب و الكاذبين وعظمة الجندى المصرى وعبقريته وصموده.. جندياً وقائداً.
(مقتبس من مدونة أكثر من حياة)]]> 401 سعد الدين الشاذلي Ahmed 0 fakes 4.36 1980
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]]> 4069 Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.]]> 165 Viktor E. Frankl 080701429X Ahmed 0 fakes 4.38 1946
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في "8 غرب"، القسم الذي يقرّر مَصير مُرتكبي الجرائم، يُقابل صديقاً قديماً يحمل إليه ماضياً جاهد طويلاً لينساه، ويصبح مَصيره فجأة بين يدي يحيى..

تعصِف المفاجآت بيحيى وتنقلب حياته رأسًا على عقب، ليصبح ما بدأ كمحاولة لاكتشاف حقيقة صديقه، رحلة مثيرة لاكتشاف نفسه.. أو ما تبقى منها..

يأخذنا أحمد مراد في روايته الثالثة إلى كواليس عالم غريب قضى عامين في دراسة تفاصيله، رحلة مثيرة مستكشف فيها أعمق وأغرب خبايا النفس البشرية..]]> 386 أحمد مراد 9770931543 Ahmed 0 fakes 3.79 2012
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]]> 6721437 وعلى خلفية هذه الفترة الخصبة - وشبه المجهولة - من تاريخ مصر والتي امتلأت فيها البلاد بمحاولات إحياء الروح المصرية نرى تشكل حياة عائشة ومخاوفها وتجربتها لاكتشاف ذاتها]]> 572 محمد المنسي قنديل 9770920495 Ahmed 3 3.78 2006
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]]> 77203 371 Khaled Hosseini 159463193X Ahmed 3 4.34 2003
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Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives "lickings" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a "tattle-tale."

As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.

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"TOM!"
No answer.
"TOM!"
No answer.
"What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"
No answer.
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll��"
She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat.
"I never did see the beat of that boy!"]]> 244 Mark Twain Ahmed 0 to-buy 3.92 1876
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]]> 5607754 إنكسار الروح هي النموذج القياسي لأدب الستينيات، تنقل كل سمات وملامح الستينات، بدءأً من القمع الفكري والسياسي مروراً بالطبقية الحثيثة ومرارة الهزيمة والإنكسار النفسي ودائرة الإحباط المغلقة وقصص الحب الحالمة والانتهازية والمتاجرة بأحلام الطبقات الفقيرة. كل هذا يضعها في مكانة الرواية الأم لهذا الجيل بكل ماتحمله من مشاعر وتفاصيل ومآسي وأحلام.

على الجانب الأخر كانت قصة فاطمة وعلى أقسى من الواقع المؤلم بكثير]]> 233 محمد المنسي قنديل Ahmed 4 3.70 1992
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]]> 5663369 يسقط هذه الصورة على الحاضر بل يسقط الحاضر عليها فيبني منها ما هو أقل إيلاماً من الحاضر فقدمت لنا نماذج مرعبة ولكنها مشوهة منخورة في الوقت نفسه لأنها من وجهة نظر الرواية فيما أحسب لا تتسلح بقيم تجعلها قادرة على مواجهة التغيرات المحتملة.


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جاءت (( الزيني بركات)) نتيجة لعوامل عديدة. أهمها في تقديري, تجربة معاناة القهر البوليسي في مصر خلال الستينيات. كانت هناك تجربة ضخمة تهدف إلى تحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية. تهدف إلى تحقيق أحلام البسطاء. يقودها زعيم كبير هو جمال عبد الناصر. ولكن كان مقتل هذه التجربة في رأيي, هو الأسلوب الذي تعاملت به مع الديمقراطية. وأحيانا كنا نحجم عن الحديث بهذا الشكل لأن هذه التجربة بعد انتهائها, تعرضت وما تزال تتعرض لهجوم حاد من خصوم العدالة الاجتماعية, ومن خصوم إتاحة الفرص أمام الفقراء. ولكن أنا أتصور أن الشهادة يجب أن تكون دقيقة الآن, خاصة وأن جيلنا, جيل الستينات الذي ننتمي إليه أنا والأستاذ البساطي قد بدأ يدنو من مراحله الأخيرة. لذا يجب أن نترك كلمة حق حتى لا تتكرر تلك الأخطاء.

عانينا من الرقابة في الستينيات. وأسلوب التعامل البوليسي. وأتصور أن هذا كان أحد أسباب علاقتي القوية بالتاريخ. كنت مهموما بالبحث في تاريخ مصر, وبقراءة هذا التاريخ خاصة الفترة المملوكية, التي وجدت تشابها كبيرا بين تفاصيلها وبين الزمن الراهن الذي نعيش فيه. وأنا عندما أقول الفترة المملوكية, أعني الفترة المملوكية التي كانت مصر فيها سلطنة مستقلة تحمي البحرين والحرمين. وقد انتهت هذه السلطنة في عام 1517 بهزيمة عسكرية كبيرة في مرج دابق شمال حلب. وعندما طالعت مراجع شهود العيان الذين عاشوا هذه الفترة, ذهلت من تشابه الظرف بين هزيمة 67 والأسباب التي أدت إليها وبين هزيمة القرن السادس عشر. وأوصلني هذا فيما بعد, إلى ما يمكن أن يسمى باكتشاف وحدة التجربة الإنسانية في مراحل كثيرة من التاريخ حتى وإن بعدت المسافة. على سبيل المثال : الألم الإنساني واحد. فالشعور بالحزن هو نفسه الذي كان يعبر عنه المصري القديم أو البابلي القديم. ومصر نتيجة لاستمرارية تاريخها وعدم انقطاعه تتشابه فيها الظروف من فترة إلى أخرى. سياحتي في التاريخ استقرت في العصر المملوكي. وكنت مهموما بهاجس الرقابة وهاجس المطاردة قبل أن أدخل المعتقل إلى درجة أنني كتبت عددا من القصص القصيرة عن السجن, نشرت منها قصة ؛رسالة فتاة من الشمال« في مجلة الآداب في يوليو 1964, وقصة أخرى اسمها ؛القلعة« في مجلة الأديب اللبنانية أيضا عام 1964. وكتبت رواية كاملة عن فكرة المطاردة وظروف المطاردة, ف ق د ت عندما اعتقلت في عام 1966. والغريب أنني عندما دخلت المعتقل لم أفاجأ بالتفاصيل. فقد كنت أسمعها من زملائي الذين سبقوني في تلك التجربة. ولكن عندما خرجت قبل وقوع الهزيمة بشهرين عام 1967 مع زملائي, الذين يمثلون جيل الستينيات من الكتاب �� فأكبر كتاب الستينيات كانوا في هذه الحبسة ��, كتبت قصة اسمها »هداية أهل الورى لبعض ما جرى في المقشرة« وقد افترضت فيها أنني عثرت على مذكرات آمر سجن المقشرة. وهو من السجون الشديدة البشاعة في العصر المملوكي. وكنت قد وصلت بعض قراءة طويلة �� بل لا أقول قراءة ولكن معايشة �� لابن إياس وابن زمبل الرمال والمقريزي وابن تغري بردي إلى اكتشاف بلاغة جديدة, لم يكن الأدب العربي يتعامل معها. بلاغة يمكن الآن أن أقول إنها بلاغة مصرية, تجمع ما بين الفصحى وخلفية العامية المصرية في التراكيب اللغوية. وهذه نجدها عند المؤرخين وليس عند الأدباء. عند المقريزي وابن إياس ثم الجبرتي فيما بعد. وربما يرجع ذلك إلى أنهم كانوا يكتبون الأحداث بسرعة, فلا يتأنقون ولا يغوصون في أساليب البلاغة المستقرة من زمن قديم. هذه البلاغة شعرت أنها تمسك بالواقع أكثر من الأساليب السردية السائدة.]]> 287 جمال الغيطاني Ahmed 3 3.89 1974
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]]> 9838115 أعقب هذه الرحلة الكثير من المعاناة. منهم من قضى نحبه في قلعة بلغراد وآخرين في الصِّرب والجبل الأسود وبريشتنيا، وبسبب الطبيعة القاسية. ومع هذا فإن سجن وحَّد المتنافرين، فهؤلاء الذين كانوا يقاتلون فيما بينهم، ما إن وضعوا في مكان واحد حتى تآلفوا، وهو جوهر الحادثة التاريخية.
وفي الوطن، تحكي الرواية عن زوجة حنا يعقوب 'هيلانة قسطنطين' وابنتهما بربارة، وكيف أثر غياب الزوج منذ خرج في الصباح بسلة البيض دون أن يعود على مدار اثني عشر عاماً، وكيف جاهدت الزوجة، وقاومت كل المنغصات على أمل واحد هو أن يعود الزوج.]]> 239 ربيع جابر Rabee Jaber Ahmed 0 to-read 3.87 2010
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]]> 5700 The Adolescent (first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky’s translators is a masterpiece of pathos and high comedy.]]> 580 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0375719008 Ahmed 5
معرفش ازاي حرجع اقرا للكتاب "العاديين"، ا

عبقرية الى ابعد الحدود،
اخيرا كاتب ادى للانسان التعقيد الي يستحقه، مش شوية معطيات و معلومات بتاخدها في نوتة في اول القصة و البطل زي الروبوت بيتحرك على اساسها باقي القصة

الابطال مش اغبيا (و ديه حاجة باعشقها في القصص - السبب الوحيد الي ممكن يخليني اني اقرا لبطل غبي هي ان القصة تكون كوميدي) ، القصة 800 صفحة تقريبا بس محستش بذرة ملل طول القصة

القصة مكتوبة من 150 سنة تقريبا، بس في احيان كتيرة المراهق الي في القصة احسه انه انا، و بيفكر في افكار غاية في الخصوصية انا ليه مفكر فيها من يومين مثلا، ده غير الافكار المعقدة جدا الي بعد ما بافهمها اتحير ما فكرتش فيها ازاي قبل كده

نوتة على جنب كده خدت بالي منها، ازاي العلاقات بين الناس كانت معقدة، و متشابكة، على عكس علاقتنا دلوقت الي كلها تقريبا بقت سطحية مبنتعاملش مع الناس الا عشان المصلحة (الفضفضة الشخصية او كون الواحد زهقان ديه مصلحة برضه، بس ده موضوع تاني)

اصره، طبعا ريكومندد لاي حد لسه مقراش لدستويفسكي، ]]> 3.96 1875
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لو كان فيه 10 او حتى 100 نجمة كان خدها بكل سهولة

معرفش ازاي حرجع اقرا للكتاب "العاديين"، ا

عبقرية الى ابعد الحدود،
اخيرا كاتب ادى للانسان التعقيد الي يستحقه، مش شوية معطيات و معلومات بتاخدها في نوتة في اول القصة و البطل زي الروبوت بيتحرك على اساسها باقي القصة

الابطال مش اغبيا (و ديه حاجة باعشقها في القصص - السبب الوحيد الي ممكن يخليني اني اقرا لبطل غبي هي ان القصة تكون كوميدي) ، القصة 800 صفحة تقريبا بس محستش بذرة ملل طول القصة

القصة مكتوبة من 150 سنة تقريبا، بس في احيان كتيرة المراهق الي في القصة احسه انه انا، و بيفكر في افكار غاية في الخصوصية انا ليه مفكر فيها من يومين مثلا، ده غير الافكار المعقدة جدا الي بعد ما بافهمها اتحير ما فكرتش فيها ازاي قبل كده

نوتة على جنب كده خدت بالي منها، ازاي العلاقات بين الناس كانت معقدة، و متشابكة، على عكس علاقتنا دلوقت الي كلها تقريبا بقت سطحية مبنتعاملش مع الناس الا عشان المصلحة (الفضفضة الشخصية او كون الواحد زهقان ديه مصلحة برضه، بس ده موضوع تاني)

اصره، طبعا ريكومندد لاي حد لسه مقراش لدستويفسكي،
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فالرواية تدور حول أربع شخصيات رئيسية ضابط مخابرات ضعيف جنسياً، صحفي شهير زير نساء، محامية تتبنى قضايا الحركات الإسلامية الأصولية، ومحامي قبطي يتبنى جميع قضايا الرأي والحريات..

يفاجأ أبطال الرواية الأربعة بأنهم تحت أنقاض مبنى القنصلية المصرية في السودان في أعقاب تفجير انتحاري .. يروي كل منهم قصته بدءاً من نقطة التحول الكبرى فى حياته وصولاً إلى هذا الحصار تحت الركام والأنقاض، والتي رغم قسوتها ما زالوا يستطيعون أن يميزوا ضوءاً يشق طريقه بين الأنقاض، ولكنهم لا يعرفون كيف يشقون طريقهم للخارج...]]> 217 عزالدين شكري فشير 9772832879 Ahmed 4
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عالم جديد معتقدش اني حاقرا عنه بالعربي كتير، عالم السياسة من جوه في مصر،

اسلوب سلس، معرفتش اسيب الكتاب الا لما خلصته
]]> 99561 Before. Miles “Pudge�� Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps�� even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .
After. Nothing is ever the same.]]> 221 John Green 1435249151 Ahmed 0 to-read 3.97 2005
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ذهب البعض إلى أن الجزأين يقدمان صورة العربي التي لا يحب أن يراها أبداً ويركز على المكبوتات التي يدور حولها الكاتب العربي ويفرد المكان كله لكي تسود في النهاية صورتنا الوهمية.

ماونت أوليف الرواية الثالثة من رباعية الإسكندرية. تعيش أحداث نفس المكان والزمان. ماونت أوليف أول سفير بريطاني في مصر. وحوله شخصيات تبدو في جوستين وبلتازار ثانوية وغير فعالة ومؤثرة، ولكنها هنا جزء أساسي من خيوط الأحداث.

وتتكشف لنا رؤية جديدة لنفس الوقائع التي تدور علوية ما بين القاهرة والإسكندرية في مجتمع الأجانب. ويتشابك معهم المقهورون والهامشيون من أبناء مصر، إن عداءً أو ارتباطاً.

النص كله يطرح من جديد وبكل قوة علاقة النص الإبداعي بالمحرمات، ولهذا كان لا بد من العمل كله دون حذف، وهذا ما فعلناه]]> 407 Lawrence Durrell Ahmed 0 to-read 3.88 1958
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This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.]]> 796 Fyodor Dostoevsky 0374528373 Ahmed 5
1600 صفحة
كل صفحة اكتشف اني مكنتش فاهم الي قبلها كويس، او ان في موقف كنت فاكرة حبكة و ملوش معني يكون اسقاط على سلوك عام للانسانية او حقيقة وجودية

الاخوة كارمازوف هم البشر، 3 نماذج اتجمعنا فيهم كلنا. بكل سهولة اقدر اصنف نفسي و كل واحد اعرفه من خلالهم. ممكن حد اصلا يبتكر "كارمازوف-يميتر" و من خلاله يصنف البشر كلهم.

كعادة دستويفسكي، الكتاب تحفة فلسفية متميزة. المرادي هو متألق بشكل غير طبيعي، المرادي مش بيكتب عن "المراهق" او "المدمن" او "الابله" �� المرادي بيكتب عن الانسانية.

بكره الناس الي ضد التعميم. عبقرية القران انه لما يتكلم عن البشر او الانسان بيعمم، و بيكون صح. الانسان حيفضل انسان في الصومال او استراليا. في رأيي، ده السبب الرئيسي الي بيخلينا لحد دلوقت نقرا لناس زي دستويفسكي، انهم بيقدروا يلقطوا التعميم، و يصوروه في كتبهم، فالناس بيقعدوا 200 سنة، و لسه بيقروا الكلام و يحسوا ان دستويفسكي بيتكلم عنهم هما. مليون واحد كتبوا عن الانسان و الانسانية، لكن حيفضلوا معدودين جدا الي حيتخطوا حاجز الزمن و المكان و يبهروا اي حد يقرالهم.

كل مرة بحاول و بفشل بس المرادي حنجح ان شاء الله و اعدي على الرواية بسرعة اطلع الجمل الي علقت معايا واحطها في الريفيو. المشكلو اني حاسس انهم حيكونوا صفحات �� بس يا رب.
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اصعب ريفيو ممكن اكتبها.

1600 صفحة
كل صفحة اكتشف اني مكنتش فاهم الي قبلها كويس، او ان في موقف كنت فاكرة حبكة و ملوش معني يكون اسقاط على سلوك عام للانسانية او حقيقة وجودية

الاخوة كارمازوف هم البشر، 3 نماذج اتجمعنا فيهم كلنا. بكل سهولة اقدر اصنف نفسي و كل واحد اعرفه من خلالهم. ممكن حد اصلا يبتكر "كارمازوف-يميتر" و من خلاله يصنف البشر كلهم.

كعادة دستويفسكي، الكتاب تحفة فلسفية متميزة. المرادي هو متألق بشكل غير طبيعي، المرادي مش بيكتب عن "المراهق" او "المدمن" او "الابله" �� المرادي بيكتب عن الانسانية.

بكره الناس الي ضد التعميم. عبقرية القران انه لما يتكلم عن البشر او الانسان بيعمم، و بيكون صح. الانسان حيفضل انسان في الصومال او استراليا. في رأيي، ده السبب الرئيسي الي بيخلينا لحد دلوقت نقرا لناس زي دستويفسكي، انهم بيقدروا يلقطوا التعميم، و يصوروه في كتبهم، فالناس بيقعدوا 200 سنة، و لسه بيقروا الكلام و يحسوا ان دستويفسكي بيتكلم عنهم هما. مليون واحد كتبوا عن الانسان و الانسانية، لكن حيفضلوا معدودين جدا الي حيتخطوا حاجز الزمن و المكان و يبهروا اي حد يقرالهم.

كل مرة بحاول و بفشل بس المرادي حنجح ان شاء الله و اعدي على الرواية بسرعة اطلع الجمل الي علقت معايا واحطها في الريفيو. المشكلو اني حاسس انهم حيكونوا صفحات �� بس يا رب.

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The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?

So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives, and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or further from, his lost father?]]> 326 Jonathan Safran Foer 0618711651 Ahmed 0 to-read 3.98 2005
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