J'ai eu des ennuis au sujet du cadeau d'anniversaire que je souhaitais offrir à mon ami.
J'avais acheté pour cette occasion un e-book en offre limitée. C'est pourquoi j'ai dû l'acheter à l'avance. Cependant on ne peut échanger les articles au magasin uniquement dans les quinze jours suivant l'achat.
J'ai tenté de convaincre mon ami qu'il accepte mon cadeau trois jours avant l'anniversaire, afin qu'il puisse le teste, et l'échanger en cas de problème.
Mais il est devenu en rage tout en me le refusant.
Je suppose que c'était une mauvaise idée. Mais je ne vois pas pourquoi il est si important de recevoir des cadeaux précisément le jour de l'anniversaire.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
酒と喫煙
あなたは、どんな飲み物が好きですか。この場合の「好き」は、よく飲むという意味です。
この国の若者たちはソーダとビールが大好きです。この人たちは大人になって、ビールはウォッカに変わります。
ウォッカでも、別の酒でも、結果は一つです。全体的に、ウクライナの市民は酒を飲み過ぎる傾向があります。
理由はマスカルチャーと消費社会論だと思います。ウクライナでは牛乳はビールより高いです。牛乳1リットルは1.25ドルぐらいで、ビール一瓶は1ドルぐらいです。よく探したら安いビール1リットルは牛乳の値段で買えます。
そしてジュースは、ソーダの値段の二倍です。普通の消費者の感覚では、ソーダ2リットルにはジュース1リットルより得です。
それで不健康な習慣をつけられます。
後で、悪い習慣を取り除く事はとても難しいです。
ウクライナの道で１４歳の子供たちがシガレットを持ってビールを飲む事を見たら、驚かないでください。酒と喫煙はウクライナの若者たちの罪です。
この国の若者たちはソーダとビールが大好きです。この人たちは大人になって、ビールはウォッカに変わります。
ウォッカでも、別の酒でも、結果は一つです。全体的に、ウクライナの市民は酒を飲み過ぎる傾向があります。
理由はマスカルチャーと消費社会論だと思います。ウクライナでは牛乳はビールより高いです。牛乳1リットルは1.25ドルぐらいで、ビール一瓶は1ドルぐらいです。よく探したら安いビール1リットルは牛乳の値段で買えます。
そしてジュースは、ソーダの値段の二倍です。普通の消費者の感覚では、ソーダ2リットルにはジュース1リットルより得です。
それで不健康な習慣をつけられます。
後で、悪い習慣を取り除く事はとても難しいです。
ウクライナの道で１４歳の子供たちがシガレットを持ってビールを飲む事を見たら、驚かないでください。酒と喫煙はウクライナの若者たちの罪です。
Steampunk
Anyhow it was OK and even enjoyable in some parts, so I think author deserves her kudos. If she'd stayed true to 'more steampunk, less romance' line in second volume, it'd be even good. Good book.
As it is I can recommend only first volume, since it's more fun reading and story flow is generic, while in 2nd book it is a bit... artificial. You almost can feel author's tension to come up with next scene. May be a result of over-editing, though.
Who knows.
Hm, but I like the cover of the 2nd book better :)
The concept of the world is good, though. Kudos.
This one is closer to definition of steampunk than series i recently finished - Parasol Protectorate by Geil Carriger [Soulless, Changeless, Blameless, Heartless, Timeless] - but nevertheless not quite steampunk enough.
Also these series are a bit special because when I was reading it I had a strong feeling it was written somewhere right after WW II. Figures, the last book only came out in 2012. Lol. After giving it some thought, I decided not to judge whether it is a good or bad thing.Speculating is pointless. It wasn't the language, though, but ... the contents? Not the old-wrodly charm you can find in works of classics of 20th century, no, just ... something that gave a feeling of it being old. Can't ascertain what it was.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
reviews for $5
And this http://fiverr.com/gigs/search?query=reviews+kindle&x=0&y=0 is a LOL.
Nothing too amazing, if u think about it. But gives some perspective.
Though... $5? Really?
Nothing too amazing, if u think about it. But gives some perspective.
Though... $5? Really?
Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo [from space.com]
Brightest Galaxy Ever Seen With Gravity Lens Shines in Hubble Photo [from space.com]
The distant galaxy is 10 billion light-years away from Earth and is seen through a so-called gravitational lens created by a massive cluster of closer galaxies located about 5 billion light-years away. What gravitational lens are is explained using the image above.
Original image:
Full story here at space.com
Finished reading Alma Katsu - The Taker
Finished reading Alma Katsu - The Taker
.
Still have no idea why i even bothered reading it to the end.
Maybe because it is a 'best-seller'. Or because it was heavily marketed.
My impression: putting all the sexual content aside, it could be about four times shorter and not a dime less interesting. Not to mention that it wasn't THAT interesting.
The story can be put like this: not very bright, but courageous and 'open-minded' village girl of 19th century is haunted by her attraction to unworthy, but handsome and rich playboy that takes pleasure in toying with women. As a result of succumbing to the temptation(which makes one third of the book) she gets banished by her family and sent to the big city's monastery to have her illegitimate child. But upon her arrival to the city she is forced into prostitution by rich noble, who later takes her as a private lover - an immortal sex slave.
She begins to lead a life of expensive whole and kind of enjoys it. Her master is cruel, but strongly attracted to her; she even loves him for some time.
Figures, the master is an alchemist that discovered the secret of immortality by switching bodies with young men. And as he sets to have his next victim be the playboy heroine still loves, she takes action to get rid of her master and free all the slaves - and the father of her unborn child
Though, in the end, playboy ditches her again and flees to live his immortal (by this time) life without her. He never loved her and all her sacrifices were for nothing.
So, the whole idea of the book was that no matter how she desired for her lover to care for her, it wasn't possible to make him care. In the end he stayed as self-indulgent and selfish as he was in the beginning, so everything she went through was for nothing.
Mad temptation isn't a good thing. Illusions about men aren't either.
Add to this accent on 'intimate life'. . .
All of that on 448 pages in hardcover, if amazon is to be believed. Published September 2011.
Still, it was mostly my stubbornness that kept me reading it. I don't like throwing out books or stopping reading in the middle. Yet, it was almost the case.
Sex sells, eh?
Still have no idea why i even bothered reading it to the end.
Maybe because it is a 'best-seller'. Or because it was heavily marketed.
My impression: putting all the sexual content aside, it could be about four times shorter and not a dime less interesting. Not to mention that it wasn't THAT interesting.
The story can be put like this: not very bright, but courageous and 'open-minded' village girl of 19th century is haunted by her attraction to unworthy, but handsome and rich playboy that takes pleasure in toying with women. As a result of succumbing to the temptation(which makes one third of the book) she gets banished by her family and sent to the big city's monastery to have her illegitimate child. But upon her arrival to the city she is forced into prostitution by rich noble, who later takes her as a private lover - an immortal sex slave.
She begins to lead a life of expensive whole and kind of enjoys it. Her master is cruel, but strongly attracted to her; she even loves him for some time.
Figures, the master is an alchemist that discovered the secret of immortality by switching bodies with young men. And as he sets to have his next victim be the playboy heroine still loves, she takes action to get rid of her master and free all the slaves - and the father of her unborn child
Though, in the end, playboy ditches her again and flees to live his immortal (by this time) life without her. He never loved her and all her sacrifices were for nothing.
So, the whole idea of the book was that no matter how she desired for her lover to care for her, it wasn't possible to make him care. In the end he stayed as self-indulgent and selfish as he was in the beginning, so everything she went through was for nothing.
Mad temptation isn't a good thing. Illusions about men aren't either.
Add to this accent on 'intimate life'. . .
All of that on 448 pages in hardcover, if amazon is to be believed. Published September 2011.
Still, it was mostly my stubbornness that kept me reading it. I don't like throwing out books or stopping reading in the middle. Yet, it was almost the case.
Sex sells, eh?
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