Levent Mollamustafaoglu

The Lensmen are really peripheral to the narrative. It focuses instead on "atomic vertices" which could occur naturally but could also be used to destroy whole worlds, if required. It is not one of the good novels of this pulp series of the '60s. www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

Danny has published a bestseller and is working on his second book. While trying to solve his writer’s block, his mother Rosey passes away. Overseeing the preparations for the funeral, he finds a manuscript which his mother describes as her life story. www.goodreads.com/book/show/80...

This post is catching up with the advances in AI in the third quarter of 2026. backtosoftwaredevelopment.substack.com/p/ai-updates...

Marie has a difficult life after she loses her father, working as a pianist in a music cafe in Vienna and has to endure the drunks and unruly characters while trying to make ends meet needs. Predictable events, barely readable since it is a period novel. www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

Bill Browder established an investment company in Russia. He benefited from the wild period in the early days of new Russia before Vladimir Putin came to power. The book is written with an exciting narrative and from time to time reads like a thriller novel. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Yazmakta olduğum tarihi roman “Osmanlı Kulübü” yavaş da olsa ilerliyor. Kitaptaki karakterlerin tutarlı olarak anlatılabilmesi için hazırladığım karakter dosyalarını ve tiyatroda buna benzer işlev gören dramaturji dosyalarını anlattım. leventinedebiyatvecevirigunlugu.substack.com/p/roman-kara...

Detective Billie Ann is trying to find the killer of a young girl and some seemingly unrelated people while also trying to find a missing girl. A novel that starts with several threads and tries to bring them together, but can not bring it together coherently. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

I summarized things happening in the Generative AI area with some links to original sources, covering the 2nd Quarter of 2026. backtosoftwaredevelopment.substack.com/p/ai-updates...

A meticoulously researched account of the mysterious death of a youngster pretending to be the son of a Russian oligarch in London. There is a lot of background information about organized crime in 21st century London but the result is not very promising. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Terrorists try to deliver blows to the U.S. using sophisticated cyberattacks coupled with physical sabotage. They are countered by digital personalities who can multitask and accomplish amazing cybersecurity or cyberattack tasks on the Internet. www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

Geçen yıl izlediğim Duncan MacMillan oyunu “İnsanlar, Mekanlar, Nesneler” üzerine yazdım. leventinpenceresi.substack.com/p/insanlar-m...

I have reviewed Duncan Macmillan’s play on addiction and recovery titled “People, Places and Things” leventskaleidoscope.substack.com/p/people-pla...

Emile Zola’nın Rougon-Macquart roman serisinin dördüncü kitabı Plassans’ın Fethi, seçimlere müdahale gibi gizli bir projeyle Plassans’a gelen Rahip Faujas’ın adım adım hedefine yaklaşmasını aktaran heyecanlı bir anlatı. leventinpenceresi.substack.com/p/emile-zola...

The Archangel expedition of U.S. and Allies against Russia after the end of the 1st WW. The Allies aimed to help the White Russian forces to regain the country after the October revolution, but the mission failed due to lack of political and military objectives. www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

I have read and reviewed the fourth book in Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart Saga, The Conquest of Plassans, where Plassans is the stage for a covert campaign to influence the result of the upcoming election. #emilezola #lesrougonsmacquart #secondempire #1800s open.substack.com/pub/leventsk...

This is a PhD thesis claiming that Shakespeare might have got the inspiration of some elements of his Julius Caesar from the play "Cesare" by Italian dramatist Pescetti. It could be interesting for specialists but did not add much to the knowledge on this work. www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

Gripping account of a girl's struggles to get an identity for herself independent of all the men trying to exploit her, in early 20th century U.S. The transformation of Carrie from a timid girl with few ambitions to an aspiring member of the theatre in New York. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Ordinary crime novel where a murder and some thefts within a family mansion are solved with the efforts of a detective but mostly from clues that family members help uncover. www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...

Emile Zola'nın Rougon-Macquart serisinin üçüncü kitabı: Paris'in Karnı open.substack.com/pub/leventin...

The Rougon-Macquart series from Zola continues with Le Ventre de Paris, where we see not only all the underclasses making sure the city can be fed, but also are witness to petty interests and jealousies affecting the ordinary people’s lives in the 2nd empire. open.substack.com/pub/leventsk...

A love triangle composed of Alfred, his wife Helen and his friend Armand. Armand and Helen have a forbidden relationship. Pretty boring book where nothing really happens. It is not even employing a classical plot of scorned husband wreaking revenge on the lovers. www.goodreads.com/book/show/61...

Twist has a “Sight”, an ability to repair things and people who are “broken” and he unfortunately will feel all of the pains of them. I didn't find the book adding much to the genre, with too little happening and the narrative failing to excite the reader. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Köpekle İngiltere’ye gitmek isteyenler için iki ay kadar önce yaşadığımız macerayı, çalışan ve çalışmayan kuralları anlattım… leventinnotdefteri.substack.com/p/kopekle-in...

Dwarves, humans, gremlins, Minotaurs and an odd elf or two. An evil man is gathering gremlin armies to destroy all the dwarves and humans. Not  many original ideas here, as compared to what Tolkien already introduced as a standard feature in fantasy. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Natalie is on a boat trip with his father, her cousin Lancelot and Turlington, seeking her hand. She is in love with her cousin Linzie and the young couple think of a way to prevent the engagement to occur next Christmas, when Natalie is going to be 16 years old. www.goodreads.com/book/show/84...

Chloe works in a bar and meets a man with a strange pendant that sends people backwards and forwards in time. She finds out that her mother was also a part of time-travelling people, who are in two organizations fighting each other for the control of time. www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...

Selina gets a teaching job as a teacher in Chicago In an area with Dutch immigrants and marries one of the farmers. The rest are her struggles in the harsh farming environment of the aregion and her attempts to carve herself a place in a patriarchal society. www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

Quincy is born as the eighth child in the poor family of Josiah and Sarah. But then the two eldest of the children die from scarlet fever. The rest of the book reads like a bildungsroman for Quincy and his efforts to become an individual member of the society. www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

Finally got Siri AI... It took me 3 days on the waitlist. Let's start using it... #macos27 #siriai #appleintelligence

Well, yet another fantasy novel where the young protagonist (mostly female) finds out that she has hidden skills (in this particular case she gets the power from a sword) and uses the newly discovered powers/fighting skills to pursue revenge etc. www.goodreads.com/book/show/31...

The life of Ottoman Sultan Murad V, who was dethroned through a palace/government conspiracy after ruling just 33 days, ending in a 33-year period of absolute autocracy by Sultan Abdulhamid the 2nd. This is the period of his confinement after he has been dethroned. www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

Baldacci introduces yet another protagonist who will come back in a series. Puller is an Army guy who is investigating a brutal murder in rural America and finds out that nothing about the murder makes sense. A high tempo thriller worth attention. www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Post-apocalyptic novel from Nora Roberts. A pandemic kills billions of people, but some are immune and some of the immune develop supernatural powers which were attributed to witches and elves in ancient times. Not very original but is a flowing narrative. www.goodreads.com/book/show/34...

Kinesics expert Catherine Dance is helping local law-enforcement authorities to track a killer who is obsessed with young music star Kayleigh Towne. They have already pinpointed an aggressive fan, who does not shy away from getting close to her before a concert. www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Very weak Star Trek novel involving a big spaceship with millions of inhabitants who think they are living inside a planet. They have encountered the Klingons in their past and think the Enterprise crew are Klingons when Kirk and crew get stranded on their ship. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

I provided summary updates and relevant links for all significant AI events in the 1st Quarter of 2026. open.substack.com/pub/backtoso...

Count Louis de Sancerre and his companion de la Salle are dealing with a complex collection of players in the New World in 1682, namely the Spanish, the Mohicans and other tribes. de Sancerre has killed a Spaniard and had to escape to America. www.goodreads.com/book/show/62...

Written by an Australian body language expert and his wife, this book looks into differences between men and women that are not necessarily obvious but shown to be a result of natural selection as part of humankind's evolution process. www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Mildly interesting historical romance/adventure novel set in Ancient Rome. The state of women's nonexistent rights, the class difference and struggle between the Patricis and the Plebes are some of the threads in this novel. Not very original, but readable. www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

The story of Stuart, who is a salesman in a TV Sales and Repair shop in the 50's. He's worried about his job and he can not assign much meaning to his life. One of Dick's early mainstream novels and it shows traces of what his future SF novels will have. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

11th century Vikings raiding the New World and trying to deal with native Americans they encounter. Then it continues in the 19th century with a ship being attacked by a mysterious metal monster. The main plot line is fine, though at times difficult to believe. www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Emile Zola’nın Rougon-Macquart serisini okumaya ve değerlendirmeye serinin ikinci kitabı Tazı Payı ile devam ettim. open.substack.com/pub/leventin...

Siena facing even tougher opponents than the ones in the first book. Seeming to be very much influenced by the TV series Heroes, this second book shows Siena getting more confident and discovering more information about her mother and other relatives. www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

I have continued reading and reviewing Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart series with the second book, Rush for the Spoil (La Curée) open.substack.com/pub/leventsk...

Strange events that occur after a small town is suddenly isolated from the external world by an invisible dome. The dome is impervious to anything, including a Cruise missile. Meanwhile inside the dome different power groups are flexing their muscles. www.goodreads.com/book/show/63...

Twisted is a short story collection including a short Lincoln Rhyme story. Most of the stories have a twisted end that is difficult to guess. The stories are a bit predictable, or at least they look similar, although you may not be able to predict the exact ending. www.goodreads.com/book/show/28...

The story of the first Market Crash in modern history, in which the commodity was not stocks or currencies but tulips. Smuggled from the Ottoman Empire, the tulip quickly became one of the most coveted flowers and botanists were able to produce wild varieties. www.goodreads.com/book/show/43...

An ancient cult which appears at Total Eclipse times and the mysterious figure at all Eclipse occasions. The book totally turned me off after the first few pages with its disconnected narrative in different eras of history and did not converge to a coherent text. www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

Story of young Talbot who is travelling from Britain to Australia in an old navy ship to take a government position. The book tells the story in the form of journal entries by the protagonist, for the benefit of his godfather, a prominent aristocrat in Britain. www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...