Bulutlarla Kolkola

by Shirley MacLaine, Fatoş Dilber (Türkçesi), Şahin Karakoç (Kapak Resmi)

Shirley MacLaine'i hepimiz ünlü bir sinema yıldızı olarak tanıyoruz. Sokak Kızı İrma'daki oyunu ile seyircilerin gönlünde taht kurdu, sayısız ödül kazandı. Daha sonra sinemaya ara verip dünyanın gizemli köşelerine yolculuklar yapmaya başladı. Bu gezilernde duygusal ve zihinsel yönden büyük gelişmeler gösterdi.

Bu kitapta bir sanatçı olarak iki ayağının üzerinde durmayi nasıl başardığını ve iç dünyasındaki dğişmelerin ne şekilde başladığını anlatıyor.
(Arka Kapak)

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Spirituality, Autobiography, Travel

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

About the author

Shirley MacLaine is an actress, author, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong-willed, and eccentric women, she has received numerous accolades over her seven-decade career, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, six Golden Globes, and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a New York Times bestselling memoir, Out On a Limb.

Reviews

[Tristy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am ashamed to admit that I let all the negative talk about Shirley Maclaine being a "woo-woo" writer influence my choice of whether or not to read her books. But when all her books fell into my lap recently, I decided to give it a whirl. And I'm so glad I did! She is a wonderful writer! She shares her inner journey, without sounding to self-centered, in part because she blends her epiphanies so beautifully with her travels and experiences outside of herself.

It's wonderful to watch her grow and expand as she branches out beyond Hollywood, into more "exotic" lands like Japan, Africa and Bhutan. I felt like I was with her in every country and her passion for supporting her fellow human beings was very moving. She is not the kind of Hollywood actor who shows up in a Masai village in Africa and immediately makes it about herself, or worse, tries to "rescue" them from their own culture. She is totally respectful of every culture she encounters and describes her experiences with a wonderful, detailed depth. I hear that her later books, in which she shares more of her "new age" spiritual journey are not as good as her first book, so we will see. The infamous Out on a Limb is next in my stack!

[Davis Aujourd'hui · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderful autobiography by a woman who knows how to savor life. It explores her background from the days when she sought to become a professional ballerina, her beginnings in film, her journey into exotic lands that expanded her compassion for her fellow humans, and ultimately led to a spiritual transformation reflected in her later books.

As the author of a spiritually-themed novel, I am always on the outlook for books that provide food for the soul. This one did it for me and it shall for you as well. You too can discover that you can have an amazing life. I have begun to experience a life beyond my wildest dreams. Shirley's books opened me to that possibility.

Davis Aujourd'hui, author of "The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude"

[Köksal KÖK · Rating 5 out of 5]

amerika, japonya, çin, hindistan ve diğer asya ülkelerinde seyahat. bu seyahat, turistik olmaktan çok, mistik bir yolculuk. içsel bir yolculuk.

blavatsky, Besant, Kerouac, osho, rampha, castenade.

bunlar gibi bilgeler, en değerli şeylerini, hayat tecrübelerini bizimle paylaştılar.

[María Hagerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

An evaluation of her early life from her infancy as a southern girl who was a passionate ballet dancer, going through her youth in NYC as a chorus girl where she met the love of her life, to the becoming of the Hollywood star we have come to adore. Written in the early 1970s, it follows the starts of her acting career as well as her motherhood and independent spirit as a woman not inclined to fit the mold of a conservative housewife. Her inner path towards spirituality that she encounters when traveling serve as an inspiration and show that she is much more than just a known actress but a human being looking for meaning and enlightenment like anyone else. She writes beautifully and her search for happiness is as real as it gets. Before reaching her fame, she was just someone following her dreams and trying to become who she is today. Love her wit and candor...pretty much I find everything about her utterly fascinating!

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book I read a very long time ago. In my opinion this is Shirley's best book. I think I've read all of her books.
Very very interesting life. Discusses her childhood in Virginia, her loving parents and her brother, Warren Beatty. Moving to Hollywood, making movies. But the most interesting to me is her inner life -- her search for meaning, her quest for what's "beyond" and "unknown," her adventures all over the world, particularly in South American and Asia. Highly recommend.

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've enjoyed every one of Shirley Maclaine's books, and this one is no exception. She writes very well. Although I first read this book a long time ago, there is one part of it I've never forgotten, her description of dealing with the subzero cold in the Himalaya mountains. This is the story of some of her travels - to visit the Masai in Africa, and the "dumpster boys" in India, the mystical Himalayan mountains, and more. And I enjoyed the whole story again.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first celebrity autobiography I ever read, and I was so fascinated by it. I think I was 10 or 11. I would ride my bike to the little bitty library in town...

[Eva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Denna kom på svenska som inbunden bok 1972. Jag fick den i julklapp, läste den om och om igen, älskade den, blev betydelsefull för mitt framtida liv.

[Paula Dembeck]

This is the first of Shirley MacLaine’s autobiographical memoirs published in 1970. As an actor she got her first big break in the mid 1950’s with a role in the Broadway musical “The Pajama Game”. When she later moved on to films such as “The Apartment” and “Irma La Duce”, she was able to move from her rat-infested walk up apartment in New York City to a large home with a view in the San Fernando Valley. But her life has been about so much more than the glittery life of Hollywood. It has been about her own personal search to understand the world and a life of meaning in it.

In this volume she describes herself as a woman curious about life, about people and life in other countries. That curiosity has led her on many an unusual adventure which she shares with the details that make her accounts come alive. She has traveled the world, lived with the Masai in Africa, wandered through the streets and countryside of India, lived in Japan and climbed in the Himalayan mountain kingdom of Bhutan. Back in her home country she has taken an active role in politics and become involved in discussions and movements focused on the issues and questions of race.

If there is one thing she hates, it is negativity. She believes a positive outlook leaks to a more positive and happy life.

MacLaine has an unusual open marriage. She and her husband Steve Parker live separately but at the time this book was published were not divorced. They have a daughter named Stephanie (aka Sasha) who lives with her father in Japan, where he works half the year in Tokyo. Shirley lives in the States and pursues her career there. It is a strange arrangement, but in her view, it works for them.

Many in Hollywood find her unusual persona disquieting, but MacLaine has no interest in what other people think. She is living her own life, led by her own needs, beliefs and desires, uninterested in the gossipy tall tales of Hollywood.

This is a fun entertaining read that became a best seller. It includes many of her relationships in the film world including her famous brother Warren Beatty. Although there is much about her life and career in Hollywood, it is much more an account of her search for spiritual fulfilment.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love all of her books, although they get progressively more Twilight Zonish as she ages...(but then so do I, so...)Ha!

[Kristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I first read this book not long after it's first published date in 1970, so I'm thinking I read it around 1973 while in high school. I loved her in "What A Way To Go" and "Sweet Charity" and I think I may have had to write a report on a memoir. This book time line is her childhood in Virginia with her brother Warren, her debut on Broadway, her first Hollywood picture, her first marriage and the birth of her one and only child. She focuses on the many journeys she took between working and her own personal spiritual search that took her to Africa, Tibet, Japan and the deep south in the 60's. When I saw it at our local PP book sale for 25 cents, I knew I had to buy it and read it again.

[Natalie Peterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had not read this book in many years. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. This is her first book and it shows. It's clunky in parts, awkward. But the ending more than makes up for it. Her journeys into Africa and into Bhutan are worth it. It's so damn good. It might be one of my favorites of hers out of all of them. We'll see! The next book on deck I remember is a slog because it is a bit too much, so I'll have to hearken back to this book when the going is rough.

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this when I was in high school and again over 40 years later to find this to be just as good of a read now as it was then! It has impacted me more now and has prompted me to start reading through all of the memoirs written by Shirley MacLaine, with 5 books left in this journey through an incredible life!

[Lynette Coghlan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shirley MacLaine is an engaging writer who conveys a lot of information, both personal and cultural, as she takes the reader along on her travels.

I recall the press at the time, during the 1970s, and the comedy skits that portrayed MacLaine as kooky, but if this is true, then what an adventurous life she's had as a kook!

[Jeffrey Aubuchon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have loved both Shirley MacLaine books that I've read. I picked this one up to read her impressions of Bhutan in the late '60s. Riveting stuff. The first half tells her story from childhood to Hollywood--less interesting to me than the travel parts but still a good read.

[Huguette Larochelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

love the book, she talk about the trip all over the world she did.
Some place with very strange culture .
She travels to mysterious corners of the world.

[Lauriane Livi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A MAIOR ESCRITORA VIVA

[Cathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not sure I believe everything she says

[Sphinx · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 raised to 3

[CarolynAnn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it a long time ago and, while I found it quite shocking at times, I also was quite mesmerized by Shirley's life and travels. It's one of those books that has stayed with me over the decades.

[Victoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read Shirley's book before but wanted to go back and reread this. From her travels in South Africa to the mountains of Bhutan, this is a really good travel/mystical book.

Shirley starts with her life growing up in Virgina, moving to NY and a small cramped apartment to pursue her passion for dancing. She's a real life "42nd Street" story. As the understudy who thinks she'll never be lead, fate happens and she finds herself front and center in a hit Broadway play. Her career takes off. After being cast in "The Trouble with Harry" by Hitchcock himself, Shirley then has the money to travel the world.

Her stories of being in the south during the early 60's, her travels to Africa and staying with the Mesi tribe, her travel to India and then on to Bhutan are amazing and mystical.

I highly recommend this to anyone who would like to travel.

[Rick Ludwig · Rating 5 out of 5]

I approached reading this book with some trepidation given the press surrounding some of Shirley MacLaine's later books, but I truly enjoyed reading this. Her style is completely honest and engaging and displays the incredible thirst for knowledge of the writer. I have always enjoyed and respected the talent of the actress Shirley MacLaine and this book made me appreciate the person behind the roles. I will read more of her work, even if I am generally a skeptic when it comes to past lives and such things. However, if all of her writing is as honest and accessible as this first glimpse, I'm willing to take a ride with her, even if we reach different destinations in the end.

[MaryAlice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I may have read this in the 1970s. I am adding a date in 1999 because I probably added it to Goodreads, from my Long Beach Public Library book list. When I started adding books to Goodreads, I would check out the library's list, with my list of books read, and/or quotes I kept from books.

Tedious, but I wanted to accurately record books I read. I probably had a lot of quotes from the book, because I gave it a Four Star rating.

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, written entirely (every word) by Shirley herself, is a true tale of her beginning in acting and her first steps into the world to "find herself," not ever and easy thing to do. She didn't choose easy places, Calcutta, living with the Masai in Kenya and a rare visit to Bhutan, where she was caught in a coup. MacLaine is a fine actress and one who definitely marches to her own inner drum.

[Sunni · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this (and You Can Get There from Here) in college and it was life changing then. I don't know how it reads now. It was unheard of for women to travel alone, live alone, not be the custodial parent, be sexually open, and all the things she was doing. The most we had was the single women of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. So she was a role model and free thinker.

[Jevelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maclaine writes to the reader, telling you things you want to know about her, and her soulful experiences without you having to ask. Her way of describing her journey gives the reader a chance to begin looking at their own life for meaning and growth.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ms MacLaine's first novel printed in 1970. A very good read. She has always been a good storyteller. I guess I assumed she had gotten better throughout all her books. Her seeking nature evident and foreshadows her growth explosion in the future.

[Rosalinda Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I truly enjoyed reading this book. It traces her life from when she started taking ballet lessons to getting a break on Broadway to her life as a successful actress in Hollywood and then her travels and adventures. An amazing journey like no other among Hollywood celebrities. I recommend it highly.

[Ronda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hey Lin...remember when we read this one many moons ago? I recall really enjoying it and was just telling FJA about Sachie. Holy Cow!

[Dottie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ditto.