118 Common Negotiation Idioms - Thành Ngữ Tiếng Anh Đàm Phán Thông Dụng tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Damaris Castiblanco _amaris_ — I enjoyed this one a lot. For the first few chapters it was hard to get my head around the time travel, but eventually I just went with the flow. I was a bit angry at myself for not predicting what was going to happen near the end, since it's foreshadowed many times throughout the book. The problem with time travel is that as soon as you start questioning it, it falls apart. So the story works if you don't think about the logistics too much!

Art Studio _rt_tudio_llure — In some ways, books are like people: there are the popular ones, the ones everyone talks about, and when you meet them it's at a crowded party, and it's hard getting to know them properly. There are the weirdos you learn about mostly by accident, or because you know someone who knows them and they end up introducing you to each other. Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn't. And there are books like this one: you meet them and there's this pull of attraction, but for some reason you never get around doing something about it, until finally, you do, and then you read it and it's a bit like falling in love and wonderful because it's every bit like that initial moment promised. Enough of the poetic waxing: I loved this book. I discovered it months ago when I unpacked it and I knew it was the kind of book I liked. Together with my colleague, I read the first sentence and it was great. But it wasn't the right time and so I put reading it off for a bit. Then, the other day, when I had a moment, I picked it up again and opened the first page and couldn't stop, so I took it home with me. Forrest is an American staying in Rome. His wife has just left him - only temporarily, but she's gone, and he is lost. That's when he meets Marcello, a 17 year old Roman. The two of them start sleeping together - and while Forrest is paying him, it's not exactly just business. This is not a typical love story. Both Forrest and Marcello do love each other, in their way, but it's a love that is completely separate from their other lives. It helps to remember that the book was first published in 1965, so that is why the idea of these separate identities is such a prominent theme in this book. And while that is something that is true for a lot of queer people, I believe it's something almost everybody can relate to, because after all, aren't we different people with our friends than we are with our families? And, like Marcello, the only thing that connects these experiences, these completely different aspects of us, is us, our being ourselves. There are many things I loved about this book. There's no big discussion of right and wrong - Marcello is the first man Forrest sleeps with, but there's no crisis of identity (apart from the one that's already happening, of course) or hairpulling. Windham writes with a certain matter-of-factness that's wonderfully refreshing to read, and his writing has a quiet beauty that is quite breathtaking. There were a lot of sentences that stood out, one of them this one (I'm quoting the translation because, well, that's what I read): "Es ist normal, das Wunderbare zu lieben; aber wirklich wunderbar wird es erst, wenn wir das Normale lieben." Which brings me to the quality of the translation: it's very, very good, and yes, you can tell that sort of thing even without knowing the original. Last, but not least, I shouldn't forget to mention the other one of the two main reasons why I loved this book. I mean, sure, I do like love stories between two men (or two women), so this would have been lovely as such. But what made this stand out was the setting: the way Windham writes about Rome makes the city come alive. I'm going to visit Rome in two months, and knowing that made reading this book all the more wonderful. And yes, I'm going to have to get my hands on my own copy, in the original :)