1/14 - Tập 4: Người Thừa Thứ 14 tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Ming Liu bh_lewis — this book begins with an incorrectly oriented map of san diego; bad directions, maps and outdated descriptions - i'd give this book to someone who would like to swiftly learn to hate hiking and guides to it.

Kong Pureum pureureum — I liked it. It moved rather slowly, but I liked the glimpses into Selenay's early reign and of the culture. Unfortunately, the hardcover edition was so expensive that I swore I wouldn't read the sequel until it came out in paperback. And then I forgot about it.

Anthi Koulama anthikoulama — As more and more memoirs are published, it becomes harder to find a unique 'hook.' Terry Galloway is both deaf and a lesbian, so it was intriguing to pick up this memoir if just to find out how those two characteristics influenced her life. It seems that being deaf was the more salient point of the memoir and her queerness was more of a secondary tale, but that doesn't take away from the narrative at all. The book is very loosely chronological; in fact, most of the chapters are more like essays on a theme, skipping forward and back to tell a whole story. I enjoyed reading about Galloway's experiences in the theater and with other people who are disabled the most. An intriguing second project for Galloway might be to collect and publish the stories she alludes to in her final chapter about her Actual Lives cohorts, a performance group for those with disabilities. I find her family and friends almost unbelievably liberal and accepting, more okay with her sexual identity than with her disability, and this strikes me as odd, but sort of refreshing; especially considering she spent almost all her life in the Conservative American South. However, I get the feeling that there was more discrimination she had to deal with than she relates; almost all the derogatory comments in the book are made about her deafness. One thing I was disappointed by was that most of the cover blurbs and other advertising about this book portray it as 'hilarious.' I found very little of it funny and only laughed out loud once. It was still a great book, but I expected something slightly different from reading the promotional material. That is more a failing of the publisher than the author, of course, and others with a different sense of humor might actually find it funnier than I did. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone who likes memoirs, especially people who, like me, are becoming increasingly bored with the genre.

Joaquin Robles joaquin_robles — Again, the ending wasn't as good as the rest of the book. Very interesting style