365 Chuyện Kể Giáng Sinh Tháng 11 - 12 (Song Ngữ) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Vitalie Oancea karhapooz — For what it is, it's pretty brilliantly written. The humor is sharp and concise and actually, this is basically how a gaijin often feels that first two weeks they're here, especially for those of us who actually stayed and thought, WTF did I get myself into? Dave Barry makes certain things that you don't notice (or at least, consciously) hilarious, especially the aspects of it that are supposedly reverent or traditional. The book is dependent on certain aspects to make it funny, some of which, unfortunately, doesn't apply to many. For example, I didn't really find the kanji issues quite so funny as others might because I was born reading kanji and it's never been an issue that it is for non-natives. So words that are natural to me will seem like googlykook to others. So for me, the jokes about the kanji just didn't seem all that funny, though I got the point of the joke. -_-;; The part with the geisha did send me into peals of laughter, though, because while the art of the geisha is very beautiful, very traditional, very solemn... yeah. They do look like they have an inch of plaster stuck to their faces. It's what it feels like, anyways. ;) Since I've eaten stranger foods than the foods in Japan, the food sections made me laugh, because while they're very strange to so-called typical Americans, they're nothing new to the rest of the world. Which is the point; this is written for a specific audience and it works brilliantly in that way.

Christina Peabody christinapeabody — Nice surprise ending

Chris Vanpelt chrisvp — i'm a fan of rollins and have read all but one ( i think) of his adult novels. this one was for kids/teens or tweens, but was still worth reading. it was sort of "rollins-lite". there were some interesting concepts introduced and the wild sci-fi was typical of rollins. the dialogue was young and geared to kids. i had this feeling that the main character - an 8th grader- seemed younger than that at times. who knows? i'm not around kids much. it's a very fast read and likely the first of a series. i'll keep reading them as they come out, but look forward to his next adult novel.