500 Câu Chuyện Học Làm Người - Tu Dưỡng Đạo Đức tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Ahid Alotibi maguy_aahe5c9e — This book was fantastic. It is a story about two young Jewish cousins, one schooled in fine art and trained in the particulars of Houdini escape, smuggled from Prague to America in 1939, just as the Jews began truly fearing what the Nazi party might do to them. The other is a New York kid (19 years old, but written as more of a teen than adult), with an entrepreneur's spirit and big dreams of creating his own comic book heroes at a time when comic books were just beginning to take hold of the country. Within hours of meeting, they set out to create a comic book empire based around the adventures of The Escapist, a magician of sorts dedicated to freeing the people enslaved by Nazis while bringing Hitler to his knees. Both boys are living out complex fears and dreams and secret desires through the characters they create - in particular Joe who is desperately fighting to bring his family to America with his earnings - and the story is fantastically well crafted. I know little about early 1940's New York, so at times it is a slow read (the amount of information about comic book production and the subtle effects of the war on the New York public is remarkable), but I keep finding myself completely mesmerized by the story - responding audibly to shock or sadness and then laughing at myself for being so utterly entwined with the direction of the characters. It's almost like stepping into a vintage Superman comic, yet behind the scenes, seeing it from an entirely different angle, given light onto the limitations and fabrications of such a monumental craft. I can't believe I'm raving about a book about comic books - but honestly, there is a stark difference between mediocre writing and the story telling of a Pulitzer Prize winning author. I am floored by this novel.

Breeana Glenn febreeze3573fb — I read this in the original Japanese, but the English translation seems pretty good for the most part. Japanese magical realism at its finest.

Prasetha Pillai prasethapb84e — Another excellent novel from Abercrombie, set in the same universe as his First Law trilogy and very similar in style and tone to those books. That would be my only criticism: that his work is starting to feel a bit repetitive. It’s such good stuff, though, that I can hardly object. This tells the story of a three-day battle between the Union and the Northmen. There are several familiar faces but the point-of-view characters are mostly new, with the exception of Bremer dan Gorst, who’s one of the most compelling. The characterizations are what I enjoy most about Abercrombie’s work, but I continue to be impressed by the vivid battle scenes. I particularly liked a couple of isolated sequences where the point of view jumps from a soldier who’s just been killed to the one who struck the fatal blow, and then to the man who strikes him down in turn, and so on. Abercrombie carries on with his cynical, nearly fatalistic themes. The book’s title can refer to a circle of standing stones called The Heroes, but there is much discussion of the nature of heroes in general and of the pointlessness and inevitability of war. While I can easily keep the characters straight in each book, I’m beginning to have trouble keeping track of all the Named Men over the whole series. I remember that the Bloody-Nine thought you had to be realistic; that Shivers was trying to be a better man; and now Craw wants to do the right thing. But the Dogman and Black Dow and some of the others are starting to run together. In this book I admit to being disappointed in Finree, the soldier’s wife who is described as “venomously ambitious”, but I'm not so sure about the “venomously” part. Her thought processes didn’t seem to sync with her actions, and I didn’t find her a believable character. Overall I liked this more than Best Served Cold, and I look forward to his new book: Red Country, which is supposed to be written in the style of a Western.

Miciel Abalos _ish_balos — Tartt overwrites like whoa.

Benjamin Hapka bhapka — Possibly the longest book I've read where, when I finished it, I wanted to go back and read it again. As a Northerner, at the time I read it, I was rather clueless about the Civil War and the South. I'm mildly more clued-in these days, but this book helped open up a voice and an attitude for me that had not been there before. The writing is dramatic, to the point where I'm sure some readers found it too far over the top to deal with. I have read the "scene" of the heroine's mother's childhood encounter with wasps many times and find it to be uniquely moving and epic in its nature. As a child from a large extended family, I have always loved novels with many characters and interwoven stories. "Oldest Living..." did not disappoint.