9 Quy Tắc Đầu Tư Tiền Bạc Để Trở Thành Triệu Phú (Tái Bản 2015) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Deejay Acampado djacampado50eb — So I'm not all the way through it yet. But I've been plugging away at Fool the World: The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies and I really like it. My friend Alicia let me borrow it along with a bunch of other Pixies goodies. Alicia didn't really like this that much. Our friend Sarah Flynn said the writer is a douchebag. In anycase, he's not really the writer. He conducted interviews and looked at archived interviews and basically compiled and edited them toghether in a well organized chronological manner. This is of course for the super fans of the Pixies. I personally find them to be not only one of my favorite bands of all time musically, but incredibly interesting in there incredibly plain-jane undramatic personalities, inter-relations, and the phenomenon of their popularity. Sarah Flynn disagrees with me on this too. Although she likes their music, she doesn't find them to be very interesting per se. So how it works. This book goes from a summary of each band member's childhood through their career as the pixies. I'm not sure if the oral portion covers the recent reunion. It was written around this time and mentions their triumphant return in the foreward but i haven't made it that far. There's one thing that's a little monotonous about it. The "writer" compiles in such a way that Frank Black, Kim, David, Gary Smith, and Joe Blow from the Boston Scene will all say very similar things in a row. But there's times where it's very enjoyable and sheds a slighly new light on the actual details as all the band members have their charms and their very specific personalities: Charisma-Plus on Bass Meat and Potatoes Humorous on singing Quiet and Reclusive on Screeching Guitar Dork Supreme on Drums. Beyond that, this book is about the little nuggets of info. The behind the scenes tid-bits. The feel you get of the Boston scene at that time. The kind of magical nature of how much of a force the Pixies music was and still is despite how many people it simultaneously baffled. Having played in bands, there might be nerdy stuff in the studio or things i can relate to about a rock-club scene that i enjoy more than the average music fan. I don't know. I can't tell anymore. And growing up in RI, and visiting Boston a lot in the late 80's/early 90's might make me a little biased. This book recalls a time when Southern New England had a lot of relavant music coming out of it (Throwing Muses, Dino Jr., Lemonheads, Velvet Crush, Buffalo Tom, Sebadoh, Letters to Cleo, Combustible Edison, The Bosstones, Juliana Hatfield, Morphine, and so many more.) It was also a time where the areas those bands inhabited still looked like a place cool bands would probably be from. I was in my teens then when music became my main identity in many ways and I miss the way Providence and Boston looked back then. I could feel the "coolness" of those areas and was happy as a peach to be walking around those places while i looked for coffee and baked goods. It's kind of similar these days, just glossier. Less interesting looking. Less exciting. Maybe a little safer. Less annoying skate-boarders. I doubt anything worth a damn will have much of a fighting chance getting to a Pixies level in those areas these days even if they are just as good the Pixies (which they of course won't be). So yeah, I like it. It's not literature, or deep, or even that entertaining probably. But I'm still enjoying the read more than I have many things. I'm enjoying it better than Cash by Johnny Cash and more than anything Shakespeare's written. But I'm no scholar. I'm just a huge fan of the Pixies. And of a magical time in my home turf.

Rahma Eltohamy _ahma_ltohamy — Despite being reviewed in the New York Times (and elsewhere too, I imagine) this book seems to have fallen between the cracks. There are no reviews of it here or on Librarything, and I only discovered it by chance. I liked it a lot. Cohen's writing style grew on me as the book progressed, and the story was good enough to keep me reading even if the writing had not been as good as it was. Best of all, the Hasidic characters in the book are not merely 'spiritual counterweights' to the secular protagonist, like I feared they would be. This is a fun and easy read, and I recommend it highly. And for those who care about such things: the hardcover edition is a nice looking book!

Josh Auger _osh_uger — This is the second of the Sherlock Holmes graphic adaptations by Ian Edginton that I've read (though the first they produced). I've already announced my love for Holmes and '...Baskervilles' was the story that really inspired me to check them out many, many years ago. Arguably the most famous Holmes tale, it's also one of the more different with a strong sense of the supernatural. Almost a Sherlock ghost story. The desolate, haunting setting of the Moors works effectively in the wonderfully illustrated story and again the characterisation is perfectly realised. I liked the text adaptation though felt the ending came on too soon, perhaps a little more space would have built it up; in many ways though this is the problem with the original story. The ending feels like a let down, not that satisfying after the build up. Still, Watson does a great job of holding the fort while Holmes works everything out in the background. Otherwise I can't really fault the execution of these adaptations and will certainly pick the remaining volumes up. Recommended to Holmes (and Watson) fans old and new.