An Island of Our Own tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Tano Alpuche _anoalpuche — I already knew a lot about Anne Frank for we were taught a lot about it in eighth grade. I just read this so I can turn in the reading log thing. I didn't really like this because its not that creative and scary. Thats the thing about non-fiction, its just not enough. But I quess it's okay, only because she tells us how scared she is, was, and will be. My favorie charicter has to be the cat because he is just so awsome. It did "touch" me when she died. But oh well, it was decades ago. I didn't really wonder about any parts and was actually thankfull when I was done with it so I could read fiction books. I would recamend it to people just because they should really know a lot about the history of the world. I already knew about it, but if I didn't I would probably say more good stuff about it.

Christeena Knowles cjk1956 — Margaret Atwood is pretty brilliant, at least based on the two books I've read by her (this and The Handmaid's Tale). While Oryx and Crake never reaches the soaring heights of fiction that The Handmaid's Tale tale, it's still a fantastic exploration of our future destination. She takes on a lot in this book. The sole character Snowman opens the novel in his post-apocalyptic world, dodging genetically engineered and dangerous animals, harrowing yet dependable weather, and keeping watch over a new species of humanoids (also genetically engineered). Through a series of flashbacks, Snowman relates his previous life as Jimmy, growing up in a dystopian America where the privileged live within walled compounds run by major corporations. Along the way he meets Crake, a genius with sociopathic tendencies who tries single-handedly to solve the world's population problem with modern science. Of course Crake does not account for the pull of human emotion, and his plans go horribly awry when the two boys jockey for the love of the beautifully damaged Oryx. While effective at creating a believable future (she succeeds in getting readers to buy into such ludicrous sounding imaginings as as a rat-snake hybrid called a "snat"), Atwood at times attempts to fill in too many holes. In The Handmaid's Tale, she trusts the reader to take the journey into Gilead without a handbook of what's what, yet in the end, the reader feels as though the story has been told to the furthest extent possible. The absence of total understanding the dystopia mirrors her protagonist's role in the oppressive society (something Cormac McCarthy does equally as well in The Road). Here though, Snowman almost knows too much, and the holes are more glaring in the plot. None of this detracts from the experience of the book though, and Atwood's creation is still fantastic. Perhaps too, judgment on this novel needs to be reserved until she completes the trilogy, as this is merely the first in a series of books focusing on the same dystopian vision.

Zamirt Romero _amiro — This last book in the series tied up loose ends with a character that phased out of the story earlier on. Parts of it were gripping, but I was a little disappointed with the ending. Over all a fast fun read.