Angelina Jolie - Bản Sắc Một Huyền Thoại tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Seoyoung Won seoyseoy — I liked it but it wasn't as good as The Shadows of the Wind.

Mark Blom markblomom4a6f — This is yet one of my favorite novels I have had the chance to read. The writing is exquisite--it is somewhere between the archaic victorian style of early days and modern science fiction literature. This novel has a lot of vestiges from early Gothic novels; fantastic situations, ghostly or terrible events, the yearning of the idyllic, and the sublime. This is very important because Mary Shelley was able to balance both the beautiful and the sublime; it is a novel that talks about an era of scientific discovery, the imitation of god, and what are the consequences of the one that attempts to be greater than god: "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." Chapter 4, pg. 38 It is also a beautiful novel that talks about the ostracism of a creature as Frankeinstein's monster; the creature does not have a name, and this makes it a novel much more about the "Other" rather than simple gothic horror.

Xiaoyan Zhang goodboiloic — Since it's still Stalker Week here on Goodreads, I decided to create a new shelf, which I've called older-men-younger-women. I hope that's neutral enough that I won't get flagged. My criterion is simple: a relationship between a man and a much younger woman needs to play an important part in the story. Well, as I was saying to Meredith, I knew ahead of time that Twilight and Lolita would be there. I trust we've already absorbed all the lessons that can usefully be drawn from these books, so I won't dwell on them. My list also contains a considerable number of volumes from the wonderfully trashy Brigade Mondaine series. If you look at these, you'll get rather more offbeat advice: for example, don't get involved with an older man if he's investigating your twin sister for a grisly murder, or don't get involved with an older man if he's just using you to help get his regular girlfriend back from a gang of Chinese criminals who are threatening her with death by poisonous sea-snake. (Note: it's okay if poisonous sea-snakes aren't involved). But it was the classic novels that surprised me most. I'd quite forgotten that some of them belonged to this category, and Middlemarch is the star example. Girls, don't get involved with elderly academics. They'll try and get you to do things you really don't want to do. Disgusting things. I'm having trouble even saying this, but they'll... they'll... they'll try to make you promise to edit their papers posthumously. They will. It's true. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to shock you, but it was necessary. Just say no. And run.

K Stylist karisalvino_tylist — "I must say, I don't see how anyone can pretend to be interested in a novel when he doesn't even stop to ask himself what it's title means." "The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative."