Bách Khoa Toàn Thư 3D - Tập 2: Phương Tiện Quân Sự tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Snails Rule ultracaracol — Elizabeth Crane's prose is smart yet straightforward, funny yet meaningful. In When the Messenger Is Hot, she experiments with form and point of view while creating memorable characters and scenarios. There are lots of stories in this book, so I'll just highlight a couple of my favorites. The opener, "The Archetypes Girlfriend," is more of an extended description than a traditional story. Is there such thing as a stereotypical idiosyncrasy? Yes: Crane manages to display tons of them as she hilariously examines several personas of women who get under the skin of vulnerable men. Another standout is "Christina," in which the narrator encounters a dancing ghost baby in her home who she chats with on a day to day basis. The main thing that makes this book short of spectacular is its repetitious themes. Which isn't automatically bad...it's just that she exhausts them through the stories. The death of a mother, dating debacles, and the habitat comparison of Chicago vs. New York became predictable. The stories could have been presented freshly without incorporating these same ideas over and over again. It made the stories feel overly autobiographical--like the writer was having a difficult time detaching herself from every character she created.

Kent Daubermann _otential — The first time I opened this book, I read the first page, shut it, grabbed another book off my bookshelf and read that instead. Wizard's First Rule just didn't grab me from the start. A few months or years later, I came back to it and gave it a more whole-hearted attempt. After pushing through the first few pages, the story grew on me, although I will admit I was not enthralled with the vanilla-flavored protagonist, Richard Rahl (here is my first gripe -- most of the characters have fantasy names like "Kahlan Amnell" or "Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander," but our hero is named "Richard" and his brother "Nathan"). The last third of the book abandons standard fantasy conventions -- exploring sadomasochism, bondage, torture and forced sex when Richard is captured by an evil female magician. This was easily the most interesting section of the book, as it was the most original. The second book, Stone of Tears, is slightly better than the first, as the story becomes a little more grand. There is more submission/enslavement here, when Richard becomes forcibly apprenticed to a different sort of female magician. I started wondering about the author's sexual fantasies at this point, and nothing could take me out of a fantasy world faster than that. After this, the following books start to follow a lackluster, soap-opera formula. Very little seems to actually happen in them to advance a greater plot. They are good enough to read, but easy to put down. Final point: Goodkind is long-winded. His books average over 700 pages and there are a ton of Sword of Truth novels. I think they still may be coming. So know what you are getting into beforehand.