Chị Hằng Nga Kể Chuyện - Tập 2: Chuyện Về Trí Thông Minh (Kèm CD) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Janne Kyttanen jannekyttanen — Bueno, no es una novela, ni un ensayo, ni una crítica musical (como se esfuerza en recordarnos el autor constantemente).... es una mirada sobre 31 canciones que de alguna manera u otra han calado en Hornby, bien sentimentalmente, bien por otros motivos más "musicales". No puedo evitarlo, Hornby me cae bien, me gusta como escribe, y es un fan de la música, como yo, aunque no tenga su nivel de conocimientos seguramente... pero el libro destila pasión y eso es lo que me atrapa, aunque no compartamos totalmente los gustos, hace que se contagie su entusiasmo por lo que escribe. Todo ello sazonado con un gran sentido del humor... y además escoge "Thunder Road" para abrir el libro.... que más se le puede pedir. P.D. Creo también que "Thunder Road" forma parte de mi historia, al igual que "Born to Run" y otras muchas canciones (igual un dia hago una reco como él); Thunder es una canción que, como Hornby, no identifico con un momento de mi vida o una imagen en concreto, porque me lleva acompañando muy a menudo desde los 14 años, por lo que es como una banda sonora... y curiosamente no envejece, es vigente para mí, es "redonda" sencillamente, tanto en la amarga versión acústica como en la imponente versión más rockera. Ais......... ese Boss...... FEBRERO 2011 - RELECTURA

10 10 indefinido — John Steinbeck's classic is a story about every family. It's a story about the first family. In a totally unoffensive nonreligious style his Cain and Able takeoff examines the cyclic nature of humanity. We frequently find ourselves eerily following in the footsteps of our parents. Or find ourselves with the ones most similar to those who have hurt us before. Ultimately, "East of Eden" gives an example of how to break the mold. Whatever holds us back, whatever our mistakes, Steinbeck shows how it is possible to break the cycle, how we can learn from the past, how the greatest endowment of humanity is choice.

Jarod Valentin _arodvalentin — Some of this book was funny. Savage's advice was, for the most part, very funny. But then there were certain sections of this book, that gave a glimpse into very sad sex lives. That wasn't funny at all. It made me sad.

Deepanshu Pareek deepanshypd7aa — Donna Tartt wrote a splendid book called The Secret History which both celebrated and skewered hyper-intellectualism as well as explored the process of interacting with a text and the pleasures of narrative devices. This book follows roughly the same storyline (and, incidentally, the storyline of Daniel Handler's The Basic Eight, down to the "study questions" at the end), except there's absolutely no reason for the precious chapter titles and the annotated references - they have no bearing on the story itself and the general effect is talking with someone who's read a lot of books and hasn't understood a damn one of them. The irritating dialogue is more reminiscent of chick lit than of anything spoken in real life or in the realm of drama, and the narrator is utterly divorced from the grand intellectual she is supposed to be (again: see The Secret History for an excellent depiction of young scholars). No one has any sort of believable emotional reaction to anything, because no one has any discernable personality traits. Charles, Camilla, and Frances wander over from Tartt's novel to halfheartedly play roles as Charles, Leulah (really!) and Nigel, and then get bored and leave after the story inexplicably becomes a murder mystery. The only possible killer is so obviously telegraphed from early on that all of Blue's supermarket-paperback-mystery "sleuthing" is enragingly tiresome. Also, there's some sort of limp romantic subplot that I guess we're supposed to care about. So where The Secret History is a brilliant story of the delights and dangers of text and narrative and a wrenching depiction of a classical sort of madnesss, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is the same book shat out and frosted with irritatingly perky metaphors and the worst dialogue I've seen outside of a Harlequin pulper. If you want to read this book and aren't a fan of Donna Tartt, just read The Basic Eight, which is shorter and more entertaining.

Francisco Ferreres fferreres — A wonderful, sprawling read. The 'Obscure Object of Desire' sequence is a sad and very pretty love story nested inside the main tale.