Mẹ Kể Con Nghe - Hoàng Tử Hồng Ngọc tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Azael Alcántara alcantaraazael — I haven't read this collection directly, but the essays on grammar and John McCain are typically sharp and demonstrative of Wallace's excellent non-fiction voice.

Mukesh Jain mjmukeshjain — The quotes at the beginning of this book are from The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast . Serving as the inspiration, the story follows a young woman (16-35 years old) as she falls in love with an older, disfigured, man. The man was 7 when his parents were killed in a horrible accident. Even after years of surgeries and grafts, his face is still unpresentable. He grows up in boarding school, goes to college, and starts a career as an architect. He tries to operate with as little contact with the outside world as possible. He hires an engineer with a past to be his contact. When a man he would consider a friend/mentor asks him to redesign his house, he meets the 16 year old daughter of his mentor. Instead of being disgusted, she falls in love. He's obsessed, as well. He tries to forget her, but can't. A relationship develops between the two. Not as bad as one might think, considering the man, even though he's almost twice the girl's age, has had little contact with the world. They're both innocents, really. The mentor dies. On the girl's 18th birthday, they marry. The man and his engineer friend teach her how to be a draftsman and she takes over the public face of the business. She never really grows up, however, protected in their little world. She struggles with wanting a child. The man doesn't want to bring someone into the world to face what he has. He's also terrified that the child will be afraid of him. It's not until the girl, now a woman, witnesses a suicide, ends up in a compromising position, and runs away from home that the man realizes what he's jeopardized all these years by rejecting a family of his own. Touching story. Okay, maybe a bit emotional, but I like that now and then.

Tim Starkey timstarkey — I just started reading the book but so far it is interesting.