Ngày Đầu Đến Trường - Boris Đi Học tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Jon Loer jloer4b52 — Oh, how I wish I could un-read this book. It's possible I shouldn't write my review while still in the initial stage of irateness. But I'm going to do it anyway... I remember this book being a book-of-the-month or "a book you'll love" at Borders, and being a history major I found the topic interesting - WWII, siege of Leningrad, etc. etc... and I also got a good recommendation on it from a friend's mom. For me, this book was a depressing, unnecessarily vulgar drama. I know wartime brings out the worst in humanity. I know that vulgar language is all over, and people in wartime conditions aren't exactly concerning themselves over it. I know that war is by definition, violent, vulgar, and depressing. Yup, I get all that. But I still don't think this book needed the number of c-word references that are present in it. Still: that is a minor, minor gripe in comparison to the major deception pulled off by the author - making his readers think any of it might be true. I just read an interview with Benioff where he claimed to be surprised anyone thought it might be based on anything factual. I'm sorry, but despite it saying "a novel" on the front, that doesn't totally cancel out the following: 1) Benioff opens the book with a prologue where (from all appearances) the author visits his Russian-immigrant grandparents to discuss WWII with his grandfather. The father tells his story but also tells his grandson, David (hmm, like David Benioff??) that it is fine to fill in the details for parts he doesn't know, since he is an author, and that's what authors do. 2) The protagonist's last name is Beniov (hmm, a Russian name easily mutated to Benioff in later incarnations?), for Pete's sake. 3) There is no author's note to clarify this at all. Don't get me wrong: I certainly didn't think it was ALL true, but with all of these factors in place I thought it was possible it was loosely based on Benioff's grandfather's experiences. And it's clearly not just me, if someone sent to write an article about the book asks about the author's grandparents, and is surprised to learn that THEY WERE ALL BORN AND DIED IN THE UNITED STATES. The interviewer didn't get it either. Reminds me off all the uproar over Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. So, yes, it's completely a work of fiction, just in case anyone else got fooled. (I also just plain didn't like the story, but I like feeling deceived even less.)

Laura Cardenas laura_cardenas — kollan nemidoonam chera aslan az seri ketabayaye maigret(megre)khosham nemiad ziad:(

Nisachol S kustt3e04 — Jane Austin has a magnificent gift for pointing out the flaws of the pompous high-class English society of her time, while simultaneously inventing a delightfully romantic tale.

Milan Pleško _ino1488 — good book. important to read first.

Mohamed Header _eader — Of all the naughty sex books I've read, this one may be the most useful. Buy it.