Những Điều Cực Đỉnh Về Các Giai Thoại Và Quan Niệm Lầm Lẫn - Sự Thật Giật Mình tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Jennifer Bueso _enniferbuesoid — Bu romanın arkasındaki fikrin umut verici olduğunu düşündüm. Çirkin biri için bir rehabilitasyona sahip olmak, distopik bir roman için iyi bir kurulum gibi görünüyor. Ancak, bu hikayedeki niyetin bu olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Karakterlerin yaşadığı dünya işlevsizdir, ancak gerçekçi değildir. Belki de en korkutucu kısım buydu. Tesisteki bazı sahneler son derece rahatsız ediciydi ve distopik görüşün altına düşebilir, ancak yeterince tutarlı değildi. Anna'nın karakterinin Diana'nınkinden çok daha ilginç olduğunu düşünüyorum ve bunun yerine hikayenin kendi bakış açısından gelmesini diliyorum. Sonuçta, biraz daha ete geçerse, beden imajına ve toplumsal cinsiyet rollerine karanlık bir göz atabileceğini düşünüyorum.

Fionna Aster fionna_aster — I am currently reading this book by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert. Although it's non-fiction, Gilbert's style is easy to read and he is actually quite funny. Gilbert does a good job at taking a stab at why we believe certain events will shape our future happiness -- describing both physiological and evolutionary reasons, as well as cultural contraints that shape our expectations. But, in the end I feel that much of his theories are based on some unrealistic assumptions. This may look like a self-help book from the cover, but it is not and should not be read in that context; if anything, it's simply an interesting and amusing take on the human psyche.

Frances Baca francesbaca — One would expect that a book that calls itself Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve would discuss just such things. Perhaps it would be an anthropological study or, as the misleading library information on its credits page suggests, explore the “social aspects” of death. Instead, Death’s Door is an uneasy mixture of literary analysis and personal...I hesitate to say essay, because the thoughts, events, and remembrances in the memoir-like portions of the book are rarely complete. It is as if the author is driven to confess the dark thoughts that plagued her after her husband’s death and yet can’t bring herself to actually provide the reader with enough information to actually grasp what happened to him and how she felt about it. Or perhaps, having covered that information in another book, she didn’t feel the need to recap it here. Either way, the personal parts of each chapter are much more compelling than the readings Gilbert offers of the snatches of poems reprinted here. The usual suspects are trotted out again and again: Thomas Hardy, Sylvia Plath, D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams. She has limited herself to poetry (and occasionally prose) that directly addresses the author’s loss. Why that means she’s limited to analyzing work that is generally 50 years old or more is less clear. She references Paul Monette and some of the other survivors of the AIDS plague without giving them as much weight as heterosexual survivors from earlier in the century. What this means, then, is that Gilbert’s definition of modern does not mirror mine. She mentions the effects of 9/11 on modern American only in the Preface and again in her final chapter, but the reference feels like an afterthought, perhaps suggested by an editor in an attempt to attach the book to the present. Taking the book as it stands, I would have preferred to read the source poems Gilbert discusses, rather than picking my way through her selected passages — a line here, a stanza there. I feel that I don’t know enough context from the poems or from the poets’ lives to know if the citations actually fit Gilbert’s theories. And because she won’t be honest about her own life, I don’t trust her to be honest in what she’s sharing. Although I have a reasonably large library devoted to death, dying, and grief — including several anthologies of poetry on the subject — I did not find Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve a useful addition of my collection. Perhaps, if you’re a death-obsessed English major who misses the days of being lectured to, this is the book for you. Otherwise, don’t be lured by its title.