Sherlock Holmes – Tập 1 tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Rafael Filomeno ralfstein — I came on this book by googling for the best fiction books about Mexico. I had read the The Quiet American a couple of years ago and this book was a constant on all the lists that I found. Greene writes in a way that is incredibly easy to read but his words are dense with meaning and this book, its meanings, and allegory will continue to bounce around in my head for a long time to come. Currently living in Mexico I thoroughly enjoyed his insights into the country, the people, and their beliefs. The protagonist's struggle between being good and immoral is incredibly relatable. Some of my favorite examples of Greene's writing are here (although the book was packed with many more quotable passages): It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings. (p. 59) That is why I tell you that heave in here: this is a part of heaven just as pain is a part of pleasure. Pray that you will suffer more and more and more. Never get tired of suffering. The police watching you, the soldiers gathering taxes, the beating you always get from the jefe because you are too poor to pay, smallpox and fever, hunger...that is all part of heaven - the preparation. Perhaps without them, who can tell, you wouldn't enjoy heaven so much. Heaven would not be complete. (p. 69) The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. (p. 81) One of the oddes things about the wold these days was that there were no clocks - you could go a year without hearing one strike. They went with the churches, and you were left with the grey slow dawns and the precipitate nights as the only measurements of time. (p. 100) But at the centre of his own faith there always stood the convincing mystery - that we were made in God's image. God was the parent, but He was also the policeman, the criminal, the priest, the maniac, and the judge. Something resembling God dangled from the gibbet or went into odd attitudes before the bullets in a prison yard (p. 101) Hate was just a failure of imagination. (p. 131) Hope is an instinct only the reasoning human mind can kill. (p. 141) and when we love our sin then we are damned indeed. (p. 172) A really great book that I would highly recommend.

Jr Ryan creativeheat — I loved the style of writing that authors used back then. I found the story tragic in that women didn't really control their own lives. Overly romantic but still a great read.

Roman Ciupka romanjr — This was a great read but just sort of ends mid-stride. I know he's working on a further volume, but I always am a bit disappointed when a book piddles out. Poetry flashback I guess, but I hope when it does end, it resolves like a mothra-farquhar. Worth the read though. Really funny and he does an admirable job of creating a situation in which, yep, this is how YOU would react.