Sống Đẹp - Hoa Tuyết Trắng (Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul II) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Charlotte Herbiet _harlotte_erbiet — Inspirational for those who are seeking a Christian experience. The logic employed as proof of God's presence is subject to criticism, however.

Amelia Lebron amelialebr6532 — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F Scott Fitzgerald (writer of The Great Gatsby). It was made into a fairly successful movie a few years ago, so I think most people know the general premise which is that it's a story about a man who is born old and goes through life aging backwards. Overall, with a great narrative voice. Benjamin Button is a fairly standard-sized short story. I read the whole thing in about 25 min. and I have to say very much enjoyed reading it. There were a number of things in the story that interested me. **Warning spoilers below** The historical perspective: the story itself was published in 1922 and spans the time period from about 1860 to 1930. So it kind of feels like watching an old black-and-white movie maybe listening to an old scratchy record. There are a lot of references to "society" (as in the historical upper middle class of the east coast), a few uncomfortable racist references, and of course no sex whatsoever which leads me to one of the stories strangest points, if Benjamin Button was really born as a full-sized 70-year-old man, one can only imagine that the labor was something straight out of hell. Fitzgerald dodges the whole issue by not having Benjamin's mother play any part in the story whatsoever. Despite the fact it is written in 1922, some of the cultural references, like Yale-Harvard football games or references to the East Coast paparazzi (the mystery of Benjamin occasionally makes headlines and sparks all kinds of media-fueled rumors) , still feel fresh. I guess sports will always be sports, and the media will always be the media. One interesting side effect of having somebody play with the idea of lifespan and mortality (by creating a reverse lifespan) is that the story made me think about death in a different way. And I found it interesting that the first part of the story with Benjamin as a "newly born" 70-year-old man was quite charming and sweet and made me happy (especially in a scene where he pals around and smokes cigars with his own grandfather- the two "old" men get along quite well after the grandfather gets over the initial shock of having a grandson his own age) , but the end of the story which takes place after he's regressed to five years of age and when he continues to regress (in a way that reminds me of the famously bitter-sweet short story, "Flowers for Algernon" )to the point of being a newborn and then dying made me sad. My edition of the story has an introduction by F Scott Fitzgerald in which he mentions that he wrote the story based on the idea that it's unfair that people should have to live the least happy part of their lives (being old in their bodies) at the end, suggesting that -from his perspective- it would be more pleasing to die as a child, in the time when our lives are simple and fun. Paradoxically, reading the story had the exact opposite effect on me, and when Benjamin dies in the body of the newborn baby, it hit me pretty hard, and made me feel like its more poetically just to die when our bodies have weakened with age rather than when our bodies hold all the promise of being young. From a strictly personal perspective, now that I've turned 40 and have my own kids, reading the story made me think about death in a fairly intense way. Not necessarily in a bad way, but definitely in an intense way, and it made me realize that whereas it used to think of death as being some abstract thing that possibly lived in Antarctica, it now feels like death lives about two towns away, and sometimes I pass him on the highway.

Ben Wood _en_ood_raphics — خود گشودن، بی هراس از آن چه دیگران از تو انتظار دارند، هنری است که جلال، آن را زیسته. قلمش می برد. عرب و عجم ندارد، حتی سیمین هم در امان نیست و کم تر از همه خودش! گرچه شتابزدگی زیستن، به ظرافت نگاه جلال، مجال تداد که ببیند این " گذشته در هیچ و این سنت در خاک"، فردایی ندارد و "همان بهتر که خاک باشی". دوستت دارم جلال که به سخره می گیری ترس همیشه ام را از آن چه این "گذشته" و "قضاوت دیگران" از من می خواهند

Cesar Orenday ascer_orenday — My goodness. This book was incredible. There's really no way to describe it; it's unique writing style and different perspective of the world left me flabbergasted. I would definitely suggest those at least 13, or maybe even older than that, to read this.