Sự Trả Thù Ngọt Ngào tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Blues 李 daisylee13cce8 — I had started out thinking that at its heart this book was a love story. But it is about so much more than that - love, coming-of-age, death, loss and sorrow. Murakami does an amazing job at putting complicated feelings into words. I loved how he keeps reminding one of the simplest pleasures of life all along the story - beauty of the sunset, walking on a moonlit path, smell of the coffee, freshness of a spring day, caress of a gentle breeze and of course music. It is only fair to give a part of the credit to Jay Rubin for 'the music of the words'. I did miss Muarakmi's bizarre,fantastic imagination. I have read three of his books so far and am amazed at how different an experience it was each time. My fondness for his work just keeps growing. I will close the review with an excerpt from the book where Murakami deftly expresses Toru's great distress at a point in his life where getting through even a single day is a great deal of pain. " Thinking back on the year 1969, all that comes to mind for me is a swamp-a deep, sticky bog that feels as if it's going to suck my shoe off each time I take a step. I walk through the mud, exhausted. In front of me, behind me, I can see nothing but an endless swampy darkness. Time itself slogged along in rhythm with my faltering steps. The people around me had gone on ahead long before, while my time and I hung back,struggling through the mud....."

Cristiane Vilanova designac — Not nearly as good as Lahiri's other book of short stories, which I loved. Considering the many intricate themes that the novel wants to explore, I think it was rather poorly developed. I didn't find the attempt to connect with Nikolai Gogol (the 'namesake' of the protagonist) very meaningful, despite my unfamiliarity with Gogol's works. However, as with most Indian novels in English, I'm always struck by elements that I'm intimately familiar with, as a 'native' (for instance, the fact that the wife would never address the husband by first name, but something else like aye, shunso? - which, as Lahiri explains, "translates roughly as 'Are you listening to me?'"). And I have to admit that the story of the parents during their early days in Cambridge was quite powerful and moving (if only because it strongly evoked memories of my own parents' experience as migrant professionals in another country far away from home and family). Incidentally, a friend also told me that these were the only scenes in the movie that he liked, at all. I picked it up from my local used bookstore to read before the movie was released - but I haven't seen the movie yet!

Kristi Paxton kpaxton — I understand all the reasons people didn't like this book. The protagonist was pretty flawless, and I have no idea how she lived the way she did without any source of income but her flitting around with art. The romance, though done tantalizingly with the help of the audiobook reader (who first struck me as ridiculous because of her distracting affected Southern accent), was pretty unrealistic and idealized. I'd read The Secret Life of Bees before and had a taste of the author's pseudo magical realism, but this didn't really work. However, the themes of forgiveness, love as a choice and not an overwhelming feeling, and ... well, the last one would be a spoiler alert - were enough to bring it from two stars to three.