Truyện Cổ Tích Hay Nhất - Quyển 1 tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Ana Catarina _na_ibeiro — I am ready for them to make a movie out of this one!

Franco Batista francocesarb — Conhecido por seus livros infantis, Mark Haddon escreve uma história para adultos sem abandonar a linguagem das crianças. O protagonista Christopher, um menino com Síndrome de Asperger (uma espécie de autismo), faz com que o autor abra mão de vários recursos literários - ironia, metáforas, hipérboles, trocadilhos... Tudo isso porque Christopher pensa de forma binária (o certo e o errado, o doce e o salgado, o triste e o feliz) e simplesmente é incapaz de compreender o que existe entre os extremos. Mas mesmos sem esses recursos Haddon escreve de forma envolvente, sensível e apaixonante. Para os fãs de Sherlock Holmes um motivo a mais para ler o livro: "O Curioso Incidente do Cachorro Morto" (título em português) é baseado em uma das histórias de Sir Arthur Doyle, "O Cão dos Baskersvilles".

Gabriel Dalzotto gabsdalzotto — #1. I suck at writing reviews of. . . anything and this is my first review of a book on here. Shadow Baby is not long, but it took me longer to read than almost any book I've ever read. The book is narrated by Clara Winter, a girl of 11 or so. Frankly, it was hard reading a naive girls account of self exploration. She is an unreliable narrator and she knows it. It was hard for me to force my way through her multiple fictitious realities, her diatribes on why she likes certain words, and the crux for me was that the author took it upon herself to insert the definitions of some words in order to "enlighten" the reader. I never felt drawn to Clara's story and found myself intrigued by her mother, Tamar and the old man, Goerg Kominsky. The thing that most bothered me was that after 1/2 a book of her attempting to find out Georg's story for her "history project," I feel like I came no closer to understanding him than I did at his introduction. Mostly what we get of him are Clara's dislocated realities (fictious meanderings) of what she supposes has happened in his life and this goes for her mother and grandfather as well. I suppose in some ways the book had a realistic representation of a young girl. A girl uncertain of who she is and exploring her desire to fulfill gaps in an uncertain history, but I am uncertain that Alison McGhee does a good job creating a believable character to tell this story. Perhaps if the narrator had been a little older and a little wiser I would have enjoyed this one a little bit more.

Trupti Pendharkar truptipendharkar — If you described this book to me, it would sound like this would shoot to the top of a "my favorites" list. Post war Barcelona, "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books", a coming of age story exploring a mysterious and potentially mystical history, and a horrific stalker that shouldn't exist. The problem is that it played by the numbers, it was long and drawn out, the back story was dull, and there was a real sense of fear that the whole book was going to be as predictable as it was playing out. It was a huge disappointment and a real waste of time. There were some really finely executed scenes and he did a great job giving a sense of place. The characters were initially enjoyable, but the dialog was so awkward that you start to feel like they were just one note repeating; it felt like they were just saying the same thing over and over again. The kid's investigative powers were amazing, all he had to do was ask a conveniently perfect question and he would suddenly be invited into people's homes and offices with them confessing their entire history particular to the plot (unless, he would forget to ask the REALLY obvious questions that might clarify things a bit). What a letdown.

Maria Sierra _ — Martha Grimes has gotten too "preachy" in her last couple of books. This one goes overboard about animal rights. My other criticism is that Andi Oliver is a little too good to be true. She is beautiful and everyone falls in love with her.