Tứ Thư - Tái bản 2011 tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Pedro Emilio pedroemilio — A long book, however a good read. From a "feminist" point of view, though most people tend not to remember that the original legends portraying women as either evil or completely stupid (I know when I find out that the man I thought was my husband was really the man who killed my husband under a spell to make him look like my hubby, I always feel much better!) Brings more meat to the old legends without ye olde English, so it's easier to understand for most folks.

A -lab info743f — We love quite a few Peter Sis books (I dare you to find a better little boy's book than FIRE TRUCK!), but Starry Messenger was not one of them. I had to do quite a bit of live-editing while reading this one to Toby (my fault -- I should have previewed it first). Weird cursive writing is abundant and hard to read. But perhaps making the script sigmoid and sideways made "The streets were open sewers. Diesease was common, and thousands died from typhus and from the bubonic plague," seem jaunty somehow, I don't know. On the page with this text "Galileo was afraid. he knew that people had suffered terrible torture and punishment for not following tradition. It could happen to him." there's a large (about a page and a quarter) illustration of a hellish torture chamber with Galileo standing small in the middle looking forlorn surrounded by an impossibly long snake. The room has a gigantic armless, shackled man, blindfolded and hung from a wall, evil-looking gryphons and dragon-things scowling at him, ghastly faces coming from flames, a skull and various disembodied heads on the walls, a bound and screaming man on a rack, seemingly with spikes going through him. Yadda yadda yadda. On the next page, Gaileo is on trial, standing on an island in a moat of the grim reaper, multiple devils, a scorpion(?) and other crazy stuff surrounding him. Well, thank goodness it has a happy ending... "Finally, more than three hundred years later, the leaders of the very Church that had punished Galileo Galilei pardoned him, and they admitted that he was probably -- in fact, surely and absolutely -- right." Unfortunately, that won't keep your kid from having nightmares. The problem I have with this book is that it is presented as though it's for an 8 year old, but the text style and content and the illustrations were just not appropriate for that age group. If you want to expose your child to some significant historical science, try The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky, and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. It's a longer book, but it is still heavy on the pictures and appropriate for ages 7-12.

郑 思思 zssss — An engrossing psychological thriller set in New York City in the late 19th century. The plot had me hooked from word one, and I thoroughly enjoyed the historical fiction aspect of the book. I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 because the ending was somewhat of a letdown, but overall a riveting read.

Sarah Van _arahvan_essel — Genetic engineering, totalitarian government, cautionary story.