Vi Tính Thật Là Đơn Giàn - 330 Kỹ Xảo Sử Dụng Máy Vi Tính tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Christine Malo _hristine_alo — I am having an identity crisis. I ended up liking The Scarecrow quite a lot, enough to give it four stars but it did bother me since I started out thinking that it was kind of sick in a fairly amateurish and trashy way depicting The Scarecrow spying on people in the office using hidden cameras including in the bathroom. Like reading soft porn for teenagers. But the bar is raised quickly (or I start to like the amateur perversions) and the book gets better and pulls me in. Pretty soon I have to stay up late to finish it because I can’t put it down. Why am I selecting this to read when there are so many first rate novels that I have never read? And of course all the nonfiction that has served me well enough for many years of holding fiction at arm’s length. I am especially sensitive at the moment since I am also reading Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel that puts good fiction on a pedestal. John Connelly might just be the fourteenth way. OK, so Connelly is the first crime writer I’ve tried out after several years of reading everything George Pelecanos has put out. So I am trying something different and you should expect a comparison here and there. I am tired of Pelecanos’ macho guy shtick. So why am I trying Connelly? Good question because he seems like he might be just like another macho guy protagonist writer. But let me give him a try along with a few women who write about gal protagonists. Jack McEvoy is a new Connelly character who first appeared in 1996 in The Poet. This is his second McEvoy book but I am reading it first. But already I see that McEvoy is different; he drinks red wine. Now, that is a surprise since I am used to the Pelecanos guys knocking back shots. Maybe Jack really will be of another stripe. Let’s not get too excited though. He does switch to whiskey when he decides to do some serious drinking to mourn the loss of his job. “Carver paced in the control room, watching over the front forty.” And pretty soon we will know that this book is fully into the electronic age. Here comes the jargon of sysops and computers and online newspapers. BTW, Pelecanos is not into electronics, partly because much of his action is in the era just before the proliferation of cell phones and computers. Pelecanos drug pushers use beepers. How 1980s. The paper with its electronic edition being constantly updates is the L.A. Times where Jack is about to be RIFed as the book begins. By god, Jack lives in Hollywood! I guess we are not in DC anymore. Kind of starts out like a tutorial on cop-shop newspaper reporting. Jack is training his replacement and we get to follow along. But then it’s the next chapter and we switch back to the control room with the Front Forty – network tower servers. The secretary is reading a Janet Evanovich novel. I wonder if Evanovich and Connolly know each other and whether she paid him to throw out her name in his book. Probably one hand washes the other kind of arrangement. One time I went to Nashville and after going to all the C&W tourist sites for a few days and seeing the same names over and over, I began to think everyone was really famous. I have a couple of Evanovich on my to-read shelf to check out one of these days. Maybe being a “#1 NY Times Bestselling Author” is a club for mystery writers. How many #1 best sellers can there be that I have never heard of? Ask me in a year. Ah, as always happens, the plot thickens. You remember Lisbeth Salander, right? The girl with the dragon tattoo. Well, among other things, she was a computer hacker who is part of a small network of extraordinarily skilled hackers. She could get into your computer lickety split and was known to electronically transfer your money into her account. Well, it turns out that The Scarecrow is also a very skilled hacker who, we find out almost immediately, is not a very nice guy. I guess I will have to read the first McEvoy book! I mean, I am experimenting with some new authors and I have to give them a chance. I just need to keep an eye on the ‘trash’ indicator.

L P linpenghsy — I'd probably really give this a 3 1/2. I really debated between 3 and 4. I really enjoyed it; loved the story and characters, especially Katherine, and was, once again, fascinated by British history. However, it was VERY long and took a VERY long time to read. I could only get through about 30 pages an hour. But, that being said, it was definitely worth the read. I didn't guess the ending and was very satisfied with it. I liked how love and forgiveness came full circle.