Học Sinh Chân Kinh - Tập 17: Gieo Gì Gặt Nấy tải xuống LIT miễn phí

William Bert willynx — ** spoiler alert ** I read a recap of this book well before I read the Twilight series. NY Mag suggested that people who haven't read Twilight read the site just for kicks. THAT'S how ridiculous this book is - people read a recap of the book for humor.

Hyejin Kim iamjingx2 — For those who have studied GK, you will still find something new if it's been a few years. Weatherford himself went to the Mongol homeland and worked with local anthropologists/ethnologists to re-translate a record of GK's life that had been partially translated before. The Introduction to this book is VERY long (over 30 pages), but details how the book came to be, and also summarizes nicely some of the Mongols' contributions to today's society, or rather the spreading of regional "good ideas" to the world stage (paper money, doctors, sailing techniques, representative government, credit cards [yeah, really], and intercontinental trade). Once through the intro, you have as detailed a story of the Khans as you can get, using all the records that Weatherford could find. The story is enticing, exciting, and THE ultimate rags-to-riches story. GK mixed ruthless violence with honesty, fairness, and egalitarianism. A common tactic was to approach the city, demand they rule under the Khan, and then, when ultimately refused, they would take over the city (using novel techniques, something else they brought about - the end of the walled city), kill most or all of the ruling family, often brutally and publicly, and then guarantee religious and economic freedom to everyone else, instantly bringing them under the Mongol banner. The writing is fine, but not what warranted the 4 stars. It is the story itself that is so engaging. Fans of history and GK will enjoy this book. Fans of sociology, social order, revolt, and reform will also like it. I think every popular and minority revolution ever could learn at least one thing from GK.

Venancio Veber vebervenanac2f — Alissa Nutting is such a wildly gifted & inventive storyteller, it's hard not to keep popping down the tales in this collection one after the other like candy, like a bag of gumdrops that feel deceptively easy to chew but are actually laced with a powerful hallucinogenic substance that turns into an elixir of pithy insight at the last possible moment. I felt almost guilty about how much I was enjoying myself at times. Nutting's narrative style is rapid-fire, economical, and surreally recognizable, as ingeniously weird as Charlie Kaufman, as widkedly outrageous as David Sedaris. Her (exclusively female) protagonists find themselves in all sorts of unconscionably degrading positions, but the luckier ones muster up just enough humor & self-respect to weather their scenes of betrayal. The standouts for me were "Bandleader's Girlfriend" (about the convergence between a hedonistic rocker chick and her straitlaced sister), "Ant Colony" (a truly eerie, incisive allegory of how society captures & sustains its "ideal woman"), "Deliverywoman" (a parody of modern relationship healing between a naive spacewoman & her psychopathic mother who could be played by Sigourney Weaver on steroids), "Hellion" (about a deceased woman's surprisingly human relationship with the devil), "Gardener" (a possibly perfect contemporary fairy tale about a frigid marriage transformed by randy garden gnomes), and "She-Man" (the tragic gem of this collection, about the impossibility of achieving love in a wordl driven by bigotry & hatred). It's a thankless job being female, but this book shows that it also makes for a brutally fun read.