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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anne Mallory
I loved the illustrations to this story. It always bothered me that Puff was abandoned. As a kid I used to write down my stories and things I had played to pass them on so they wouldn't be abandoned. I think the thing that made me the most happy with this book is the ending. The boy all grown up to be a man introduces his daughter to the story of Puff and we see her embark on a trek to his cave, supposely to start the adventures all over.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đoàn Hoài Trung
I made my mom buy this book. This is for anyone with a half-written screenplay, someone with a "good idea," people who start and stop, people who can't get started... It's basically awesome.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Brooke Davis
Pelagia is a beautiful 17-year-old girl living on the Greek island of Cephallonia when World War II breaks out. The Italians eventually occupy the island and that's when she meets Captain Antonio Corelli, a man who joined the Army because he thought it would give him plenty of time to practice his mandolin. There were about 100 pages when I was enchanted by this book, from about page 250-350. Everything else was just okay. The author is a beautiful writer. He's very poetic and his images just leapt to life for me. He's also a very intelligent, multi-lingual writer and my vocabulary, which I think is probably better than average, was not up to the task. Aside from obscure English words, there were bits of Greek, Italian, French, and a smattering of German thrown in for good luck. Wow. I could generally figure out what was going on, but reading this was a little too much like work in some parts. The book is told from many, many, points of view and each voice is very distinct. That's very hard to pull off, so he did get huge points for that. He also has a little bit of the whole Catch-22 thing going on. He shows you the absurdity of this whole war--well, this part of it, anyway--very plainly. But where Joseph Heller chose to show the horrible side of war in a very graphic injury that you've read about for a while before you find out what it is, de Bernières horrifies you and then breaks your heart in a couple of scenes that are ultimately tearfully, achingly beautiful. I'm not a crier, but even I welled up a little. He shows that while war can be absurd, it's also ugly, but our more-human moments shine all the more brightly in its darkness. Just beautiful. The ending--eh. I saw it coming from pretty far out, so it was predictable but still left me hugely frustrated. You could probably read my favorite 100 pages by themselves and mostly get it without reading everything else. If you ever have time on your hands at the bookstore, give it a try. Mostly though it was a lot of work for such a short payoff. I see here on GR that "people who viewed this also viewed" Love in the Time of Cholera. I can see that. So I'll agree. If you enjoyed that one, you'll probably enjoy this one too.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Utterly hilarious and fairly inappropriate, not to mention delightfully British. I was especially fond of the glossary he kindly put in the back, explaining all those mysterious British words. And, of course, Adrian's fixation on his *ahem* size.
I read this between November 2008 and July 2009. I think the book is historically important in the field of poetry and also fun to read and discuss and figure out what's going on in the poems.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Good character development, intricately intertwined lives, Emergency India. I've heard a recent critique that it overemphasizes the horrors of the Emergency, but I don't mind that, even if it's true, which I don't know.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gia Bảo
Amazing book! This author gives you another side of the story, and makes the original villan a heroine! I look forward to reading his other books.
It was fabulous! I fell head over heels in love with all the characters in this adorable book. It has brightened my life and would recommend it to everyone!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Barry Schwartz
Just starting reading this. This woman I work with has been recommending books to me. She read it originally in Italian. She hands it to me and says, "I fink you would enjoy this book." So far I gather it's a fin-de-l'autre-siecle apocalyptic tragedy with fevered descriptions.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Q.Thắng
I forgot how depressing this book is. It almost makes me hate life since we are pretty close to living in 1984 today. I might as well give up and let Big Brother have my will now.
Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.