Ebaa Mohamed từ Vasiliko , Greece

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2020-01-18 00:30

Tự Học Tiếng Hàn Cho Người Bắt Đầu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quang Vũ

A fine collection of essays from the short story author George Saunders. A nice variety between one and two-page thought bubbles (jokes) and 40+ page travelogue features (magazine articles). Saunders travels well and takes good notes, visiting Dubai, the US/Mexico border, and the town in Nepal where a boy has been meditating without food or water for seven months. Each piece is nicely observed and funny. My favorites are the articles about reading and writing. Saunders outs Esther Forbes' "Johnny Tremaine" as the book that made him (in second grade) understand the importance of crafting sentences; his reading of "Slaughterhouse-Five" while in the Sumatran jungle at age 23 reveals important literature that can also be funny and irreverent; Barthelme's "The Gerbil" is like a semester's worth of creative writing lecture boiled down to eight pages; and his introduction to a new edition of "Huckleberry Finn" made me want to go back and read that damn book all over again. Other short pieces (jokes) committed the minor crime of being insubstantial as non-fiction goes. "A Brief Study of the British," "Ask The Optmist!," and "A Survey of the Literature" could have easily been folded in amidst other short stories to good effect; on their own, they vanish in a puff of marshmallow smoke. Time spent with this book was well spent. However, it's never going to be re-read in the way that I re-read Mencken, Hunter Thompson, or Mike Royko for continued sustenance. If anything, it's closest to Vonnegut's non-fiction collections like "Wampeters, Foma, and Grandfalloons." (Conversely, Thompson's fiction won't stand the test of time that "In Persuasion Nation" does, so neener neener billygoat.)

Người đọc Ebaa Mohamed từ Vasiliko , Greece

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.