Adam Willis từ Dharhara, Bihar , India

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12/22/2024

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2020-01-24 07:30

Smart TOEIC (Kèm 1 MP3) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kim Chang Su

i loved this book. i picked it up on a whim, thinking "hm, i don't really know enough about punk," and i couldn't put it down. (which became amusing: what's LESS punk than opting out of a crazy fun party on a friday night to stay in and read a book about punk?) the book is compiled entirely of excerpts from interviews with all the people who were involved in the New York punk scene. Leggs McNeil, the author, was one of the founders of Punk! magazine, and was actually the person who came up with the term 'punk' to begin with. the structure of the book is the best part; there isn't a single word added in by the authors. they took interviews over the years and then from them pieced together a chronological account of the evolution of punk from its origins in the mid-60s in the andy warhol scene with the velvet underground, up through the heyday of new york punk at CBGBs, and finally through to its meltdown as the music went corporate and everyone started dropping left and right from herion addictions (on a side note, if you want a reason not to do smack, read this book and you'll be convinced). it's like one long chat over coffee the night after an amazing show: just stories from everyone involved. gossip, sex, drugs, music, love, prostitution (dee dee ramone hustled guys! a fun fact for your next dinner party), fights, record deals... the whole 9. the interviewees include iggy pop, angie bowie, william burroughs, all the ramones, danny fields, bebe buell, patti smith, richard hell, and everyone you never knew was involved. you'll end up knowing all kinds of crap about punk, but mostly having loved the book.

2020-01-24 10:30

Từ Điển Đời - Tiếu Liệu Pháp Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thiên Thư

West's history is an engaging, well-researched, and troubling read. Initially planning on writing about the Colorado Gold Rush (which, coming from CA, I never heard about, but it actually drew more people than our '49er version), West found the more compelling story to lie along the route across the prairie and plains states to Colorado. This region was the homeland of several Native American tribes, who had occupied the region for centuries (though some more recently than others--how often do non-Natives consider that Indians have pre-white history, changes in culture, migrations, etc.?) These tribes had fairly recently become equine. West contrasts two "visions," that of equine Indians who were now using the “fuel” of the plains grasses for their horses to hunt, and the Anglo Americans, who initially saw the plains primarily as a place to get through on the way to the promoted prosperity of the gold rush. Over time, however, whites settled in the areas in-between, causing the "Indian Wars" as the two groups fought over which human "vision" for the plains would win out. West is quite pessimistic that there could have been a compromise, unlike (to some degree) what happened in Mexico. Myself, I don't know. We can really never know, but it’s hard to imagine that the brutal massacres at Sand Creek and other places couldn't have been avoided. A very objective account; history often speaks for itself.

Người đọc Adam Willis từ Dharhara, Bihar , India

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.