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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
GREAT BOOK
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Giang Văn Toàn
"We cannot confuse the apperance of access created by the commodification of ethnicity and, as Hazel Carby Noted, the celebration of diversity, with the decentralization of wealth and the democratization of political power that have yet to take place in this country" "it will also mean breaking down the jingoistic english-only barriers that essentialize language as if it were some kind of impenetrable, irreducible difference" "...celebration (or rather objectifying) difference as light but exotic entertainment for the dominant culture"
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
a wonderfully useful collection. ruth vanita continues to be a pioneer in south asian studies.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Read for AP European History in High school. This is a look at the system of indoctrination used in Nazi Germany's education system. From a very young age, children were taught to be good Nazi's for the Fatherland and for Hitler. Interesting and chilling.
Can I move to Australia now?? I heart Bill Bryson a lot.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Steve Young
Genghis. Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Genghis Kahn was born Temujin, second son to Yesugei, the khan (or leader) of the Wolves, one of the many tribes of Mongols that at the time populated the wind-swept steppes of inland Asia. He was raised in the safety of his father’s tribe until Yesugei was killed by Tartar raiders. Upon Yesugei’s death, his first bondman declared himself khan and moved the tribe, leaving Temujin, then twelve, with his mother and five other siblings, unprotected in the unforgiving plains. They were expected to die that winter, but somehow Temujin and his family endured in a frozen land that gave nothing. Out of that fierce struggle for survival Temujin emerged, ruthless and unstoppable with a vision: to become the khan of all the tribes of the plains. As Temujin tells one of his brothers at the end of this, the first book in the series: “We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.” Genghis. Birth of an Empire tells an impressive, epic story, even if the writing itself is just serviceable, and only in a couple of occasions, like the one quoted above, stands on its own. Overall the story was compelling enough to keep me reading, and the characters, especially Temujin, come alive, as does the time and the harshness of a way of life hard to imagine.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Roald Dahl
I have read all the "Lincoln Lawyer novels in the last month. They are all good. But I need a break from the writer for now.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Aleksey Tolstoy
Read first when we were young, Poe's stories tend to be forgotten among grownups, which is a shame. Shame is also the buried theme of most of his non-detective stories, worked out in the trembling prose of first-person narratives who try to come to terms with feelings felt but not fully comprehended. Beauty and terror overwhelm Poe's characters, embodied, he wrote, most perfectly in the death of a beloved woman. "Ligeia," "Berenice," "The Black Cat" stand out, but also such lost gems as "The Man of the Crowd" and "Hop-Frog." Fits America's shrinking attention span, then and now.
“The Lair of the White Worm” is undoubtedly one of the most repulsive books I’ve ever read. I should have read the other Goodreads patrons reviews of this novel before I picked it up. They mostly agree with my assessment. The very worst part of the book is the prominent role of Oolonga, an African slave brought to England in the service of the villain of the novel, Casewell. I’ve read other books where unfortunate, outdated prejudices leak into the narrative, but Bram Stoker harps on the evil, savage nature of Oolonga in a maniacal fashion. The rest of the story is only slightly better. The narrative is nearly incoherent. There are long-winded histories and dull, one-dimensional characters. The motivations of the nefarious Casewell and Lady Arabella are incomprehensible and ever-shifting. There is an evil kite! It flies over the English countryside, spreading negative emotions. The interactions of the characters don’t make any sense. Take, for example, Lilla and Mimi. If you’re a nice British girl, and a man keeps showing up at your house and makes you feel ill and faint by practicing mind control on you without your consent, wouldn’t you stop answering the door when he stopped by? But no, they keep politely inviting him and his evil cronies in to tea. Also, when Adam decides that action must be taken against the white worm he starts to plan his method of attack. What is the first order of business? Marrying Mimi, of course. How could you possibly destroy a primordial evil creature without first marrying the women whom it is terrorizing? If they weren’t married, it would be very unseemly for Mimi to throw herself into Adam’s arms after he saves her. There would be only one way to salvage this story, and that would be to turn it into some kind of over-the-top, D-level horror movie a la “Troll 2”. Stoker does everything he can to inspire such a movie. When Mimi is invited over for tea by the White Worm, the room begins inexplicably filling with smoke. Mimi reacts by running into a curtain, wrapping it around her head in her confusion and then blindly stumbling over to a bottomless pit. Luckily she is saved at the last moment by her hubby Adam. It’s like a scene from the Three Stooges. Unfortunately, I don’t think Stoker was in on the joke. I finished this book because it was short and I was a little interested to see how the train wreck would end. It kept surpassing itself in awfulness. I think Stoker’s editor should have done him a favor and accidentally dropped the manuscript in a meat grinder. After this, I’ll never think of Bram Stoker in the same way.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn
Good book. I realize this is 100% dramatic, but it reminds me of how I felt when I came home that first Christmas after starting college and I felt so freaking distant. Just like coming back to Sudan.
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.