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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tịnh Lâm
I read this book for a class on French women filmmakers because Laetitia Masson made a film adaptation of this novel in 2002. Please don't crucify me, but I honestly enjoyed the movie a lot more than the book.
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I didn't like this one nearly as much as White Oleander, but I think it's because I've kind of outgrown angst, even reading about it. Still, an entertaining read, if predictable.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Phương
Wow. A great look at OCD. Everyone should read this.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Toyota Kazuhiko
Though I think the langauge in this book can be a bit surface level at times, Swami's coverage of the basic tenents gives a good introduction for those who are unacquainted with Vedanta.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoa Thanh Thần
This is one great book, just freaking hilarious while also being pretty useful to me. Lamb gives me context where I hadn’t completely understood before. Christopher tells the story of Christ from birth. While he talks about his life after he comes out and begins preaching openly, he focus much more on Christ’s formative years, everything from an interest in sin to learning the ways of the Buddha. This is, of course, a complete work of fiction. Everything is made of from the author’s mind. While he stuck to historical documents to keep some of it accurate, he certainly stretched a lot to make the story fun and fill in gaps which no one knew about. I can’t really explain the book in one post, though I’m always happy to talk about it. Needless to say, I got to live alongside Jesus as he grew up and was shaped by the world around him. I really gained a deeper understanding of the place of Jews within Roman rule as well as what the heck the difference between a Pharisee and a Sadducee was. The best quotes I got from the first reading of the book were. Joshua’s ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here’s the gist of almost every sermon I heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you: a) believed that Joshua was the Don of God (and) b) he had come to save you from sin (and) c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and) d) didn’t blaspheme the Holy Ghost (see c), then you would: e) live forever f) someplace nice g) probably heaven. However, if you: h) sinned (and/or) i) were a hypocrite (and/or) j) valued things over people (and) k) didn’t do a, b, c, and d, then you were: l) fucked Awesome summation of Jesus’ teachings. Oh yeah, did I mention there was some swearing? Then there was this conversation between Biff and Maggie (Mary Magdalene) “When we were in India, we saw a festival in the city of their goddess Kali. She’s a goddess of destruction, Maggie. It was the bloodiest thing I’ve ever seen, thousands of animals slaughtered, hundreds of men beheaded. The whole world seemed slick with blood. Joshua and I saved some children from being flayed alive, but when it was over, Joshua kept saying, no more sacrifices. No more.” Maggie looked at me as if she expected more. “So? It was horrible, what did you expect him to say?” “He wasn’t talking to me, Maggie. He was talking to God. And I don’t think he was making a request.” “Are you saying that he thinks his father wants to kill him for trying to change things, so he can’t avoid it because it’s the will of God?” “No, I’m saying that he’s going to allow himself to be killed to show his father that things need to be changed. He’s not going to try to avoid it at all.” Another great conversation which helped me better see Jesus’ relationship with His father. Definitely pick this book up. It’ll definitely ruffle some feathers with the stuff he made up, like Jesus learning the ways of the Buddha and such. It’s a work of fiction, get over it.
Used to love, love, LOVE the movie, and read the book as soon as I realized the movie was based on a novel. Loved it just as much. Been years since I picked up either one, though. Do I even still have the book...?
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thu Hằng
The winds of march are bringing in an eagerly awaited treat--the next book in Jennifer Chiaverini's extremely popular Elm Creek Quilts series. The Lost Quilter once again visits slave times, continuing the story of Joanna begun in The Runaway Quilt (2003). Even if you haven't read the first book, this one will grip you from beginning to end with her plight as a captured run-away slave who eventually helps fight the Civil War by spying in Charleston just before it burns. This story, for all of it's horror and brutal truths about life as a slave, is incredibly uplifting and inspiring. Chiaverini has done it again! Jackie
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tera Lynn Childs
Parents. They just don't understand their own kids and the need to be able to express themselves. They want their kids to grow up to be clones of themselves. And as long as you have parents like that, you will have the need for schools like the Southern Illinois Music Re-Education Center, a private institution dedicated to brainwashing the young adults placed in their care by frustrated parents; however, if those parents only knew the atrocities that were being inflicted upon their children—psychological abuse, rape, and murder—they just might regret their decision to force their children to conform by any means necessary. This is the setting for Bryan Smith's Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies, which in itself might seem bad enough, especially for those confined within its walls, but all hell is about to break loose. Melissa Campbell doesn't think things could get any worse. Torn away from her boyfriend and enrolled by her parents in the Southern Illinois Music Re-Education Center, she never expected to be raped by one of her teachers. She's the lucky one because at least she didn't catch the eye of the headmistress. If she had, she might very well be six feet under, a journey one of her housemates has already made, and another who is in the process of making that journey. You see, not only does the headmistress have an eye for the young ladies, she has a taste for hookers and a taste for murder, the ultimate climax in her twisted sex games. Not wanting to face her attacker again, Melissa sneaks a phone call to her boyfriend, pleading with him to come get her and take her away, but afterward she doesn't think that he's going to come through for her, so she has to rely on her one friend in the house to help her get out of there. Little does Melissa know, her boyfriend, Wayne Devereaux, and his best friend, Steve Wade, are on their way to get her out of there. Neither has a clue as to what they are getting themselves into, only that Melissa is not happy where she is. As they head toward the school, a meteor burns through the sky, crashing into the fields not too far from the school. Meteors crash into the earth all the time, right? So as long as they don't land on you, no harm done, right? Wrong! Whether it's from the radiation or some sort of bacteria released upon the meteor's entry into the earth's atmosphere, four dead girls rise from the grave with a hunger for fresh meat. And as is the way with all things zombie, the population begins to grow exponentially, kinda like that old Faberge commercial—they told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on—and before you know it, the house is overrun with the living dead. Will Wayne and Steve get to the house in time to save Melissa, or will they become zombie chow before they get through the front door? Will Melissa gain her freedom from the torments of the house, only to become the main course in a zombie smorgasbord? I wasn't sure what to expect with Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies. I mean, years ago I rented this movie called Hard Rock Zombies, and it turned out to be a bad, campy movie, and even though I knew Smith's novel was classified as horror, I wasn't sure if this was going to be a serious horror novel or something on the quasi-humorous side. I quickly learned that I had nothing to worry about. Unlike most of the zombie fiction I've been reading, Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies starts at the beginning. There are no zombies running amok when the book starts, and it isn't until the meteor passes that the dead start to rise from their graves. It harkens back to Romero's Night of the Living Dead when news commentator is asking one of the scientists what might have started it all. I was glad to see that, with one or two exceptions, Smith treated zombies in the more traditional manner—mindless shamblers with a hunger for flesh. Had they the more modern twist that seems to be invading so many of the zombies films I've been seeing, i.e., zombies that could easily beat out the fastest runner of the Boston Marathon, I doubt I would have finished reading it. I also found it interesting that the only likable characters in the book are the kids; they are fully fleshed out and you find yourself rooting for them as they go up against the zombies. Smith's adults, on the other hand, tend to be flat cardboard characters, the bad guys with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. You are meant to dislike them, and Smith goes to the extreme to make sure you don't. You want to seem them fall prey to the walking dead; they are so bad that you don't even want to see them come back as zombies, but as is the nature of the living dead, you know they will. And they do, which only serves to fuel the survival instinct in the kids. I could very easily see a smile on the faces of these kids as they send the zombies back to the hell they came from, especially after they made their lives a living hell when they were alive. I genuinely liked Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies. Bryan Smith has created a fun, fast-paced tale of the dawning of the zombie apocalypse, and I would definitely recommend it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Camille Thắm Trần
Must read! Trudy Baxter is funny and adventurous and Linc Faulkner is handsome and clueless. The book is funny, heart warming and extremely hot. The French maid role play is unbelievable, give another meaning to beer drinking and pizza eating.
Reading an advanced copy for Knopf - loving it so far!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mộc Diệp Tử
Clash of Kings continues and deepens the plots set up by A Game of Thrones. We lost Eddard Stark as a point-of-view character, but gained Ser Davos Seaworth (called "The Onion Knight," which I loved), a knight belonging to Stannis Baratheon, and Theon Greyjoy. Davos gives us fascinating insight to the developments on Stannis's end, and his change in religion, and Theon gives us a delightful scene, followed by a lot of being disappointed in Theon. Martin's good this way. Even when you don't like a character (Theon or Sansa, for instance) their stories are still interesting, and it's always interesting seeing how their character's tragic flaws (in both cases a crippling self-absorption) dictate their actions, their relationships with others, and, ultimately, their fates. This book has several chapters where things seem to be going well for a lot of our favorite characters. This situation makes veteran Martin readers nervous. That means he's about to do something really awful. It compels you to read on. Point-of-view characters are: Tyrion Lannister, Catelyn Stark, Davos Seaworth, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Jon Snow, Theon Greyjoy, and Daenerys Targaryen.
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.