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2018-02-26 16:30

Chim Én Liệng Trời Cao Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ma Văn Kháng

Howard Zinn didn't live quite long enough to be as disappointed in Barack Obama as a lot of us are, but in any case, he wouldn't have been disillusioned, because he wouldn't have been surprised. In Zinn's book, there has never been a U.S. president who was not a conservative at heart, and in practice. Zinn's founding fathers were at least as concerned with protecting the privileged status they considered natural to their class, race, and sex as they were with throwing off the oppression of other rich white men across the sea. His Lincoln was a liberator only because he was a pragmatic politician, and the patrician FDR's genius was in recognizing that Republican reactionary policy was breeding a revolution, a real socialist rain to wash the scum off the streets: the New Deal was nothing more than bread and circuses to placate the masses. It's impossible for someone of my political bent not to have had some Zinn filter down to me over the years, but a concentrated infusion of it has been as invigorating as it has been profoundly depressing. And if I were teaching American history in high school, I hope I'd have the courage to teach this book. Of course, if I did, I wouldn't last through freshman orientation week, never mind a full semester. But even a taste of Zinn would be a useful antidote to the my-country-right-or-wrong dogma that I'm sure still predominates in the classroom.

2018-02-26 23:30

Big Data - Dữ Liệu Lớn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bernard Marr

This book was different than I thought it was going to be. It is a story which represents Lewis' views on Hell and Heaven. Those stuck in Hell don't believe they are in Hell because it seems almost the same as Earth. They get interactions with those in Heaven, but most of them are unwilling to "convert." The thing those in heaven want them to do is totally give up themselves--their pride, their obsessions, their insistence that they are always right. Heaven is like the world also, only more real. It is very philosophical and overall a good read. The thing that snags me the most is the recurring theme that in order to "get into Heaven" one must want nothing but to know God. This sounds alright, and half the time I am for it. But one example (of many similar situations) in the book is of a mother wanting to reconnect with her dead son. She is told that she may see her son once she desires only for God and no longer to see her son. In "A Grief Observed," which Lewis wrote much later, he criticized this view. He said it is like telling a child who wants candy, "You must grow up first until you are an adult and no longer want candy, and then you may have candy." I sometimes see how the earlier view makes sense, but I can never stay satisfied for long. Overall it is a good book which gave me more to think on the idea of Heaven and Hell as something quite different than the traditional views.

Người đọc Maiyueyue Maiyueyue từ Oingt, France

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.