Lars Kopp từ Kinmuck, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire , UK

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2018-03-02 08:30

Chiều Xuống Êm Đềm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Thụy Vũ

A fun read! If you like the Da Vinci Code you will probably like this. Lots of academic investigating and very colorful and engaging.

2018-03-02 09:30

Pegasus - Tập 2: Cuộc Chiến Bảo Vệ Xứ Olympus Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kate O' Hearn

This Book pulls you into the inciting world of Werewolves, their lives - as well as a love story of girl meets wolf.

2018-03-02 10:30

Các Chuyên Đề Bồi Dưỡng Học Sinh Giỏi Đại Số 9 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trung Kiên

Recommendation SFO bookstore. A series.

2018-03-02 11:30

Combo 14 (Bộ 2 Tập) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Peter Clines

I can't believe I've never read this before! Though to be fair, I've also never seen any of the many movies based on this story. It was an all-together charming read that made me smile at the end.

2018-03-02 12:30

Cùng Gấu Học Tiếng Anh - Số Đếm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thu Huyền

this was the first John Irving book I ever read. I read and read and continually thought, "why am i reading this? i don't give a damn about any of these characters?". then there was an incident in the story that totally blew me away. I was devasted and totally engrossed for the rest of the novel. i find this to be the case with all of his work. my level of caring for the characters is unsuspectedly overwhelming.

2018-03-02 13:30

Bến Khách - Phát Hành Dự Kiến 03/2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Hướng

5th in series. 1988 He sure has the lingo down pat!

2018-03-02 14:30

Trâm - Tập 2: Kẻ Yểu Mệnh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Châu Văn Văn

TRITE! Can you imagine One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest meeting Mills and Boon? Well, it happened in this book. This terrible, mawkish sentimental story is set in an insane asylum where the nurse falls in love with the patient, who, if he wasn't insane, you would have to conclude is the most extravagant bullshitter on the face of the earth. I blame the author. It is basically cheating to put a large part of the story into the mouth of a character who is insane because then you can abdicate all responsibility for the fact that it doesn't make any sense. It is further cheating to abandon any notion of 'point of view' so that the character telling the story - about himself - is also telling you things that he could not possibly know - like what other characters are thinking. Furthermore, it is ridiculous to suggest that a SPANISH doctor could not work out (from his accent alone) that his patient is CANADIAN. It is ridiculous to suggest that a female nurse would be swimming naked while her patient watched. It is ridiculous to suggest that a psychiatric nurse would be so baffled by all the patient's mumbo-jumbo that she begins to attribute some sort of magical powers to him. I mean, how did he manage to get Federica to make him a cup of coffee every day? Wow. Spooky. Please, I beg you, don't read this book if you know ANYTHING about psychiatry. Or literature. Or, for that matter, reality. Because you will probably hate this book as much as I did.

2018-03-02 15:30

Nói Sao Cho Con Hiểu? - Vì Sao Phải Dùng Kem Chống Nắng? Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thụy Anh

A strange and complex story.

2018-03-02 16:30

Vân Tay Vui Nhộn - Tạo Hình Nhân Vật Hoạt Hình Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Boobie Nuytten

I really liked this book.

2018-03-02 17:30

Bên Kia Đồi Cỏ Còn Xanh? Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Adele Parks

The dang Quest! Perhaps more than any book I have thus discussed on this website, the way I reacted to this book has shocked me. For years I have seen clips of the movie, have heard people talk about how much the movie, and I felt infuriated--Scarlett O'Hara just seemed so stupid, so irritating and overdramatic. I, with much hesitation, decided to read Gone with the Wind because it seemed like a book designed for me to loathe with my entire being. So what a pleasant surprise that I, well, loved it. Yes, I loved Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-Prize-winning Civil War epic debut/only book she ever wrote and I don't care who knows it. And I even teared up near the end! How about that. It seems silly to offer a brief plot synopsis as I usually do because I feel like lots of people have, at the very least, seen the movie and therefore know the plot. But that's my formula, so: Scarlett O'Hara is a Southern belle living in Georgia at the huge cotton plantation known as Tara. The book opens up immediately before the Civil War as Scarlett's heart is breaking--though she has kept many beau close to her, teasing them to gain their affections, her "true love" is Ashley Wilkes, who announces his engagement to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. The day the announcement comes, Scarlett tells Ashley about her feelings, convinced that doing so will make him change his mind. He admits that he feels the same, but that they cannot be together because they won't be happy. She, of course, is devastated, and doubly so when she realizes the devilish Rhett Butler has overheard their entire exchange. As a form of revenge, she decides to marry Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother. Shortly after their wedding, the Civil War begins. Charles, a soldier in the Confederate Army, dies (of measles) and Scarlett, now widowed and a mother to Charlie's baby, moves to Atlanta with Melanie and her aunt Pittypat. I feel like I have explained the plot for a long time, but I've only covered the first 150 pages (of 950, in my edition, at least). This is why I earlier used the word "epic", which is frequently used to label really long books but sometimes is misapplied. This is not the case with Gone with the Wind, which chronicles the Civil War in its entirety and beyond, a tale that chronicles the fall of the kingdom that was the South, a story about love and war and feminism and slavery and so many things. The scope of the novel is astonishing. And the characters! The characters are so clearly defined and well-created that they dominate everything--they are the aspect of the novel that controls our attention. In fact, they feel a little archetypal--the way that Stanley and Blanche appear in some form or another in all of Tennessee Williams' later works, it feels as though Scarlett and Rhett are the archetypes for later Southern belles and rascals, for two strong characters that fall in and out of love (I am amused by this statement because Vivien Leigh brought both Blanche, herself a Southern belle, and Scarlett to the screen). The total soapiness of their relations (my secret favorite thing in the whole world) is alluring and gripping. In the back of my edition, there's a one-page about the author. At the very end, a snippet of an interview with Mitchell is included where she says that the book is about survival. Of course, she nailed it (she wrote it, duh). The book is an emotional roller coaster ride of suffering and survival. I have said many times in the past how much I hate narratives of suffering: I had to read too many books prior to this one about big issues like the Holocaust and slavery and civil rights where the only apparent goal in writing the book was to guilt me into feeling terrible for those that suffered and grateful for my own security and freedom in modern times. So to read a book that is so blatantly about suffering and not feel scorn for the author is a testament to the author's ability. It works as a historical novel, too--Mitchell has a way of capturing old Southern society so exactly that it feels like a set of customs I myself grew up with. The hyperaccuracy is a double-edged sword, however--it means that Margaret Mitchell is presenting the ideas of the South about things like the Union and slaves as fact, ideas that are backwards and frankly wrong, beliefs that slaves wanted to remain in slavery, that they believed themselves too stupid to do anything else. As a person having grown up in the modern-day Midwest, these ideas chafe and are uncomfortable to hear. The way they sometimes force themselves to the fore of the novel are that manner of politicizing that I loathe most of all, by which an author uses her characters as parrots for her own agenda. At times, it's almost extreme enough to feel like a response to Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that vilifies all slave owners as brutal, sadistic creatures (and this even comes up in the novel--Scarlett gets very annoyed with Northerners who took Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel as fact). The parts of Gone with the Wind that detail the battles between the Union and Confederate armies or the process of Reconstruction are dull, equivalent to the discussions of farming technique in Anna Karenina in the way my attention quickly wandered. The moments where the focus falls away from the characters are dreadful moments indeed, but the book is so long and packed with Scarlett and Rhett that it's easy to forget about their existence. I'm just so shocked to be saying that I loved this book because I never thought I would. If you have time, give it a chance. It will likely surprise you. Or not, if you've seen and loved the movie. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't compare. But I have a feeling my loyalty will lie with the book. My rating: 4.5/5

Người đọc Lars Kopp từ Kinmuck, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire , UK

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.