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bleh, bad
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
Half way through this book I had to decide if I wanted to finish it. I had difficulty getting past the abduction. I don't normally read that type of literature. After some prayer and discernment I did finish it and understand why it ruffled so many feathers. God has been relating to us on our level since creation so I don't have a problem with the dipiction of the Trinity. Mack couldn't relate to God as a Father because of his past with his own father. Jesus is fun loving and full of laughter in this book. In the Bible he made more wine when they ran out and also told us we are to be like a little child to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The Holy Spirit's name means wind in this book and she's unpredictable. Anyone who has experienced any movement of God through His spirit can see that picture. I don't know why there was such an uproar. C.S. Lewis gave us God as a Lion and everyone loves him. God says He gathers us like a Hen gathering her chicks. Notice the feminine form. Lighten up people, this is a picture not canon.
Incredibly long, but it was worth it!
This book is both funny and fierce. It depicts the poverty and hopelessness of many Indians in contrast to the privilege and obtuseness of the rich--side by side. The humor comes in the delusional and always optimistic narrator. The implication is that optimism and delusion are the same thing for a poor man in The New India. Ultimately savage. Gandhi himself comes in for a bit of debunking.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Điển Dũng
Forbidden Knowledge is the second book but this one combines 1 and 2 in the gap series into 1 book.
"The Shanghai Moon" is a necklace that is purported to be of some value. Lydia Chin, a Chinese investigator, is asked to look into its disappearance and possible recovery. Lydia is estranged from her partner, Bill Smith, since their last investigation. Bill has taken time off to sort through problems that were caused by that invesitgation. Lydia finds herself deeply involved in finding "The Shanghai Moon" , but more deeply involved in the life of Rosalie Gilder. Rosalie was Jewish, German, and escaping Nazi Germany. Rosalie finds herself aboard ship and becoming entranced by a Chinese Nationalist, Chen Kai-Rong. The relationship leads to marriage and Chen fashioning a necklace to be called "The Shanghai Moon". This became one of the most sought after pieces of jewelry, when it disappears. Its disappearance is coupled with Mao's takeover of China and Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan. The story is steeped in the history of China and follows a family's flight from China to the United States. This is a very good read with plenty of twists and turns to keep your interest. There are a lot of characters to keep track of with similar names. The story also receives most of its mystery from letters that were written from Rosalie to her mother back in Germany. The reader should enjoy not only the historical aspect of the book, but also the ongoing culture of the Chinese people.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Erich Maria Remarque
** spoiler alert ** Finally, finally I finished this book, all 19 CDs of it. The good things about it were that it painted a thoughtful and seemingly accurate picture of Spain after the Civil War. (I found it particularly interesting because as a child I lived in Spain for a number of months when Franco was still in power and I can attest that even then people were scared and resentful of him.) Samson is a decent writer who put together a fairly interesting plot with a more than exciting climax, though the aftermath of that was a let down, even if fairly realistic. Now the things I didn't like: Although a decent writer, Sansom is far from great and he's never met an adjective he didn't like. Had I been reading this novel rather than listening to it, I probably wouldn't have been able to prevent myself from jotting down the many times he used two synonymous adjectives or even adverbs to modify one noun or verb. In America (I realize this is probably an America versus British nitpick) writers are told to avoid adjectives/adverbs if at all possible, and while I don't hold with that, Sansom's really excessive use of them drove me crazy and made the prose feel turgid. I picked up the actual book after I was done to find some specific examples but I'm afraid that after 10 pages I couldn't bring myself to keep reading, so you'll have to take my word for it or find out for yourself. And then there's the matter of the characters. It is not a good thing when the most interesting individual in a book is the villain. The protagonists in "Winter in Madrid" are Harry Brett, a demobbed soldier who is sent to the English embassy in Madrid during World War II as a translator/spy; Barbara Clare, a British nurse who, after losing her English communist boyfriend during the civil war, ends up staying in Madrid and entering into a relationship with a public school fellow of the boyfriend; and Sandy Forsyth, the bad guy boyfriend, who is trying to set up some business ventures with the Franco regime. There is also Sofia, the young Spanish woman Harry falls in love with. The problem is that Harry, Barbara and Sofia are so noble and proper that I found them incredibly boring. Harry in particular was such an honorable wuss that I longed for him to swear or get drunk or do something selfish, just to prove he was human. Barbara strengthened as she went along but she too was pretty one-dimensional. And Sofia was the clichéd romantic interest, brave and loyal and keeping her starving family together by dint of (you guessed it) noble effort. Oh, and I forgot Bernie Piper, the communist boyfriend who turns out not to be dead but in a prison camp. He had a bit more fizz than the honorable crew trying to rescue him, but that's a low standard. Sandy, a boy who hated his hidebound, judgemental clergyman of the father, is a guy who's completely out for himself, yet the author gives him a few redeeming characteristics and he certainly is the most three-dimensional and vital. So basically the book, dwelling on these people as it does, drags. The action turns on the dual stories of Harry trying to find out whether Sandy is developing a gold mine which will enrich the falangists and facilitate the Spanish entry into the war, and Barbara trying to get Bernie out of his camp. Neither plot line seemed highly compelling to me. I knew Franco didn't get into the war, and I didn't really care whether Bernie was rescued. I was curious, and I did find the ending much more exciting than the rest, but when you don't have an investment in the characters it's hard to care about the book. One last thing: there was a great deal of breastbeating (on Harry's part) about the fact that he was a spy and thus lying to Sandy and particularly Barbara for much of the book. There was also much blame dished out from Barbara when she found out. Okay, I understand the feelings; I understand that spying can be a dirty business; we've all read John le Carre, etc. etc. However, I was surprised that honorable Harry never made the point that it WAS kind of important to keep Franco out of the war, and that perhaps breaking some eggs in the service of this goal might not be the very worse sin anybody had ever committed. In sum, I found the history of the period interesting, and certainly Sansom's storytelling and writing and even character skills are far above, say, Danielle Steel's, but he really could've used a better editor.
made me want to adopt a little girl from china...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hải Châu
I enjoyed the possible Joker back story that Moore explores in The Killing Joke, and I like how the art was done for those parts of the story. However, I found the art in the current parts of the story to be distracting, and I wish the Joker would have been drawn as less of a cartoon. For me, that aspect of the book detracted from the whole.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thiện Mộc Lan
la poesie meme... ce que c'est la litterature...
Mi libro favorito de Potter hasta ahora. Está muy oscuro y eso es lo que me encantó. Un personaje importante muere y es bastante desgarrador. También el amor está en el aire, estos son adolescentes y las hormonas están furiosas. No puedo esperar para ver cómo termina la serie.
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.