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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Việt Hà
Ugh. Chicks with Sticks: It's a Purl Thing by Elizabeth Lenhard looked, by its over, to be a sort of young, light book. Turns out it's a young, poorly written, dumb book. And yet (of course) I had to read to the end. Well, I never like to leave any book partially read. It just doesn't make sense. At least if you finish a book you can say, "I've read that" and comment with some sense that you know what you're talking about.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Thị Kim Dung
When one hears the word "feminist," it tends to immediately cause a cringing reaction as images of bra-burning butch dykes are called up. Inga's delightful humor takes the edge off and she openly talks about all issues of womanhood. While I didn't agree with all of her beliefs --- like boycotting tampons because it's an industry run by men --- her arguments and opinions were pretty well-written. The book as a whole made me think a lot more about my gender and sexuality, which is far more valuable than a lot of women know. If you like "The Vagina Monologues," you will most definitely like this book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
** spoiler alert ** I think I'm going to give up on translations, well, at least ones that stem from Japan. Here is a story of incest, rape, and prostitution, which, I suppose, is meant to shock or enthrall you, but the writing (actually, I should say translation) is so horrid that, while I'm supposed to be disgusted/empathetic/sympathetic/insert-random-emotion here, I'm just distracted by the wording. While I normally blame the author for this, I can't help to think maybe Steven Clark shouldn't be doing translations or anything with literature, ever. Because I don't read Japanese, I'll never know the point to this book as I learned nothing, as I don't feel sorry for the main character, as I don't even know what happened. When you're introduced to her soon-to-be rapist, you're wondering why in hell you're being introduced to him. Again, Western literature has tainted me and I probably expect things to happen in such a way, but still, I didn't see much of a purpose of the whole chapter. I'm still puzzled trying to see why a book like this (again, perhaps just the translation) - where a emotionally closed off girl has sex with her mentally handicapped brother, becomes a prostitute while continuing to have sex with her mentally handicapped brother, discovers she's the product of artificial insemination, searches out her biological father, only to have sex with him - well, you see my point - even exists. Perhaps it seemed like a good idea where shock media sells, but when a translation is so horrible, you have to ponder that question in what a publishing house was thinking when they said, "It seems like a good idea." Did they even read it before pushing it out there? I should add this is the first time I completed reading the book. I'd tried in the past several times, but each time opted that shoving a pencil through my eye would have been a better deal. However, I did spend money on it, so I felt like I had to read it. This was Snakes and Earrings all over again.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đơn Anh Kỳ
Still as scandelous, preppy, and full of gossip as all the others! Highly reccommended for those who love Cecily von Ziegesar's other books.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Trọng Đại
Stop the Traffik by Steve Chalke is a heartbreaking expose of the growing industry of slavery around the world. Chalke is an expert on human trafficking, and Cherie Blair is the wife of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Together they have created this consise and informative primer on how human trafficking works in the sex industry as well as the exploitation of workers. My heart broke again and again reading this book. It's filled with pictures of women and children who have been rescued, as well as statistics about the amount of people who are trapped. Reading the sheer magnitude of the millions of people, as well as the billions of dollars based on this industry, it's easy to see that the only way to shut it down for good is by the combined effort of people around the world. Along with the heartrending stories of the victims, Chalke includes ways that everyone, even those of us in small towns, can make a difference. Buying Freetrade chocolate and coffee, forming community groups to raise awareness, and recognizing the signs of trafficking are just a few. It's impossible not to be inspired to want to stop human trafficking after reading this book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Khắc Mẫn
This is one of my favorites. I know that some people don't enjoy this piece of Austen's works, but I find it romantic and classic. I first read it in 1998 and like to reread it every few years.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kiên Trần
While it had some good things going -- particularly a cast of intriguing characters -- I was a bit put off by the sex scenes that were just a bit more explicit than I enjoy. So I skimmed past those and just tried to ignore them. For me the book would have been so much better if I hadn't had to cover my eyes through those scenes.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Intriguing. Not quite what I expected but definitely an interesting take on the Wicked Witch of the West. Not sure that I would recommend it to others to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mark Victor Hansen
Jane Smiley could probably write about anything and it would be worth reading. The things she writes about aren't new or exciting but she has a way of writing that makes me want to keep reading her books. The blurb sounded terribly boring but she somehow made descriptions of housing developments and buying/selling real estate interesting. The first half of the book was great but it started to drag in the middle for me. It's clear that something bad will happen but the buildup takes forever. The characters Smiley created are unique and well developed so it's strange that the narrator seems to have NO personality. Towards the end we learn that he is a neat freak but for most of the book, he's just a passive observer. There were some things that didn't add to the story and I didn't know why they were included. What was the point of all the descriptive sex scenes? There were quite a few. And whats the point of the part where two characters snorted cocaine? Am I missing something? Good Faith was an ok read but not something I would read again and not a book I'll be keeping.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Clayton Christensen; James Allworth; Karen Dillon
Pretty good, although not as compelling as Mistborn: The Final Empire. I think this is partly because fighting to keep a country/empire just isn't as exciting as fighting to overthrow one. Also, the world wasn't new and fresh, so there was a little bit of thrill gone. Still, Brandon Sanderson spins a good tale, with a number of interesting and memorable charcters (Vin, Sazed, Oneseur, Zane, the Ventures). Oh, and Clubs, Ham, Dockson, and Breeze also make appearances (okay, I'm being unfair, I think Breeze graduated to "interesting" this book - but I could still do without most of the rest of Kelsier's crew). I liked the continued "notes from the past" that started each chapter, and I was pretty happy about how Sanderson resolved the seeming conflict between the historical accounts and what actually seemed to have happened in the past. Biggest disappointments - the realized fear that this was going to be a bridge book, clearly setting us up for the the next one, to contrast with The Final Empire, which worked well as a standalone, and Vin's ever-increasing powers - there should be a limit at some point, lest we start reading Dragonball Vin.
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.