Greg Lam từ Raczyn, Poland

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11/05/2024

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2018-09-18 05:31

Đồng Thoại Song Ngữ - Giữ Gìn Vệ Sinh Thật Tốt Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả

As this is the first Hemingway material I've read since high school, I don't quite know how representative of Hemingway's more famous works The Snows of Kilimanjaro is. There's a really strong masculine despair present in almost all of these short stories, and (fulfilling the stereotype) an unmistakable American Weltanschauung. The story about trout-fishing, Big Two-Hearted River: Part II is beyond skillful, but my favorite was Soldier's Home, a very believable vignette of a WWI veteran returning home to Oklahoma a shattered soul. On the downside, too many of the male characters are named Nick, making for confusion. Probably there was artistic intent there, but it escapes me. At the end of the day, more of these stories were forgettable than memorable. Three Favorite Passages 1. "'You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a middle-aged woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?' 'I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed,' he said. 'Yes. That's the good destruction. That's the way we're made to be destroyed." 2. "He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences. Besides he did not really need a girl. The army had taught him that. It was all right to pose as though you had to have a girl. Nearly everybody did that. But it wasn't true. You did not need a girl. That was the funny thing. First a fellow boasted how girls meant nothing to him, then a fellow boasted that he could not get along without girls, that he had to have them all the time, that he could not go to sleep without them. That was all a lie. It was all a lie both ways. You did not need a girl unless you thought about them. He learned that in the army. Then sooner or later you always got one. You did not have to think about it. Sooner or later it would come. He had learned that in the army." 3. "Nick was hungry. He did not believe he had ever been hungrier. He opened and emptied a can of pork and beans and a can of spaghetti into the frying pan. 'I've got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I'm willing to carry it,' Nick said. His voice sounded strange in the darkening woods. He did not speak again."

2018-09-18 07:31

Luật Sở Hữu Trí Tuệ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I was expecting this book to be more about Mehrunissa than about the entire Moghul empire of the late 16th century. I am always intrigued by women who held power and influence in cultures where they are usually powerless. The wars and the unrest and the power struggles for the Moghul throne were not interesting to me. So, the more I read the more I found myself quickly skimming larger and larger chunks of the book. The novel concludes just as Mehrunissa marries the prince she always adored from afar. I understand there is a sequel to this novel that picks up where this book leaves off. But I don't feel entirely compelled to read it. So, while I started this novel curious about the life of this woman and how she negotiated the royal harem, I didn't really find what I was hoping to discover. I liked that the women depicted in the book were not idealized or represented in a way that I would consider unrealistic (based upon my limited understanding of the Middle-Eastern culture). The women were powerless in some ways and yet manipulated, schemed and had battles of their own. They were not entirely good nor entirely bad. They were real women struggling to survive and improve their stations in life. Mehrunissa is a real character in history. The Taj Mahal was built for her niece who was married to one of her husband's heirs. While fiction, the book does rely on the information known about her: the intrigue surrounding her birth, the status of her family in Indian society, the questionable end of her first marriage, etc. Since the book is historical fiction, I think it would appeal to people who like books such as "The Red Tent" or "The Other Boleyn Girl".

Người đọc Greg Lam từ Raczyn, Poland

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.