Bruno Kawagoe từ Agyan, Ghana

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05/07/2024

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Bruno Kawagoe Sách lại (11)

2018-09-23 16:31

Cuốn Theo Chiều Gió (Trí Việt) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I know, there were only 50 pages left... but it would have been 50 pages of torture! I feel bad saying this... but this book was horrible. I thought it was going to be okay because the first chapter was decent but... meh... just... meh. The writing was horrible, the characters were horrible, the plot points were horrible... BLARGH! The horribleness of this book is seeping into my review. The author did not give the reader benefit of the doubt... practically spelling and explaining everything out for them, sometimes repeating information over and over again. This wasn't really mystery or suspense because it was all taken out. Hopefully the author can revise a lot before the book comes out because it needs a lot of revising. The dialogue and relationships are fake and not believeable. Things happen too fast and most of the stuff that does happen I'm not able to see happening. Not the stealing of the soul or anything, I can make myself believe that, but the freedom this kid has and his ability to do so much, it's just inconceivable. But really what killed me was the writing... just... ugh... I can't say anything except noises of frustration and disgust. The writing was basic... there we go. Every action had to be explained and repeated and over analyzed, which I hate in a book. I mean, some things need to be explained, but the author needs to trust that the reader will get it. And apparently this author doesn't trust his reader. Trust: The Anti-drug bad book.

2018-09-23 21:31

100 WONDERS OF THE WORLD Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Micheal Hoffmann

A wonderful book in some ways, but dragged down by some turns into the maudlin and Atwood's occasional tendency to over-explain her metaphors. There are a lot of lovely ideas in this book, and Margaret Atwood has interesting things to say about memory, the desire to be remembered, articulation, and the exercise of power. It's also just absurdly impressive, managing to be a love story, a sci-fi pulp, a family drama, a mystery, and a historical fiction of the changing social dynamics of the 20th century. Atwood pulls it off really well, all things considered. And even though not much 'happened' I found myself plowing through the book in a couple of days. Iris is difficult as a main character, and often too bitter to be traditionally likable, but she's a fascinating character. I couldn't bring myself to give it 5 stars though, mostly because of some qualms about the writing style and the story's end. Take this example from p. 289: The weather remains unseasonably warm. Balmy, kindly, dry and bright; even the sun, so pale and thin usually at this time of year, is full and mellow, the sunsets lush. The brisk, smiley-face folks on the weather channel say its due to some distant, dusty catastrophe - an earthquake, a volcano? Some new, murderous Act of God. No cloud without a silver lining, is their motto. And no silver lining without a cloud. There's obvious some good stuff in here, because Margaret Atwood is on the whole a really wonderful writer, but in this book she has a tendency to push things just a tad too far, so they swing around from being observant and interesting to being heavy-handled and occasionally overwrought. The last sentence of the above paragraph, for example, is nearly entirely unnecessary, and only serves to strip some subtlety out from under what came before. The best writing meets its readers half way, too often here Atwood will run over and shove it at them. I also had very mixed feelings about the majority of the last 30-40 pages of the book. There's nothing wrong with them, per se, and I'd rather not spoil anything here, but I thought that a lot of the emotional subtlety of the early part of the narrative gets abandoned for a rather melodramatic set of developments. Minor spoiler: (view spoiler) And on a final, side note: the men in the book, overall, are much more thinly drawn than the women, with Alex as the one possible exception. I think that this was done on purpose, (view spoiler) It's not bad, necessarily, but it's something that makes me appreciate the book on an intellectual level more than a gut emotional one. Ideally, I like to have both.

Người đọc Bruno Kawagoe từ Agyan, Ghana

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.