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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Sử
I actually really really loved this book out of all things in my Old English lit class. I think there's a reason people still read it now...it's primative but there's something about it.
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I'm listening to this book on Audible.com. I'll let you know how it goes....
Daddy loves to read this to me.
Stephen King says: "If you thought the true gothic novel died with the 19th century, this will change your mind. Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendor and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. There's a haunted house (ah, but by what?) called the Angel of Mist, and the only horror greater than the thing rotting in its bricked-up crypt is (but of course, senor) the horror of doomed love." He also blurbed a cover with "One gorgeous read." Ok... this book moved a bit slow for me in the beginning; I had a hard time getting into it, and I really really wanted to LOVE it. It felt, well the only word that came to my mind was, "heavy." Anyway, I almost put it down and I rarely do that, but half way through the pace picked up and I became intrigued. Therefore, I have mixed feelings about this. 4/18/11 update. I keep thinking about this book... it's haunting me, so I thought I'd do an update to my original tepid review above. I've revised my rating from a 3 to a 4 (sorry, Janis!). If a book sticks with me like this and I keep thinking about the characters, then there has to be something about it (unless, of course, it was so bad that it is unforgettable; which is not the case here). Anyway, I think I'd recommend this book to others, primarily for it's gothic feel and good character-development. I still think the pace was slow in the beginning and may not, at first, grab the reader. However, it does get much better after 200 pages or so. 7/15/11 update. I'm going to read this one again. I was going through a rough patch when I first read this and was having a hard time concentrating and was trying too hard to rush through it. This is NOT a book to rush through. Next time I will take my time and enjoy all its nuances. 3/26/15 Much, much better the 2nd time around. I raised it from a 4 to a 5. I must have been in a funky mood when I read it the first time.
I know people might want to throw rocks at me for asking, but am I alone in thinking Tennyson's poetry is mostly just an exercise in belletrism with little else to offer? I'm fond of most other major Victorian poets (especially Browning and Rosetti), but Tennyson's work is a real thorn in my side. It's kind of like when I wash my white laundry. All the bright shiny stuff is made of up other Victorian poets. But Tennyson is the gross, almost-brown towel that I cleaned up puke and cat pee with.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tạ Mỹ Dương
It only took me four days to read this, which is good for me because I am normally a slow reader. GREAT BOOK! The charcaters are well-written, and the book is so laugh out loud funny that it reminded me of Bridget Jones Diary. Tori, the main character is an event planner who is anal to the nth degree, and likes for everything in her life to be in good order. Her fantasy wedding turns into a nightmare when her fiancee skips out on the wedding, and also skips town with his female "friend" with whom he had been secretly having an affair. Tori has a meltdown, and a close girlfriend encourages her to use a journal to help her deal with the demise of her relationship. While trying to heal emotionally, Tori also has to deal with an overbearing boss, and an idiotic assistant who may be trying to sabatoge her career. Tori inevitably starts dating again, and juggles dates with one loser after another, while also tending to her extra needy friends and family who seem intent on further driving her up the wall. I won't give away the ending, but it was so sweet and touching that it had me in tears. Bravo to the author! I highly recommend.
Rachel... trained thief... under the tutelage of Christian Lazar... Lazar has a network of thieves with special talents, and part of the network's method of operation is to take street teens and train them... but Lazar only personally trained Rachel, isolated in his French country home - with brutal methods - with a love/hate relationship... He not only trained her in the thievery skills, but trained her with a very austere lifestyle - physical training - sex without orgasim - restricted food - competition - pain - sensory overload for punishment (locked in a room of bright light and pounding music)... guns/swords/hand to hand... rewarded to be obedient, punished if not... He found her at age of 14 when she ran away from her 5th foster home (she had been happy with her parents until the age of 5 when they died)... she is a machine - to use her body as he instructs... and it is 10 years later... and during a fencing match, he falls over - she thinks he is dead, and grabs her various passports, some money, and the car to freedom - and 8 months later finds her in New York, in a warehouse loft, starting a security advice business... she is loving her freedom - to bath (not shower), to eat gummy worms, to read, to enjoy rubber duckies (her bath, her bra, her toilet seat)... when given a job, she breaks into said establishment, steals something, meets with the owner to return said items and give a detailed report on their security falacies and how they can be beefed up... until she is targeted for a museum job, where the curator wants insurance money - he hires her for advice (knowing her techniques), but also has a different burglar take the Rousseau ruby - planning to blame her... she goes a day earlier than scheduled, and catches the French theif - knowing that she must retrieve the ruby, she tries a few techniques - gets and looses the ruby... and thinks she can seduce him out of it, taking it once he is satiated - but he turns the table - giving her 3 orgasims, and she falls asleep - and he leaves for France (she overheard his plans)... so, knowing she must go to France to retrieve the ruby... Back in France, she gets the ruby, but then she is confronted by Lazar, who had a stroke and is alive, and almost at full strength... and she is in for the fight of her life - he wants her back... she goes to Jason - the thief who taught her to open any safe by touch.... she had spent 10 days with Jason, she was attracted to Jason, but Jason feared Lazar - though they shared one true kiss that she never forgot (Lazar refused to kiss her, and she avoided kisses from marks) ... it ends up that Jason is the broker on the ruby deal, and that he was working with the theif - one of the network... and Jason and she talk, and kiss, and share bits - without a lot of committment - she finally fights and defeats Lazar, but leaves him alive... and returns home with the ruby, and a promise to call Jason... and in her loft, her neighbor, ends up to be Lazar's man - 'babysitting' her - and she has another fight - & Lazar shows up, and she is fighting for her life - and then there is a shot - and Jason had followed her and killed Lazar - and arranges for a cleanup... The two make plans to leave together, but first she goes to the museum office - and embarrasses the curator who is accusing her of theft, when the ruby is in his safe... and it ends with the Jason and Rachel at the oceanside in Wales - and making love, and making plans to be legit and to help others like her in said network...
The Rebel Alliance, laying low on the ice planet of Hoth, is tracked down by the Empire and attacked. Han & Chewie take Princess Leia and C3PO - after a chase through an asteroid field - to Bespin, where an old friend called Landa Calrissian isn’t perhaps as trustworthy as Han thinks. Luke and R2 head to Dagobah, where they meet Jedi Master Yoda, who instructs ‘young Skywwalker’ in the ways of the Force. However, Luke senses something wrong, involving his friends and Darth Vader and the scene is set for a showdown at Bespin. I went back to this novel - which I haven’t read for years (decades, probably) - because they were showing the films on TV and I watched them with Matthew. I have to confess that, despite “Star Wars” being my favourite film of all time, science fiction isn’t a genre I tend to read much as it often leaves me cold - and that’s what happened at the start of this. Aside from some dodgy POV changes, Glut managed to make the Hoth section boring (I’m visual, the beginning of the film is almost all visual, so he was up against the wall but still…) and it was tough going until the Alliance escaped, whereupon the story really picked up pace and rattled through to the end. It was obviously written from a pre-shooting script (Yoda is the wrong colour, some of the dialogue changes, Cloud City as written doesn’t look like the film version and there’s a chase at the end), which was interesting and, overall, it turned out to be a lot of fun. I can’t say this as a sci-fi nut, but it’s well worth a read if you like the films (and can get over the Hoth section).
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Chấn Hùng
It's okay. Maybe not as deep as its partisans make out.
Half way through Levi's remarkable retelling of his experience during the Holocaust.
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.