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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I read this because I have enjoyed other books by Shannon Hale. This was just a fun and light easy read. It's kind of silly, but I also love P&P and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy (who wouldn't!) so I did enjoy it. I laughed a lot!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mễ Mễ Lạp
Wow, this is a hell of a book. The prose style is ravishing - Chabon is definitely a maximalist. His language is virtuosic, full of pyrotechnics and equally in love with the idiom of hard-boiled detective fiction and with Yiddish. It blows you away, and it's also funny. The world that Chabon creates - the federal district of Sitka, Alaska which became a temporary Jewish homeland after the Holocaust and the collapse of Israel in 1948 - is so thoroughly, magnificently detailed that you never question it for a moment. It's immersive - there is no blinking. This book did for me what Tolkien's books did for so many people (and what no book has done for me since William Pene duBois' "The Twenty-One Balloons" in fourth grade) -- provided another world for the reader to enter and live in which has all the depth, flavor and texture as the real one, and is preferable. It makes your heart break to put the book down and remember that none of it is real. There are no Jews in Sitka. Each character is vividly imagined and seemingly taken as an opportunity to have as much fun as possible with the premise - there's the detective's partner, a half-Tlingit-half-Jewish behemoth who wears a yarmulke and carries a tribal warhammer to aid in interrogations. There's the heavy, in this case a 400-lb hasidic rebbe. And there's the deceased, a gay, heroin-addicted, reluctant tzadik hador who uses tefillin to tie-off before shooting up for the last time and also happens to be a chess prodigy. And it's deep, too! As if writing the first alternate-history-Yiddish-noir weren't enough for one book, Chabon also gets into some fairly heavy thematic territory: fathers and sons, faith and redemption, doubt and despair, alcoholism and drug dependency, marriage, messianism, homeland, and what I sense are the big questions for himself -- what is the birthright of the Jewish people? What is the inheritance of every Jew? What does it mean to be Jewish? Do I have any problems with the book? Alright, maybe the pace slows a bit in the middle section (although I'm grateful to have spent more time with these characters). Maybe the solution to the mystery, the revelation of the grand conspiracy, feels less credible than the rest of the story. Maybe it seems like a stretch, but it also may be that it has to be as it is for thematic reasons. I can't quibble with this thing. I loved it. It was a knockout. It's hard to be objective when a book is just two of my favorite things (Judaism and a murder-mystery) together at last, but I haven't gotten this much giddy joy out of a book since I was ten years old and reading about the diamond mines of Krakatoa. It carries you away - you put it down, and just like when you were a kid, you stare off, grinning, and say "wow..."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: The Windy
This exhaustive and thorough biography by the author of N. C. Wyeth certainly leaves no stone unturned. Yes, it was authoritative and comprehensive, but I think taking some pruning shears to it would have improved it a bit. That said, the voluminous information did have an interesting result. The author's sympathy for Mr. Schulz is very obvious despite his best attempts at being impartial. However because he gives you all the info, not just the details that support his view of Sparky, you do have enough to form your own opinion. Which I did. To Mr. Schulz's chagrin. He grew up bordering on middle class, but in the depression. His father though managed to keep the family together and housed and clothed while other families did much more poorly. Perhaps only having one child was a help. When Sparky was in high school, his beloved mother died after a painful bout with cervical cancer, just as he was being shipped off to boot camp. Luckily he managed both to have a talent for sharp-shooting, and was tapped to train subsequent fresh recruits that allowed him to say stateside a long time, and go to Europe during a later, safer period than his peers. He had gone to correspondence school for art, and after the war he got a job at the same school where he worked alongside a young man named Charlie Brown. Dogged determination and an inability to give up finally did lead to his lifelong success with "Peanuts". But meanwhile, he was a black hole of emotions. No one could ever convince him they loved him. He was both overly self-deprecating yet full of himself. When in his 3rd year of syndication he didn't win the Rube Goldberg Award (cartooning's Oscar), he got up and walked out in the middle of the dinner. After a while, it's exhausting listening to his constant, neverending whine of "Nobody loves me, I'm not a real artist, oh this little cartoon? Why I just threw this old thing on." Eventually I wanted to shake him and tell him to grow up. He takes no responsibility for anything in his life. he wants a big family, but refuses to parent his children. He accepts more and more licenses for this products, but leaves all the bill-paying to his long-suffering wife. He constantly accepts speaking engagements and cancels them at the last minute. He's resentful when people ask if he's really Charlie Brown. But he is. And it's not the mopey-ness I'm referring to, but the fact that he's forever age six. He's still undeniably a genius, but he's also a jerk. He was very lucky to marry such a dynamo as Joyce but he never appreciated her. He resented the very few times she tried to get him to act like an adult, and he acted out when she did so. He held resentments and grudges until the end of time. He never got over anything. It was a fascinating story. I'm actually a little glad he's a jerk because otherwise he's a holy roller, teetotalling goody-goody, and that would make for a seriously boring biography. I love the cartoons sprinkled throughout (and they are pertinent to the immediately preceding paragraph where they appear). A couple that are important and explained in great detail don't appear and I don't know why (such as the very last cartoon.) I wish there had been more explanation of his impact on cartooning today, and how he influenced and impacted modern cartoons, but that was kept pretty superficial. We are told he's really a mentor for Lynn Johnston (the creator of "For Better or For Worse"), but later publicly lambastes her when the family dog in her strip, Farley dies. We aren't really told of Lynn's reaction or why she forgives Schulz his arrogant criticism. He does obviously resent the success of "Garfield," but we're never told of anything that really comes of that. Speaking as someone who came of age in the 1980s and did own every Garfield book and all the stuffed animals, I perhaps had a slightly different perspective. But I did also read all the Peanuts compilations and my parents had the Happiness is a Warm Puppy books too, so I have read the entire Schulz oeuvre too. Schulz's childhood is examined with a microscope (you're nearly halfway through the book before he gets a cartoon published) but his last 20 years were blown by in what felt like as many pages. It was informative and well-written. Schulz is not nearly as sympathetic a character as he thinks he is. Luckily, Michaelis has gone to great lengths to show all the sides of this genius man-child.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: J.K. Rowling
So far an exciting and inciteful look at the mess we've made in Iraq.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
The only reason this one didn't get 5 stars (like the rest of the HP books) is that I felt so unsatisfied when I finished it. Come on, book 7!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cao Đắc Điểm
the characters are amazing. Hemingway has an amazing style of writing and because of it i'm in love with Brett
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
A very intriguing, thought-provoking book with some beautiful ideas, fascinating characters and a unique flavour. My only criticism would be that it seemed to lose a bit of pace in the middle, although it did pick up again as it went on.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Định Tường
Inspiring.
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Surprisingly, I liked this. It's a horrible subject, but Donoghue handles it cleanly. Completely unique if you're looking for something different.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Thỏa Nguyên Đan
I grew up with this book! It is so lovely everyone should read it.
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.