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too many stereotypical characters! plot was so fucking fast paced. lots of fun. one very good passage somewhere in there. otherwise, blah esp at the end.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Ngọc Trảng
Probably the first dystopian novel I ever read. Because of this book, near the beginning of season one of LOST I was already predicting the cages and fish-biscuits that would show up in season three. UPDATE: Reread in 2013 after reading multiple times from ages 10-20. It has held up really well for a book written in the mid-1970s, besides some unfortunate stereotyping that was more common at the time.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Donald J. Trump
My reading of this particularly suffered because I had just mightily enjoyed watching the series with a colleague while my full series reread was last year or the year before. About three things I loved, but the rest was a wheel-spinning morass of meh. I learned very little new about any of the characters, which is quite the feat when you consider the length of the work.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: VL. Comp (Tổng Hợp & Biên Soạn)
A fascinating book about modern-day circuses, which seem to be especially transitory and ephemeral forms of entertainment in this modern age. The circuses described in this book are not predominately of the Barnum and Bailey variety, but smaller and often more pleasingly eccentric groups. In many ways, they remind me of medieval passion plays or 12th century wandering minstrels and jugglers. Entertainiment can be so simple, really. We so easily forget that, don't we?
I don't really remember this story. The cover makes brings back slight memories that I believe I may have really enjoyed this book. It's been over 10 years since I read so I am just not sure.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thái Duy
See my notes on the first PostSecret book. Peace.
This is the definitive answer to Karen Armstrong's well known history of Islam. Scary, captivating, and damned blunt, this is a must read book for anyone that hopes to live through the next two decades! You think you know about Islam. But, did you know that Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states, or that American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine? These and other "politically incorrect" facts are revealed by Robert Spencer in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Spencer traces the history of Islam, the teachings of the Qur'an, and the Crusades, and reveals the myths and realities related to Islamic law, the treatment of women, and the continuing jihad.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hoàng Diễm Ly
Peter Carey has been a favorite author of mine for awhile now; I picked him up in a sort of happy accident when I stumbled upon The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith about 8 or 9 years ago. I really enjoyed it, and after that, I went back and dove into some of his other works including Oscar and Lucinda, and later The True History of the Kelly Gang, and was definitely not disappointed. That said, Peter Carey is probably not an author for everyone. His writing often includes characters who are either monstrous, larger than life, or both. His protagonists are often rough and dangerous folk; it's easy to get emotional with them during a reading and realize that you've come to like them in spite of the sense of loathing they often provoke. Theft: A Love Story is no exception. The main character, Butcher Bones, often filled me with alternating feelings of disgust and admiration. His brother, Slow Bones, who proves to be anything but, comes in early and carries all the way through the novel as the hulking, chair-wielding presence of the literally "grotesque" that one can expect in much of Carey's writing. Carey is also EXTREMELY good at opening up his vision of Australia to the reader: through sometimes difficult but clearly native dialect and colloquialisms, fantastic descriptions of setting with flash insights that border on poetry, and a rare skill for character crafting that both identifies with the reader and shows very clearly the wild and often misunderstood roots of the definitively Australian "outcast", who often appears, in one form or another, in his books. This comes through resoundingly in the new book, and Butcher, Hugh, and even Marlene are wonderful examples of how varied and diverse this character-type can be. This was not, however, my favorite of his novels. Aside from some notable "plotholes" toward the end of the book, the alternating narrative style (between the voices of Butcher and Hugh) seems to stumble at times and works, although marvelously in some places, far less well in others. His efforts to craft a mentally "slow" character who is ultimately as complex as Hugh, and who serves as such a foil to his overzealous brother, shouldn't be overlooked, but it becomes rather taxing to deal with him after awhile, as I'm sure Butcher would agree. Finally, the last issue I have is that this seems to be, quite literally, an "art-house" drama to some extent. While that's not in and of itself a bad thing, Carey really went out of his way here to immerse the reader in the lingo and catastrophes of the art world. And if you're not an artist, you may have a hard time caring at all about Butcher's anxieties, or about Marlene's desperation, and the fantastic nature of the event that gives the book its title. In this latest book, I think Carey was being playful as much with his own ideas as he ultimately ends up being with the reader. I DID really enjoy this book in the end, but I don't know that I'd recommend it as a first read if you're thinking about picking up something he's written. Certainly he's a wonderful author and remains one of my favorites, but this book felt just a bit too "in-crowd-ish" by the end. Try The True History of the Kelly Gang, and if you like it, then be happy that there's been a recent addition to the ever-expanding "to read" list, and that we have Peter Carey to thank for it once again.
The author's thesis here is pretty much common sense, but it's the sort of common sense you usually need pointed out to you. Basically, he's just saying that relationships between the powerful and the powerless and full of deception. Both groups act a certain way when together, and act completely differently behind-the-scenes. In other words, people under an oppressive regime will talk one way when in the presence of their authorities, and another when they're talking behind the backs of their authorities. He calls the second sort of discourse a "hidden transcript". The basic idea is pretty obvious. People talk one way to their boss, and another way about their boss. That's not a novel suggestion. But James Scott applies this to historical readings. We need to remember that we usually get in history is the public transcript, the way people talk openly to and about each other. We rarely get access to the hidden transcript, what people say behind the backs of their authorities. He draws on numerous historical examples to illustrate his point, from eastern peasant populations to slaves in the antebellum south. The only problem for me was that the book wasn't organized by history (what I was more looking for), but by slightly nuanced points about his overall "hidden transcript" theory. Unfortunately, the nuances were so slight that the book just comes across as repetitive once you're into chapter 6 or 7. Overall, though, a great book, and definitely worth the read. His writing is surprisingly good, and the historical examples help a lot. Here one of my favorites, a quote from a post-bellum African-America in the south: I've joked with white people, in a nice way. I've had to play dumb sometimes--I knowed not to go too far and let them know what I knowed, because they taken exception of it too quick. I had to humble down and play shut-mouthed in many cases to get along, I've done it all--they didn't know what it was all about, it's just a plain fact....And I could go to 'em a heap of times for a favor and get it....They'd give you a good name if you was obedient to 'em, acted nice when you met 'em an didn't question 'em 'bout what they said they had against you. You begin to cry about your rights and the mistreatin' of you and they'd murder you.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bửu Ý
Great book but really depressing
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.