项 国建 từ Shivajipeth, Maharashtra, India

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2018-10-29 15:31

23 Chuyên Đề Giải 1001 Bài Toán Sơ Cấp - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book is a little disappointing on its own merits, but considering it's by the excellent David Liss, it's quite disappointing indeed. (And I notice that many of the readers who are giving it positive reviews aren't readers of his earlier work.) "There are forces in motion. Dangerous forces. Chief among these are what people are apt to call fairies or elves. Do not laugh, for this is serious." (154) This advice is difficult for a fan of Liss's previous work: bloodily concrete adventures of men of the middling sort, full of mutton, snuff, fistfights, dodgy inns, bad weather, smudged ledgers, inaccurate firearms, and deceit. In fact, in reviewing one of his previous books, I specifically said I liked it because it differed from the mass of historical fiction that take place in the woman's sphere of drawing rooms and enclosed carriages. It's disappointing to see him turn to the overdone Regency period--and to the supernatural--and he doesn't pull it off. The book is a weird pastiche of near-quotes and borrowed situations from Jane Austen, the "Old Ones" from the Grey King, nasty Dickensian servants, and a rush to collect magical artifacts from around the countryside like in the last Harry Potter book. The story takes a dull while to get going and the only reason I'm giving it three stars instead of two is that the denouement is somewhat exciting and scary, especially a revelation about one character's past. At the kernel of the story is something interesting about the natural world vs. the city, innocence and experience, and the heritage of the English. But this is like a faint ember that the author is blowing on, trying to coax it into life, instead of a rollicking blaze of ideas. The plot relies on the fact that a rather unpromising young girl has extraordinary supernatural talents (for some reason) and is the only one who can defuse a looming showdown between murderous fairy versions of Tories and Labour. There are touches here that are the missteps of a much weaker writer than Liss. For example, he lazily casts Byron in his story rather than think up his own rakish character. (William Blake's appearance is more worthwhile.) And he constantly uses the words "slut" and "whore" in stilted, unconvincing ways that remind me of dialogue written by authors with a tin ear for history, who come up with one phrase that sounds good to them and reuse it over and over. The exuberantly detailed scenery of his previous books becomes here a wan series of country-house moments marred by mistakes like Lucy putting on a "muslin pelisse" (a pelisse being a fur or fur-trimmed cloak). Truly, if his name were not on the cover, I would not dream he could have written this, because everything he gets right in his other books is wrong here. Edited later to add: If this book seems like a promising concept, maybe you want the Temeraire or Glamourist series.

Người đọc 项 国建 từ Shivajipeth, Maharashtra, India

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.