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Any book of Shakespeare is good, but some in less than the rest perhaps this one falls into that caterory. I do wish to go back and read for a second chance, perhaps this time I will enjoy it more, lol I remember at that time I was busy with babies at home, never the less, I did enjoy it too.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Thị Thìn
One of my favorite American "classics." Has such a strong female lead character.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Minh Quang
4.5/5 Stars I enjoyed The Night Birds; was captivated from the first page and could not put it down. I was introduced to the novel by my mother, was intrigued to find that it was written by a local Normadale Community College instructor, and decided to give it a shot, albeit a skeptical one. Maltman, a GoodReads Author, writes a very engaging though mostly predictable novel about the Sioux Uprising (or Dakota Conflict or a host of other names) on the unforgiving but fertile plains of southwestern Minnesota in the mid 1800s. Maltman has a very fluid, appealing writing style and makes use of a variety of narrative methods throughout, some with more success than others. If you’re looking for a fact-by-fact, date-by-date account of The Uprising, the role of Sibley, or Lincoln’s role in the largest mass execution in U.S. history than this is not the book for you. However, if you’ve never heard of the little known conflict or live outside the upper Midwest and are not a non-fiction, where-are-the-end-notes? fanatic this is the book for you. As I read I kept thinking about the Boston Globe blurb on the back of the paperback edition: "We all set our sights on the Great American Novel and Maltman comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail..." I would wholeheartedly agree with the Globe reviewer and add that Maltman did it in fewer than 400 pages. An impressive debut performance by Thomas Maltman; I’m looking forward to his next book, Little Wolves.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jeffery Deaver
A veteran enthusiast of John Irving's novels will yield to this story as a ballad and homage to his entire body of work--sprayed with a mist of Dylan. Readers unfamiliar with Irving may not be impressed--they will have a lot more to complain about. So don't start here if you are largely uninitiated with this author. Begin with his fourth book, the tour de force, The World According to Garp (Modern Library) or his masterpiece, A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library). And then work your way through his oeuvre. The more Irving you have read, the more poignant and personally enriching is the symbolism and recurrent themes of this lugubrious tale; you will be less distracted by his prolixity. The opening epigraph is from Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue:" I had a job in the great north woods Working as a cook for a spell But I never did like it all that much And one day the ax just fell. I credit this stanza, as well as a sizable chunk of the song, as informing the story. After I read the last page of this novel, the lyrics from Dylan's song floated back to me. Although not a direct transposition (not at all), you could lift a considerable portion of that song, shake it up Irving style, and see them rising in the novel. And as Dylan stated (regarding this song), "You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening.'" Irving's non-linear narrative mirrors that statement. A fifty-year period (1950's to 2005) is covered, but it ebbs and flows non-sequentially within each section. (Sometimes on the same page.) And the unimaginable takes shape. I come from the veteran enthusiast's point of view. The familiar chords and refrains abound--bears; tragic accidents; his love affair with the semi-colon; fathers and sons; absent parents; odd couplings; hands; furry creatures; and working class cultures (that's just a start). Critical analysis aside, I was emotionally riveted by this story. My experience of loving this book went beyond the novel itself--I embraced the connection to his oeuvre. It is a river that flows into the sea. Although it is a tremendous story, it can't be entirely perceived in isolation. I frequently uttered, "Here we go" as my heart stopped, slowed, sped up, froze, and slammed into the channels of my soul. And like a river's flow, this epic journey expresses what is always changing, always the same with Irving's literature. For seasoned Irving readers, the vintage ribald humor will be noticeably tempered; his farce is minimized, and the story is less picaresque than usual, more mournful. He is still the master of telling a tragic event with bawdy details, but there is less rogue here, more lament. There are outlaw characters, but the rebel prose is not as evident. New readers may even describe it as cloying and overwritten. It should have bothered me, but the story overrode my criticism. He gets in the way of himself while inserting himself--but eventually he moves over again and gets out of the way to let his characters exhale. Never have I read so much Irving in Irving (or Irving on Irving); he would either diverge from Danny the writer into Irving-as-writer (while vehemently denying the memoirist aspects of fiction writing), or overshadow the narrative with proclamations, expository writing that felt like Irving apologia for Irving. And yet, these indulgences did not impair my absorption. They were more like narrator-as-Irving bursting through that fourth wall for something peevish to declare and then pulling back. The story is juicy and plump; the haunting beauty is stunning. The twisted narrative flows and echoes from his previous works and courses and tangles through and loops out like a billabong from the body of Irving--that remains interconnected to, but also separate from the arteries of his oeuvre. The characters are familiar but original--colorful anti-heroes with more than a touch of moral ambiguity, emblematic of past characters, but ripe and fresh. The taciturn cook, Dominic Baciapalugo, is restrained and reflective, while his blustering best friend, Ketchum, is strident and outrageous. They both deeply love and try to protect the cook's son, Danny, from the secrets that torment them. The women, for the most part, are big and briny and dimensional. Very few characters are mere conveniences--they are memorable and succulent and keep the story flowing. I experienced this novel as if it were alive. I could not put it down, and it moved me to tears. The narrative has shortcomings and needs editing, and, again, I think that readers new to Irving are going to find salient complaints and miss the meritorious connections. Understandable. This review may seem bewildering and inconsistent with my five-star assignation, but the humanity of this literature is a bent tree with many branches, and a twisted river. And I got soulfully tangled up in the blue, blue beauty of Irving's story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Thụy An
Very nice tutorial. . . clean language and a good beginning when learning about Ruby on Rails.
Slow to get started, and lots of characters that were a bit hard to keep straight. But the suspense builds and it gets better as it goes along. Interesting for folks who know Berlin and like German post-war literature.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thái Quỳnh
I'm just utterly addicted to this series. What can I say?
Lisa Lutz has written a mystery about a dysfuntional family which is the private investigation business. Izzy, our main character, has a problem. She keeps getting arrested investigating a "Subject" who is really a good guy. This girl doesn't seem to have much sense about anything. She has a younger sister whose "best friend" is a police officer, whom she runs over when he is giving her driving lessons. He is not badly hurt. Smacking of Janet Evanovich with its breezy young characters and silly plot this book got only two stars from me.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cố Tây Tước
"Nothing but pure philosophy of one man, mingled with scripture and pure speculation and conjecture. I love it! This book is #2 on my wife's least favorite book, (something about the Earth being born from a womb?) so that is enough to make you deep doctrine freaks run right out and get this book. It makes you think, opens your mind to some possibilities and entertains you in the process."
** spoiler alert ** I read this so fast I never even got on here to add it to my list. I'm taking advantage of the spoilers flag here, too. I've complained before about books that end without tying up loose ends, but I actually liked that about this one. Maybe because the biggest plot conflict was resolved, so the smaller ones seemed less critical. What happens when Delia finds out it was Fitz who discovered and reported the kidnapping? What will happen to Eric in Arizona? Without a support system, will he go back to drinking? How is he going to deal with being away from Sophie? Will Delia ever tell anyone what happened to Ruthann? What will happen when Andrew realizes the made-up abuse was real? Because I think that's what Picoult wrote -- Eric's right about the bladder infection on the hospital report. I read this without reading any jacket blurbs, because I bought it at half-price books without a jacket. I read the first page and it was interesting, so the $3 was an easy decision. So it's nice to have a forum where I can comfortably give away the ending.
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.