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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
This book made me feel like I am wasting my life. It must be good.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I have to say I didnt really get it! I finished the book and was left confused by the ending. I enjoyed the book, however it was quite odd and I found it difficult to read and follow...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Annette Kast-Zahn
Pretty good story - not the best mystery I've read and is tough in spots, but it had some fairly complex characters and good twists.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Anh (Esheep)
Love this book. Quick easy read full of great little sayings.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trang Hạ
I was a First Reads Giveaway Winner for this book and I'm grateful because I really enjoyed reading it and learning more about Bhutan, "the happiest place on earth". It's a wonderful memoir of Lisa Napoli's experiences there. I just wish there were pictures since it sounds like such a beautiful place with wonderful people. I could picture this as a sitcom, girl from Brooklyn winds up in a developing country, surrounded by youth fascinated with US Culture. If you enjoy reading memoirs or learning about other places and cultures I would recommend you read this book.
I remember it was pretty slow at times, but I loved it at the time I read it (it's been years). The last line's a killer.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
double suck it, ladies. same as all of their books: the info is good. the tone is insulting and the message of the title is simply there to sell books. and seriously, "skinny bitch" for a pregnant woman???
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Brian Tracy
The title holds such promise but the content is a ridiculous waste of time. No, wait, that's too harsh. Allow me to re-phrase: IF you read at a second grade level and IF you've never done any independent thinking about how to deal with MS fatigue and IF you don't mind reading a lot of filler words then maybe this book is for you. I can only guess that the author had a nice one- or two-page handout for her clients and decided to turn it into a book. Lots of words, endless charts to fill out (Puh-Leeze), but "where's the beef?"
I read this book when it first came out in the mid-1990s, and it's still my favourite Jonathan Coe novel -- well, maybe joint favourite with The House of Sleep. It sizzles with rage, and yet makes you laugh out loud as well. As Michael, the reclusive failed writer who is the "hero" of the novel writes in a book review: We stand badly in need of novels, after all, which show an understanding of the ideological hijack which has taken place so recently in this country, which can see its consequences in human terms and show that the appropriate response lies not merely in sorrow and anger but in mad, incredulous laughter. Michael is clearly based on Coe himself -- even the titles of his two early novels are similar. Suffering from writer's block since a massive argument with his mother in a Chinese restaurant three years before the novel opens, he now spends most of his time alone in his flat watching old videos -- notably one of What a Carve Up!, a spoof horror film he saw part of on his ninth birthday before his mother dragged him out, claiming it was unsuitable. Now, he has a mysterious but well-paid commission from a vanity press to write a family history of the ghastly Winshaws, an all-powerful family with a stately pile, Winshaw Towers, in Yorkshire. The first, longer part of the novel alternates chapters about Michael and his gradually blooming friendship with his neighbour Fiona, with chapters each devoted to a member of the Winshaw family. They are a microcosm of the Establishment in Thatcherite Britain: an MP (once Labour, now Tory and a fervent admirer of Mrs T), a merchant banker, an arms dealer, the owner of a massive agribusiness churning out processed TV dinners and battery-raised animals, an art dealer, and a tabloid columnist. The savagely satirical chapters tear apart the morals of the 1980s -- yet even if they seem over the top, they are based on documented historical facts, many of which are clearly recognisable to anyone who followed current affairs in Britain in the 1980s. This part ends in very personal tragedy for Michael -- a tragedy which can be blamed at least partly on the members of the Winshaw family and what they have done to British institutions. The second part returns to farce in an over-the-top parody of a horror film, and more particularly the film What a Carve-up!, as various villains meet their ends in appropriately ghastly ways in the gothic setting of Winshaw Towers. Verdict: I still love this book, so long after the events it describes. I have never read such a perfectly balanced cocktail of venom, satire, lyricism, Greek myth, and lunacy. Coe's later, better-known novels (Rotters' Club et al) are excellent in a more conventional way, but this is truly one of a kind.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tưởng Cẩn
** spoiler alert ** I enjoyed Shadow of the Wind. The more I think about it though, the more I feel like I shouldn't have enjoyed it that much. The present day story and Julian Carax's story are a little too parallel to be believed. Most of the plot points were predictable. The ties that binded Julian and Daniel weren't thick enough. I barely believed Julian would spy a complete stranger who was trying to pry into his life just because the stanger may or may not be in the same predicament as the one Julian is trying to erase. But while I was reading it, I was into it. So if I could give 3 1/2 stars I would.
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.