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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bob Dylan
John Waters has said that he's proud that his films have no socially-redeeming value. In that way, I think he's proud of this book. I know I certainly enjoyed reading it. Crackpot is a collection of non-sequitor essays from one of the most eccentric but also one of the most articulate of authors. His stories are engaging, gossipy, thought-provoking, interesting, catty and informative. My only complaint with his books is perhaps more editorial than anything else -- some of his essays/parts of essays seem repeated across more than one book. I wasn't exciting about reading the same stuff multiple times and I may not have even noticed had I not gone on a "John Waters binge" after hearing him speak at Boston Public Library and subsequently read all of his work in a matter of months.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Thanh Minh
It might be hard to read and at times wordy and boring, but you have to respect something this freakin' old still holding resonance with audiences today. Plus, he loves to rip off body parts, which is never bad in required reading. Good for you, Beowulf.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Ánh
You follow the mid-wife, Mary Sutter, as she tries to reach her dream of being a doctor and performing surgery. To get to her dream, she leaves her family and follows the civil war. The gruesome scences of medical science being learned from first hand aduring the cvil war are fairly accurate to history. Despite hardships, Mary finds that the greatest hardship is being away from her family and the three men who love her in very different wasys. An excellent read for historical fiction.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Si vous êtes plutôt du genre mélancolique, un brin obscur et que le gothique vous a toujours attiré, ne vous posez pas de questions, ce roman est fait pour vous. Non seulement vous y trouverez d'excellentes références musicales new wave et cold wave mais vous serez totalement immergés dans une ambiance des plus sombres. Ce roman est tout d'abord un peu déroutant. La mise en place est un peu longue car l'auteur prend son temps pour nous mettre dans la peau de Christian, le personnage qui raconte l'histoire, afin d'être pleinement conscients du mal être qui l'habite. Christian se sent totalement responsable de l'accident de moto qui a tué son frère jumeau et duquel lui-même est sorti indemne. Solitaire et taciturne, il mène une vie monotone avec son père qui ne se remet pas de la perte de son fils. Entre musique classique et écriture, il aime également se promener dans le cimetière du village. Il y fait la rencontre de trois étranges personnages: Lorena, Alexia et Robert qui le mètent au défi de de passer quelques sombres épreuves afin de rejoindre leur clan: Retrum. Par ennui ou par curiosité, il va se laisser entraîner pas ses trois nouveaux accolytes dans une spirale infernale. Il faudra néanmoins près de 200 pages à l'auteur avant que le rythme ne s'accélère un peu. Heureusement l'histoire est portée par la fascination de Christian pour Alexia: l'une des filles du clan. Le séduisant personnage d'Alexia est très féminin, sensuel et solitaire au même titre que Christian. Il trouve chez elle le reflet de ce qu'il est lui même. Et c'est ce qui les attire l'un vers l'autre. Vous ne trouverez dans ce roman ni fantômes, ni esprits maléfiques. On y parle par contre du mal être et de la solitude, du besoin d'appartenance à certains clans, tribus ou groupes pendant l'adolescence et de la recherche d'identité. Malgré quelques invraissemblances (notamment en ce qui concerne les cimetières), c'est une très belle histoire d'amour, émouvante et prenante qui ne vous laissera pas indifférents.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Quang Hiển
As sweet and fun as the movie!
Much of what I said about The Interpreter of Maladies applies here, but it's all the more apparent in a longer work. Some people loved this book because it was surprising and new to them; some people loved it because they could "relate to it." I fell into neither camp, but I thought it was pretty good.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Gory and dare I say, poetic. A must read...but be prepared for senseless acts of extreme violence.
What I learned? It's all a scam, that's what.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gianrico Carofiglio
The book filled me with wanderlust comparable to Steinbeck's, amazement at the accuracy of his observations of American society even 50 years later, and sadness at his insight on the issues of immigration and race. It's not a book I will go around recommending to everyone (hence the 4 instead of 5 stars), but I do recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about the author and his thought process and his take on American culture. His observations have a surprising relevance even today.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mạc Đường
I must confess that I didn't find much that was especially insightful in Camus' account of rebellion, revolution, and nihilism here while reading it, but now that I look back on it, I see that he actually has much to say--and that much of it is worthwhile. Camus begins by defining the rebel as one who affirms by negating, who says yes in saying no--one who decries absolute freedom in establishing limits to acceptable behavior. He thus immediately counterposes the rebel with the nihilist, who, in denying that anything has meaning, valorizes a conception of life which is dominated by mere facts--power. He takes issue with revolutionary movements as they have existed in the twentieth century, claiming most of them to have betrayed the origins of rebellion by replacing it with an absolutist--even, totalitarian--ethic. He sees much to be respected in the efforts of the Russian 'revolutionaries' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (a group from which he of course excludes Lenin), who rebelled against tsarism and tyranny often violently. Camus finds their nobility partly in the fact (which he posits) that these revolutionaries, unlike many of their counterparts of the twentieth century, were often quite consumed by doubt and engaged in murder and assassination only with much reluctance and much moderation. He laments, then, the disappearance of such doubt and moderation in the nihilism that gripped much of the twentieth century, nihilism that gave rise to the uncompromising ideology of Marxism-Leninism and, not unrelatedly, Nazism, and denounces its consequences. Camus also roundly criticizes many of his intellectual contemporaries for their undying faith in Marxism, claiming, for one, that Marxism reproduces some of the central problems of religious faith (ie, in relegating justice, etc., to the "Later On," as he puts it--that is, post-capitalist society) and entails the negation of much that is defensible and good in humanity by reducing human obligation to the promotion of revolution. I think he's certainly on to something here, but I think his reading of Marx is also somewhat flawed, in that Camus seems to disregard Marx's concern with emancipation and free conscious activity in his efforts to discredit the approach of the "prophet of justice." Camus posits a different approach to social change, claiming that rebels/revolutionaries, in their efforts to combat injustice, should never lose sight of the importance of beauty within the conception of human dignity. It seems that many so-called revolutionaries, though (probably more of the socialist-Marxist bent), would reject Camus' analysis as sentimental and, in fact, supportive of the status quo. Does Camus then break with the predominance of Marxist thought in his day and accept something close to anarchism? He certainly seems to reject revolutionary society (at least, the revolutions demonstrated thus far by history), but he remains highly critical of bourgeois society as well. Contemplating these tensions is crucially important, and Camus's The Rebel certainly represents an important contribution to this debate.
** alerta de spoiler ** Como ávido fanático del béisbol, tenía grandes expectativas para este libro, y desafortunadamente me preocupa que tal vez esto me haya confundido un poco con este libro. No me malinterpreten, disfruté el libro y lo recomendaría sinceramente a cualquiera, pero no estuvo a la altura de la exageración que yo (y la pareja de personas que me lo recomendaron) le pusieron. El estilo de escritura puede ser un poco difícil a veces, ya que la narrativa salta de la vida real de Henry al mundo del béisbol sin ninguna indicación de que se haya producido un salto. A veces incluso son uno en lo mismo, como citas que tienen lugar en el mundo del béisbol inventado de Henry, a veces dice en voz alta, para el desconcierto general de los que lo rodean. Tampoco era un gran admirador del final. ALERTA DE SPOILER No me gustó que todo el capítulo final tuviera lugar en el mundo ficticio de béisbol de Henry por completo y no nos dijo nada sobre lo que sucedió con esta vida o cómo demonios logró jugar 100 temporadas más de béisbol. Si toma 2 meses por temporada, como lo indicó en el libro, serían 200 meses, y está cerca de la edad de jubilación al comienzo del libro. Entonces, él estaría fácilmente en sus 70's al final. Sentí que necesitábamos algo más sobre su vida además de lo que se filtra sobre él a través de la narrativa de los jugadores.
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.