Luqman Mat từ Mofoka, Lesotho

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05/05/2024

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2018-11-24 22:31

Nếu Như Không Có Điện - Điện, Mười Phần Nguy Hiểm, Vô Cùng Cẩn Thận Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

This is the second volume in the Ender’s Game series of novels and short stories by the author, dealing with such science fiction concepts as near-light-year travel, meetings (both positive and negative) with sentient alien species, and self-aware computer networks. It also deals with trust, with forgiving, and with speaking the truth with compassion, which are topics as old as The Iliad. I enjoyed this science-fiction book, and have two or three of the next books in the series in my Books to Read bookcase, to read when I feel the time is right. On the planet of Lusitania, founded by colonists originally of Brazilian Catholic extraction, a sentient species was found soon after the founding of the colony. Mindful of what happened the last time mankind was faced with a sentient species. some three thousand years ago. a fence was erected around the colony, with the only ones allowed out being the xenologers (alien anthropologists). The species they study are named Pequeninos (Porteguese for “little ones”), but are universally called Piggies, as they look like pigs. A plague then hit the colony; it was only stopped by the discovery of an agent that would halt the plague, but at the cost of the lives of the two researchers who discovered the agent, the last two people to die of the plague. Their young daughter Novinha, whose grief at the loss of her parents was shunted aside by the colony’s joy that the plague was ended, grew up to become a xenobiologist, working in tandem with the xenologers. After a death by the hand of the piggies, a call goes out from Novinha for a Speaker of the Dead – one who will come from another world, learn all there is to know about a given dead person, and then speak their life in a public ceremony – not a eulogy, but a truthful telling of not only what the person was, and what the person did, but why the person did what that person did. The Speaker who comes is Andrew Wiggin, who is older than he looks (when you spend a lot of time in near-light-speed travel, a week for you can be twenty or thirty years for everyone else). He answers the call for a Speaker, because he sees in the face of Novinha something that calls to him – a heavy guilt for the death of others. He arrives a week after he left the planet of Trondheim (and his sister Valentine), which is twenty-two years later for everyone else; Novinha, who made the call for a Speaker, had canceled the call while he was en route, but two more calls have gone out for a Speaker, there has been another death at the hands of the piggies, and the Novinha now has six children, who live with her in a poisonous attitude of anger and misunderstanding. It is perhaps human to fear and hate what we do not understand; if that is so, our task is to learn to not to fear and not to hate by understanding. The Other will always remain the Other until we either make the Other one of Us, or until we make ourselves the Other, which cannot happen except in an attitude of trust, hope, and understanding. But I still have the mental image of the aliens arriving with the cure for cancer, landing in a cornfield in rural America, and being blown away by the shotgun wielded by a terrified farmer. Which has nothing, and everything, to do with this book, which I enjoyed reading.

2018-11-25 01:31

Hướng Đến Chân Thiện Mỹ - Triết Lý Dành Cho Tuổi Thanh Niên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Đức Sao Biển

C.J. Box has acquired a modest following for his Joe Pickett novels but really hit the big-time when he won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of 2008 with his stand-alone thriller, BLUE HEAVEN. Now, with the release of his latest stand-alone effort --- BACK OF BEYOND, Mr. Box may be taking things to a whole other level. Set in the dangerous backdrop of Yellowstone National Park, BACK OF BEYOND does a nice job of depicting a remote area where the fears of the natural and unknown terrain is not nearly as frightening as that of a sociopathic killer with a deadly agenda. Montana Detective Cody Hoyt is an admitted alcoholic. This disease has cost him his family as well as the respect of many of his colleagues and has kept his career from fully blossoming. Now, a full-fledged member of AA and trying to get his life back together, Hoyt is faced with an investigation that will test him more than anything he has faced before. When his friend and fellow AA member, Hank Winters, is found burned to death within the charred remains of his own home, Hoyt immediately suspects foul play. Hoyt is convinced Hank was murdered and that someone is using the fire to cover up the evidence of this. Hoyt rubs too many people the wrong way during the investigation and summarily finds himself tossed off the case and suspended. Little does this deter Hoyt from proceeding with the investigation. With a little bit of help from his one trust-worthy friend on the inside of the Montana P.D. --- Larry --- Hoyt puts together evidence that points to a member of a wildlife hiking outfitter that takes groups of tourists into the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. To make matters worse for Hoyt, his own son is with his new 'step-dad' on this very excursion that may be carrying a killer or killers responsible for Hanks Winters death as well as others from Hoyt's AA circle. Operating on his own and outside the limits of law enforcement, Hoyt faces road-blocks wherever he turns. It almost appears that someone on the inside knows what he doing before he even does. When his motel room is ransacked and set on fire (with Hoyt barely escaping) he realizes there is now no one he can trust --- not even good friend, Larry. The novel begins to shift between Hoyt's plight and that of the members of the Yellowstone tour. Aptly called, the Back of Beyond Tour, there are plenty of possible suspects to choose from. The reader is placed right along with Hoyt as he goes through the background of each tour member that he obtained when he visited their office. Like every classic murder mystery, there are too many potential bad guys and you will be guessing right along with Hoyt as the body count begins to pile up. The novel wanes slightly during the last act, and I found one of the murder suspects easy to identify (I must read too many murder mysteries!). However, C.J. Box has several tricks up his sleeve and BACK OF BEYOND kicks into high gear when Hoyt pays a retired tour guide to lead him along the same trail the group is on --- with the dead bodies piling up before him and his son in mortal danger. A terrific summer read and possibly Box's finest effort to date! Reviewed by Ray Palen for New Mystery Reader

Người đọc Luqman Mat từ Mofoka, Lesotho

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.