Qianni Chai từ Drogusza, Poland

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11/05/2024

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2018-12-05 23:30

Tạng Thư Sống Chết Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sogyal Rinpoche

This book was kind of a rollercoaster ride. At first I thought it was going to be great, an interesting topic and thought-provoking examples. I was ready to be convinced by the authors. Then I had to get past the awkward and sometimes poor writing. There is a special challenge to editing a book that is co-authored by two equal contributors, and I have to say, in this case it didn't work out too well. This is unfortunate because it was bad enough to obscure the authors' points at times. It was distracting how much the prose tended to ramble. Several times I found myself doing a kind of "double-take" as I turned a page--I had to go back and check where we came from to get to the point we were on at the top of the new page. The most memorable instance of this involved the authors rambling about someone's cute toddler at the bottom of the page, only to find themselves discussing Adolf Hitler at the top of the next page. Same paragraph. Say what now? I was willing to put up with some of these eccentricities to hear the authors' theological point, which was pretty compelling. They argue that their position of universal salvation is supported by scripture. I found their thoughts somewhat convincing (though I continued to hold some reservations as they didn't answer all my objections that thoroughly) until somewhere around page 120 they jumped off the deep end and lost me completely. This is when they started talking about how they didn't necessarily believe in the Trinity, or in the divine nature of Jesus Christ. Here I'd been into the book hopeful that there was some way to be a Universalist *without* being a Unitarian! An extreme emphasis on God's grace over his judgement should have been an easy sell to me, with my evangelical Quaker and Lutheran theological heritage. But they completely lost me when they threw the baby out with the bathwater and basically summed up our Lord as a nice guy who was groovy with God. Ehhn. No thanks. So this book was indeed thought-provoking (I'd skip to the appendix where they list universalist-ish passages from the Bible and Church Fathers if I were you) but not very well written, and kind of went of a theological deep end. Tread with caution.

2018-12-06 00:30

Doraemon Học Tập - Sinh Vật Học Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Fujiko.F.Fujio

This is an engrossing historical-fictional account of the French Revolution (1789-1794) as seen through the eyes of Marie Tussaud (maiden name Grosholtz). Born in Strasbourg, Germany, she was taken in her early childhood (with her three older brothers) to Paris. There, her mother became involved and lived with with Philippe Curtius, a wax molder and showman, who owned a wax museum in Paris, the Salon de Cire, which featured the life-like wax replicas of the famous nobility and crimnals of the day. Marie learned to scupt under the watchful eye of Curtius (whom she called her "uncle") and displayed an early talent to create faces so life-like they could scarely be distinguished from the originals. Much of Paris flocked to the museum to view the celebrities of the day. Eventually, the king and queen (King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and their children) also visited the show and were greatly impressed. Marie received an invitation from the King's younger sister to come to Versailles and tutor her in sculpting. While there, Marie became acquainted with the palace, its grounds and the nobility. Back in Paris, the Salon itself became a gathering place for philosophers and policitos of the day seeking to change the social and political landscape of France. The group including Robespierre, Danton, Desmoulins, and other notables of the revolution. Thus, Marie had a foot in both camps (the nobility and the revolutionaries) and walked a fine, dangerous line. However, she was first of all a business woman dedicated to making the Salon a success and did not declare allegience to either side. Due to her sculpting skills, she was invited to meet with Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette, scupted them and created a room in the Salon for these two men. Thus, Marie was, as it were, an 18th Century Forrest Gump. The Book chronicals the major events leading up to and including in the French Revolution. It was a very brutal time in world history, and the author spares no descriptive detail in depicting the inhuman occurrences, many having to do with the countless lives lost under the infameous guillotine. Marie was forced to scuplt many of the decapitated heads of the Revolution's martyrs. Caveat Emptor - reader beware. The book is well written (fictionally narrated by Marie in the first person) and captures both the difficult life of a remarkable woman (who really lived) and a transitory period in France's sad history as it moved from the period of kings and queens to a constitutional monarchy. I recommend it as a very good read.

Người đọc Qianni Chai từ Drogusza, Poland

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.