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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Chris Oxlade
Parody is hard to write and yet lots of people try their hands at it. Bimbos of the Death Sun purports to be a murder-mystery parody of a sci-fi/fantasy convention. All the stereotypes are there: the obese and desperate women, the pimply geeky fan-boys who forget to eat, the gamers who can't face reality and of course the obnoxious author who is appalling and yet loved by all. In a word: boring! At the heart of the story is the newly published engineering professor who is too embarrassed by his success to admit it. He's so unlike any science professor I've ever met to be a complete distraction and detraction from the book. He's supposed to be the likeable character in the book but he's so two-dimensional and so far removed from reality that I didn't care what he did, said, thought or felt. Finally at just past the halfway point of this train wreck of a book there is a murder. It comes so late in the book that there isn't any time to give it a good investigation or to even make it a coherent piece of the plot. There is more time spent on the description of the role playing game at the end of the book than to the resolution of the mystery. If I want to read transcribed games, I'll suffer through Weis and Hickman!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I read this while I was 21 and bumming my way across Italy. Cliche or not, this book showed how nobody is really as detached as they seem. You have to read it like a performance piece. Just keep going. Going. Going.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đường Thành Tường
I was pleasantly surprised how much I like this book. I usually don't rate old classics more than a 4 because it takes so much work to read the old style language (so wordy). This one was amazing! One of my new favorites. I loved Jane... how she was always true to herself and God no matter her trials (yet it shows how hard it was to be so). Great quotes in this book. One of my favorites, said by Helen to Jane, "If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lin Lougheed
Good, but overly long. I felt several passages could be cut entirely and the book would be better for it. Those passages were quite boring and slowed the interesting parts of the plot down. All in all it's a good read, but I liked the first book even better.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thomas Hardy
Goenawan Mohamad is Indonesia's leading essayist and cultural thinker. Reading him is entering the very geist of literature. He is strongly influenced by Derrida's deconstructionist thinking that leads him to read stuff from Marion. Well people can say anything but in my opinion the root of his thinking is religious. And since Derrida his is ideological god, no wonder he often entertains the idea of "the unknowing God" as found in neo-platonism or eastern orthodox christian theology. Listen to some of his line "...Faith, therefore, isn't a conclusion, but rather a commitment. Faith isn't the ending of intellectual process, but an immersion of self in the ongoing-lifelong process of life with all it's dynamics...faith does not only admit the reality of uncertainty, but also accept the fact that the contour of life isn't paved on a straight line, in it, there is doubt, and maybe even, a fall" [p.80-81:] He poses questions and satisfy you with "answers" with question marks he himself puts on. Oh anyway this book is a brilliant collection of his scattered essays in 33 fruitful years of literary endeavour. Enjoy, appreciate and celebrate. l'chaim, to life!
When he was killed in a head on collision Don Piper went immediately to heaven. Overwhelmed by the reality of his experience he observed, "Heaven's light and texture defy earthly eyes or explanation." But 90 minutes later he was returned to his body and began a painful, depressing and lengthy recovery. As the details of his story began to fill the pages, for me, this became a hard book to finish. Then the anguish of his experience began to turn to understanding, revelation, hope and, most certainly, tears. For the rest of the book I fought back tears.
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This is just the bestest Lift-a-Flap book evah! This kid writes to the zoo, because they want a pet... Hilarity ensues as the crates start arriving, and the kid ends up having to send the animals back. They get a giraffe. (view spoiler) A lion. (view spoiler) A snake. (view spoiler) A camel. (view spoiler) A frog. (view spoiler) A puppy. (view spoiler) There are probably a few animals that I've forgotten about, but you get the gist. Each are in a crate/cage/box/basket, and you get to Lift-the-Flaps. Total fun, and one of my kids' favorite books.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Toyota Kazuhiko
A book of narrow but dramatic interest, Massacre at Mountain Meadows contains the most complete historical record of one of the bleakest events in the history of the Mormon settlement of the West. Few people know the extent of the Mormon colonization of what is today the western United States, Mexico, and even Canada. For example, you may not know that Las Vegas was a sleepy Mormon colony right up until people like Bugsy Siegel turned it into a modern Mecca for debauchery. The 1857 massacre of an emigrant train of more than a hundred men, women, and children from Arkansas and Missouri while crossing southern Utah was an unparalleled tragedy. Contemporary Mormon settlers laid it at the feet of the Paiute Indians for years until it was later discovered to have been a raid led primarily by a handful of overzealous and paranoid Mormon community leaders. Because of the modest cover up, enemies of the Mormon church concluded that the cover up must lead all the way to the head of the Mormon church, Brigham Young, hundreds of miles away. Because of this enmity, the Mormon church refused to be open with hostile investigators and later historians because they perceived a desire to unfairly persecute the church. Such wariness is not unwarranted, given Mormon history. So it is a relief that enough time has passed that the Mormon church was finally willing to open its entire archive collection from the time period to a trio of historians who surfaced every piece of relevant information possible to reconstruct what likely happened in the Mountain Meadows so many years ago. The writing has deliberately been tamed for the lay reader rather than the historian, though the ample endnoting provides any interested reader with more than enough source material. There is some necessary insertion of theoretical perspective in order to explain how otherwise normal people could commit such an atrocity, but the theory serves to guide the reader rather than distract. The result is a penetrating and terrible description of this awful event, but one finally grounded in fact with holes filled using legitimate historical methods rather than conjecture. The scene is horrible to contemplate, but at least a light has finally been shone on the scene and the victims are properly honored. Many once accused -- both Paiute and Mormon -- have been vindicated, while others -- mostly Mormon, some Paiute -- are firmly accused. The purpose of the book is not to stand as judge or jury but to exonerate where possible, respect where necessary, and learn from the mistakes of history so that we are not condemned to repeat them. This book enables all three purposes and its authors are to be congratulated.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mộc Mộc
I read this in the midst of my own "early, temporary retirement" so it was rather fitting. It's witty and a quick-read...I'd recommend for a nice little escape.
I started to suspect this was turning into christian fiction & after the hospital scene, it seems I was correct. I would not have read these if I had known that was the case & feel that these should be more clearly labeled. I am quite frustrated I have spent money on books I normally would not have purchased and I still have half of this & 1 more to go. Very aggravated at the time and money I have invested, knowing I will more than likely be very unsatisfied with the conclusion of the series if all we're given as far as explanation is "because God made it this way." *Stop Possible Spoilers* Also, still too many loose ends to wrap up with only 1 book left. It's taken 5 books for them to not find their mother. How will they escape, find her, save the world, defeat Taksidian, explain all the portals (including the ones in the linen closet/locket & Taksidian's pantry/King basement room filled with bones) & have whatever is going on with Jesse in the hospital all in 1 last book?
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.