Divya Mishra từ Cajati - SP, Brazil

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05/10/2024

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2018-12-18 23:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tony Buzan

Considering how much I appreciate this novel, I feel bad that 1 - I never bothered writing a review and 2 - I only gave it four stars. Really, if the fourth time you are reading a book you STILL can't put it down, then it's a winner. Eva is a reluctant mother (play on Eve?) who enjoys her career and is, plain and simple, a very understandable and relatable woman who simply does not feel the "natural" motherly urge. With this Shriver begins to develop the question of whether or a not a bad seed can be avoided - did her reluctance affect her child at all? And, from birth Kevin seems withdrawn and calculated - so how much was within her ability? Shriver not only draws you in with her excellent writing and superb characterization, but she also depicts Kevin as so skin crawlingly depsicable that you are emotionally blown away. You definitely understand Eva's disgust as Kevin refuses to be toilet trained for six years, as he deliberately ruins her artwork, and on and on. In the meantime, her husband seems totally into Kevin which also develops the question of how much of an unbiased view are we really getting? The story is gripping and so well crafted - had I been writing it, I would have ruined the story by making this eventual Columbine killer be all the things we would assume - dress in black, rebellious, etc. But no, Shriver creates a troubling person rather than a 'type' and he so well defies the stereotypes and yet defines the exact persona she wants to create that it is truly astounding. The novel has a surprise twist that is devastating and also retroactively explains the one seeming forced element of the novel, which is the epistolary fashion, but that aside, it is an incredible read. As I said to my sister, I know you hate books about bad things happening to kids/parents but TRUST ME THIS IS WORTH IT. And it is.

2018-12-19 00:30

Bộ Sách Kỷ Niệm 120 Năm Ngày Sinh Chủ Tịch Hồ Chí Minh - Sáng Mãi Tình Cảm Bác Hồ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồng Khanh

The following part will remain the same in all my reviews of this series, I think, but I'll try to add some of my thoughts on the individual works in the next few days. I've reorganised my calibre library a few days ago, and stumbled upon this series. I'd long forgotten that I made it until the ninth novel before finally giving up. And the truth is, originally, I even enjoyed several of Ward's stories. Of course, in hindsight I'm asking myself how much I can hate my own gender to be that way, or how ingrained the sense of classism has to be for me to have enjoyed stories that, in any shape and form, were glaringly offensive. In my defense, this series is the one, and most likely also only one, that profitted from being translated into another language. Yes, the German version was better, so I only truly realised why people were criticisng Ward's writing when I re-read parts of the books in English. The Back Dagger Brotherhood series certainly influenced the genre in a massive way, and not all of it was bad. Even though she had two males have sex without lube -and I didn't read the story, so I can't say anything further- she did *dare* to write about a slash pairing in a mainstream paranormal romance novel. She unapologetically wrote the silliest, angiest plot-lines out there, and encouraged by fans reactions continued to do so, despite harsh critics out there. My problem is; and in order to discuss this or at least somewhat understand where I'm coming from, it has to be agreed that fiction does not exist in a vacuum, therefore representation in modern media is important and influencial; that Ward also treats her ladies rather badly. I don't mind stories focussed on cishet male's in their physical prime, but it can't be on the cost of creating full-fledged, interesting heroines. There are many things people have already addressed: The existence of sexism in a "superior" race, the existence of classism in it - that there is a race that feels content to always be inferior to them, to serve the vampires, the implications of the entire worldbuilding, and often rather random solutions to the stories, etc pp. are things that fundamently bother me now. But when I first read them, my shields were down. I just accepted them as they were. And that's what bothers me even more. Because fiction doesn't exist in a vacuum, and even when I close a book, the content stays with me. So, it's absolutely okay to be entertained by this series, or to love the characters. I can also see that several relationships made sense in the contect of the characters' personalities and circumstances. But Ward could have spend more time acknowledging certain conflicts than creaing more, and unneccessary, man-pain/angst. * * * * * I never really liked John (?), but I think I liked that Xhex (?) had a bigger role in the story. Of course, the whole him having sex with randoms and stuff just felt so over the top in previous volumes that I couldn't enjoy the story despite a more or less strong (on a Ward scale of female strength) female character. Alas.

Người đọc Divya Mishra từ Cajati - SP, Brazil

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.